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Tidbits-Oct. 1: Reader Comments: Stopping Sexual Violence; So Many Privileged and Protected Kids; Leftist Party Hopes To Turn Back Germany’s Fascist Wave; Mark Carney Taking Aim at Canada’s Labor Movement; Israel’s Elimination Project; Announcements

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Re: This Rising Leftist Party Hopes To Turn Back Germany’s Fascist Wave

"Bringing large private housing stocks under public ownership is a truly radical solution to the housing problem facing Berlin. The 2021 referendum is not legally binding but has nonetheless found massive support among the young people of Berlin in particular, who voted overwhelmingly for Die Linke. Yet, it could potentially become law if the parties in control of the Berlin Senate choose to make it so, although such a move would face various judicial challenges. A far less radical measure, a Berlin rent cap law, was declared unlawful by the German Federal Constitutional Court.

Aside from Die Linke, only the Greens support the implementation of the housing referendum. It remains to be seen whether a coalition government led by Die Linke can reach an agreement regarding the expropriation of large real estate companies. However, the party’s program on housing, which it views as a human right and not a commodity to be manipulated for private profit, is not confined to expropriations. It also includes regulating rents, building thousands of social housing units each year, and requiring landlords with at least 50 housing properties to allocate a portion of their apartments to low-and middle-income renters.

Die Linke’s humanitarian agenda extends to numerous other areas, including initiatives to increase employment and protect the climate, provide free education and free public transport, and protect immigrants from deportation. The party has called for a solidarity-based “immigration society” in which all people enjoy the same political, legal, and cultural rights. But as the results in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania indicate, this is a vision for German society that many voters reject. Even in cosmopolitan Berlin, the anti-immigrant AfD made significant gains, although it will remain in the opposition not only in Berlin but most likely also in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania."

Lorenzo Canizares
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So many privileged and protected kids  --  Cartoon and Commentary by Jesse Duquette
 

 

So many privileged and protected kids as unfamiliar with consequences as they are with not being evil pieces of shit

Jesse Duquette
September 25, 2026
Post on Facebook
 



 

Cornell Punishment  --  Meme
 

 




 

DO NOT PASS ‘GO’  --  Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz

 

 


Lalo Alcaraz
September 24, 2026
https://www.pocho.com/
 



 

Re: How the Left Lost in Kerala (Global Left Midweek — Sept. 23, 2026)
(posting in Global Left Midweek - Sept. 23)

Having been to Kerala twice, i was sorry to learn that the Communist influence is declining.  However i am not very surprised.  When we went to the airport in Cochin to leave, we were struck by the huge number of men leaving for the Middle East to work because companies did not want to locate in Kerala because of the Communist government.  These men then came back to live when they retired.  This was obviously a difficult environment and i am thus not surprised that the power of the CP has declined.

Nora Lapin




 

Trump vs. The Media  --  Cartoon by Steve Benson

 


Many a public figure has lashed out at the media over the years, but a U.S president? Donald Trump is a first.

Steve Benson
February 22, 2017
The Arizona Republic
 

[Steve Benson died July 8, 2025]




 

What Could Be Worse  --  Meme

 





 

Re: Mark Carney Is Taking Aim at Canada’s Labor Movement

(posting on Portside Labor)
 

Wow. Neoliberalism up north! Sad.

Jeff Vincent
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Just because he effectively counters Trumpism doesn’t mean he is on our side

Al Cholger
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Scarecrow  --  Cartoon and Commentary by Rob Rogers

 

 

Trump's war of choice with Iran is hurting everyone, including his most devoted followers in middle America.

Rob Rogers
September 28, 2026
TinyView
 



 

Re: Sunday Science: UnitedHealthcare & UnitedHealth Group: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)
 

There is such a thing in this world as pure, malignant evil. The American healthcare-insurance complex is that evil.

Eleanor Roosevelt
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Re: Union Busting Comes to Campus
 

Sen. Chris Murphy has been raging about this bill.  He says that the athletes are being screwed.

Nora Lapin




 

Re: Israel’s Elimination Project – the Truth About My Country Can’t Be Told in Its Own Language
 

In "Israel's Elimination Project", Yuli Novak writes:

"Mr. Smotrich did not invent this project, but his plan makes its logic unusually explicit and he now says he is using his powers to advance it. It is known in English as the Decisive Plan. In Hebrew, however, the word he uses — "hachra'ah" — carries a stronger political meaning than "decisive." It means bringing a struggle to an irreversible end through the final defeat of the other side."

Novak offers "elimination" as a replacement for "decisive". There is another gloss on Smotrich's goal - "the Final Solution".

Jim Hess



 

Re: This Week in People's History, Sep 30-Oct 6, 2026
 

GREAT STORY! Well done and could not be more timely!

Another aspect of this is that when government tried to prosecute those who freed enslaved people, juries acquitted!

Well worth remembering today when ICE et al have had great difficulty securing convictions against people who have obstructed their wretched assaults on immigrants.

Thanks for writing and posting

Bettina Aptheker



 

Trump Family..At Loot  --  Meme
 

 

 



 

We Are All Gig Workers Now: The Path to Full Labor Rights - New York - October 6  (CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies)
 

 


Tuesday, October 6, 2026

6:30pm - 8:00pm

Free and open to all.

In-person only:

CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
25 West 43rd Street, 14th floor - Room 1425
New York, NY 10036


Click here to register: https://slucuny.swoogo.com/6October2026/begin

Please register to receive event info and reminders.

Join us for a conversation with leading labor figures, academics, and elected officials on the future of gig worker organizing. Hosted in partnership with the Consortium for Worker Education (CWE) and researcher Lina Moe, it follows a piece published in New Labor Forum this spring examining the expanding gig economy and the path to worker power.

The gig economy grew out of the mass worker displacement of the 2009 financial crisis, and has since expanded to cover a growing share of the American workforce, replacing stable jobs with precarious labor severed from the protections of employment. As dynamics within the gig economy continue to shift around the challenges posed by AI and automation, we ask how gig workers can win protections in a system that has thus far excluded them.

This panel will highlight the differing approaches and perspectives worker advocates have adopted on this issue, particularly as it relates to questions surrounding worker classification and bargaining.

Speakers:

Bhairavi Desai - Executive Director, NY Taxi Worker’s Alliance (NYTWA)

Andrea Gordillo - Executive Director, Freelancers Union

James Parrott - Labor Economist, Center for New York City Affairs at The New School

Claire Valdez - New York State Assembly Member, 37th Assembly District

Moderator:

Lina Moe - Research Fellow, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis


CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies 
25 West 43rd Street, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10036
(646) 313-8300




 

Stop Sexual Violence - From the Frat House to the White House - National Day of Action - October 8  (Women’s March, me too International, Feminist Generation, and Feminist)
 

 


ORGANIZING CALL | Thursday, October 1 | 8pm ET / 5pm PT
On October 8, survivors, feminists, and young people are calling for a national day of action to #StopSexualViolence.

Join Women’s March, me too International, Feminist Generation, and Feminist for a national organizing call to hear why we’re mobilizing, get the plan, and get ready to take action.





 

Cornell Rally Against Rape and Sexual Violence  --  Ithacca  --October 13

 

 


 

 

The Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice: A Retrospective Virtual Event 50 Years Later - October 24  (War Resisters League)

 



When the U. S. Bicentennial was held fifty years ago, WRL and allied organizations launched the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, connecting the demands for disarmament and redirected military spending with movements for social justice. Thousands of people walked throughout the country for nine months, culminating in Washington, DC where for three days we rallied, celebrated and walked to the Pentagon, and the White House.

As the call stated,

    “We are walking for an end to the arms race, decent housing, world development, personal disarmament, jobs, racial and sexual justice, and better healthcare – a chance for everyone to live.”

Saturday, October 24, 2026 — 12pm Pacific Time, 1pm Mountain Time, 2 pm Central Time, and 3 pm Eastern Time for an hour and half program, followed by a half hour of informal sharing. Hear reflections from organizers, long distance walkers, and community members on the Walk and its legacy for today


Click Here to Register 

We demanded our government enact unilateral disarmament, and reallocate tax dollars to fund programs then providing affordable housing, guaranteed full employment, free education, accessible medical care for all, and combat systemic discrimination against women, people of color, immigrants, and other victims of wars and militarism. Education on these issues and their connections was an important aspect of this endeavor. 

With the perspective of five decades, we revisit the Walk’s meaning and purpose: Why did people walk to promote a disarmament and social justice agenda? What was achieved by this complex and massive venture? What is the Walk’s legacy for people faced with today’s fraught political milieu? 

To explore these questions and more, join some of the adventurous, committed people who believed walking and organizing could change anything. Hear reflections from organizers, long distance walkers, and community members on the Walk and its legacy for today. We will hear from Rev. Kato, one of the dozens of monks who joined four of the routes and who has continued to work for disarmament and social justice from the Peace Pagoda in Leverett, Mass (see below for gathering there). There will be breakout groups for long distance walkers, community walkers, organizers (local, regional and national),  and others. There will be time for informal sharing after the 90 minute program. Reconnect with friends, meet activists from around the country. All are welcome. 

Please click here to register for this virtual 50th anniversary commemorative event.

The struggle continues, 

The Continental Walk 50th Anniversary Committee, consisting of national and local organizers and long distance walkers

CLICK HERE to Register for the Retrospective Virtual Event 


 

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