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TIDBITS – DEC. 8, 2022 – READER COMMENTS: GEORGIA VICTORY,
ELECTORAL POLITICS, ELECTORAL STRATEGY; RAIL WORKERS; DOCTORS AND
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_ Reader Comments: Georgia Victory, Electoral Politics, Electoral
Strategy; Rail Workers; Doctors and Unions; After Dobbs; Ending the
'American War': Promises, Realities and Impact of the U.S. Peace
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Announcements AND cartoons - Dec. 8, 2022,
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* RE: MOVEMENTS HAVE A LONG HISTORY OF PLAYING THE INSIDE-OUTSIDE
GAME EFFECTIVELY (CARL DAVIDSON)
* THANK YOU FOR CHANGING THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE IN GEORGIA (THE
OTHER 98%)
* DONALD TRUMP: IN THE MIDDLE OF FIFTH AVENUE  --  CARTOON BY BILL
BRAMHALL
* RE: 500 LABOR HISTORIANS CONDEMN BIDEN ON RAILROADS (JEFFREY
BOLLEN)
* RE: DESANTIS-BACKED SCHOOL BOARDS BEGIN OUSTING FLORIDA EDUCATORS
(DEB LOUIS)
* THE GOP CHRISTMAS LIST  --  CARTOON
* LITTLE HELPER  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: DOCTORS FINALLY JOIN THE LABOR MOVEMENT (MARILYN ALBERT;
RACHELLE KIVANOSKI)
* RE: LOUISIANA LAUNCHES TIP LINE TO ACCUSE LIBRARIANS OF
‘SEXUALIZING CHILDREN’ (JENNIFER WATSON)
* RE: THE AUTOWORKER WHO TRANSFORMED CALIFORNIA (ELIZABETH KELLY)
* RE: A NEW UNION RISES IN THE SOUTH (RACHELLE; JOANNA ZELDA LEVINE)
* RE: EVEN AFTER DOBBS, ABORTIONS STILL HAVEN’T PLUMMETED (DAVID
KNUTTUNEN)
* RE: WHITE NATIONALISTS GIVE MAR-A-LAGO RESTAURANT DISAPPOINTING
ONE-STAR REVIEWS ON TRIPADVISOR (SALVADOR OCHOA)
* DINNER GUEST FROM HELL  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: JULIA REICHERT, OSCAR-WINNING GODMOTHER OF DOCUMENTARIES, DIES
(LINDA GILLISON)
* RE: LITHIUM MINING IN CALIFORNIA’S SALTON SEA (CHARLES)
* RE: “THEIR WEALTH, YOUR MISERY”: ART AND PROPAGANDA IN
PANDEMIC TIMES (TOM ELLETT)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* ENDING THE 'AMERICAN WAR': PROMISES, REALITIES AND IMPACT OF THE
U.S. PEACE MOVEMENT - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11 (VIETNAM PEACE COMMEMORATION
COMMITTEE)

 

RE: MOVEMENTS HAVE A LONG HISTORY OF PLAYING THE INSIDE-OUTSIDE GAME
EFFECTIVELY
 

The state is one thing; government is another. The latter is more
readily at hand as a terrain of battle, both wars of position and
movement. Study our own history to draw lessons. Where would the First
Reconstruction have been without Thaddeus Stevens and the Radical
Republicans? They helped considerably in making the post-War US
experiment with a multiracial, worker-led dictatorship against the
defeated armed enslavers possible for five years, our 'Paris Commune'.
And when the Radical Republicans lost their grip as some died off and
others lost heart, and labor stood aside or worse, (limiting
membership to 'whites') we have suffered a counter-revolution that
still makes waves in our politics today. The lessons help shape our
battles within out 'Third Reconstruction' today.

Carl Davidson
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THANK YOU FOR CHANGING THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE IN GEORGIA

 

The Other 98%
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DONALD TRUMP: IN THE MIDDLE OF FIFTH AVENUE  --  CARTOON BY BILL
BRAMHALL

 

 

Bill Bramhall's editorial cartoon for Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, shows
Trump shredding the U.S. Constitution in the middle of Fifth Ave.
(Bill Bramhall/New York Daily News)

Bill Bramhall
December 6, 2022
New York Daily News
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RE: 500 LABOR HISTORIANS CONDEMN BIDEN ON RAILROADS
 

Did the workers gain anything they were proposing?

Jeffrey Bollen,
President Emeritus UFCW Local 1445 Boston

 

RE: DESANTIS-BACKED SCHOOL BOARDS BEGIN OUSTING FLORIDA EDUCATORS
 

That has already happened here (Yancey County) [North Carolina].
 Ditto Board of Health.

Deb Louis
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THE GOP CHRISTMAS LIST  --  CARTOON

 

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LITTLE HELPER  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
December 6, 2022
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: DOCTORS FINALLY JOIN THE LABOR MOVEMENT

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I really don't like the title of this article .... although they are
not many, some doctors unionized and did so a long time ago. More and
more they realize they are workers....

Marilyn Albert
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That’s true and the Committee of Interns (CIR) has been organizing
since the late 50’s and won some significant victories

Rachelle Kivanoski
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RE: LOUISIANA LAUNCHES TIP LINE TO ACCUSE LIBRARIANS OF ‘SEXUALIZING
CHILDREN’ 

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When you can't show affection to your kids in public anymore, keep in
mind who started the book burning.

Jennifer Watson
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RE: THE AUTOWORKER WHO TRANSFORMED CALIFORNIA
 

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Cheers to intergenerational solidarity!

Elizabeth Kelly
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RE: A NEW UNION RISES IN THE SOUTH
 

I would have liked to better understand why these new independent
unions are not joining with existing unions like the RWDSU. I can
speculate but…

Rachelle

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great question. This is a very exciting development and it will be
interesting to see the responses of the traditional-and more
progressive-unions 

Joanna Zelda Levine
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RE: EVEN AFTER DOBBS, ABORTIONS STILL HAVEN’T PLUMMETED
 

Matt Bruenig's JACOBIN article "Even After Dobbs, Abortions Still
Haven’t Plummeted" (December 4, 2022) was a very strange article.
First, it is written as if the total number of abortions performed in
the country is in itself a Good Thing, so that the fact that most bans
are happening in states with lower population is not much of a
problem, because it doesn't have a super-big impact on the national
total. 

But it *is* kind of a problem to women who live in those states.
Second, since numbers of legal abortions in non-ban states have been
going up while numbers in ban states have been going down, we can
assume "most abortion seekers who are affected by bans or restrictions
in their own states still get an abortion by traveling to another
state". But the non-ban state numbers go up by only about 7000, while
the ban states go down by over 12,000, so I'd say almost half of those
abortion seekers COULDN'T do that. 

Then, those who failed to get abortions may only be 6% of the
pre-Dobbs NATIONAL total, but the author has already said that those
people are in lower population states, so it's a bigger percentage of
the women in their own states. 

Third, we are told it's all okay because many of those women are
ASSUMED to get abortions by "informal" methods - but one of the whole
points of legalizing abortions was to reduce the number of women who
were forced to seek "informal", aka illegal, i.e. UNSAFE abortions.
Also, we can make some assumptions about the class status of those
women who are NOT able to leave their states to get safe, legal
abortions, can't we?

IMHO, the optimism projected by this article is pretty much entirely
unfounded.

David Knuttunen

 

RE: WHITE NATIONALISTS GIVE MAR-A-LAGO RESTAURANT DISAPPOINTING
ONE-STAR REVIEWS ON TRIPADVISOR
 

Trump finally abandoned by his fans 

Salvador Ochoa
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DINNER GUEST FROM HELL  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Rob Rogers
December 7, 2022
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RE: JULIA REICHERT, OSCAR-WINNING GODMOTHER OF DOCUMENTARIES, DIES

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I didn't know about her, but I'm going to look around for her work.
The Midwest is a very special place.

Linda Gillison
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RE: LITHIUM MINING IN CALIFORNIA’S SALTON SEA
 

A classic conundrum.  Lithium is absolutely essential for electric
vehicles, but the "Inflation Reduction Act", which partially
subsidizes electric vehicles for new owners, can only be applied if it
uses US based materials.  The Salton Sea area can certainly benefit
from the new lithium operation, if it actually happens . . . which is
still fraught with complexities.  But of course, now there's a new
lithium tax, which makes mining lithium from California even less
likely.

This is so typical . . .the classic conundrum

Charles
Sebastopol  CA

 

RE: “THEIR WEALTH, YOUR MISERY”: ART AND PROPAGANDA IN PANDEMIC
TIMES
 

Saw this a couple of weeks ago. Fantastic!

Tom Ellett
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ENDING THE 'AMERICAN WAR': PROMISES, REALITIES AND IMPACT OF THE U.S.
PEACE MOVEMENT - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11 (VIETNAM PEACE COMMEMORATION
COMMITTEE)

 

In preparation for the 50th anniversaries of the Christmas Bombing of
Hanoi and the Paris Peace Agreement. A discussion of Carolyn Rusti
Eisenberg's new book, "Fire and Rain: Nixon Kissinger and the Wars in
Southeast Asia" and of Arnold Skip Isaacs updated and republished
"Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia". Moderated by Paul
Lauter, author of "Our Sixties"

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CAROLYN (RUSTI) EISENBERG AND ARNOLD (SKIP) ISAACS
 
A DISCUSSION OF THEIR BOOKS MODERATED BY PAUL LAUTER

"Ending the ‘American War’ in Vietnam: Promises, Realities and
Impact of the U.S. Peace Movement"

Books by Carolyn Eisenberg, Arnold Isaacs moderated by Paul Lauter 

December 18 marks the Fiftieth Anniversary of the “Christmas
bombings” of Hanoi and Haiphong, the starting date of eleven nights
of devastating B-52 attacks on North Vietnamese cities as well as
other American daylight raids on the North. These formed a prelude to
the signing of the Paris Peace Agreement (Jan. 27, 1973), which
ostensibly ended the “American” phase of the Vietnam War but
failed to stop the continuing war between the two Vietnamese sides.
This webinar casts fresh light on these events and addresses some of
the myths surrounding the accord and its aftermath. What role did the
peace movement play in the evolution of U.S. policy? How did Nixon’s
victory in the recent Presidential election play out in his policies?
And how does this history bear on the present crises of expanding
conflict and stymied peace-making that confront us? 

Our speakers' knowledge comes from two quite different experiences.
For her forthcoming book _Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger and the
Wars in Southeast Asia_, Carolyn Eisenberg examined thousands of pages
of previously classified documents and tapes that provide a mass of
gripping new details about Nixon's and Kissinger's policymaking and
the social forces shaping their decisions. Arnold Isaacs, as a
journalist in Vietnam from 1972 to 1975, had a close-up view of events
on the ground before and after the Paris agreement was signed. His
book, _Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia_, amplified that
eyewitness reporting with extensive material from U.S. government
field reports and other contemporary accounts from Vietnamese on both
sides. A new updated edition has just been released. 

* CAROLYN RUSTI EISENBERG is a 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 ( Oxford University
Press) will become available in January 2023.  Carolyn's
prize-winning book, Drawing the Line: the American Decision to Divide
Germany, 1944-49 (Cambridge University Press) traces the origins of
the Cold War in Europe. Professor Eisenberg is a co-founder of
Brooklyn for Peace, and a Legislative Coordinator for Historians for
Peace and Democracy.

* ARNOLD R. ISAACS is the author of _Without Honor: Defeat in
Vietnam and Cambodia,_ named a Notable Book of the Year by both
the _New York Times_ and the American Library Association. He also
wrote _Vietnam__ Shadows: The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy _and
an online report, _From Troubled Lands: Listening to Pakistani and
Afghan Americans in Post-9/11 America_, available
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Isaacs was formerly a reporter, foreign and national correspondent,
and editor for the Baltimore Sun. During six years as the Sun's
correspondent in Asia, among other major stories he covered the
closing years and final days of the Vietnam war. Since leaving daily
journalism he has taught or conducted training programs for
journalists and journalism students in more than 20 countries in
Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. His website
is www.arnoldisaacs.net
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* Moderator PAUL LAUTER is A. K. and G. M. Smith Professor of
Literature Emeritus at Trinity College.  He is the author, most
recently, of _Our Sixties: An Activist’s History.  _Lauter served
as president of the American Studies Association (USA) and has spoken
and consulted at universities in almost every state and in 25
countries.  Earlier in his career, he worked for the American Friends
Service Committee, ran a community school in Washington,  DC, helped
found The Feminist Press, directed the US Servicemen’s Fund, and was
active in a variety of Movement

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