[ Reader Comments: Railroad Workers Deserve Sick Days; More Gun
Violence; Jewish Divide Over Netanyahu; Readers Debate Ukraine;
Thanksgiving Origins; Afterlife of Paris Commune; Fifty Year Tribute
to Juan González; More Announcements; Cartoons;]
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TIDBITS – DEC. 1, 2022 – READER COMMENTS: RAILROAD WORKERS
DESERVE SICK DAYS; MORE GUN VIOLENCE; JEWISH DIVIDE OVER NETANYAHU;
READERS DEBATE UKRAINE; THANKSGIVING ORIGINS; AFTERLIFE OF PARIS
COMMUNE; FIFTY YEAR TRIBUTE TO JUAN GONZÁLEZ; MORE  
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_ Reader Comments: Railroad Workers Deserve Sick Days; More Gun
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Thanksgiving Origins; Afterlife of Paris Commune; Fifty Year Tribute
to Juan González; More Announcements; Cartoons; _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Dec. 1, 2022, xxxxxx

 

* RE: DEMOCRATS WERE DITHERING ON RAILWORKERS’ RIGHTS. THE LEFT
JUST FORCED THEIR HAND. (LINDA GILLISON)
* RE: POLITICIANS IN COLORADO SPRINGS CHOSE FLOUTING GUN LAWS OVER
PEOPLE’S LIVES (JOHN YORK; NORM LITTLEJOHN)
* FEELING SAFE  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: DID SOME IN OUR FEDERAL POLICE CONSPIRE TO OVERTHROW AMERICA?
(VELVA SPRIGGS)
* RE: MEDIA MISLED ON ISSUES IMPORTANT TO MIDTERM VOTERS (BRANDON
MOUSER)
* RE: TEACHERS’ UNION LEADER HITS BACK AFTER POMPEO CALLS HER THE
‘MOST DANGEROUS PERSON IN THE WORLD’ (MARTHA LIVINGSTON)
* RE: HOSPITAL BILLING IS A CRIME AGAINST AMERICAN PATIENTS (ELEANOR
ROOSEVELT)
* RE: RENT CONTROL EXPANDS AS TENANTS STRUGGLE WITH THE RECORD-HIGH
COST OF HOUSING (TOM GOGAN)
* RE: THE CASE FOR SUPREME COURT TERM LIMITS JUST GOT A LOT BETTER
(MARIAN SWERDLOW)
* KETCHUP ON THE ÑEWS: DONALD DINES WITH DEPLORABLES  --  CARTOON
BY LALO ALCARAZ
* RE: POLICY WITHOUT INDUSTRIAL UNIONS (CARL DAVIDSON)
* RE: COVID-19 IN CHINA AND GLOBAL CONCERN (DANIEL MILLSTONE)
* RE: NETANYAHU’S COMEBACK WIDENS DIVIDE OVER ISRAEL AMONG
AMERICAN JEWS (NH PALESTINE EDUCATION NETWORK; ALAN HART)
* RE: Q&A: NAVIGATING THE LEFT’S UKRAINE DEBATE (JOHN WOODFORD;
CHARLES PIERCE; ROBERT FUZESI; STEVEN SHERMAN)
* RE: THE FIRST THANKSGIVING: SEPARATING MYTH FROM FACT (LOUISE
MURRAY; SYRACUSE CULTURAL WORKERS UNION; JOHN BURKE; GAIL BOURQUE)
* RE: THE LIFE AND AFTERLIFE OF THE PARIS COMMUNE.(CARL DAVIDSON;
JOHN EMERSON; BILL GALLEGOS)
* SHAM JUSTICE  --  CARTOON BY REX A. JONES
* RE: IDEAS, INCLUDING FOOLISH ONES, HAVE CONSEQUENCES (NORM)
* MAR-A-LOCO...  --  CARTOON BY JACK OHMAN
* RE: THE LEGACY OF A CAGED BIRD (LEONARD J. LEHRMAN)
* RE: THE FAKELORE OF FOOD ORIGINS (CLAIRE O'CONNOR)

RESOURCES:

* RAILROAD WORKERS UNITED
* WE ARE NOT ALL IN THE SAME BOAT  -- MEME

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* FIFTY YEARS DEFENDING & CHRONICLING AMERICA'S WORKERS - FEATURING
JUAN GONZÁLEZ - NEW YORK CITY - DECEMBER 9 (CUNY SCHOOL OF LABOR AND
URBAN STUDIES & DEMOCRACY NOW!)
* BOOK TALK FEATURING DR. JAMES BENTON - FRAYING FABRIC: HOW TRADE
POLICY AND INDUSTRIAL DECLINE TRANSFORMED AMERICA - WASHINGTON, DC -
DECEMBER 14 (KALMANOVITZ INITIATIVE FOR LABOR AND THE WORKING POOR)
* LEO PANITCH: GLOBAL CAPITALISM, THE STATE, AND THE SOCIALIST
CHALLENGE - OTTAWA, ONTARIO - DECEMBER 10 (INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL
ECONOMY - CARLETON UNIVERSITY)

READER COMMENTS

RE: DEMOCRATS WERE DITHERING ON RAILWORKERS’ RIGHTS. THE LEFT JUST
FORCED THEIR HAND.
 

Good! Let's see what happens in the Senate. Thanks, House Dems...and
Repubs who voted for the bill (of whom there were, I believe, a few).

Linda Gillison
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RE: POLITICIANS IN COLORADO SPRINGS CHOSE FLOUTING GUN LAWS OVER
PEOPLE’S LIVES
 

The families of all those affected by this atrocity need to sue the
county and the sheriff!

John York
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Colorado has a “red flag” law to keep some weapons out of the
hands of people with a history of violence, and a huge majority of
Coloradans support that law — still, some counties refuse to enforce
it.

Norm Littlejohn
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FEELING SAFE  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Rob Rogers
November 29, 2022
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RE: DID SOME IN OUR FEDERAL POLICE CONSPIRE TO OVERTHROW AMERICA?
 

I love this article because it provides the details behind my
speculations as a lone Washington, DC resident without access to
information about the internal affairs of the government that a coup
d'etat was in progress long before January 6, 2021. I don't have a
subscription to Twitter and rarely view Facebook. Nevertheless, I was
able to surmise months before January 6th from various scraps of news
that there was the possibility of a coup d'etat underway and mentioned
this to a friend.  When the January 6th event finally came, I was
disturbed that the news media referred to that day as "an
insurrection." I insisted in my silo that I was witnessing an
attempted coup d'etat.  I recall saying as I went about my daily
affairs while witnessing this televised drama on January 6th, "Where
are the police?  Where is the national guard?" I was incredulous at
their absence for such a long period of time. Then I learned that DC
Mayor Bowser and Governor Hogan of Maryland had urged for permission
to bring in the National Guard and were prevented from doing so.

My point:  If I, a citizen with none of the sophisticated apparatus
of government intelligence, could speculate seriously about the
possibility of a coup d'etat, where were those in the government who
were not a part of the plot to overthrow the government, and those in
the media who were investigative reporters, in their respective
organizations as assessors of daily life in America?  You all know,
this is not over!  There is bound to be another attempt at a coup
because of the deep internecine machinery in place (and persistent
will of those whose quest for power and authoritarianism) to carry it
out. I remain grateful for their clumsiness, but one never knows, do
one?

Velva Spriggs

 

RE: MEDIA MISLED ON ISSUES IMPORTANT TO MIDTERM VOTERS
 

It's what happens when the same class of people own the economy, the
media, and both political parties.

Brandon Mouser
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RE: TEACHERS’ UNION LEADER HITS BACK AFTER POMPEO CALLS HER THE
‘MOST DANGEROUS PERSON IN THE WORLD’
 

Right on, Randi Weingarten. That attack by Pompeo would have been
hilarious had it not been so freaking dangerous and sick.

Martha Livingston
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RE: HOSPITAL BILLING IS A CRIME AGAINST AMERICAN PATIENTS
 

The entire insurance-medical industry shakedown racket is a crime
against human beings.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: RENT CONTROL EXPANDS AS TENANTS STRUGGLE WITH THE RECORD-HIGH COST
OF HOUSING

This article again recites the old myth that rent controls cause less
housing construction.  Not quite so simple!   That is a trope of the
old discredited trickle-down theories.

Another element missing even in pro-rent control articles: rent
controls foster community stability whereas the market opens up a
"Wild West" speculative scramble that destroys communities everywhere.

Tom Gogan

 

RE: THE CASE FOR SUPREME COURT TERM LIMITS JUST GOT A LOT BETTER
 

Excellent history.  However, as it stands, Article 3 Section 1 of the
United States Constitution states they shall "hold their offices
during good behavior" with impeachment, by the same process as
presidential impeachment, the only remedy for violation of that
provision. The author never mentions the difficulty and, hence, the
rarity of amending the Constitution. So a "better case," sadly,
doesn't matter. 

Marian Swerdlow

 

KETCHUP ON THE ÑEWS: DONALD DINES WITH DEPLORABLES  --  CARTOON BY
LALO ALCARAZ

 

Lalo Alcaraz
November 29, 2022
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RE: POLICY WITHOUT INDUSTRIAL UNIONS
 

A little 'thinking outside the box' will suggest that our teachers
unions, with localities everywhere and national in scope, are well
suited to take a lead in industrial policy, especially of the more
radical sort. What is that? It was outlined by Father Arizmendi of
Mondragon fame, who started his worker coop industry building by
starting with a school that shaped potential worker-owners. Then he
formed worker-owned credit unions. Last was the coop factory rooted in
manufacturing. It is the three-in-one that works his magic--first a
school, then a source of democratic credit, and then a factory. But
the school comes first. Think it through, and you'll see why. Of
course, industrial unions can play a leading role, as the Steelworkers
already have, to a small degree. But our teachers can do a lot more.
Perhaps it's one reason Pompeo decided they were his top adversaries.

Carl Davidson
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RE: COVID-19 IN CHINA AND GLOBAL CONCERN
 

Via xxxxxx
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come this very well done look at COVID-19 in China where, as we’ve
all seen, widespread protests against prolonged lockdowns have changed
political and social life there. I subscribed to a free version of
Katelyn Jetelina’s substack.
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If, like me, you have been an somewhat undereducated consumer of
epidemiology reports, you may also want to subscribe. 

Daniel Millstone
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RE: NETANYAHU’S COMEBACK WIDENS DIVIDE OVER ISRAEL AMONG AMERICAN
JEWS
 

Wow -things appear to be changing --

NH Palestine Education Network
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The divide showed up in Pittsburgh this year as between Jews ready to
vote for Summer Lee for Congress, and those opposed to her. The most
progressive Jews actively supported Summer in the primary. The most
right-wing voted not only for her centrist, AIPAC-backed opponent in
the primary, but even for the Republican Trumper in the general (who
was also supported by AIPAC.)

Alan Hart
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READERS DEBATE xxxxxx UKRAINE POSTS
 

RE: Q&A: NAVIGATING THE LEFT’S UKRAINE DEBATE
 

Wow. you've managed to pretend to thoroughly analyze the
Russo-Ukrainian conflict with no mention of Victoria Nuland and what
her presence and actions indicate.

That's the way the State Dept. and Pentagon "analyze" the conflict,
too.

Congratulations.

John Woodford

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by Bill Fletcher Jr & Elly Leary titled Q&A: Navigating the Left’s
Ukraine Debate. One need not be a fan of crony-capitalist Russia (and
I am not) to find that said article is full of error:
misrepresentations, faulty analysis, and whitewash of US imperialism.
Where to begin! Some specifics.
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1. They treat ethnically diverse Ukraine as a country where only
Ukrainian nationalists have national rights and ethnic minorities have
none. Forgetting that Marxist socialists support resistance and
rebellion against unjust laws and unjust social orders; they spout
legalisms about a sacrosanct Ukrainian sovereignty, objectively in
opposition to the self-determination rights of its ethnic minorities.
Why didn’t Crimea have a right to self-determination or Donbas to
autonomy within Ukraine? They circumvent the issue, objectively siding
with the US, NATO, and Kyiv in opposition the self-determination
rights of those peoples.

2. They: pretend that the longstanding US interventions in Ukraine on
the side of anti-Russia parties are irrelevant; propound the absurd
assertion that the violent US-backed 2014 ouster of the democratically
elected government was not a coup; minimize the significance of
Kyiv’s subsequent and ongoing massive repression of opposition
parties; and evade the Kyiv regime’s lauding, as national heroes,
the Ukrainian fascists who collaborated with Nazi Germany and
participated in its mass-murder war crimes in Ukraine.

3. They evade the fact that independent (including UN sponsored)
opinion polls, in 2008 and 2009-11, found in every instance that at
least 64% of Crimeans wanted Crimea to leave Ukraine and reunite with
Russia (from which it had been transferred to Ukraine in 1954 without
the consent of its people and against their wishes), dismissing the
2014 reunification as a Russian “invasion” and “seizure”.

4. They falsely quote Putin as describing Ukraine as a “national
fiction”. In fact, there is no such phrase nor any assertion to that
effect in either Putin’s February 21 pre-invasion speech nor in his
February 24 TV address. Putin does express his disapproval of the USSR
having given its constituent republics the right to secede; but what
he actually said in February was: “Russia accepted the new
geopolitical reality after the dissolution of the USSR. We have been
treating all new post-Soviet states with respect and will continue to
act this way. We respect and will respect their sovereignty”.

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5. They assert that US & NATO promises, that NATO and its military
bases (which now include nuclear capable missiles in Poland and
Romania) would never move into former Warsaw Pact countries, were
nullified by the dissolution of the USSR. But they know full well that
Russia was/is internationally recognized as having succeeded to all of
the rights and obligations of the USSR: treaty rights and obligations,
permanent member of the UN Security Council, etc. Thusly, they engage
in absurd apologetics for US-NATO betrayal of commitments (as they
dismiss Russia’s valid objections to the aforementioned missiles as
well as threatening NATO military exercises in the Baltic republics).

6. They blame Russia for the lack of peace negotiations, evading the
fact that it is Zelenskiy who refuses to even consider negotiations
(until Kyiv has conquered all territory which it ruled prior to 2014).

7. They make some concessions which are lacking in Fletcher’s
previous Ukraine-War articles. However, they provide no source
references for most of their problematic narrative. So, their
misrepresentations, assuming not willfully deceitful, must result from
ignorance, failure to properly investigate, and pre-existing
prejudices (which I suspect result, at least in part, from their
allegiances to the capital-serving and thoroughly imperialist US
Democratic Party).

Fletcher co-authored 2 previous articles in the same vein. Factual
refutations of most of his and allied misrepresentations (with sources
provided) were published (September 17) by Covert Action Magazine
[CAM] in my article titled Ukraine War, Divided Left: “Social
Patriots” and the “Anti-Imperialism of Fools”!
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I have been very disappointed at your coverage of the war that the US
started in Ukraine. against Russia.

It was almost identical to the total lies of the Mass media flooding
us daily.

Robert Fuzesi

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"The Russo-Ukrainian War is no more a “proxy war” than was the
Vietnam War. Yet it is important to remember that many liberals and
right-wingers described the Vietnam War as a proxy war between the US,
on the one hand, and the USSR and China on the other. They ignored the
national question—the fact that the Vietnam War was about US
aggression against the people of Vietnam (and, later, the people of
Laos and Cambodia). A proxy war is taking place when there are bad
actors on both sides, not when one side is fighting for their
independence—even if the side fighting for independence seeks help
from other nations."

Steven Sherman
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READER COMMENTS CONTINUED

RE: THE FIRST THANKSGIVING: SEPARATING MYTH FROM FACT

Giving thanks  Grateful to learn the difference between myths and
facts.

Louise Murray
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Syracuse Cultural Workers Union
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Oh come on. It does not one any good to substitute a bunch of new
myths for the old myths. A fall harvest holiday was traditional in
BOTH native communities and among the English Puritans.

Not just Puritans but all the English. The first Jamestown colonists
celebrated one too years before the Pilgrims.

Absolutely no one thinks Thanksgiving commemorates Pilgrims feeding
Natives. Every school child for generations knows the story of Natives
teaching the newcomers about planting, etc.

The Pequot War was not waged between Pilgrims and local tribes but
between an alliance of English colonists, Mohegan and other New
England tribes against Pequots. Accuracy should count for something
when supposedly debunking other myths.

John Burke
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Happy Thankful Day for family and friends, and all good things in my
life! And even hard things that help me learn lessons!  And this
story.

Gail Bourque
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RE: THE LIFE AND AFTERLIFE OF THE PARIS COMMUNE.
 

The review is interesting, and runs a bit counter to the standard ML
narrative as more nuanced and probably more accurate about the
Commune. But it also raises one of my pet hypotheses, shamelessly
stolen from DuBois, ie, that we have had our own 'Paris Communes' in
the multiracial, worker-driven governments of Black
Reconctruction--only they accomplished more than the one in Paris and
lasted far longer, nearly five years. Wendel Philips, the
abolitionist, who knew both, said so too. I think it matters because
of 'new nation, conceived in liberty' was best represented by them,
and its why they were overthrown. The long 1960s was our 2nd
Reconstruction, and we would do well to think of today's bridge to a
new order as a 3rd Reconstruction, improving on those that went
before.

Carl Davidson
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This was a turning point in French culture. The only major figures who
actually participated in the Commune were the painter Courbet and the
poets Rimbaud (who was about 15) and (of all people) the decadent
aesthete Verlaine. (Others, notably Hugo were supportive from a
distance.) Flaubert was absolutely bloodthirsty -- he thought that
20,000 executions was too few.

John Emerson
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And we should also commemorate the incredible 1980 Gwangiu Uprising in
South Korea

Bill Gallegos
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SHAM JUSTICE  --  CARTOON BY REX A. JONES

 

Rex A. Jones
January 29, 2021
Krazy Kartwonz Political Cartoons
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RE: IDEAS, INCLUDING FOOLISH ONES, HAVE CONSEQUENCES
 

“[T]he civilization that ... whites created in Europe and America”
is the civilization that has exceeded all others in human history in
the intensity and longevity of exploitation inflicted on other
civilizations around the rest of the world.

Norm

 

MAR-A-LOCO...  --  CARTOON BY JACK OHMAN

 

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Jack Ohman
November 30, 2022
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RE: THE LEGACY OF A CAGED BIRD

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the poets (along with Millay and
others) whose texts were set to music by Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964)
in his Circular Canons, most of which have never been performed, but
deserve to be.

Leonard J. Lehrman
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RE: THE FAKELORE OF FOOD ORIGINS

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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Except for Nanaimo Bars which were INVENTED in Nanaimo B.C. Canada.

Claire O'Connor

 

RAILROAD WORKERS UNITED

 

Railroad Workers United is an inter-union, cross-craft solidarity
"caucus" of railroad workers, and their supporters, from all crafts,
all carriers, and all unions across North America. We urge union
railroaders to continue being active in their craft union AND to join
RWU in building solidarity and strength among all rail workers. We
work with union rank & file railroad workers, but we welcome yet-to-be
organized rail workers as well. In addition, we actively work with
other labor and community organizations on issues of mutual concern.
We do not accept managers or those who oppose our principles.

A Place for All North American
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Workers
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North American railroad workers are divided into different unions
based on their craft of work and on some short lines, workers are not
unionized at all. In the US alone there are THIRTEEN UNIONS
REPRESENTING RAILROAD WORKERS
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with several more unions in Canada. What we need is solidarity, unity
and democracy.  READ MORE
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RWU Urges the Operating Crafts to VOTE NO!

BASED UPON FEEDBACK FROM WORKING RAILROADERS OF THE OPERATING CRAFTS,
THE STEERING COMMITTEE OF RAILROAD WORKERS UNITED (RWU) VOTED
WEDNESDAY 10/5/22 TO URGE MEMBERS OF THE OPERATING CRAFTS TO VOTE DOWN
THE TENTATIVE AGREEMENT (TA) WHEN THEY RECEIVE THEIR BALLOTS IN THE
COMING WEEKS.

Read the Full Alert Here
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Follow us on Twitter: @railroadworkers [[link removed]]. You
can also follow us on Instagram: @railroad.workers.united
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WE ARE NOT ALL IN THE SAME BOAT  -- MEME

 

 

FIFTY YEARS DEFENDING & CHRONICLING AMERICA'S WORKERS - FEATURING JUAN
GONZÁLEZ - NEW YORK CITY - DECEMBER 9 (CUNY SCHOOL OF LABOR AND URBAN
STUDIES & DEMOCRACY NOW!)

 

"FIFTY YEARS DEFENDING & CHRONICLING AMERICA'S WORKERS"

FEATURING JUAN GONZÁLEZ

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2022

3:00PM - 5:00PM ET

Join us *in-person* at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
(18th floor) [[link removed]] in Midtown
Manhattan or *virtually* via Zoom!

For more than half a century, Juan González has been eyewitness to
countless major movements led by working people in the Americas.

As a radical activist in the 1960s and 1970s with groups like the
Young Lords, the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization, and
the African Liberation Support Committee, he urged working class unity
in the fight against racial oppression and colonialism.

As a respected journalist in mainstream media for decades, González
personally covered major strikes in the U.S. and Latin America – the
1981 PATCO strike, general strikes in the Dominican Republic and
Puerto Rico in the 1990s, the 2005 New York City transit strike, the
resurrection of May Day by immigrant workers in 2006 – while also
exposing the plight of maquila workers in Mexico and Central America,
of U.S. workers thrown out of work by factory flight or sickened on
the job by toxic chemicals.

González played key leadership roles in some of the country’s most
successful media strikes of the late 20th century, including the
1990-91 five-month walkout at the New York Daily News, which
electrified the city’s trade union movement.

González will discuss all these events publicly for the first time,
offering behind-the-scenes vignettes on key moments, and summing up
the main lessons he learned – lessons a new generation of union
leaders and activists could find useful in their effort to rebuild and
expand organized labor. 

Join us for this exclusive public lecture and the Q&A to follow.

Hosted by the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
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Co-sponsored by the Sidney Hillman Foundation
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Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
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REGISTER: slucuny.swoogo.com/9December2022
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CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies [[link removed]]
25 West 43rd Street, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10036
(646) 313-8300

 

BOOK TALK FEATURING DR. JAMES BENTON - FRAYING FABRIC: HOW TRADE
POLICY AND INDUSTRIAL DECLINE TRANSFORMED AMERICA - WASHINGTON, DC -
DECEMBER 14 (KALMANOVITZ INITIATIVE FOR LABOR AND THE WORKING POOR)

 

HOLIDAY PARTY AND BOOK TALK FEATURING DR. JAMES BENTON AND HIS NEW
PUBLICATION "FRAYING FABRIC: HOW TRADE POLICY AND INDUSTRIAL DECLINE
TRANSFORMED AMERICA" 

_Wednesday, December 14th, 2022_
Book Talk 4:00 pm
Holiday Party 5:00 pm
Arrupe Multi Purpose Room
1575 Tondorf Rd

_The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at
Georgetown University engages questions of workers’ rights and the
future of the labor movement._

The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor
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209 Maguire Hall
Georgetown University 37th and O Streets NW
Washington, DC 20057

 

Leo Panitch: Global Capitalism, the State, and the Socialist Challenge
- Ottawa, Ontario - December 10 (Institute of Political Economy -
Carleton University)

 

DECEMBER 10, 2022 AT 9:00 AM TO 4:00 PM

This symposium will assess the legacy of Panitch’s scholarship,
education, and activism, featuring roundtables throughout the day and
a keynote address by IPE Visiting Professor Stephen Maher.

The work of Leo Panitch left an immense impact on the field of
political economy – from his critique of social democracy to his
groundbreaking theorization, with Sam Gindin, of globalization and the
American empire. As a professor at Carleton, he helped to place the
University at the forefront of the study of political economy in
Canada, and played a key role in the creation of the Institute of
Political Economy. At the same time, he was deeply involved in
politics, including the Waffle, the Ottawa Committee for Labour
Action, and the Socialist Project. This symposium will assess the
legacy of Panitch’s scholarship, education, and activism, featuring
contributions from friends, comrades, students, and political economy
scholars.

Symposium details and registration here
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