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March 2, 2023

Tidbits – Mar. 02, 2023 – Reader Comments: Peace Movement Now?; Centrality of Black-White Unity; Roberto Clementine Book Restored; Ukrainian War – Differing Perspectives; Honoring Pathbreakers-Celebrating International Women’s Day; Resources; More

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Reader Comments: Peace Movement-Then, Now?; Lessons from History-Centrality of Black-white unity; Roberto Clementine Book Restored; Ukrainian War - Differing Perspectives on the Left; Honoring Pathbreakers-Celebrating International Women's Day

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March 2, 2023

What It’s Like To Be a Female Union Electrician – A Review of Wirewomen: Lighting It Up

Kurt Stand Portside

International Women’s Day is next week, when we celebrates the achievements of women in numerous walks of life–individual women who broke the proverbial glass ceiling and achieved success in careers and professions from which they had been excluded.

January 19, 2023

In Major Rebuke, New York Senate Committee Rejects Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Court Pick

Prem Thakker The New Republic

The judiciary committee voted not to advance the nomination of Hector LaSalle, setting up a likely legal fight between the governor and state Democrats. Gov. Hochul threated to hire a litigator to sue the State Senate to take up the nomination.

January 18, 2023

Global Left Midweek – January 18, 2023

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A week of mass upsurge and states in transition

January 5, 2023

Israel’s New Government Learned From the U.S. Far Right

Shiri Eisner +972 Magazine

The goal of Israel’s fascist right is to establish a religious dictatorship run according to their openly oppressive principles, explicitly targeting Palestinians, LGBTQ people, women, and most every marginalized group in Israel.

January 2, 2023

The Iranian Uprising and the Cycles of Protest

Nassim Noroozi, Linda Martín Alcoff The Indypendent

How authentic protest movements like the one in Iran can be hijacked by a funded opposition that builds momentum for war and military intervention.

December 29, 2022

Tidbits – Dec. 29, 2022 – Reader Comments: Trump Ethics; Labor’s Medicare Privatization; Franco Harris and Vietnam Peace Movement; 9 to 5, Organizing Woman Workers; GOP’s Santos Clause; AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conf

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Reader Comments: Trump Ethics; Labor and Medicare Privatization; Franco Harris and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement; 9 to 5 and Organizing Woman Workers; GOP's "Santos Clause"; 2023 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference

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December 27, 2022

The 9 to 5 Movement: How Women Got Angry, Got Organized and Made Labor History

Ellen Cassedy Teen Vogue

As the economy opened up to women a half century ago, one in three working women was an office employee. As the clerical workforce grew by leaps and bounds, so did a sense of injustice among the women, leading to the founding of the 9 to 5 Movement.

December 22, 2022

Tidbits – Dec. 22, 2022 – Reader Comments: Georgia Victory, Electoral Politics, Electoral Strategy; Rail Workers; Doctors and Unions; After Dobbs; Ending ‘American War’: Promises, Realities, Impact of U.S. Peace Movement; Cartoons, More …

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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

December 21, 2022

The Regime Must Fall: Bahareh Hedayati’s Full Letter From Evin Prison

Bahareh Hedayati IranWire

Bahareh Hedayati, an Iranian women’s rights and human rights activist who has been arrested and imprisoned several times, was last arrested on October 11 amid the protests that started after the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police

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