Bulletin N° 787
We recommend
Ken Russell’s classic film adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence’s novel, which depicts social relationships in rapidly industrializing societyafter World War I, at the time of the rise of Fascism in Europe, and before the second impersonal, anonymous, industrial-scale murder of millions of people in capitalism’s Second World War. Starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, and Jennie Linden.
"Women in Love"
Subject
: OPPRESSON,
SUPPRESSION, REPRESSION : SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN
THE ERA OF SELF-CENSORSHIP.
25 February 2018
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
There are two written records - one an historical account; the other an important literary
achievement – that shed light on conditions that gave rise to German Fascism.
We will continue to look at Fritz Stern’s account in Einstein’s
German World (1999); then we will turn briefly to Christopher Isherwood’s
character portraits in his novel, Berlin
Stories (1935).
The liberal insights found in Stern’s history of 20th-century
Germany are instructive today. In Chapter 8, where he criticized the much
acclaimed book by Harvard historian Daniel Goldhagen,
Hitler’s
Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (1997), Stern
cites British historian Sir Lewis Namier, who once
remarked:
the historical approach is
intellectually humble; the aim is to comprehend situations, to study trends, to
discover
how things work: and the crowning
attainment of historical study is a historical sense – an intuitive
understanding
of how things do not happen.(p.274)
Stern takes serious issue with Goldhagen’s
metaphysics in this book. When, for example, he writes in Willing Executioners that, “German society . . . was axiomatically anti-Semitic” and that
therefore “It is . . . incontestable
that the fundamentals of Nazi anti-Semitism . . . had deep roots in Germany, as
part of the cultural cognitive model of German society, and was integral to
German political culture . . . . It is incontestable
that this racial anti-Semitism which held the Jews to pose a mortal threat to
Germany was pregnant with murder.” Stern challenges Goldhagen’s
hypothesis: “I would say unprovable and implausible.”(p.276)
But
was anti-Semitism the sole or even the most important bond between Hitler and
the Germans? Was it responsible
for the failure of Germans to protest
the first terrorist measures of the regime, the suppression of civil rights, the
establishment of concentration camps in March
1933? The existence of the camps was made public specifically
because they were intended to destroy political enemies and to intimidate potential opposition. From the very
beginning
insulated realm
of
woman. They
unleashed
happened to be Jews as well).
Germans, who had begun to
Goldhagen
not acknowledge
Germans and their treatment
of
Goldhagen’s
book was on the New York Time’s best seller list for
many weeks in the United States.
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Note: Stern’s critical book review was first
published in the autumn 1996 issue of Foreign
Affairs.
On the question of Zionism, Stern (
1926- 2016) emphasized the accomplishments of the Manchester University
chemist Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952), who succeeded
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) as the apostle of Zionism. With the advent of Hitler
and following a quarrel with Albert Einstein for his public criticism of Zionist
policies in Palestine, Weizmann wrote that, “Einstein seems to be acquiring the
psychology of a prima donna who is
beginning to lose her voice.”(p.248) There is no
question, that Weizmann had exhibited opportunistic genius in his calculations
to wed Zionism to British imperialist interests.
Weizmann
had made friends with and pro-Zionists of some of Britain’s great leaders, but
no manner of ingenious persuasion would have prevailed but for this invocation
of British self-interest; he kept insisting that after the defeat of Turkey and
the assumption of British control over Palestine, a Jewish presence there would
serve British interests. Meanwhile and immediately he served British interests at
home. He had developed a new method for obtaining acetone, a vital ingredient
in the manufacturing of heavy artillery, especially for the Royal Navy. The
British government asked him to organize the production of acetone according to
this technique. Weizmann threw himself into this new assignment in London,
which enhanced his standing with the British establishment and added stature to
his unofficial standing in the Zionist world. Thus the Great War, which saw the
paroxysm of rapacious nationalism, proved as well to be the great historic
chance for Weizmann and for Zionism.
By 1917, the Lloyd George government, itself
but recently constituted, faced a desperate situation. The Germans had resorted
to their ultimate weapon, unrestricted submarine warfare, and British losses on
the high seas imperiled British subsistence. It was not certain that the
country could hold out until American power could be thrown into the balance.
Meanwhile another battle had been going on
for some time: the competitive exploitation of national discontent behind enemy
lines. Germans encouraged rebellion not only in Ireland but in all possible
areas of the British and Russian empires. The allies, somewhat less cynically,
sought to rally the national minorities within enemy lands, especially those of
the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The subversion of Arabs against their Turkish
rulers was an important, exotic enterprise - of great potential importance to
Zionists. Some British liberals – here I think especially of R. W. Seton-Watson
– had long studied and championed the demands of the Czechs, the Poles, and the
South Slavs. For Britain now to champion their cause during the war was
expediency gilded by principle ; the Americans came to
take up the cause out of missionary zeal and a tinge of domestic political
opportunism. Even as the Allies drew up plans for their own aggrandizement,
they promised liberation to peoples outside their dominion. In many ways, the
promise of national self-determination, however noble in the abstract, was to
become the poisoned culmination of liberal hopes.
Already in peacetime, Weizmann had urged on
leading British politicians the moral imperative of a Jewish homeland. I am
thinking of Balfour, Lloyd George, Churchill, Mark Sykes, Robert Cecil and the
great South African Jan Smuts. The war lent urgency to this demand just as his
own scientific-practical talent in the service of British munition-making
confirmed his loyalty. He now persuaded some of these same leaders that support
of Zionism was to Britain’s immediate and long-term advantage: it would rally
Jewish opinion in Europe and the United States at a time when the Germans were
making serious efforts to claim Zionism for themselves and to play a pro-Jewish
card in the parts of Eastern Europe they had newly conquered. Above all the
British believed that support of Zionism would wean American Jewry from its
pro-German (because largely anti-Russian) stance.(pp.236-238)
.
. .
The
Balfour Declaration of November 1917 marked the triumph of Weizmann’s early
hopes. It was, in the words of a well-known diplomat-historian, Sir Charles
Webster, ‘the greatest act of diplomatic statesmanship of the First World War.’
Here was a British commitment, a charter for the homeland. Weizmann knew
perfectly well just how much British self-interest had inspired the declaration. As a
leading historian recently pointed out, ‘The British were . . . determined to
retain control of Palestine, once they had conquered it . . . to strengthen
their position in a region deemed vital to the defensive system of the Empire.’
Weizmann assumed that there was and would remain an identify of interests
between a powerful Britain and an emergent Jewish presence in Palestine, an
identity of interests that would begin with a British protectorate over
Palestine and ultimately promote Jewish statehood. He failed to foresee the
decline of British power and self-confidence – but then only in retrospect do
we see that the Great War desperately weakened the empire that had just endured
its greatest trial. A country in decline, saddled with doubts about the
imperial mission and with stirrings of guilt about the Versailles Treaty, would
prove an uncertain protector of Zionism.(pp.239-240)
The unforgettable character portraits composed by Christopher
Isherwood (1904-1986) in his book, Berlin Stories, reveal the social and psychological cost of Fascist
activities in Berlin between 1929 and 1933, the same period in which my mother, a
precocious young graduate from Kansas State University, had lived and studied in this city. The
constant fear was palpable, and the meaning of life more or less limited by day-to-day survival tactics, with frequent attempts at escape from the dreary scenes of
violence. Isherwood's memorable characters include the aging English gentleman, Authur Norris, whom we come to discover,
is financially caught in the struggle between Nazis and Communists; then there
is the protagonist, William Bradshaw - the author himself - who had just
graduated from Cambridge University and had come to Berlin to teach English and
to perfect his German language skills. He writes this account of his life in
Berlin in the first person. Other characters include prostitutes, like Anni and Olga; pimps,
like Otto Nowak; thieves - both small and big - like Gerhardt and Schmidt; political militants from the left and the right and the in-between, like Kuno, Bayer and Rudi; Anglophone expatriates like Friz Wendel and Helen Pratt and Sally Bowles; then there is his unforgettable landlady, Fraulein Schroeder;
and the local police; and, of course, mysteriously behind the scenes, lurk the
industrialists and the bankers and corrupt politicians, like Prignitz, Kuno, and van Hoorn, who remain amoral and ever ready to pickup large
profits as opportunities appear in the looming European crisis.
Like any good literature, the essential elements in this
autobiographical story are to be found by reading between the lines, in the nuances from living a life in daily terror. Below is one scene in which Isherwood captures the
‘banality of evil’ that characterized life in Berlin even before the Nazi seizure of
power.
Early this evening I was in the Büllowstrasse. There had been a big Nazi meeting at the Sportpalast, and groups of men and boys were just coming
away from it, in their brown or black uniforms. Walking along the pavement
ahead of me were three S.A. men.
They all carried Nazi banners on their shoulders, like rifles, rolled tight
round the saves – the banner-staves had sharp metal points, shaped into
arrowheads.
All at once, the three S.A. men came face to
face with a youth of seventeen or eighteen, dressed in civilian
clothes, who was hurrying along in the opposite direction. I heard one
of the Nazis shout; ‘That’s him!’ and immediately all three of them flung
themselves upon the young man. He uttered a scream, and tried to dodge, but
they were too quick for him. In a moment they had jostled him into the shadow
of a house entrance, and were standing over him, kicking him and stabbing at
him with the sharp metal points of their banners. All this happened with such
incredible speed that I could hardly believe my eyes – already, the three S..A. men had left their victim, and were barging their way
through the crowd; they made for the stairs which led up to the station of the
Overhead Railway.
Another passer-by and myself
were the first to reach the doorway where the young man was lying. He lay
huddled crookedly in the corner, like an abandoned sack. As they picked him up,
I got a sickening glimpse of his face – his left eye was poked half out, and
blood poured from the wound. He wasn’t dead. Somebody volunteered to take him
to the hospital in a taxi.
By this time, dozens of people were looking
on. They seemed surprised, but not particularly shocked – this sort of thing
happens too often, nowadays. ‘Allerhand . . .
.’ they murmured . Twenty yards away, at the Potsdamerstrasse corner, stood a group of heavily armed
policemen. With their chests out, and their hands on their revolver belts, they
magnificently disregarded the whole affair.(pp.200-201)
Such scenes of violence had a numbing affect on
people living in Berlin during the much compromised Weimar Republic, when
self-deception was the rule, and the ‘new normal’ had become self-censorship.
The 22 items below are presented as a harbinger
of the approaching new phase of the crisis in which we find ourselves today.
Certainly, we are not looking at the reenactment of European events of the 1930s, but
this, in itself, is hardly reassuring, for "the first time is tragedy; the second time is farce . . .
.
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
Professor emeritus of American Studies
University Grenoble-Alpes
Director of Research
University of Paris-Nanterre
Center for the Advanced Study of
American Institutions and Social Movements
The University of California-San Diego
|
Israel has long been the unchallenged bully in the
Middle East, but now Tel Aviv will face consequences for its temper tantrums. That
was the message from Damascus last weekend when the Syrian army shot down an
Israeli F-16. The dramatic escalation happened as Israel claimed one of its
warplanes was in Syrian airspace to intercept an Iranian drone that had been
operating in Israeli territory. But, in reality, the Iranian drone was
intercepted in the Golan Heights, which is Syrian land that has been illegally
occupied by Israel since 1967. Of course, this didn’t stop major western
publications like the Wall Street Journal from referring to the Golan as “Israeli
airspace.” Nevertheless, the mainstream media was left in disbelief by the incident—the
New York Times, for example, was startled to discover that “Israeli jets
aren’t invincible.”
As usual, Israel painted itself as a victim of
irrational Arab aggression. However, in fact, Syria was clearly acting in self-defence against repeated Israeli violations of its
sovereignty. Even the head of the Israeli Air Force Air Division confessed that
his country has carried out "thousands of
operations in Syria" in the last year alone. This fact was missing
from most mainstream news accounts, which portrayed
Israel as a non-interventionist bystander in the Syrian conflict. That
couldn’t be further from the truth. Not only has Israel repeatedly bombed
Syrian government installations, it has also armed Jihadist rebel groups in the
Golan Heights, coordinated with Al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate against government
forces and provided medical treatment to Al-Qaeda and Islamic State-linked
rebels before sending them back into battle.
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e.
US
Aggression in Syria – an Imperialist Blueprint
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48855.htm
Information
Clearing House Editorial, 23 February 2018
Syria’s
prolonged conflict and misery going into its eighth year is no accident. It is
by design. American imperialist design.
First
though, we note the increasing reprehensible absurdity in this conflict. Turkey,
which invaded Syria nearly a month ago in violation of Syria’s sovereignty,
this week accused Damascus of “terrorism” after the Syrian government sent
forces to defend the northern area near Afrin under assault from Turkey.
Meanwhile, US forces, again illegally occupying Syria in violation of
international law, claim to be fighting terrorist militia. Yet more often than
not, the Americans are affording protection to various terrorist groups. Then
when Syrian state forces advance to clear the terror groups, the US claims it
is acting in “self-defense” by massacring whole units of the Syrian army.
Further absurdity is due to France, which has been bombing Syria illegally
along with the US and Britain, warning Iranian militia, who are legally present
in Syria owing to Damascus’ approval, that they have to withdraw from the
country.
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f.
Watch:
Palestinian Killed
By
Israeli Occupation Force Soldiers
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48854.htm
by
Tamara Nassar
A
Palestinian man died after he was beaten by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West
Bank city of Jericho early Thursday.
Yasin al-Saradih,
33, was arrested from his house at approximately 2 am, Eid
Barahmeh, head of the Palestinian prisoners club in
Jericho, told
the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Israeli
forces notified the family of al-Saradih’s death two
hours later.
The
Israeli military changed its story about the events surrounding al-Saradih’s death after a video emerged showing soldiers
striking him.
The
video shows a number of soldiers gathered around al-Saradih,
some apparently beating him while he is on the ground. They then drag his body
away. The video does not show al-Saradih posing any
threat to them.
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g.
Finkelstein
on Gaza: Who or What Has a Right to Exist?
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h.
Gaza
‘On Brink Of Collapse’
As
Residents Remain ‘Caged In’
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48851.htm
by
Norman Finkelstein
"Seventy percent
of the people of Gaza are refugees. More than half are children. They're
trapped, there's no way out," author Norman Finkelstein
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i.
Blowback:
How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas to Bombing It
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/
by Mehdi Hasan
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j.
Palestine
Is Still the Issue
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48810.htm
John
Pilger returned to the West Bank of Jordan and Gaza,
and to Israel, to ask why the Palestinians, whose right of return was affirmed
by the United Nations more than half a century ago, are still caught in a
terrible limbo - refugees in their own land, controlled by Israel in the
longest military occupation in modern times.
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k.
Israeli
Soldier's Breaking the Silence
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48810.htm
(Video)
Avner Gvaryahu,
Breaking the Silence's executive director interviews to BBC HARDtalk
with Stephen Sackur.
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l.
From: "Moshé Machover"
<ananmoshik@icloud.com>
To: "Moshé Machover" <mmachover@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, 23 February, 2018 12:34:12 PM
Subject: Fwd: A new book in French: DOMINIQUE VIDAL ANTISIONISME = ANTISÉMITISME ?
Please see information below.
From: Arie Finkelstein
Subject: A new book in French: DOMINIQUE VIDAL ANTISIONISME = ANTISÉMITISME ?
Date: 23February2018 at 10:13:45 GMT
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
A new book in French: DOMINIQUE VIDAL ANTISIONISME = ANTISÉMITISME ?
http://www.editionslibertalia.com/catalogue/poche/antisionisme-antisemitisme
I scanned several pages regarding Matzpen.
Arie
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n.
Masha Gessen:
Russiagate Has Become a Conspiracy Trap Obscuring How
Trump Is Damaging Nation
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/2/23/masha_gessen_did_a_russian_troll
&
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/2/23/masha_gessen_russiagate_has_become_a
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o.
Human
Rights over Religious Rites in Iceland
Iceland's mooted circumcision ban sparks religious
outrage
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43111800
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p.
HOW
WE FIGHT
FASCISM
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/how-we-fight-fascism/
Political theorist and activist
Clara Zetkin (1857-1933). (Mr. Fish / Truthdig)
by Chris Hedges
In
1923 the radical socialist and feminist Clara Zetkin
gave a report at the Communist International
about the emergence of a political movement called fascism. Fascism, then in
its infancy, was written off by many liberals, socialists and communists as
little more than mob rule, terror and street violence. But Zetkin,
a German revolutionary, understood its virulence, its seduction and its danger.
She warned that the longer the stagnation and rot of a dysfunctional democracy
went unaddressed, the more attractive fascism would become. And as 21st-century
America’s own capitalist democracy disintegrates, replaced by a naked kleptocracy that disdains the rule of law, the struggle of
past anti-fascists mirrors our own. History has amply illustrated where
political paralysis, economic decline, hypermilitarism
and widespread corruption lead.
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q.
Capitalism
as Obstacle to Equality and Democracy:
The
US Story
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48859.htm
by Richard D. Wolff
The
Cold War displaced the legacies of the New Deal. Time and Trump are now displacing
Cold War legacies. Where capitalism was questioned and challenged in the 1930s
and into the 1940s, doing that became taboo after 1948. Yet in the wake of the
2008 crash, critical thought about capitalism resumed. In particular one
argument is gaining traction: capitalism is not the means to realize economic
equality and democracy, it is rather the great obstacle to their realization.
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r.
Capitalist Utopia
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48852.htm
If
Extreme Capitalism is What Connects America’s Problems, Why Can’t Americans
Figure it Out?
by
Umair Haque
Here’s a tiny question. What links
kids massacring each other at school, no functioning healthcare or retirement,
no safety nets, no mobility or stability, the average person having less than
$1000 in savings? They’re uniquely American problems, of
course — and what connects them is extreme capitalism. No, they’re
not the results of capitalism alone, as in sole cause and effect, of course
culture and history play a role — but we’d be foolish not to see
that capitalism is the thread weaving them together.
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s.
The Parkland High School Shooting
(February 14, 2018)
§
U.S. Military Trained
Florida School Shooter to Be “A Very Good Shot”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48853.htm
·
Emma Gonzalez’s
Powerful Speech Demanding Gun Control
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/2/19/watch_parkland_high_school_shooting_survivor
·
“The Time to Act Is
Now”: Florida School Shooting Survivors Confront Trump, Rubio on Gun Control
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/2/22/the_time_to_act_is_now
·
“Young Karl Marx”
Director Raoul Peck Responds to NRA Chief Calling Gun
Control Activists Communists
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/2/23/the_young_karl_marx_raoul_peck
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t.
From:
Jim O'Brien
Sent: Friday, 23 February, 2018
Subject: Marilyn Young Memorial Lecture; links to recent articles of
interest; H-PAD broadsides
https://www.historiansforpeace.org/
To
members and friends of Historians for Peace and Democracy,
As
a reminder, tonight from 6 to 8 pm Eastern time, a roundtable on "The
Korean War Today" will constitute the first annual Marilyn Young Memorial
Lecture at D'Agostino Hall, NYU Law School, 108 W. 3rd St., New York. It will be livestreamed
at http://www.law.nyu.edu/livestreamb.
At
the end of this message, following the links to recent articles,
is a repeat of an announcement of H-PAD's series of "Broadsides for the
Trump Era."
Links
to Recent Articles of Interest
“The 9/11 Hijackers Were Iraqis, Right? Teaching in a Time
of Wars”
By Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch.com,
posted February 22
On the author’s experiences over the
years teaching about the 9/11 attacks
“U.S. Empire Still Incoherent After
All These Years”
By Nicolas J. S. Davies, Consortium
News, posted February 20
Applies a 2003 analysis of the US
“new imperialism” to the intervening years
By Dave Lindorff,
London Review of Books blog, posted February 19
On the background of President
Trump’s national security adviser, who insists that a military strike against
North Korea be considered as a “serious option
“Russia Isn’t the Only One Meddling in
Elections. We Do It Too”
By Scott Shane, New York
Times, posted February 17
Contains many specifics of the past
several decades
“President’s New
Budget. Stark Vision of
GOP Reality. Attention Must Be Paid”
Articles by Robert Greenstein,
Ryan Koronowski, Brett Samuels, and Fred Kaplan, Portside.org,
posted February 15
By Stephen F. Cohen, The
Nation, posted February 14
The author is a professor emeritus
of Russian history and politics at Princeton University and New York
University.
“North Korea Is More Rational Than You
Think: An Interview with Bruce Cumings”
Canadian Dimension, posted
February 7
Bruce Cumings
teaches history at the University of Chicago.
“Lie after Lie: What Colin Powell Knew
about Iraq 15 Years Ago and What He Told the UN”
By Jon Schwartz, The
Intercept, posted February 6
“Memory and Meaning in the
Representations of the American War in Vietnam”
By Fran Shor,
Critical Education, posted February 13
The author is a professor emeritus
of history at Wayne State University.
By Andrew J. Bacevich,
New York Times, posted January 31
A review essay on Steve Coll’s new book Directorate S: The C.I.A. and
America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Thanks to Rusti
Eisenberg and an anonymous reader for suggesting articles included in the above
list. Suggestings can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.
Broadsides
for the Trump Era
Historians for Peace and
Democracy (H-PAD) is
pleased to announce the publication of five broadsides, collectively called Broadsides
for the Trump Era. You can access them on the H-PAD website, here https://www.historiansforpeace.org/broadsides-for-the-trump-era/ This is a new series of brief, printable handouts that
summarize important historical events, movements, crises, and more that form
the backdrop for our current political situation. And please check back at this
site for additions in the near future!
The five broadsides,
their authors, and a short summary of each is below.
Geoff Eley is a professor of history at the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor. His broadside, “Is Trump a Fascist?"
addresses this question and draws on historical comparisons to determine what
fascism is, and whether or not the current administration is, indeed, fascist.
Linda Gordon is a professor of history and a
University Professor of Humanities at New York University. Her broadside explores “The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s” and examines what the Klan was, its ideology, constituency, use
of violence, and accomplishments, and women and the Klan.
Jeremy Kuzmarov,
is the Jay P. Walker assistant professor of history at the University of
Tulsa. His broadside explores the political myths, interests, and
impact of the “The U.S. War on Drugs” from its origins in the 1910s to today.
Robert Oppenheim is an
associate professor in the Center for East Asian Center Studies at the
University of Texas at Austin. His broadside “North Korea and Nuclear Weapons” discusses why North Korea developed nuclear weapons, the
potential for eliminating or slowing its production of them, and whether or not
North Korean has cheated on nuclear agreements.
Ellen Schrecker is a retired
professor of American history at Yeshiva University. Her broadside, “McCarthyism, 1947-1960,” answers key questions about
McCarthyism, such as what was it, who sponsored it, how did it end, and what
were the long-lasting results.
Margaret Power, co-chair, marmacpower1@gmail.com
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u.
From:
Monty Kroopkin
To: ucsdcoopsandcollectivesalumni@earthlink.net
Sent: Friday, 23 February, 2018 6:36:28 AM
Subject: Saturday, Re-introducing Collective Resistance San Diego;
Community Potluck, noon to 3, 2/24/18
Fellow
Workers, Friends,
Please
come to our Collective Resistance San Diego (CRSD) community potluck and please
bring a friend.
We
have been working to build CRSD since November 2016.
Solidarity,
Monty
INVITATION:
Re-introducing Collective Resistance San Diego
Community
potluck, sponsored by Collective Resistance San Diego
When:
Saturday, February 24 at 12 PM - 3 PM
Where:
U.N.I.T.E. H.E.R.E. Local 30, 2436 Market St, San Diego, California 92102
https://www.facebook.com/events/1978299459102206/
"All,
"Collective Resistance San Diego, is an alliance of several organizations
in the San Diego revolutionary Left. We are holding this potluck to celebrate a
year of organizing, re-introduce ourselves to the wider Left community and the
San Diego community, and to develop next steps to building a united and strong
Left in San Diego and beyond.
"We will have food and drink for all. This is a potluck, so all are
encouraged to bring food and drink if they are in a position to do so.
"Our Agenda for the discussion is as follows:
1. Short History of CRSD - 10min
2. The organizational members of CRSD, -20min
Who we are and why we are member so CRSD
3. Our Plan for coming year -20min...
- Legal Defense Committee
- Community Self Defense
- Fundraising
4. Open discussion -20min
"Collective
Resistance San Diego"
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