[ Reader Comments: Lessons from the Midterms; Public Pensions;
Rail Workers; Wakanda Forever; Book Sales; Vietnam Era Antiwar
Movement: Successes, Failures, and Legacies; How We Win with
Socialists in Office; Cartoons; More Resources and Announcements;]
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TIDBITS – NOV. 24, 2022 – READER COMMENTS: LESSONS FROM THE
MIDTERMS; PUBLIC PENSIONS; RAIL WORKERS; WAKANDA FOREVER; BOOK SALES;
VIETNAM ERA ANTIWAR MOVEMENT: SUCCESSES, FAILURES, LEGACIES;
SOCIALISTS IN OFFICE; CARTOONS; MORE…  
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_ Reader Comments: Lessons from the Midterms; Public Pensions; Rail
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Successes, Failures, and Legacies; How We Win with Socialists in
Office; Cartoons; More Resources and Announcements; _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Nov. 24, 2022, xxxxxx

 

Re: How Democrats Can Build a John Fetterman 2.0 (Claire O'Connor;
Linda Gillison)
Re: The Enduring Power of Trumpism (Daniel Millstone)
McCarthyism Still a Danger  -  new political button
Re: Tammy Baldwin Gets Republicans To Back a Marriage Equality Bill,
Making Final Approval Likely (Brandon Mouser)
Re: Building Worker Power (Debbie Socolar)
Re: The 2022 Midterms Were One of the Best Elections the Left Has Had
in Memory (Kevin Wilson; Arlene Halfon)
And the Race Begins  --  cartoon by Bill Bramhall
Re: Karen Bass Speaks After Winning LA Mayor's Race (Davis-Putter
Scholarship Fund)
Re: With a Nod to ‘1984,’ a Federal Judge Blocks Florida’s
Anti-‘Woke’ Law in Colleges (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Re: A Public Pension Reckoning – Wall Street Readies an Avalanche of
Lies (Daniel Millstone)
Re: How Millions of Gig Workers Could Be Impacted by a New Labor Rule
(Lita Kurth)
World Cup  --  cartoon by Rob Rogers
Re: Rail Workers Want Tracks Publicly Owned. (Laura Friedman; Truman
Grandy)
Re: This Week, Billionaires Made a Strong Case for Abolishing
Themselves (Melodie Wettlaufer)
Re: With Namor, Wakanda Forever Does What Latine Media Will Not (David
Lott)
Shadow of the World Cup  --  cartoon by Pat Bagley

RESOURCES:

Family Values of Colorado Shooter: Who Is Randy Voepel? Colorado
Suspect's Grandfather Is MAGA Republican California State Assemblyman
(Anders Anglesey in Newsweek)
40% Off All Haymarket Books
Our End of Year Sale is back with 40% off all books until January 2
(Verso Books)
Don’t books make the sweetest holiday gifts? (Hard Ball Press)
 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Building Allyship to Address Antisemitism - New York - November 28
(T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights; Marlene Meyerson JCC
Manhattan)
Vietnam Era Antiwar Movement: Successes, Failures, and Legacies -
Daniel Ellsberg, W.D. Ehrhart, Carolyn Eisenberg, Nguyet Nguyen,
Judith Ehrlich - December 1 (UMass Amherst Department of History)
All-Virtual Peace/Progressive Strategy Conference - December 3
(Massachusetts Peace Action)
How We Win with Socialists in Office - December 7 (DSA Fund)

 

RE: HOW DEMOCRATS CAN BUILD A JOHN FETTERMAN 2.0
 

Rev. Barber of the Poor People's campaign have been insisting that we
can win if we create an ongoing connection and solidarity with the
people - not just a campaign time when we need them. True change will
come with a solid engagement.

Fetterman is an example of the success of that strategy,

Claire O'Connor

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Yes. Every county. Every vote!

Linda Gillison
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RE: THE ENDURING POWER OF TRUMPISM
 

Here, via xxxxxx
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Jelani Cobb [[link removed]] reminds us that the
racist, nativist forces behind Trump and Trumpery continue even if the
Orange Monster himself fades from the political right.

Daniel Millstone
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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MCCARTHYISM STILL A DANGER

 

 

RE: TAMMY BALDWIN GETS REPUBLICANS TO BACK A MARRIAGE EQUALITY BILL,
MAKING FINAL APPROVAL LIKELY
 

Thank you to my senator Todd Young and the other Republicans who had
the courage and decency to do the right thing and help pass this
legislation. We love our friends in the LGBTQ community and I know
that this comes as a relief. 

Brandon Mouser
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: BUILDING WORKER POWER

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Fascinating article on hotel workers/community organizing in Arizona -
well worth reading! "...unions must give their members the support
they need to organize themselves around a compelling alternative to
right-wing populism."

Debbie Socolar
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THE 2022 MIDTERMS WERE ONE OF THE BEST ELECTIONS THE LEFT HAS HAD
IN MEMORY
 

If this was the best election for the left, then this country is even
more doomed than I imagined. None of the elected officials stood up to
congressional leadership on issues like min wage and healthcare. The
author himself noted the newly elected candidates who sold the
Palestinians out. The only real victories came via the ballot
initiatives and referenda.

Kevin Wilson
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We've already started to see results from the Midterms. Senate
Republicans seeing the handwriting on the wall and voting for marriage
equality. I haven't checked to see how many of the six are up for
election in two years, but I'd bet on it.

Arlene Halfon

 

AND THE RACE BEGINS  --  CARTOON BY BILL BRAMHALL

 

Bill Bramhall's editorial cartoon for Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, shows
Trump running from his indictments after he announced his 2024
presidential campaign. "And the race begins."

Bill Bramhall
November 17, 2022
New York Daily News
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RE: KAREN BASS SPEAKS AFTER WINNING LA MAYOR'S RACE
 

Karen Bass Speaks After Winning LA Mayor's Race

Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund [[link removed]]
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: WITH A NOD TO ‘1984,’ A FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS FLORIDA’S
ANTI-‘WOKE’ LAW IN COLLEGES
 

And yet the media gawpers are falling all over themselves to present
this gibbering troglodyte as the "reasonable Republican alternative to
Trump."

Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: A PUBLIC PENSION RECKONING – WALL STREET READIES AN AVALANCHE OF
LIES
 

Via xxxxxx
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comes Matthew Cunningham-Cook
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dangers facing public pensions from investment losses. NYC pensions,
awash in stock price declines will need billions more

    NYC will need to chip in an extra $6 billion to shore up
pension funds — comptroller
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Daniel Millstone
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: HOW MILLIONS OF GIG WORKERS COULD BE IMPACTED BY A NEW LABOR RULE

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Thanks! This is a fantastic piece of journalism.

Lita Kurth

 

WORLD CUP  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Rob Rogers
November 23, 2022
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RE: RAIL WORKERS WANT TRACKS PUBLICLY OWNED. 

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Publicly owned and fully supported by the Government. Absolutely.

Laura Friedman
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Nationalize the railroads!

Truman Grandy
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THIS WEEK, BILLIONAIRES MADE A STRONG CASE FOR ABOLISHING
THEMSELVES
 

Truth about 4 billionaires we know, and about all.

Melodie Wettlaufer
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: WITH NAMOR, WAKANDA FOREVER DOES WHAT LATINE MEDIA WILL NOT

(posting on xxxxxx Culture)
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I have always considered Black Panther a part of the Indigenous
representation in Marvel, as it depicts an Afro-Indigenous
civilization that has thrived despite the colonialism around it. That
said, it did not surprise me that it became the franchise that would
bring additional Indigenous representation from the Global South; in
this case, it was Indigenous Maya representation.

David Lott
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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SHADOW OF THE WORLD CUP  --  CARTOON BY PAT BAGLEY

 

Pat Bagley
November 21, 2022
The Salt Lake City Tribune
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FAMILY VALUES OF COLORADO SHOOTER: WHO IS RANDY VOEPEL? COLORADO
SUSPECT'S GRANDFATHER IS MAGA REPUBLICAN CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLYMAN

 

By Anders Anglesey
November 21, 2022
Newsweek
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California MAGA Republican Assemblyman Randy Voepel is the grandfather
of Colorado Springs shooting suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich, according
to media reports.

Colorado Springs police arrested Aldrich
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22, following a mass shooting at the LGBT venue Club Q
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Saturday that left five people dead and 25 were injured.

Multiple media reports, including _The San Diego Union-Tribune_,
showed Aldrich's mother is Laura Voepel, daughter of the 72-year-old
California state assemblyman.

_Newsweek_ found social media posts made by Laura Voepel where she
praises her father's public service.

In an April 14, 2020, Facebook
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"Keep up the work dad. You work hard to improve our lives and a lot of
us take notice."

Randy Voepel was previously condemned over comments he made where he
compared the January 6 riot at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to the
American Revolutionary War.

Just three days after the riot, Randy Voepel told
the _Union-Tribune_: "This is Lexington and Concord. First shots
fired against tyranny.

"Tyranny will follow in the aftermath of the [Joe] Biden swear-in on
January 20."

Voepel also showed his support for former President Donald Trump
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2017, Twitter [[link removed]] post.

It read: "Let us not only #MAGA, but make California Great Again.
Grateful to be representing my district in the State Assembly.
#InaugurationDay."

According to a biography on his website, Voepel was elected to
represent California's 71st Assembly District in 2016.

Prior to being a state assemblyman, Voepel served as Santee City mayor
between 2000 and 2016 and was also on the city's council between 1996
and 2000.

In March 2022, Voepel was given the East Californian Silver Star Award
for "Best Elected Official."

Before Voepel entered politics, he served two tours with the U.S. Navy
during the Vietnam War.

 

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Share, with your loved ones, radical and visionary thinking that
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Check out our highlights from 2022
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DON’T BOOKS MAKE THE SWEETEST HOLIDAY GIFTS? (HARD BALL PRESS)

 

ENJOY A FREE BOOK WITH YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING.

In the spirit of the upcoming holidays (including Thanksgiving!), Hard
Ball & Little Heroes Press is giving away one book for every three
books purchased.

For the adult books, you will receive a Lenny Moss shop steward
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For the children’s books, you will receive a copy of the bilingual
Polar Bear Pete’s Ice Is Melting!

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BUILDING ALLYSHIP TO ADDRESS ANTISEMITISM - NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 28
(T’RUAH: THE RABBINIC CALL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS; MARLENE MEYERSON JCC
MANHATTAN)

 

With antisemitism on the rise, how can we work in solidarity with
other communities to counter extremism and create a world free from
all forms of bigotry?

Join RACHEL FISH, PH.D., co-founder of Boundless, for a conversation
with LEO FERGUSON, director of strategic projects at Jews for Racial
& Economic Justice; RABBI JILL JACOBS, CEO of T'ruah: The Rabbinic
Call for Human Rights; RABBI BOB KAPLAN, executive director at The
Center for Community Leadership at JCRC-NY; and BRANDY SHUFUTINSKY,
PH.D, director of education, outreach, and engagement for the Jewish
Institute of Liberal Values.

_This session is being offered as part of the JCC’s Antisemitism in
America: Charting a Path Forward series and will include opportunities
for small-group discussions._

LEO FERGUSON is the Director of Strategic Projects at Jews For Racial
& Economic Justice. He is the founder of JFREJ's Jews of Color caucus,
lead organizer for the Jews of Color National Convening, and a lead
author of _Understanding Antisemitism_. He is a graduate of the Grace
Paley Organizing Fellowship, The Bend The Arc Selah Fellowship, the
JOIN Don’t Kvetch, Organize Masterclass, and the BOLD Black
Organizing for Leadership & Dignity Directors and Leads training. He
is proudly Black & Jewish, a lifelong New Yorker, and a musician.

RACHEL FISH, Ph.D., is an academic with 20 years of experience in the
fields of Israeli history, Zionist thought, and Middle Eastern
studies. Most recently, Dr. Fish was the founding executive director
of the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, which was established to
catalyze dynamic new solutions to stop the age-old hatred advanced by
those who seek the elimination of Judaism and the Jewish people. Dr.
Fish was previously senior advisor and resident scholar of
Jewish/Israel philanthropy at the Paul E. Singer Foundation in New
York City and served as executive director for the Schusterman Center
for Israel Studies at Brandeis University, where she trained the next
generation of scholars and Jewish communal professionals in Israel
Studies.

RABBI JILL JACOBS (she/her) is the CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call
for Human Rights, an organization that trains and mobilizes more than
2,300 rabbis and cantors and their communities to bring a moral voice
to protecting and advancing human rights in North America, Israel, and
the occupied Palestinian territories. She is the author of _Where
Justice Dwells: A Hands-On Guide to Doing Social Justice in Your
Jewish Community _and _There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social
Justice through Jewish Law and Tradition_, both published by Jewish
Lights.

RABBI BOB KAPLAN is the founding executive director of The Center for
Community Leadership, the Shared Society division of the Jewish
Community Relations Council of New York (JCRC). Rabbi Kaplan also
serves as a Commissioner for the New York City Commission on Human
Right, a member of Bronx Community Board 8, and a member of the
Mayor’s PATH (Partners Against the Hate) Task Force.

BRANDY SHUFUTINSKY is a social worker, writer, researcher, and
advocate. She holds a doctorate from the University of San Francisco
in international and multicultural education and a MSW from the
University of Southern California. Brandy is the director of education
and community engagement at the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values.
She was a 2021 scholar-in-residence at the Institute for the Study of
Global Antisemitism & Policy Oxford Summer Institute, where she worked
to develop curriculum in critical antisemitism studies. Currently she
is working towards developing intercultural and academic opportunities
to enhance liberal democratic ideals.

This program is sponsored by B'nai Jeshurun, The Gottesman Center for
Jewish Living, The Joseph Stern Center for Social Responsibility, The
David H. Sonabend Center for Israel, and Engage Jewish Service Corps.

Antisemitism programs at the JCC are made possible by an anonymous
donor.

MARLENE MEYERSON JCC IN MANHATTAN (334 AMSTERDAM AVE AT 76TH STREET)
ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28 AT 7:00PM. THE PROGRAM IS PAY WHAT YOU WISH.

The “Pay what you wish” feature ensures that JCC programs can be
accessible for the entire community. Programs at the JCC take time,
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and resources of our staff and speakers. Payment through “Pay what
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be provided.

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VIETNAM ERA ANTIWAR MOVEMENT: SUCCESSES, FAILURES, AND LEGACIES -
DANIEL ELLSBERG, W.D. EHRHART, CAROLYN EISENBERG, NGUYET NGUYEN,
JUDITH EHRLICH - DECEMBER 1 (UMASS AMHERST DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY)

 

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 7PM EST, ZOOM

* W.D. EHRHART - Author, Educator, Vietnam Veteran

* CAROLYN EISENBERG - Historian, Hofstra University

* DANIEL ELLSBERG - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower

* NGUYET NGUYEN - Historian, University of Alaska Southeast

* JUDITH EHRLICH – Moderator – Director, InSight Films LLC

READ MORE AND REGISTER
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This panel discussion considers the most vibrant, diverse, and
sustained antiwar movement in U.S. history. What impact did it have on
the conduct and conclusion of the Vietnam War? Does it offer lessons
for our own time?

Join the UMass Amherst Feinberg Series for a conversation with Daniel
Ellsberg, the whistleblower who exposed decades of government lies
about the war by releasing the Pentagon Papers; antiwar activists and
historians Carolyn Eisenberg and Nguyet Nguyen; and Vietnam veteran,
writer, teacher and activist W. D. Ehrhart. The award-winning
filmmaker Judith Ehrlich (_The Boys Who Said NO!_) will moderate.

* W. D. EHRHART, PHD, is a former Marine Corps sergeant, Vietnam
veteran, teacher, and author of multiple books of nonfiction and
poetry, including _Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against
the War _and_ Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems. _

* CAROLYN "RUSTI" EISENBERG is a professor of U.S. history and
American foreign policy at Hofstra University. Her latest book
is _Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger and the Wars in Southeast
Asia. _Eisenberg was on the Strike Steering Committee at Columbia
University in 1968. She is co-founder of Brooklyn for Peace and
legislative coordinator for Historians for Peace and Democracy.

* DANIEL ELLSBERG is a lecturer, writer, activist, and whistleblower.
A former RAND corporation analyst, he was also an official in the
Defense and State Departments. In 1971, Ellsberg leaked a top-secret
7,000-page study of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam—the Pentagon
Papers—to the _The New York Times _and eighteen other newspapers.
In the decades since, he has been arrested scores of times for
nonviolent civil disobedience in opposition to U.S. nuclear and
foreign policy. His books include _Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and
the Pentagon Papers _(2002) and _The Doomsday Machine: Confessions
of a Nuclear War Planner _(2017).  

* NGUYET NGUYEN is a historian of the transnational Vietnamese
antiwar movement and assistant professor at the University of Alaska
Southeast. Born and raised in Vietnam, she has been active in shedding
light on the GI antiwar movement and in projects to help clear
unexploded ordnance in Vietnam. 

* JUDITH EHRLICH (moderator) is the co-director and producer
of _The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the
Pentagon Papers_, winner of the Peabody Award. Her most recent
film, _The Boys Who Said NO!_, tells the story of a mass movement of
draft resisters who chose conscience over killing in the Vietnam War.
Ehrlich is currently producing an animated podcast featuring
Ellsberg’s anti-nuclear analysis and activism for Defuse Nuclear
War.

_Free and open to all. Spanish interpretation and closed captions will
be available. This event will be recorded and made available on the
Feinberg Series website. Read more and register!
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imperialism and anti-imperialist resistance. It is presented by
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the ELLSBERG INITIATIVE FOR PEACE AND DEMOCRACY
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ALL-VIRTUAL PEACE/PROGRESSIVE STRATEGY CONFERENCE - DECEMBER 3
(MASSACHUSETTS PEACE ACTION)

 

_WONDERING WHAT THE ELECTIONS MEAN FOR OUR MOVEMENT?_

_OUR DEC. 3 PEACE/PROGRESSIVE STRATEGY CONFERENCE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO
AN ALL-VIRTUAL FORMAT!_

Join our all virtual conference Dec. 3 as six progressive
organizations come together to dissect the 2022 election results and
chart the path for our movements in the next two years and beyond.

FEATURING analysis of election results by JOHN NICHOLS and SEN.
JAMIE ELDRIDGE; strategy presentations on peace and justice issues by
by PHYLLIS BENNIS, PROF. JACKSON LEARS, and LINDSAY
KOSHGARIAN; and examination of the domestic progressive agenda
by  JEAN-LUC PIERITE,  JORDAN BERG-POWERS and MALLORY HANORA.

We live at a time characterized by numerous dire threats to justice,
peace, and the very stability of our country. Among these threats are
rampant militarism, galloping climate change, growing inequality, an
ongoing and divisive pandemic, and the emergence of a dangerous
right-wing extremist movement. The goal of this Conference is to
explore with activists and thought leaders how to address these
enormous obstacles to the fulfillment of a progressive vision. 

Among the questions we will examine are: How do we speak about
militarism as we address inequality, climate change, racism and
threats to democratic processes? And how do we understand and overcome
the political vacuum which not only led to the exponential growth of
corporate power (including the military industrial complex) but also
destroyed belief that a collective or government can solve the
problems currently undermining our societies?

But we will also draw lessons and encouragement from positive
developments brought about by our progressive movement in the face of
neoliberal and reactionary onslaught.

This one day Conference will have 2 panels with breakout groups after
each. The first panel will address militarism and how the ideology of
militarism has impacted all aspects of U.S. society. The Russian
invasion of Ukraine has made this task more complex and more critical.
The Ukraine War has greatly strengthened NATO specifically and
militarist ideology in general and has set off divisions in the peace
and social justice movement. Under these difficult circumstances, as
political activists, we need to address how the buildup of military
resources drains the public treasury, puts us at risk of nuclear
holocaust, and short circuits democratic and collective responses to
problem solving.

The second panel will address organizing for political power in
communities often overlooked by many progressive groups and the
Democratic and Republican parties: Black, Indigenous and people of
color who have reason to doubt that elected officials will ever
deliver for them; and urban and rural communities where working
families experience economic insecurity, anger at progressive and
Democratic Party elites, and struggle with family instability, drugs
and depression. We will hear from organizers in such communities, how
they empower residents working with them to adapt progressive policies
to meet local needs. We will hear about how union organizing efforts
are showing how collective struggle can overcome adversity and build
the power needed to make the changes needed.

We invite you to join us and send representatives of your
organizations and communities to help grow our movement and to
confront these critical issues together. 

SPEAKERS

JOHN NICHOLS is National affairs correspondent for _The Nation_. His
most recent book is _Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers:
Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis_.

JAMIE ELDRIDGE is State Senator representing the Middlesex and
Worcester District, which includes Ayer, Acton, and Marlborough.

PHYLLIS BENNIS is director of the New Internationalism Project at the
Institute for Policy Studies. The seventh edition of
her _Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict : A Primer_ was
published in 2018.

T. J. JACKSON LEARS is an American cultural and intellectual
historian with interests in comparative religious history, literature
and the visual arts, folklore and folk beliefs. He is Board of
Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers and Editor in
Chief of _Raritan_. He is author of _Rebirth of a Nation: The Making
of Modern America, 1877-1920_.

LINDSAY KOSHGARIAN is Program Director for the National Priorities
Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.  She is an expert in
dissecting the Federal budget including the contrast between Pentagon
spending and domestic needs.

JORDAN BERG POWERS is Executive Director at Mass Alliance. In his
over a decade there, he has helped elect new progressive leaders
across the state, recruited progressive champions to run, and trained
hundreds of grassroots organizers. Jordan is active in campaigns for
saving public education, environmental justice, and a more progressive
tax system for the Commonwealth.

JEAN-LUC PIERITE is President of the Board of the North American
Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB). A member of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe
of Louisiana and originally from New Orleans, he resides in Jamaica
Plain.

MALLORY HANORA is Executive Director of Families for Justice as
Healing, a Roxbury based prison abolitionist organization led by
incarcerated women, formerly incarcerated women, and women with
incarcerated loved ones, which works to move Massachusetts towards
community based solutions rather than constructing a new women’s
prison.

This CONFERENCE will be all-virtual.   It will be run as a single
Zoom meeting and breakouts will be joined from the main Zoom meeting.

CONFERENCE AGENDA

9:00 am – Gathering and informal conversation for early birds

9:30 am – Welcoming Remarks; Political Updates by JOHN
NICHOLS and JAMIE ELDRIDGE

10:35 am – Militarism and its ideology, with PHYLLIS
BENNIS, JACKSON LEARS and LINDSAY KOSHGARIAN

11:40 am – Breakouts on militarism

1:00 pm – Lunch Break

2:00 pm – Organizing for Power, with JORDAN BERG POWERS, JEAN-LUC
PIERITE, and MALLORY HANORA.

3:00 pm – Breakouts on organizing — choice of topics:  Climate
change, labor activism, white working class, Indigenous solidarity,
policing and prisons, youth organizing, electoral organizing, state
legislation, or Poor People’s Campaign.

4:20 pm – Closing remarks / reportbacks

4:35 pm – Adjourn

SPONSORED BY the Massachusetts Progressive Action Organizing
Committee, whose constituent groups are: Massachusetts Peace Action,
Our Revolution Massachusetts, Progressive Democrats of America,
Progressive Massachusetts, North American Indian Center of Boston, and
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HOW WE WIN WITH SOCIALISTS IN OFFICE - DECEMBER 7 (DSA FUND)

 

A growing number of local and state governments have socialist
officials joining their ranks, so how can local organizers and DSA
chapters work with them to achieve policy wins that advance socialist
goals?

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Panelists include:

* COUNCILMEMBER ROBIN WONSLEY will moderate the event. She is a
democratic socialist representing Minneapolis's Ward 2 on its city
council and a member of Twin Cities DSA. 
* COUNCILMEMBER JASON CHAVEZ is the first LGBTQ+ Latinx to serve as
a Minneapolis City Council Member and a member of Twin Cities DSA.
Chavez also played a critical role in passing Minnesota’s Police
Accountability Act and Omnibus Employment and Economic Development
Bill as a Committee Legislative Aide at the Minnesota House of
Representatives.
* MIKE D. is the co-chair of Philly DSA and sits on the chapter’s
Socialists In Office Commission and Electoral and Political Education
Committees. Previously he served as Campaign Manager for DSA member
and 2021 Jersey City City Council candidate Joel Brooks. 
* ALDERPERSON JORGE DEFENDINI is a DSA member, Boricua Socialist
Organizer and Alderperson serving on the Ithaca Common Council. He has
organized within Ithaca DSA and the Ithaca Tenants Union for campaigns
such as Good Cause Eviction and free mass transit.
* GENEVIEVE RAND is an Ithaca DSA member who has done years of work
at the Ithaca Tenants Union and has recently worked on supporting the
Ithaca Solidarity Slate — a collaborative project between the Ithaca
DSA and Ithaca Tenants Union.

Panelists will respond to your questions and discuss more immediate
practical steps and the longer view of what coalitions and governments
can do locally and at the state level through building and working
together.

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These Times_. 

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education and engagement. DSA Fund does not participate or intervene
in any political campaigns on behalf of or in opposition to any
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