Anti-Semitism Still Alive at the Trib!

July 24, 2020

This is Brother Fred Klonsky on an anti-semitic rant aimed at Kim Foxx and my son Chesa Boudin among others:

The Trib’s John Kass is not just a joke. He’s a racist and anti-Semite and should go away.
by Fred Klonsky
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The Trib’s John Kass uses the anti-Semitic code of “George Soros”.
As professional reporters for the Chicago Tribune get regularly furloughed, Trib columnist John Kass gets to keep his regular hate space on page 2.

If there was ever a reason for letting somebody go from what is left of the paper, Kass’ regular blast of racism and Trump talking points certainly provide it.

This week he actually used the anti-Semitic code of blaming George Soros for fomenting protests demanding social justice in the wake of the George Floyd murder by Minneapolis police. And claiming he is the real power behind what goes on in this and other cities.

George Soros and the secret Jewish cabal.

Wrote Kass.

But these Democratic cities are also where left-wing billionaire George Soros has spent millions of dollars to help elect liberal social justice warriors as prosecutors. He remakes the justice system in urban America, flying under the radar.

The Soros-funded prosecutors, not the mayors, are the ones who help release the violent on little or no bond.

The use of George Soros as code for Jew has become so common that The Anti-Defamation League has felt the need to issue a public warning.

Although the vast majority of Soros-related conspiracy theories do not mention his Jewish heritage, the concern remains that they can serve as a gateway to the antisemitic subculture that blames Jews for the riots. This type of content can be found on mainstream platforms; a Twitter user wrote, “George Soros is paying for this he is a Jew America bows to the Jew [sic],” while another tweeted, “Antifa are on the payroll of the Jewish financier George Soros who often uses these paid thugs to intimidate any opposition towards the status quo that he and his Zionist allies have set up to control us.” Yet another claimed, “Soros is every bit the subversive, parasitic conspirator these people make him out to be. The problem they always neglect to mention is the fact that he’s a Jew.”

I don’t know what Kass makes, but his salary could certainly pay to bring back at least some of the professional Tribune reporters to full-time professional journalistic work.


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July 23, 2020

The first two episodes of my new podcast “Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom” are now available on all platforms! Special thanks to my inaugural guests, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and Dr. Crystal Laura.

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Congratulations Dave!

July 22, 2020

American Educational Research Organization Social Justice in Education Award

Recipient: David Stovall (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Established in 2004, the Social Justice in Education Award honors an individual who has advanced social justice through education research and exemplified the goal of linking education research to social justice.


REMOVE POLICE FROM Chicago Public Schools

July 22, 2020

REMOVE POLICE FROM Chicago Public Schools
https://bit.ly/REMOVECPDfromCPS

At the August 2020 meeting the Chicago Board of Education will – again – vote on whether CPS should terminate their relationship with the CPD.

It is past time to remove police from schools.

Please read and consider endorsing this letter – https://bit.ly/REMOVECPDfromCPS – that was prepared for the June 2020 meeting. The letter also lists other actions or residents of Chicago or CPS alum – such as making a meeting with BOE members or your Chicago alderperson.

Please read and consider signing, adding comments, and forwarding to colleagues.

And, most centrally, our young folks and community based organizations have been leading the way.
Follow their campaign and support their initiatives: https://copsoutcps.com


SUPPORT the MOVEMENT!!

July 20, 2020

Today at Noon (9am Pacific) for 8 minutes and 46 seconds workers across the country are walking off the job for justice, workers internationally are taking action in solidarity, and people everywhere are showing their support as part of the July 20, #StrikeForBlackLives!


Please Subscribe to “Under the Tree”

July 8, 2020

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Barbara Ransby Rocks

July 6, 2020

https://portside.org/2020-07-06/white-left-needs-embrace-black-leadership


Your Fourth of July

July 4, 2020

Frederick Douglass:
(Rochester NY, 1852)
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes that would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.


July 4th indeed!

July 3, 2020

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1–rEXjzEd3T5PtFLzH45NAFNj_5MEmp-/view


Reparations Now!

July 1, 2020

Tell the truth; right the wrong; repair the harm; reconcile.
It’s sequential: truth, reparations, reconciliation.
So yes: tear down the statues (truth telling), defund the police, build palaces of learning in the public schools, universal health care, community control,homes for the unhoused, guarantees of income, close the pentagon, abolish the prisons, cancel student debt, tax the rich, take back the land—for a start.
DEMAND the IMPOSSIBLE!