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Tidbits – July 20, 2023 – Reader Comments: Hollywood Strike To Limit AI Is for You and Me – We Are All Extras; DeSantis Using State Guard As Private Army; Negro League, Baseball Integration the Left; Hollywood Labor Films; Robert Reich; War on Women

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Reader Comments: Hollywood Strike to Limit AI is for You and Me - We Are All Extras; DeSantis Using State Guard as Private Army; Negro League, Baseball Integration, the Left; Hollywood Labor Films; War on Women - Russia Says Give Birth Early;

How Jeremy Corbyn Was Toppled by the Israel Lobby

Michael Steven Smith Mondoweiss
Asa Winstanley's new book shows how the Israel lobby weaponized antisemitism to create a new McCarthyism to bring down Jeremy Corbyn and those building a genuine socialist Labour Party.

The SAG-AFTRA Actors’ Strike Shows L.A. Is Leading the Labor Movement

Nelson Lichtenstein Los Angeles Times
L.A. was the city where the ethnicity and ideology of union leadership came to reflect the heterogeneous character of its working class and remake the movement. This took root in the 1990s when Miguel Contreras transformed the Federation of Labor.

Palestinian Resistance Will Not Be Snuffed Out by Israel

Mohammed R. Mhawish Jacobin
The Israeli incursion into Jenin showed the violence of occupation and blatant disregard for Palestinian rights. At least 133 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the start of this year alone.