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Charlene Mitchell; Readers Disagree: Ukraine War; Concern about AI;
White Lotus; Countries with Most Female Inventors]
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_ Reader Comments: Congress to the People: Jan. 06 The Grave Crimes
of Donald Trump, IRS Returns Show Paid Zero Taxes; Remembering
Charlene Mitchell; Readers Disagree: Ukraine War; Concern about AI;
White Lotus; Countries with Most Female Inventors _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, CARTOONS and Resources - Dec. 22, 2022,
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* RE: JAN. 6 COMMITTEE: FOUR GRAVE CRIMES OF DONALD TRUMP (LUKE
HIKEN)
* TRUMP'S  FEDERAL INCOME TAXES PAID  -- AS REPORTED BY FOX NEWS
(AARON RUPAR)
* RE: THE OBVIOUS ANSWER TO HOMELESSNESS (DURANGO FOOD NOT BOMBS)
* THE CAUSE OF LABOUR IS THE HOPE OF THE WORLD  (WALTER CRAINE)
* RE: SUPPORTING GLOBAL CLASS STRUGGLE THROUGH LABOR
INTERNATIONALISM (SCOTT MARSHAL)
* DEAR MR. TRUMP (SEYMOUR JOSEPH)
* TODAY'S PASSENGER RAILROADS -- CARTOON
* RE: NLRB IMPROVES BACK PAY FORMULA (MICHAEL HANDELMAN)
* RE: CHARLENE MITCHELL, LEADER OF THE CAMPAIGN TO FREE ANGELA DAVIS
(ESPERANZA MARTELL; MARK MISHLER)
* CHECKIN’ IT TWICE  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: FIRST THINGS FIRST: THE TRUTH ABOUT FREDRIC MARCH (LEONARD J.
LEHRMAN; ELEANOR ROOSEVELT)
* RE: THE UKRAINIAN LEFT VIEW ON THE PROSPECTS OF PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
(KATHY LIPSCOMB)
* RE: PUTIN’S RUSSIA, FRONT AND REAR (ALAN GREGORY WONDERWHEEL)
* RE: AI IS FINALLY GOOD AT STUFF, AND THAT’S A PROBLEM (PETER
BERKOWITZ)
* RE: THE WHITE LOTUS’S SECOND SEASON WAS A TRIUMPH OF SUBTLE BUT
BITING CLASS ANALYSIS (E. KRELL)
* RE: DRINKING CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD (CLAIRE O'CONNOR)
* RE: NANCY PELOSI’S DAUGHTER MAKES AWFUL DOCUMENTARIES FAWNING
OVER THE ESTABLISHMENT (ELEANOR ROOSEVELT)
* KEEP IT UP! (NOEL)

RESOURCES:

* THE COUNTRIES WITH THE MOST FEMALE INVENTORS (WORLD INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY ORGANIZATION)

RE: JAN. 6 COMMITTEE: FOUR GRAVE CRIMES OF DONALD TRUMP
 

He should also be charged with the deaths of the Capitol police that
he was responsible for.

Luke Hiken

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TRUMP'S  FEDERAL INCOME TAXES PAID  -- AS REPORTED BY FOX NEWS

Retweeted by Lalo Alcaraz

December 21, 2022
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RE: THE OBVIOUS ANSWER TO HOMELESSNESS
 

"It’s not surprising that people wrongly believe the fundamental
causes of the homelessness crisis are mental-health problems and drug
addiction. Our most memorable encounters with homeless people tend to
be with those for whom mental-health issues or drug abuse are evident;
you may not notice the family crashing in a motel, but you will
remember someone experiencing a mental-health crisis on the subway.

I want to be precise here. It is true that many people who become
homeless are mentally ill. It is also true that becoming homeless
exposes people to a range of traumatic experiences, which can create
new problems that housing alone may not be able to solve. But the
claim that drug abuse and mental illness are the fundamental causes of
homelessness falls apart upon investigation. If mental-health issues
or drug abuse were major drivers of homelessness, then places with
higher rates of these problems would see higher rates of homelessness.
They don’t. Utah, Alabama, Colorado, Kentucky, West Virginia,
Vermont, Delaware, and Wisconsin have some of the highest rates of
mental illness in the country, but relatively modest homelessness
levels. What prevents at-risk people in these states from falling into
homelessness at high rates is simple: They have more
affordable-housing options.

With similar reasoning, we can reject the idea that climate explains
varying rates of homelessness. If warm weather attracted homeless
people in large numbers, Seattle; Portland, Oregon; New York City; and
Boston would not have such high rates of homelessness and cities in
southern states like Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi such
low ones. (There is a connection between unsheltered homelessness and
temperature, but it’s not clear which way the causal arrow goes: The
East Coast and the Midwest have a lot more shelter capacity than the
West Coast, which keeps homeless people more out of view.)

America has had populations of mentally ill, drug-addicted, poor, and
unemployed people for the whole of its history, and Los Angeles has
always been warmer than Duluth—and yet the homelessness crisis we
see in American cities today dates only to the 1980s. What changed
that caused homelessness to explode then? Again, it’s simple: lack
of housing. The places people needed to move for good jobs stopped
building the housing necessary to accommodate economic growth."

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THE CAUSE OF LABOUR IS THE HOPE OF THE WORLD  --  WALTER CRAINE
HOLIDAY GREETING

First published in 1894 in Justice, Walter Crane’s The Workers’
Maypole declares ‘the cause of labour is the hope of the world’

Radical Object: Walter Crane’s The Workers’ Maypole (1894)

By Laura C. Forster

May 1, 2020
History Workshop Online
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RE: SUPPORTING GLOBAL CLASS STRUGGLE THROUGH LABOR INTERNATIONALISM

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Why no mention of the global union Industriall
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all over the world. For instance my Union the United Steelworkers is a
member and it has already helped us in some struggles in the US!!

Scott Marshall

DEAR MR. TRUMP,
 

I can't tell you how happy I was to receive the pack of cards
picturing you in all those poses: astronaut, cowboy, superhero, etc.
You finally revealed your true self: a con man extraordinaire.

For four agonizing years you imitated being presidential, and not
doing a very good job of it.

Unfortunately, you have announced your intention to reenter the Oval
Office, and resume the charade you were forced to terminate two years
ago. Please don't take offense when I say I hope you don't make it. I
much prefer the real Donald J. Trump.

Sincerely,

Seymour Joseph, a fan of the bizarre.

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TODAY'S PASSENGER RAILROADS -- CARTOON

RE: NLRB IMPROVES BACK PAY FORMULA

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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"Levine demonstrates that the NLRA and related programs were a direct
response to both unemployed workers' demands for federal relief and
employed workers' resistance to decreased wages and increased hours.
These concessions were linked to the Democratic Party's realignment
with and assimilation of the working class, which, ironically,
resulted in organized labor's support of the existing political and
economic order. Ultimately, these policies and shifts laid the
foundation for a new and more accelerated phase of industrial
development after World War II."

Michael Handelman

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RE: CHARLENE MITCHELL, LEADER OF THE CAMPAIGN TO FREE ANGELA DAVIS
 

Remembering Sister Charlene Mitchell for her support in the companion
to  Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners. Rest in Power. HayAmor
love

Esperanza Martell

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Legendary organizer and radical socialist feminist thinker and
activist Charlene Mitchell has passed at the age of 92. I was one of
thousands of fortunate people who were lucky to have the opportunity
to know, learn from, and work with Charlene in her long activist life.
I missed her path-breaking 1968 campaign for President as the
candidate of the Communist Party (buttons below), but had the
opportunity to work with Charlene, among other things, in the Nat'l
Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, on her 1988 campaign
for U.S. Senate (see the still completely relevant "Do you have to be
rich to live in New York?" flyer below), and in the work that resulted
in the creation of the Committees of Correspondence in the early
1990's. I arranged for Charlene to speak in Albany on police brutality
in 1991 (see "How Many Videotapes Will it Take" flyer below). Charlene
may be best known for leading the successful, against enormous odds,
international campaign to free Angela Davis in the early 1970s.
Charlene was a great leader, a brilliant strategist, and a warm,
caring person. She will be sorely missed.

Mark Mishler

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CHECKIN’ IT TWICE  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

Mike Luckovich

December 18, 2022
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: FIRST THINGS FIRST: THE TRUTH ABOUT FREDRIC MARCH
 

Fredric March was a civil rights hero.

I remember reading with shock in the 1950s World Book about membership
in the Ku Klux Klan - the real KKK, not just a group that had that
name and then later changed it - of Justice Hugo Black. A progressive
friend (Denis Goldner) suggested he should be removed from the Supreme
Court. Yet Black in fact became one of the greatest of progressive
justices there.

The University of Wisconsin, where my papers will be housed, along
with those of Marc Blitzstein, should admit their error and re-assert
their progressive pride in Fredric March.

Leonard J. Lehrman
ljlehrman.artists-in-residence.com

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Frederic March, and his wife Florence Eldridge, were fighting for
social justice at a time when it was a lot more difficult to do than
just joining a Twitter mob. They were widely slandered by American
fascists for their efforts. People who know nothing about who they
were, or the era in which they lived, are in no way qualified to judge
them.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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RE: THE UKRAINIAN LEFT VIEW ON THE PROSPECTS OF PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
 

one wonders how this ukraine "left" peace differs from the right's?

Kathy Lipscomb

RE: PUTIN’S RUSSIA, FRONT AND REAR
 

Pure propaganda. No, there was not "a series of heavy defeats" There
was a series of tactical changes some of which benefited Ukraine and
some benefited Russia. But overall in that period Ukraine lost 3 to 5
times more troops than Russia, clearly not heavy defeats on Russia's
part.

Alan Gregory Wonderwheel

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RE: AI IS FINALLY GOOD AT STUFF, AND THAT’S A PROBLEM
 

This was a very interesting and disturbing article.  The author's
conclusion was particularly disturbing.  She states that this stage
of AI development is causing "us" to have to decide which tasks we
want humans to do and which we want AI to do.

Unfortunately, it is not "us" who will decide.  It is the capitalists
who will use AI wherever they wish to increase profits.  This is not
a debate that "we" will be a real part of.  I find it even disturbing
that people are playing with the AI online and helping people like
Peter Thiel do their research which in the end will only replace
workers and create new military uses for AI.

Peter Berkowitz 

RE: THE WHITE LOTUS’S SECOND SEASON WAS A TRIUMPH OF SUBTLE BUT
BITING CLASS ANALYSIS

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Good review - thank you!  Both White Lotus seasons were a treat -
sharp and sophisticated with gorgeous cinematography.

E. Krell

Baltimore MD

RE: DRINKING CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD

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Interesting survey of drinking listed by country. And the brief
mention of 'dry' countries. BUT....and I find this hard to accept from
xxxxxx - what are the laws and practices in cultures/countries in
Africa? Indonesia? etc. etc. etc.? In the parts of the world where
people have darker skins than those from Europe or European ancestry.

Claire O'Connor

RE: NANCY PELOSI’S DAUGHTER MAKES AWFUL DOCUMENTARIES FAWNING OVER
THE ESTABLISHMENT

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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Documentary film needs authentic working class voices, but the
documentary-film establishment, with its emphasis on the "old film
school tie" and its dependence on corporate funding is constructed to
ensure that such films are not made -- and that any working-class
voices that might be presented in bourgeois-made films are heavily
strained thru a liberal-establishment filter. They will *use us* to
tell *their stories* Never ours

Eleanor Roosevelt

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KEEP IT UP!
 

Dear xxxxxx ohana (Hawaiian for intimate community): 

Your work is absolutely critical for understanding the challenges and
perils we face in this fast-changing world.  I routinely send your
articles to people I know would find them of interest (or who need
some "awakening").   Imua! (Go roward).

Noel in Honolulu

THE COUNTRIES WITH THE MOST FEMALE INVENTORS (WORLD INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY ORGANIZATION)

This chart shows the share of women inventors among applicants for
international patents in selected countries (2021).

by Katharina Buchholz,

 

February 10, 2022
Statista
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The share of female inventors
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international patents was highest in Cuba and the Philippines in 2021,
according to data by the World Intellectual Property Organization
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share of women applicants stood at only 17 percent. Cuba, which only
irregularly reports figures to Wipo, very much exceeded the global
average with more than half of all registered patent applicants being
women in 2021, as did the Philippines, where last year 38 percent of
inventors were female.

Portugal was the highest-ranked European country in rank 3, followed
by Romania in rank 6 and Spain in rank 10. Spanish-speaking countries
were featured heavily among the top 10 and also included Costa Rica,
Peru and Chile.

Ranking above average was China at 24 percent of female inventors.
Other major European countries like Germany and the UK, but also Italy
and Sweden, stayed behind the global average. The United States and
France ranked about average.

One of the poorest performance was given by Japan with only 10 percent
of women inventors. Similarly low scores were achieved by India, the
UAE and Indonesia.

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