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Tidbits – Jan.16 – Reader Comments: Ceasefire and Hostage Deal – After 15 Months of Genocide; Dr. Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning; R.I.P – Mark Solomon, Peter Yarrow; Biden Should Pardon Ethel Rosenberg; for Ann Telnaes; Cartoons; and More…

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YES To A Deal  --  Standing Together

 

FINALLY! A ceasefire and hostage deal has been reached! After so many months of suffering, soon the first hostages will be released and the airstrikes on Gaza will stop. As we have been saying for so long: agreements save lives.

Now is the time to celebrate but also to hold our leaders accountable: there must be a full deal that leaves no hostage behind and ends the war once and for all.

Standing Together

 

Re: LA Real Estate Lobbied To Develop in High-Risk Fire Areas
 

In California, policymakers have long warned that continued development in high-risk wildfire zones was magnifying fires. But real estate interests have lobbied hard against any development restrictions, helping exacerbate the LA fires.

Jose Luis Medina
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

This Is Not a Drill  --  Cartoon by Matt Golding

 

Matt Golding
January 9, 2025
Political Cartoons Australia

 

Re: Dr. Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning, Denouncing the Merchants of Death
 

Who are the criminals? U.S. news coverage of five former or current presidents gathered for the funeral of President Jimmy Carter never hinted that hideous wars of choice along with massive increases in weapon sales had marked the administration of each of the five. There was no mention of President Biden’s order to send eight billion dollars of weapons to Gaza. This gathering of U.S. presidents is referred to as “The World’s Most Exclusive Club.”  Exclusive indeed. What other club of so few has caused so much suffering to so many?

On April 7, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famously insightful, prophetic speech about another illegal U.S. war of choice – “Beyond Viet Nam: A Time to Break the Silence” – in which Dr. King said:  “Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken: the role of those who make peaceful resolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments.”

Chuck Dineen
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

The Sentencing  --  Cartoon by Rob Rogers

 

Trump may not be punished for his crimes, but we will be.

Rob Rogers
January 14, 2025
TinyView

 

Re: Canada as a 51st State? Republicans Would Never Win Another General Election
 

For a supposed anti-interventionist, it’s odd that Trump is enthusiastically embracing ideas from the era of intense American imperialism.

Jerry Steele
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

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I've been saying for years that if our two biggest left leaning parties (Liberals and NDP) joined forces Canada would never see another Conservative government.

Robert Laite
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

Donald Donald bo-bonald banana-fana fo-fonald fee-fi-mo-monald Donald!  --  Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz

 

Lalo Alcaraz
January 14, 2025
pocho.com

 

Re: What’s Really Going On With Growing Homeless Rates?
 

Thank you for this article. It has always been within the American character to blame the victim. This lets politicians and policy makers and the well-to-do and near-well-to do off the hook -no responsibility, no guilt.  What is the point of being a society if we can not take care of the indigent? Oh,Frances Perkins, we need you!  Nothing is simple. But, tax cuts for the wealthy are becoming a mainstay. MAGA duped again!  After the immigrants are cast out and the homeless are hidden, who is next to be blamed? I hope the incoming shadow president, the first buddy, who hold Americans in disdain, does not become our premier policymaker.   

Velva Spriggs

 

Re: Service Employees Rejoin AFL-CIO

(posting on Portside Labor)
 

SO many thks/ solidarity,

Anne Pruden, 1199SEIU retiree!

 

Re: AOC: ‘Bigoted Folks’ Love Trans Sports Ban
 

While Los Angeles is on fire right now, a trans sports ban is Republicans' number one priority, charges Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Michael Henry Starks
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

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It's like 0.0001% of athletes. Surely this is a bigger problem that the worst fire in LA history.

Robert

 

Re: Global Left Midweek – January 15, 2025
 

Panamanians and Greenlanders have their say

Ethan Young
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

Re: Mark Solomon – Rest in Power
 

Thanks to Danny Rosenberg and Portside for the tough news of the December death of lifelong leftist, activist and historian Mark Solomon that I am just learning about now.

Daniel Millstone
Post on Facebook

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Mark Ira Solomon – historian, author, teacher, organizer, and socialist – passed away December 19, 2024, at the age of 92.

Mary Jo Connelly
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

Re: President Biden Should Pardon Ethel Rosenberg
 

A newly released classified document shows that the National Security Agency knew Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy—and that the government executed her anyway.

Rather than the case being closed on Ethel’s guilt, as alleged, the Gardner memorandum absolves her, as the FBI knew at the time of her execution. Now is the time for an historic injustice to be redressed. Now is the time for Joe Biden to issue a full exoneration or, at the least, a presidential pardon of Ethel Rosenberg. Truth and justice will thereby be served.

Mary-Alice Strom
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

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Neither one of them did anything that justified execution. They did not commit treason. They were not charged with treason. They were not convicted of treason. They were killed for political reasons.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

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What???!!!! And risk the recrudescence (love that word) of the red scare that ALWAYS overtakes Americans of a certain age? It's only a matter of justice--and, dare we say, acknowledgement of a...mistake.

Linda Gillison

 

Re: Peter Yarrow, Singer With Folk Legends Peter, Paul & Mary and Co-Writer of ‘Puff the Magic Dragon,’ Dies at 86
 

Of his recent shows, Yarrow said, “It’s really a remarkable phenomenon because the kind of warmth and enthusiasm and caring, that was once just expected and taken for granted, is reignited amongst people when they sing together, songs like ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ or ‘Leavin’ on a Jet Plane.’ It’s phenomenally moving because it kind of asserts the spirit that bound us together so powerfully so many decades ago and still is in our in our culture and in our hearts and in our DNA. In the era of the animosities of our time, it’s something that’s so restorative to people, so confirmational. No, we’re not gone, no, we still believe in something together. Yes, we still have positive advocacy. Truth, fact, is not a moving target. There are real facts that exist. We have to understand that the dangerous slide of the culture and politics into this polarized, hate-filled perspective is not something that necessarily has to subdue us.”

Jay Schaffner
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

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It's unfortunate that Peter thought there weren't movement songs like there used to be.  I have written many, as have other members of People's Music Network.  My problem has been finding musicians who will consider singing them, as well as encountering rally organizers who won't let them be sung.  In case any see this and will inquire, write to me at newmsian@hotmail.com.

Jan Hillegas

 

In My Day  --  Cartoon by Matt Davies

 

Matt Davies
March 15, 2019
Newsday

 

Re: This Land Is Your Land: The Story Behind the Song
 

When I learned the song (late 60s and early 70s) it didn't have the last Teo verses listed here but it DID have the verse about the no trespassing sign!!

Karen Lee Wald

 

For Ann Telnaes  --  Cartoon by Dr. Keith Knight

 

Here's my contribution in solidarity with the great Ann Telnaes. Nice to see it blow up the way it has.

Dr. Keith Knight
January 7, 2025
(th)ink

 

Judge Juan Merchan gave Trump a gift today.  --  Cartoon by Clay Jones

 

Clay Jones
January 10, 2025
claytoonz

 

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