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TIDBITS – NOV. 17, 2022 – READER COMMENTS: MIDTERMS – RIGHT
REBUKED, STRUGGLES CONTINUE; LEARNING FROM HISTORY; BIGGEST ACADEMIC
STRIKE IN US HISTORY; LOTS OF ANNOUNCEMENTS; CARTOONS; MORE…  
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Announcements AND cartoons - Nov. 17,
2022, xxxxxx

 

Re: 8 Lessons From the Midterm Elections (Daniel Millstone)
On the Midterm Elections (Seymour Joseph)
Too Late for Separation  --  cartoon
And...Donald Trump Announces  --  cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz
Re: How the Working Families Party Helped the Dems Defy Gravity (Paul
Buhle; Arlene Halfon)
Re: In Massachusetts, Unions Beat Billionaires (Jack Hines; Daniel
Millstone)
Re: Abortion Rights Measures Win Approval in First Major U.S.
Elections Since Roe v. Wade Overturned (Linda Gillison)
Re: Four Years After Florida Voted To Restore Voting Rights for People
Convicted of a Felony, an Estimated 1 Million Still Can’t Vote in
the Midterm Elections (Peter Dreier)
Alien Party  --  cartoon by Rob Rogers
Re: Already in a Hole, the Federal Reserve Keeps Digging (Brandon
Mouser)
Re: History Has Told Us Where This Could Lead (Van Caldwell)
The Hammer Attack  --  cartoon by Clay Bennett
Re: Marxists Changed How We Understand History (Alan Hart)
Re: How To Fight Fascism Before It’s Too Late (Ronald Bosch)
Re: Remembering the Veterans Who Marched on DC To Demand Bonuses
During the Depression, Only To Be Violently Driven Out by Active-Duty
Soldiers (Eleanor Roosevelt; Linda; Stan Nadel; Michael Harank)
Re: The Biggest Academic Strike in US History Is Underway at the
University of California (Mike Liston; Lauren Ah)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Sheldon Whitehouse launches THE SCHEME at Politics and Prose -
November 19 (The New Press)
Russian and Ukrainian Voices in Dissent - November 20 (Massachusetts
Peace Action)
Webinar: Crimes of War in Vietnam - Citizens’ Responsibility for
Confronting and Remembering the Crimes of War - November 20 (Vietnam
Peace Commemoration Committee) 
#NoMoreCuts Rally to Protect City Services for Working Class New
Yorkers - November 22 (New York Working Families Party)
THE SOUTH: Jim Crow and its Afterlives - December 7 (CUNY School of
Labor and Urban Studies)
Can the World Save the World? Global Governance and Climate Change. -
December 14 (Institute for Policy Studies)

 

RE: 8 LESSONS FROM THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS
 

Via xxxxxx
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takeaways from Tuesday’s elections. Query: Why did voters in
Kentucky defeat an anti-abortion measure but elect anti-abortion
candidates?

Daniel Millstone
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ON THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS....
 

I'm not a cynic or a pessimist, but what I'm about to write might make
me seem like one. We can be happy that the “red wave” did not
materialize, but put down that champagne for a moment.

I agree that Trump took a beating, but Trumpism is still a grave
danger. Don't think he's not going to get a lot of support when he
announces his candidacy for ’24. And don't think that his Republican
toadies in Congress are suddenly going to cleanse themselves of their
anti-democratic behavior.

At this writing it appears that the Republicans will take back the
House — with the sleazeball Kevin McCarthy as Speaker. And while the
Senate may remain in Democratic hands, by  perhaps one vote, the MAGA
Senators and Representatives will still give the administration
headaches.
So drink your champagne, then get ready for a lot of work ahead. The
authoritarianism that has taken violent forms since crazy-hair entered
the Oval Office, is still a force.

The defeat of so many election-deniers was a great start. You see? I'm
an optimist.

Seymour Joseph

 

TOO LATE FOR SEPARATION  --  CARTOON

 

Tom Toles
May 16, 2016
The Week
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AND...DONALD TRUMP ANNOUNCES  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ

 

Lalo Alcaraz
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RE: HOW THE WORKING FAMILIES PARTY HELPED THE DEMS DEFY GRAVITY
 

key to understanding the role that the Left could play, if only the
Dem leaders did not stand in the way

Paul Buhle
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I'm doing this from childhood memory, so I may have some facts wrong:

When I grew up in NY before I could vote (at that time 21 years old),
the Republican Party had people like Gov. Rockefeller and Senator
Jacob Javitz. The latter also ran in the "Liberal Party."
"Republicans" at that time, could easily have been the Democrats of
today. I later learned that the difference between those in the two
parties, was that Republicans were Conservative about financial issues
but they were all equally "liberal" by the standards of the day, on
social issues

Yes, we have more left-wing values now, but the Democrats have moved
so far right that they moved the Republicans to the far right in order
to stay "right" of the Democrats. The Democrats have kept moving Right
in order to become seen as more "moderate" which allowed the
Republicans to stay to the right of them by becoming the racist,
sexist, and every other category of bigot (based on today's values)
that they have.

Many of us will have no choice but to support the WFP, or an
alternative, to regenerate the country or everything will go DOWN!!
The NY Democrats need to stay out of the way or renew their old place
in the order of things.

Arlene Halfon

 

RE: IN MASSACHUSETTS, UNIONS BEAT BILLIONAIRES
 

Progress, hopefully it will spread.

Jack Hines
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Elections have consequences and here, via xxxxxx
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yet one more excellent one. A broad progressive coalition in
Massachusetts has helped voters pass a “tax the rich” (my favorite
plan) referendum. 

Daniel Millstone
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RE: ABORTION RIGHTS MEASURES WIN APPROVAL IN FIRST MAJOR U.S.
ELECTIONS SINCE ROE V. WADE OVERTURNED
 

Woot woot! Thanks, Kentuckians!!

Linda Gillison
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RE: FOUR YEARS AFTER FLORIDA VOTED TO RESTORE VOTING RIGHTS FOR PEOPLE
CONVICTED OF A FELONY, AN ESTIMATED 1 MILLION STILL CAN’T VOTE IN
THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS
 

If Republicans win the Florida governor and Senate races, here's why.

Peter Dreier
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ALIEN PARTY  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Rob Rogers
November 16, 2022
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RE: ALREADY IN A HOLE, THE FEDERAL RESERVE KEEPS DIGGING
 

The biggest story in the USA ought to be that the private banking
cabal, that somehow controls our monetary policy free from democratic
influence, basically said “workers are doing too good…let’s try
to cause a recession.” This should be something that Americans from
every party and background get angry about.

Brandon Mouser
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RE: HISTORY HAS TOLD US WHERE THIS COULD LEAD
 

“There’s another word that describes where this amalgam of tactics
leads, one with global historic roots. In his 2004 book “The Anatomy
of Fascism,” Robert Paxton defines fascism as “political behavior
marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation
or victimhood… in which a mass based party of committed nationalist
militants, working in uneasy collaboration with traditional elites,
abandons democratic liberties and pursues (it’s repressive
anti-democratic goals) with redemptive violence and without ethical or
legal restraints.”

Van Caldwell
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THE HAMMER ATTACK  --  CARTOON BY CLAY BENNETT

 

Clay Bennett
November 16, 2022
Chattanooga Times Free Press
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RE: MARXISTS CHANGED HOW WE UNDERSTAND HISTORY
 

Reading "The Making of the English Working Class" was a revelation for
me.

Alan Hart
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RE: HOW TO FIGHT FASCISM BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE
 

Believeable, long but thorough...

The World can no longer afford the Rich.....

Ronald Bosch

 

RE: REMEMBERING THE VETERANS WHO MARCHED ON DC TO DEMAND BONUSES
DURING THE DEPRESSION, ONLY TO BE VIOLENTLY DRIVEN OUT BY ACTIVE-DUTY
SOLDIERS
 

Douglas MacArthur was a pig.

Eleanor Roosevelt
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Shameful government violence

Linda

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"The Bonus Army March is a forgotten footnote of American history"?
Every survey text for college level US history courses that I have
ever reviewed in my 30+ years of teaching history at US universities
has included the story of the Bonus Army, so I don't know how O'Brien
can make this claim.  This history is worth recalling, but claiming
that it is a forgotten footnote is unjustified.

Stan Nadel

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This is the March that Dorothy Day wrote about as a journalist before
starting the Catholic Worker movement with Peter Maurin in May, 1933.

Michael Harank
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RE: THE BIGGEST ACADEMIC STRIKE IN US HISTORY IS UNDERWAY AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
 

Decades back I put my teaching career on the line to help get an
adjunct teachers'  union started on the University of Alaska
Anchorage campus. My fellow adjunct and colleague actually helped to
push through a successful contract but the both of us were
subsequently blacklisted from further work on that campus. That is, we
went from almost full time hours on campus albeit at adjunct prices to
no hours at all within a year. Lost contact with that friend but I
myself eventually ended up in China a  couple of years later where I
actually enjoyed a full time teaching career plus at a number of
universities in Beijing. Of course for much of that time, the wages
were less than the US but since the cost of living in Beijing was so
low, I actually lived an  upper middle class lifestyle in the city as
compared to a poverty level lifestyle as an adjunct teacher in
Anchorage. Wages did get better after the UAA adjuncts unionized but I
myself saw none of the gains and even that effort was squashed in a
short time. Anyway, unionization in academia is long overdue as it's
about time that most college educated or highly trained workers have a
lot more in common with other workers in all fields than they have
with the owner/upper managerial class, 

Mike Liston

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"mansions for chancellors, rent burden for workers"
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Lauren Ah
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SHELDON WHITEHOUSE LAUNCHES THE SCHEME AT POLITICS AND PROSE -
NOVEMBER 19 (THE NEW PRESS)

 

Sheldon Whitehouse launches THE SCHEME at Politics and Prose
November 19, 2022 - 5:00 p.m. ET

Politics & Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave NW,
Washington DC

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse — The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used
Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court — at Conn Ave

The world got a glimpse of this story when the Senator's presentation
at the Amy Coney Barrett hearing went viral. Now, full of unique
insights and inside stories, _THE SCHEME_ pulls back the curtain on
a powerful and hidden apparatus that has spent years trying to corrupt
our politics, control our courts, and degrade our democracy.

SHELDON WHITEHOUSE represents Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate. He has
served as his state’s United States Attorney and as the state
Attorney General, as well as its top business regulator. The author
of _Captured _and _The Scheme _(both from The New Press), he lives
in Newport, Rhode Island.

red and The Scheme (both from The New Press), he lives in Newport,
Rhode Island.

RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN VOICES IN DISSENT - NOVEMBER 20 (MASSACHUSETTS
PEACE ACTION)

SUNDAY,  NOVEMBER 20 @ 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

At considerable risk and sacrifice, since the beginning of the Ukraine
War, Oleg Bodrov, Aysa Markel and Yurii Sheliazhenko have been
speaking in opposition, opposing the war and urging a ceasefire and
negotiations.

In this webinar, speaking from St. Petersburg, Kyiv and the Czech
Republic, they will share their personal circumstances, their
perceptions of the war, opposition to the war, and what will be
necessary to stop the killing.

Speakers:

OLEG BODROV is a physicist, ecologist and Chairman of the Public
Council of the Southern Shore of the Gulf of Finland, Russia.  He
spoke on nuclear dangers in Boston in May 2019.

YURII SHELIAZHENKO is a Ukrainian peace researcher, educator, and
activist and executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement.
 He has a PhD in Law, Master of Mediation and Conflict Management,
and is a laureate of the Sean MacBride Peace Prize of the
International Peace Bureau.

ESET MARUKET GAGIEVA is a psychologist and activist currently living
in exile from Russia. She has long been active in the fields of human
rights, democratic values, peace and non-violence communication
seeking more peaceful country through cooperation and cultural
exchange.

Initiated by Massachusetts Peace Action, co-sponsored by the Campaign
for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, Peace Action New York
State, Coalition for Peace Action, and New Hampshire Peace Action.

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WEBINAR: CRIMES OF WAR IN VIETNAM - CITIZENS’ RESPONSIBILITY FOR
CONFRONTING AND REMEMBERING THE CRIMES OF WAR - NOVEMBER 20 (VIETNAM
PEACE COMMEMORATION COMMITTEE)

 

7:00 - 8:30 PM EASTERN TIME, NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Webinar organized by the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee

Cosponsored by Brooklyn For Peace, Institute for Policy Studies, Just
World Educational and Massachusetts Peace Action

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Fifty years ago, 1972, was a critical time in the U.S. peace
movement’s struggle to end the US war in Indochina. The movement and
an increasingly critical media created pressures that led to the
signing of the Paris Peace Agreement in January of 1973.  

Richard Nixon had campaigned for re-election on his “secret plan”
to end the war, which in reality was to devastate North Vietnam so
that Saigon would agree to an American peace treaty with Hanoi.  

The US had been violating laws of war for years by using chemical
weapons such as napalm and Agent Orange against civilians and forced
relocation of rural populations.  But the Pentagon in 1972 expanded
its methods and targets to include mining the Hai Phong harbor and
bombing North Vietnam’s dikes and dams essential for rice
cultivation. The Pentagon’s efforts culminated in the Christmas
bombing of Hanoi, including Bach Mai, the country’s primary teaching
hospital. 

Responding to the escalation of military violence, a small group of US
academics, lawyers and other activists created “Project Redress”
in 1972.  They decided to “petition their government for the
redress of grievance” for US war crimes in Vietnam. Hundreds of
American academics, writers, lawyers, poets, actors, religious
leaders, and intellectuals pledged to come to Washington and to remain
in the Capital until their grievance was heard or they were arrested.
 

In 2022 while US officials and the media debate holding Russia
responsible for war crimes in Ukraine, this webinar offers an
opportunity to reflect on the history of our own war crimes that led
to the Redress campaign of civil disobedience.  It will consider the
responsibility of all people to hold their government accountable for
war crimes committed in their name.

Moderator

PROF. CAROLYN RUSTI EISENBERG, VPCC Board, Professor of US History and
American Foreign Policy at Hofstra University. Her new book, Fire and
Rain: Nixon, Kissinger and the Wars in Southeast Asia, is being
published December 2022 by Oxford University Press.

Panelists

DR. ROBERT JAY LIFTON, one of the original organizers of Project
Redress. Lecturer in Psychiatry at Columbia University, Distinguished
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Psychology at the City University
of New York    He is holding the right side of the banner in the
photo above.

CORA WEISS, Past president of the International Peace Bureau.
 Co-founder of the Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen
Detained in North Vietnam and arrested in conjunction with Project
Redress.

RICHARD FALK, one of the organizers of Project Redress, is Albert G.
Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton
University; Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law, at Queen Mary
University London; Research Associate the Orfalea Center of Global
Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

ORGANIZER:  DOUG HOSTETTER  <[email protected]>

Resources:

"Was My Lai just one of many massacres in Vietnam War?" by Nick
Turse   [link removed]
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"In the Name of America"  an essay by Rev. Richard Fernandez about
the book published by Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam in
1978, read it here 
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"Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam"  by
Nick Turse 

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"NOTHING EVER DIES: VIETNAM AND THE MEMORY OF WAR" BY NGUYEN THANH
NGUYEN

 

#NOMORECUTS RALLY TO PROTECT CITY SERVICES FOR WORKING CLASS NEW
YORKERS - NOVEMBER 22 (NEW YORK WORKING FAMILIES PARTY)

 

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Tuesday, November 22
9 – 10am EST

New York City Hall
New York, NY 10007

Mayor Adams' 2023 fiscal year regressive, punitive, & austere budget
proposal is unacceptable at a time when New Yorkers need care &
resources the most! Join The People’s Plan & allies on TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER 22, 2022 @ 9 AM to fight FOR care and safety nets and AGAINST
Mayor Eric Adams’ proposed budget cuts to childcare, education, and
core services that will harm working New Yorkers.

 

THE SOUTH: JIM CROW AND ITS AFTERLIVES - DECEMBER 7 (CUNY SCHOOL OF
LABOR AND URBAN STUDIES)

 

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THE SOUTH: JIM CROW AND ITS AFTERLIVES

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2022   

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM  (U.S. EASTERN TIME)

_VIRTUAL-ONLY event via ZOOM._

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CAN THE WORLD SAVE THE WORLD? GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE. -
DECEMBER 14 (INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES)

 

DECEMBER 14 @ 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Virtually everyone on the planet has now been affected by the
droughts, fires, and superstorms associated with climate change. The
United Nations, the scientific community, and NGOs are all working
overtime to reduce carbon emissions and promote a shift to clean
energy. But emissions continue to rise.

Do we have the right institutions at the global level to address the
problem of climate change? Can existing institutions–the UN
Environmental Programme, the UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change, the Green Climate Fund, the Major Economies Forum on Energy
and Climate, Climate Action Network International–be made more
effective? What new institutions do we need, and what are the new
approaches at the global level that can mobilize global action and
resources to make a real difference before it’s too late?

Panelists

* JAYATI GHOSH is a professor of economics at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst and was appointed this year by UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres to a new high-level advisory board on
effective multilateralism.
* MARY ANN MANAHAN is a doctoral fellow at the Conflict Research
Group at Ghent University. She is a member of the Beyond Development
Global Working Group.
* JENS MARTENS is the executive director of the Global Policy Forum
Europe and has coordinated the international Civil Society Reflection
Group on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development since 2011.

The panel will be moderated by MIRIAM LANG, a professor for
Environmental and Sustainability Studies at the Universidad Andina
Simon Bolivar in Ecuador and a member of the Ecosocial Pact of the
South

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