[Marxism] Review of *Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music*, by Gerald Horn | Gregory N. Heires | Portside
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[Marxism] “It’s Management Bedlam”: Madness at Fox News as Trump Faces Impeachment | Vanity Fair
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[Marxism] Climate
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Today, in my dentist’s office, I was looking at Readers Digest. I was struck to see articles acknowledging the seriousness of climate change. Below see a communication from a BC, Canada, school board. ken h Dear Parents and Guardians: These past few months, conversations about the global climate crisis have been occurring more often in the classroom, at all levels of government and in mainstream media. Tomorrow, there are rallies expected around the world. Already, students in B.C., some here in Nanaimo, have staged climate strikes to raise awareness about this very important issue. As a district, we applaud and encourage all students in this type of social action, as it helps build confidence to speak on matters most important to them. They are our future leaders. We are witnessing a growing intolerance by our youth pertaining to the inaction of corporations and governments in making significant changes in policies and business practices. Led primarily by Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old from Sweden, climate advocates across the world point to scientific evidence that climate change is real and should be taken seriously. I am happy to share that the district has taken steps to address this issue. Last night, the Board of Education approved a Strategic Plan in which one of its goals is to be a leader in environmental stewardship and sustainability. The Board also updated its administrative procedure on environmental initiatives to focus on the stewardship of the land. Your child may feel the need to participate in one of tomorrow’s various climate strikes across the region which will be held during or after school hours. We invite you to have these important conversations with your child. I write this letter to assure you that your child will be supported in an excused absence, provided we have your expressed permission for them to miss school. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Assessing the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * More hot air from the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit (from the Sept. 24th Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice list) The UN's 2019 Climate Action Summit took place on Monday, September 23, in the midst of the week-long youth climate strike. It was addressed by the 16-year activist Greta Thunberg, but this didn't make any difference to the politicians. The UN Summit was firmly dedicated to protecting profits, not ensuring the world's survival. The UN has been holding climate conferences since 1995. This year there will see the 25th UN Climate Change conference (COP 25) in Chile in December, as well as the present Climate Action Summit in New York. And yet, according to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres himself, "on our current path, we face at least 3-degrees Celsius of global heating by the end of the century" (https://secure-web.cisco.com/1t-YbNXt5cYBSXUeAvO6GFB3EBNo0A_wKoRjbc8wbtdJDjMC7PtDir5LrHhuzrYBLeRnF5FAIR2potUJ9YbdvtfB01VLirEdXsjSrJKV6vBhYqpF0PjX4FBR-CzY5hWx6zkphDqvqunjNw0u5Tugj71Us-5Yz__0AG9Q0lehwDJV0dwWJl2UiGF61V0aov-bq2fnYcMMnlez-o4AGT2UliahqnwfGDqf5JEW7KZBXK870pPfTVCrhw1Bf5l3CaQq_4-vL6kqybznYdeAf6Ek-qgGc9joystj3WuO0aGY2Rk-LjmsbRK2tOgWdiMiPr5bo2KC2pRzIECLpm2cBf7Y3LLxvoUPTpZCmsOvu9DZ1qfb7i_5OYNuQ8r-TwcQhZG8xGLwK1qWwuDmZq_y8h4Qn_Q/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.un.org%2Fen%2Fclimatechange%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2FCAS_main_release.pdf). The UN "estimates the world would need to increase its efforts between three- and five-fold to contain climate change to the levels dictated by science -- a 1.5° C rise at most" (Ibid.) Shouldn't Guterres have asked whether the UN, representing the bourgeois ruling classes around the word, bears some responsibility for this? No, he didn't. Instead the UN is determined to stay the course. The very same press release that contains these dire figures declares that "The Summit is designed to showcase government, business, and civil society efforts", and that these show the "concrete ways in which countries can better adapt to climate change and cut emissions". Geez, can one showcase the process that has gotten us to the brink of disaster and at the same time believe that progress along the same lines will lead to saving the earth? An article in the *New York Times* sums it up as follows, the Summit "was meant to highlight concrete promises by presidents, prime ministers and corporate executives to wean the global economy from fossil fuels..." But, the article continues, China "made no new promises, the US "said nothing at all", and "a host of countries made only incremental promises." (https://secure-web.cisco.com/1yK0ZN9GmeXcfg7lK85Vv2eW-gu-0ponm6PXWsykjbBXJG33qjEK7i-qOVHzPYk8qU-r9s8sULTxw6pwJbre3NlYsFB_2JNtWR5-p_n2Z0pcp8oanyBPKAUNNeXFhJn_go9NUycZ-FpofOEsYiq7LW1Cj4X1RFC0oWv0bW1vhtl3f-X_5jQakByb0UMlNdKdW4QcUe6nKMj2FPck-CrNqMCF73TdPWk8rXdPC7oYSdE6n74vPOhQN3-bzuXw9iw9IhNwn5Uq0Q2Df5Fj6lZsByZqYDyesFRpTDYP9_7XizSQDt03bKqjFeqQvC71IQpjsHu9nJeEg8KEII0e1hLM3UKOAAoNZfXphMjl_runxr2VHxB4iH9IbO4wJ3w8hBKmQU8n5cnmku3RQ1dpLxTEn4w/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2019%2F09%2F23%2Fclimate%2Fclimate-summit-global-warming.htm l) Indeed, the Summit was silent or mumbled on one current problem after another: * It met while the Amazon forest burned, and it turned its back on the problem. * It met while the Arctic is burning, and turned its back on the problem. Yet these fires, and the resulting faster melting of the permafrost, not only threaten a vast increase in greenhouse gas emissions, but could lead to the destruction of the atmospheric ozone layer, a catastrophe which, until now, had been thought to have been avoided by international action under the Montreal Protocol. * It didn't deal with the problem of countries that are backing out of any commitment to environmental action, such as the Trump administration in the US or the Bolsonaro administration in Brazil. * Despite this year's report from the IPCC, the UN's scientific body on climate change, it had nothing too serious to say about the need for major changes in agriculture. * It mainly dealt with global warming in isolation from other looming environmental issues. One looked in vain for any serious discussion of the problem of the contamination of the world by plastics, pesticides, fracking waste, and other chemicals. Or for any serious discussion of the threat facing the ocean. * It didn't even establish any way to keep track of and verify the progress towards fulfilling the many promises that were showcased at the summit. That's aside from the fact that many of the promises, even if fulfilled, would result in action that was 10 or 20 years too late. What the Summit was focu
[Marxism] Training Teenagers for Guerrilla Warfare in the Wealthy Suburbs? Welcome to 1969
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * NY Times, Sept. 26, 2019 Training Teenagers for Guerrilla Warfare in the Wealthy Suburbs? Welcome to 1969 By Rick Perlstein In the last year of the 1960s, a political poster began showing up on dorm room walls. It showed a hand holding up two fingers in a peace symbol, captioned “1966.” Below that, in a second image captioned “1967,” the index finger was lowered, middle finger up. “1968” was symbolized with a raised fist. The final image depicted an index finger extended horizontally, with the thumb pointed upward like the hammer of a pistol. That was 1969 — a year when a taste for political violence had even spread to high schools in high-income New York suburbs. By then, formerly pacifist antiwar activists had begun drilling with M1 rifles — part of what the newly formed Weathermen called “bringing the war home.” The cutting edge of the civil rights movement was game-planning military sorties as much as marches. And even a review in The New York Times praised a book titled “Look Out, Whitey! Black Power’s Gon’ Get Your Mama!” as an account that “arcs over the rotting outposts of the Republic like a mortar shell shedding its sulphurous glare, and lands plump in the heartland to detonate the conclusion that ‘it is clear that America as it now exists must be destroyed.’” The spring of 1969 had brought a wave of student takeovers of university buildings. The most dramatic ended when members of Cornell University’s Afro-American Society exited the student union building armed with rifles supplied to them by members of Students for a Democratic Society — one with a bandoleer of shotgun shells across his chest. Then, hundreds of students eagerly fell into line behind the militants as they led a procession through the center of campus. The coming 1969-70 school year was anticipated with fear and trembling. It was one of the reasons Woodstock was greeted so rapturously that August — and not just by the young people Abbie Hoffman immediately christened “Woodstock Nation”: It hadn’t descended into “Lord of the Flies,” as many people had fully expected. Instead, “Bethel produced a feeling of friendship, camaraderie, and — an overused phrase — a sense of love among those present,” as Time magazine put it. A suggestion of how well-placed that paranoia was could be found in an astonishing item of the front page of The Times, the morning of Woodstock’s first day, Aug. 15. “Guerrilla War Tactics Taught at Scarsdale High,” it was headlined. It described an elective course from the elite suburban high school’s summer session, which awarded a half credit toward graduation. It was accompanied by a photograph captioned, “Stephen Kling, teacher, waves toy gun and holds ‘grenade.’ With him are male students and girl portraying a peasant.” Mr. Kling explained, “Revolution and guerrilla warfare are happening all over the world, and I think students in Scarsdale should know about it.” He had also taught the course the previous year — when field day took place not in the woods along the Bronx River Parkway but in Scarsdale itself, whose “takeover” the students strategized by studying the vulnerabilities of its public buildings and infrastructure. (“We found the village would be very easy to sabotage.”) One pupil received an A for a paper in which she discussed adding LSD to the water supply. The superintendent of schools was quoted as finding nothing to object to in the class. Another administrator, a bit more defensive, said Scarsdale High encouraged offerings that were “relevant to today’s world.” He continued, “We have lots of unorthodox courses in our curriculum. Why, we have courses in black-white relations, science fiction and mythology.” Mr. Kling, for his part, insisted his course had no ideological agenda, adding, “I don’t believe that a public school should organize students for action.” It is reasonable to surmise, however, some of his pupils saw it as more than just a social studies lesson. One underground high school newspaper published in New York City that year was called The Street Fighter. An essay in another, collected in a volume called “How Old Will You Be in 1984?: Expressions of Student Outrage from the High School Free Press,” proposed a strategy for shutting down schools by destroying all paper forms: “The success of a coup d’état is dependent upon the amount of confusion that can be created in the establishment during the actual takeover.” A student interviewed for another book, “The High School Revolutionaries,” promised, “The pigs’ schools will be destroyed unless they serve the people.” That spring had seen an
[Marxism] Whistle-blowers complaint about Trump coercing Zelensky
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[Marxism] Historiography Wars: The French Revolution - COSMONAUT
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[Marxism] Dialogue in Venezuela is a missed opportunity for Democrats (Leonardo Flores, Counterpunch)
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[Marxism] Cuba, OFAC, Fines and Extraterritoriality (Nelson Valdes, Counterpunch)
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