The Holodomor: Stalin's precursor to Putin's invasion
SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2023 AT 12 PM EDT
The Holodomor: Stalin's precursor to Putin's invasion
Presented by the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1199790957329158
An online forum featuring Dr. Daria Mattingly.
She's written extensively about the mass deaths of Ukrainians under Stalin in the 1930's
see https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/dm628
More about her at Revive the Peace Movement (webador.com)
animated cartoon about those who demand unarmed negotiations
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=641716400951793
Russia accuses Ukraine of "nuclear terrorism" over drone strike in Russia in city with nuclear power plant
One hopes they're lying, but nuclear power plants are a reckless way to generate power. They should all be demilitarized.
the petition calling for the Zaporizhzhia plant to be demilitarized now has 578 signers
Different views on whether Ukraine should use Cluster Bombs
Biden’s Immoral, Indefensible Decision to Send Cluster Bombs to Ukraine
These munitions have no place in war. Just because Moscow is using them doesn’t mean the U.S. should provide them to Ukraine.
This take on the issue by socialist Anthony Boynton can be considered an answer to that article
and another point of view of the same site
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2023/07/10/biden-sends-cluster-bombs-to-ukraine-a-socialist-analysis/
June 25, 2023
Russian Rebellion and Putin's Future
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/06/25/russian-rebellion-and-putins-future-en
Novaya Gazeta Europe is the newspaper in exile of Dmitry Muratov
who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021
Sachs Happily on Solovyov's TV Show
What Does He Think of Solovyov's Call for Nuclear Strikes on Ukraine?
(a blog post by Stanley Heller)
Communicating with the Left in India
https://rev.org.ua/communicating-with-the-left-in-india/
How Modi's India Profits by Buying Huge Amounts of Russian Oil
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/22/business/india-russia-oil.html
Interesting analysis on Prigozhin's revolt
Thoughts, questions and suspicions about Prigozhin’s revolt
So the group effecting Putin's policy in Africa was Wagner.
What will that mean for the future?
From the recent past: Wagner Men Kill 500 in Mali
Russian mercenaries behind slaughter of 500 in Mali village, UN report finds
Lukashenka’s nuclear card
We have talked about the Budapest Memorandum and Ukraine. This article gets
into what it meant for Belarus
Today 5/21 at 11 a.m. Eastern a panel zoom talk on the so-called BRICS nations and why their "leaders" don't support Ukrainian resistance
See https:/pepeace.org for details and the link to register
Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign is the sponsor
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Stanley Heller takes apart a segment on Democracy Now about an ad in the New York Times by former "high level security officials" who oppose military defense of Ukraine
https://ukraineposts.webador.com/this-segment-was-a-stinker
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My comment about the tankie who tried to make it look like Ukrainians were behind an antisemtic attack
She was listed as a "Frequent Contributor" to Mint News Press
https://youtu.be/oXSB-jZnDlY?t=798
She has since been scrubbed, but you can plainly see her name in the screen shots I captured.
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awful to see Zelensky shaking hands with Mohammad Bin Salman, the butcher of Yemen
Zelensky says 'some' Arab leaders turn 'blind eye' to Russian invasion (yahoo.com)
Didn't he have an alternative?
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This Democracy Now Segment was a Stinker
May 20, 2023
Critique of Democracy Now segment with head of group of former "high-level security officials"
Russia wanted a quick victory in Ukraine, and it sent its spies after Ukrainian nuclear power plant workers to make it happen
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-spies-targeted-ukrainian-nuclear-power-plants-before-invasion-2023-4
check out this Black activist Terrell Jermaine Starr
"Black Americans are fighting white supremacy and Ukrainians are fighting Russian colonialism. On the latest episode of Black Diplomats, I spoke with @MsLaToshaBrown and @razomforukraine
board member Maryna Prykhodko about solidarity building.
https://twitter.com/terrelljstarr/status/1651668526824935426
which leads to
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/black-diplomats/id1519178947?i=1000610775275
Uranium imports petition stagnant
https://www.change.org/p/the-u-s-should-ban-the-import-of-russian-uranium
Could someone contact "Beyond Nuclear" https://beyondnuclear.org/ and see if they are interested in making a campaign out of this?
Russian anarchist Dimitri Petrov who died on the 19th fighting in the Ukraine army for Ukraine's freedom
https://twitter.com/Matt___Roberts/status/1651927789073842177
and a tweet I made about those who demand Ukraine give up land for the sake of "peace"
https://twitter.com/ZatarStan/status/1652405315868958722
Gandhi Peace Award going to Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson
see https://pepeace.org for details
How Black Liberation and Ukraine Defense Connect Up
Tomorrow Sunday 2/12 at 2 Eastern
"Black liberation and the struggle against Russia's invasion of Ukraine"
https://www.facebook.com/events/5807765109330977
Clay Claiborne is one of the speakers. His blog is: https://claysbeach.blogspot.com
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The Struggle Video News this week is called "Telling it Like it Is"
One of the things it features is a Russian exile demolishing the argument that claims Ukraine and "the West" are sabotaging peace
He explains the only way for the war to end is for Russia to get its troops out of Ukraine
see: https://TheStruggleVideo.org
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Update: Scott Ritter who will speak at the rally below has issued a tweet that should be regarded as genocidal
His tweet and my comment at: https://youtu.be/yLQg3d39QhI?t=520
My article blasting an "anti-war" rally on Feb. whose first demand is "Not One More Penny for War in Ukraine"
https://ukraineposts.webador.com/avoid-this-red-brown-rally
Unfortunately there are some big names who will speak and they might get a crowd
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Two weeks from now at 2 p.m. (Feb. 25)
Fundraiser for the Ukrainian Independent Miners Union
An Anti-War Rally of Knaves and Fools
Feb. 8
Stanley Heller's article blasting an "anti-war" rally on Feb. 19 whose first demand is: "Not One More Penny for War in Ukraine"
https://ukraineposts.webador.com/avoid-this-red-brown-rally
Unfortunately, there are some big names who will speak and they might get a crowd
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Ukraine ordering Nuclear Plants
Ukraine claims new Westinghouse reactors will be fast and cheap. The facts speak otherwise
By Linda Pentz Gunter
Obviously, if your country has been invaded by a foreign power, putting your 15 commercial nuclear reactors at risk of destruction that could lead to a massive radioactive release, rendering your country and others beyond uninhabitable, there is only one clear solution: load up with more new nuclear power plants. (Gunter's sarcasm)
Just this past week, the Ukrainian energy minister, Herman Halushchenko, announced that his country had ordered two new Westinghouse AP1000 reactors for the Khmelnytskyi site in the western part of Ukraine. The two reactors currently there already had to be shut down last November after Russian missile attacks put the plant in peril.
Read the complete article
https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2023/01/29/a-reckless-response/
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The great stateman Roger Waters (sarcasm) addressed the U.N. Security Council on Feb. 7. [ I am not kidding. ]
He spoke and spoke, but his only message was "Agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine today."
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/07/watch-roger-waters-at-un-security-council-on-ukraine/
Victory for Ukraine - Preserve a Livable Climate
January 5, 2023
This Sunday Svitlana Romanko, a Ukrainian climate activist, will speak on Zoom in another USSC event. 10:30 Eastern time
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/4UkraineAndClimate
Here's an article Romanko wrote in the Los Angeles Times with famed climate activist Bill McKibben
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-03-09/ukraine-war-russia-oil-gas-banks-climate-change
Romanko and McKibben speak last April on an Avaaz panel
"Stand with Ukraine"
https://youtu.be/Y0k2SP2joKk
She was on Democracy Now in November after she had been escorted out and banned from COP 27 for denouncing the Russian invasion at a Russian event in Egypt.
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Petition started "Ban U.S. Imports of Russian Uranium"
Petition · The U.S. Should Ban the Import of Russian Uranium · Change.org
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Jan 16
tankie rally in NYC and several other cities on MLKking Day, trying to use Martin Luther King's reputation to strengthen their Stalinist-pacifist amalgam. Our next post will talk about efforts to oppose this.
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new on the Ukraine Posts website
https://ukraineposts.webador.com/responses-to-the-enablers
The Token Ukrainian
Christmas Truce? - Cheryl Zuur
Alfred De Zayas' Unfortunate Peace Plan
Does VJ Prashad Know the Meaning of "Class War"?
Jeffrey Sachs on @DemocracyNow vs. Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin - Clay Claiborne
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Ukrainian anarchists on the front lines
https://pramen.io/en/2022/12/a-conversation-with-anarchists-from-ecoplatform-fighting-in-ukraine/
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Making sense of Ukrainian war memes: From watermelons to Saint Javelin
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good article in "The Nation" about one destroyed Ukrainian town
and how it fears for the winter
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/kyiv-settlement-winter/
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https://workersliberty.org/story/2022-12-07/yes-victory-ukraine
On Holodomor Remembrance Day
It takes place the fourth Saturday of November
You can watch "Mr. Jones" on Amazon Prime. It's a 2019 movie about the true story
of a Welsh reporter who journeyed to Ukraine and secretly reported on the famine
On "The Struggle" at this point. Holodomor Remembrance
Washington Post article from March of this year
Kavita Krishnan on the tankies call for “peace negotiations”
Ukraine Remembers a Milestone on the Long Path to Putin’s War
Ukrainian Flags are on Display All Over Maine
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/us/ukrainian-flags-maine-why.html
attached - cartoon
Ban Russian Uranium Imports
Union members support ILWU's fine stand on Ukraine
They dispute those who would leave Ukraine defenseless
https://Stand-firm-ilwu-for-ukraine.webador.com
10:30 a.m. Eastern tomorrow, Sunday 10/23
Indian Leftist Kavita Krishnan to speak on Ukraine via zoom
It's now up on You Tube
Russia Stole Half a Billion Dollars of Ukrainian Grain
https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/ap-russia-stole-at-least-530-million-worth-of-ukrainian-grain
Walkie, Russian Rapper Who Opposed War in Ukraine, Dies of Suicide at 27 After Being Drafted
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/walkie-russian-rapper-opposed-war-200832801.html
Ukrainian Conductor in Kherson Killed for Refusing to Perform for Russian Occupiers
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukrainian-killed-by-russians-for-refusing-to-perform-at-propaganda-concert/ar-AA131AOD?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=ed150ab1e967438b8178ab68e4383f05
Sunday 10/2 at noon Eastern. Hear Russian exile Ilya Budraitsksis on zoom
Program sponsored by Ukrainian Solidarity Socialist Campaign
For details or to register go to https://rpm.world
Hear Ilya Budraitsksis' interview on Democracy Now (from July)
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/7/28/ilya_budraitskis_russian_dissidents_fleeing_abroad
Russian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muratov in Connecticut
article by Stanley Heller
https://ukraineposts.webador.com/muratov-at-scsu
Alexei Navalny (Russian political prisoner)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/30/alexei-navalny-parliamentary-republic-russia-ukraine/
A Critical Look at a CODEPINK flyer
https://ukraineposts.webador.com/critical-look-at-a-codepink-flyer
Mobilization. Novaya Gazetta (Muratov's news site) Claims 1 Million Soldiers Could be Added
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/09/24/mobilisation-putin-sends-off-1-million-men-to-die
Russian missile destroys family house of killed EuroMaidan activist
https://kyivindependent.com/national/russian-missile-destroys-family-house-of-killed-euro-maidan-activist
Molly Crabapple Just Back from Ukraine
Molly Crabapple Just Back from Ukraine and Ukrainian Journalist Anna Grechishkina
Crabapple is a wonderful artist who has done amazing art about Syria
On Democracy Now
https://youtu.be/qGdVCa-2Qa8
Paul Krugman a big time economist who doesn't usually write about Ukraine
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/opinion/ukraine-deflates-maga-macho-myths.html
Ukraine delivers another blow to Russia as it breaches front line on Oskil River
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-delivers-another-blow-to-russia-as-it-breaches-front-line-on-oskil-river/ar-AA11W1H5?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=9f91a1a8380b48e584f0dae0aeb57f7b
Russian Fascists Online Threaten Even More Destruction
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-state-media-threatens-scorched-earth-response-to-bitter-losses-in-ukraine?via=twitter_page
Ukrainian Coal Miners Strike
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/ukraine-coal-miners-strike-corruption/
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On Sunday, Sept. 25 at noon Eastern
Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign Meetings
What is happening inside Ukraine?
The stunning success of Ukraine’s military counter-offensive in Ukraine’s north east has taken many by surprise and has received widespread comment. Much of the news focuses on Ukraine’s president, Zelensky. Yet like every other country in the world, the class struggle continues in Ukraine. What was the situation of the class struggle before Russia’s imperialist invasion and how has that invasion affected the struggle? What was the situation in the newly liberated areas of Ukraine and how has it changed? What effect has the recent counteroffensive had on the mood within Ukraine? What are the political perspectives for Ukraine? What are the perspectives for the left in Ukraine?
Hear Vladyslav Starodubtsev discuss these and other questions. Vladyslav is a historian of Central and Eastern Europe, a social activist and a member of the Rada (collective leadership body) of the Ukrainian democratic socialist organization Sotsialnyi Rukh
https://www.facebook.com/events/620037269696094
MedGlobal "Ukraine: War and Health"
Watch the webinar on Facebook at 1 p.m. Eastern on Thurs. September 8
Hear from Khrystyna Maryniak, Dr. Judah Slavkovsky and Dr. Tania Baban
Click here to get to the MedGlobal FB page where you can watch the webinar
https://www.facebook.com/medglobalorg/
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Danger in the U.S. An array of left groups who ally with any supposed Left authoritarian or dictator is planning a series of "anti-war" actions October 15-30. They see Ukraine as a "proxy war" "provoked" by the U.S. Though they've only been able to get tiny numbers out in the streets up until this point that could change. The best way to counter that is for us to go out with flags of all the oppressed, from Ukraine to Palestine to Syria to Yemen.
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A virtual army of impish cartoon pooches is waging war on Russia
https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/08/31/a-virtual-army-of-impish-cartoon-pooches-is-waging-war-on-russia
Survivor of Russian strike on Kramatorsk train station: 'Dead people were everywhere'
https://kyivindependent.com/national/survivor-of-russian-strike-on-kramatorsk-train-station-dead-people-were-everywhere
Awful take by Noam Chomsky on a Grayzone Program
https://twitter.com/UsefulIdiotpod/status/1564982864739016706
Perhaps he hasn't heard what happened in Mariupol
The program is literally called "Useful Idiots" and they speak the truth in that at least
Many of the replies to the tweet are good
Connecting Hiroshima and Zaporizhzhia
August 6.
A simple online activity to connect tomorrow's Hiroshima memorial to the most pressing nuclear danger today, the Russian occupation of Ukrainian nuclear power plants
Go to Facebook and enter something like this text:
DANGER
Remember Hiroshima August 6
*** Putin, Get Soldiers and Weapons Out of Ukraine Nuclear Plants
*** Russia, US, Pledge Not to Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine
*** Russia Out of Ukraine
PEPeace.org
and the picture of the Zaporizhzhia power plant attached
Post it on FB and share it with a couple of friends
The U.N.'s Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has told the AP that is "totally out of control" and “Every principle of nuclear safety has been violated”.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/ukraine-nuclear-plant-is-out-of-control-un-nuclear-chief-says/3806652/
The spoils of war: How Russia is leveraging Europe’s largest nuclear power plant
Putting weapons of war right in the plant!
https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-07-29/the-spoils-of-war-how-russia-is-leveraging-europes-largest-nuclear-power-plant.html
"The Russians countered by storing “14 pieces of heavy weaponry, ammunition, and explosives,” inside the turbine room of one of the reactors."
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Big interest in part 1 of the talk online about how outright fascists are creeping into some Left Spaces. Part 2 is this Sunday at noon Eastern
https://www.facebook.com/groups/307530784861174
For some reason I don't see the link to part 2 there.
I'll have the link to Part 2 at rpm.world by Saturday afternoon
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Yale Economic Report Says Russia is in Trouble
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4167193
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And let me make a pitch for interest in the site Countervortex, run by Bill Weinberg, especially the audio of
Countervortex. https://countervortex.org/tag/podcasts/ Most of the last dozen audio pieces (also on Soundcloud) are about Ukraine and the foolishness of Left icons on the subject
Blasting the DSA Statement
July 28
1) Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign (USSC) Criticizes DSA's [No Weapons to Ukraine] statement
Today, Sunday July 10, 2022 at noon Eastern
Simon Pirani
will puncture Lies and Misunderstandings about 2014 in Ukraine
Click on this link for the link to register for today's Zoom presentation
https://pepeace.org/#:~:text=SUNDAY%2C%20JULY%2010%20AT%20NOON
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Ask Congress to Finish the Job, to Go On Record Calling for the IMF and World
Bank to Drop Ukraine's Debt
H.R. 7081 Ukraine Comprehensive Debt Payment Relief Act of 2022
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr7081/text
received by the Senate on May 12
sent to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
This is the membership of the committee
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/about/membership
This link will let you know how to contact any Senator
https://pepeace.org/contact-them
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Why Should Anyone Care What Jeffrey Sachs Says about Ukraine
by Stanley Heller
https://pep-administrator-blog.webador.com/criticisms#:~:text=Why%20Should%20Anyone%20Care
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Ukraine Security Service Says Russian Forces Bomed Their Own Proxies
(because they were trying to withdraw from the front)
https://kyivindependent.com/#:~:text=The%20Security%20Service%20of%20Ukraine
Ukrainian Band Performs in Subway
July 5, 2022
Ukrainian band performs in the Kyiv metro
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=713131153335407
There's a very well-funded group called the Quincy Institute that many liberals follow and is constantly warning about helping Ukraine
I criticize their president Basevich in the top article here:
https://ukraineposts.webador.com/responses-to-the-enablers
"The Struggle" video this week features the appearance in New Haven of Brazilian union leaders
who did a solidarity visit to Ukraine
See https://TheStruggleVideo.org
We're all heard the dumb Left dismiss the Maidan in 2014 as a fascist coup
This Sunday July 10 at noon Eastern
Simon Pirani will be speaking about 2014 in Ukraine. Register here for the Zoom event:
https://pepeace.org/#:~:text=Simon%20Pirani%20on%20Ukraine
I've followed Pirani's work for years at his blog People and Nature
https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/
Dave Zirin writes about political prisoner Brittney Griner (with suggestions for action)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/brittney-griner-russia-trial
Know others who would benefit from these Ukraine Posts? Email stanley.heller@pepeace.org
Remember they're archived here:
https://UkrainePosts.webador.com
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Russia missile slams into shopping center filled with people
At least 10 killed
https://kyivindependent.com/national/russian-missile-strike-on-kremenchuk-shopping-mall-kills-at-least-two-people-injures-20-others
Heller interview with Brazilian unionist on a union solidarity trip to Ukraine
https://youtu.be/b0jGFost_tc
Heller critiques conservative NYT opinion writer who says U.S. is only "prolonging" the war
I call it "Damn Straight we Want the War 'Prolonged'"
https://pep-administrator-blog.webador.com/refuting-conservatives
Peace caravan bringing supplies to Ukraine
https://www.stopthewarnow.eu/
Use google and its translator
Anatol Lieven works at the the foundation set up by Soros and one of the Koch brothers (not kidding)
liberals at Democracy Now! and the Nation love the folks at this billionaire's peace foundation
What do you think of this article?
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/peace-settlement-ukraine/
Freedom of Russia Legion
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-freedom-of-russia-legion-a-growing-source-of-concern-for-putin/ss-AAYLOUv
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Back from a Recent Trip to Ukraine with a Religious Delegation
June 19, 2022
First part of interview with U.S. professor (Barbara Wien) who went on a religious delegation to see results of Russian invasion
https://thestrugglevideo.org/
full interview with her here including a lot about the Russian anti-invasion movement
https://youtu.be/j6CvKcU9IZU
article "Chris Hedges is Getting it Very Wrong on Ukraine" - by Stanley Heller
https://pep-administrator-blog.webador.com/criticisms#:~:text=CRITICISMS-,Chris%20Hedges,-is%20Getting%20it
"The Alt-Imperialists"
https://pep-administrator-blog.webador.com/#:~:text=(continued%20here)-,The%20Alt%2DImperialists,-Since%20the%20end
and remember the in-person event Thurs. June 22 at 6:30 p.m. in the New Haven library opposite the Green with Brazilian unionists just back from a trip to Ukraine
How Ukraine’s Greatest Novelist Is Fighting for His Country
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/24/magazine/ukraine-andrey-kurkov.html
Wed. June 22 - Brazilian Unionists Talk about Ukraine
#9
June 14, 2022
On Wed. June 22 in the New Haven library at 6:30 Brazilian unionists who took part in trip to Ukraine to meet union members there.
My refutation of Washington Post columnist vanden Heuvel's claim that the Ukrainians are in a "proxy war"
https://tinyurl.com/bdhy4z2u
On "The Struggle Video News at this point
about a minute of photos of the fund raiser at Carnegie Hall for Ukraine
https://youtu.be/LpWxMbUf454?t=734
This coming week an interview with Barbara Wein about her trip to Ukraine as part of an emergency religious delegation, emotional highlight for her was Babyn Yar. She also talks about the Russian anti-war movement.
An interesting article I found by accident about a writer named
Anatoly Kuznetsov, once very celebrated in the Soviet Union who was an eyewitness to the immense Nazi massacres at a ravine in Kyiv called Babyn Yar where perhaps 50,000 Jews and 50,000 non-Jewish Ukrainians and Russians were shot dead and dumped
https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/history-and-i/defection-anatoly-kuznetsov
June 3 international support statement
WITH THE RESISTENCE OF THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE FOR ITS VICTORY AGAINST THE AGGRESSION
https://ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2022/06/03/with-the-resistence-of-the-ukrainian-people-for-its-victory-against-the-aggression/
Michael Karadjis to Speak on June 5
#8
Sunday morning June 5 at 9 AM (yes, AM) Michael Karadjis will speak from Australia on "Syria, Ukraine, Geo-Politics and Working People". Go to https://rpm.world for more details and to register
Karadjis website has an excellent (long) home page article refuting some of the "anti-imperialist" nonsense about Ukraine. https://mkaradjis.com/
Watch "Navalny" on Netflix. Alexsei Navalny made it in Germany while recoving from being poisoned by the Russia state. You know that Navalny went back to Russia where he's been in prison ever since. Despite its grim subject parts are quite funny and views of snow in Germany quite beautiful. Astonishingly it shows how Navalny and the group Bellingcat tracked down his would-be assassins and how Navalny called them up one by one until he fooled the scientist on the team to admitting to the crime on the phone. Very high production values. BTW Navalny condemned the invasion of Ukraine during a court appearance.
New links on PEP's archive on Ukraine.
https://pepeace.org/ukraine-and-russia
And you may enjoy some of the memes on this news Meme-only satire site
https://barelysatire.webador.com/putin-s-invasions
At Carnegie Hall for Ukraine
#7
A score of famous musicians and singers came together last night for a benefit for Ukraine. The gilded hall has 2800 seats. They looked totally full (at least from my perch on the top balcony). I had never been to Carnegie Hall before. The sound was incredible.
The program began with a Ukrainian Chorus singing the Ukrainian National Anthem
A number of dignitaries spoke including President Zelinsky's wife Olena Zelenska via video.
The musical program was extraordinary and went on for some two hours.
To me a song by wonderful jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant was one of the top highlights of the evening.
Evgeny Kissin was the last individual performance (Chopin's #2 Scherzo) was born in Russia. He said this to the New York Times. “Unfortunately, I am too old and not qualified to take a gun and go to fight in the Ukraine, so I’m doing everything I can: sending money and taking part in concerts for the Ukraine,” he said. “As a Jew who was born and grew up in Russia, I, having belonged to the greatest victims of the Russian xenophobia, I have always felt solidarity with all its other victims, including the Ukrainians.”
It's not like being in the hall, but I found this video of Evgeny Kissin playing the scherzo: https://youtu.be/CZiixxyN7tE
The evening ended with all the performers singing "Somewhere a Place for Us' from West Side Story
The use of the hall and all the performances were gratis. The money raised (I'm taking a wild guess, $250,000) went to Direct Aid. I believe this is their website. https://www.directaidukraine.org/
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And Ukrainian partisans put up Ukrainian flag in occupied Kherson
https://twitter.com/i/status/1527683489922965505
3) Dangerous Labor Law Proposed “While we are miners and metallurgists, teachers and doctors, trade union activists, are defending the freedom of Ukraine at the front, fattened rear rats in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine are stabbing us in the back. On May 12, 246 deputies voted in favour of the infamous Halyna Tretyakova Bill # 5371, which deprives most Ukrainian workers of all labour rights."
Public Demonstrations Again
#6
Think Ukrainian-Americans and all oppressed (Syrians, Palestinians, etc.) should join again in public demonstrations. Besides being a good thing in itself I'm seeing signs of resentment against all the money Biden is sending to Ukraine while there so much misery in the U.S. (from lack of baby food, climate collapse to fentanyl). And some of the campist Left is trying to exploit that. We have to explain to people that ALL the problems including Ukraine must be dealt with immediately
On Ukraine an invaluable site is https://ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/
A couple of days ago there was a very good piece about how we need to avoid hating the enemy as a nation
https://ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2022/05/17/victory-and-hatred-of-the-enemy/
On the weekend of May 7th the folks who are supposedly against Russia's invasion BUT don't want any weapons sent to Ukraine held rallies in the U.S. and around the world. The results were pitiful. (BTW I call them "campists" who see the US-UK-Europe-Israel in one camp an everyone else in the Innocent-as-Lambs Camp) The proof is in their very own photos of their rallies.
https://www.codepink.org/may72022pics
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126982541@N02/albums/72177720298772450/with/52062183295/
Timothy Snyder - Russia is fascist
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opinion/russia-fascism-ukraine-putin.html
Before you look at the 8th meme on this apge a note of explanation about one word, "Grayzone". It's a website headed by Max Blumenthal who for a few years consistently supported human rights, but since his trip to Moscow in 2015 has become a rank apologist for all the dictators not in the U.S. camp (Putin, Assad, Maduro, Noreiga, etc.). A lot of the Campist Left reads him religiously.
"Help Syrians, weaken Putin"
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Stanley Heller's opinion piece in the CT Post today
"Help Syrians, weaken Putin"
https://www.ctpost.com/opinion/article/Opinion-Help-Syrians-weaken-Putin-17165165.php
Forensic analysis
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/04/04/russias-bucha-facts-versus-the-evidence/
For more information see PEPeace.org 203-444-3578 office@pepeace.org
"How Can Feminist Solidarity Help Ukraine?"
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May 10
Something interesting today Tuesday, 5/10 at noon Eastern on Zoom
"How Can Feminist Solidarity Help Ukraine?"
See https://rpm.world for details
See Broadway actors sing song from "Le Mez" in honor of Ukraine
https://youtu.be/Zd6v9FyEkXo
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Next Event:
"Freedom for Syrian Detainees -
Protest the Kidnapping of the Alabbasi Family
and American Doctor Majd KamAlmaz"
Hear Naila Alabbasi - a physician and sister of Rania Alabbassi.
Maryam KamAlmaz- daughter of Syrian-American psychiatrist
(taken at a Syrian checkpoint in 2017)
Saturday, May 14, 2022
1 p.m.
On Zoom
https://tinyurl.com/PEPeventMay14
Sponsored by Promoting Enduring Peace, Middle East Crisis Committee, People Demand Change
Ukrainian Memes Forces
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On Twitter be sure to follow: Ukrainian Memes Forces
https://twitter.com/uamemesforces
Another Russian warship burning
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2022/05/06/another-russian-warship-is-burning-in-the-black-sea
(some material below repeated)
and just announced Carnegie Hall Benefit Concert for Ukraine
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2022/05/23/Concert-for-Ukraine-0800PM $90 tickets and up, Impressive program!!
Links to Our Forum
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1) Timothy Snyder on Ukraine 2) Video of the April 28 talks 3) Next PEP Event 4) Carnegie Hall Benefit
Very good remarks today by historian Timothy Snyder on Democracy Now! explaining how Russia's war against Ukraine is a colonial war, determined to smash the very idea that Ukrainians are a people and hence why it was necessary for Ukraine to fight long enough until the Russian government is exhausted with the war (like France in Algeria)
See it here
https://youtu.be/7d21K_csDds
These two links are to the two parts of our April 28 forum on Ukraine and Syria. They're unlisted at the moment. You get the first look.
Part 1
https://youtu.be/MCN6_Oja2rY
Part 2
https://youtu.be/pDZoPHsQLAc
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Next Event:
"Freedom for Syrian Detainees -
Protest the Kidnapping of the Alabbasi Family
and American Doctor Majd KamAlmaz"
Hear Naila Alabbasi - a physician and sister of Rania Alabbassi.
Haitham Al Maleh - attorney and former prisoner of Assad
Maryam KamAlmaz- daughter of Syrian-American psychiatrist
(taken at a Syrian checkpoint in 2017)
Saturday, May 14, 2022
1 p.m.
First Congregational Church of Old Lyme
Corner of Lyme Street & Ferry Road in Old Lyme
(Use “5 Ferry Road” for GPS)
and on Zoom
https://tinyurl.com/PEPeventMay14
Sponsored by Promoting Enduring Peace
For more information see PEPeace.org 203-444-3578 office@pepeace.org
The Genocide Handbook
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Thanks for attending the forum on Ukraine and Syria yesterday (or the illustrated history of Ukraine several weeks ago). We'll have the whole event yesterday online for those who missed it.\
Some things of note
Saturday, April 30, 2022-Yunist Benefit Concert-Stamford Palace Theater 61 Atlantic St Stamford CT
Local Event: "Yunist" Benefit for Ukraine Concert
Alex Kuzma talked about Timothy Snyder's article about the anti-Ukrainian "genocide handbook" published by a Russian government media on April 3. It's here: https://www.stopfake.org/en/timothy-snyder-russia-s-genocide-handbook/ Since I like to confirm so I read over the article in English. It's here: https://medium.com/@kravchenko_mm/what-should-russia-do-with-ukraine-translation-of-a-propaganda-article-by-a-russian-journalist-a3e92e3cb64 It is absolutely chilling. At one point it says Ukronazism (by which he means this supposed Ukrainian Nazism) is a bigger threat than Hitler was to Russia!
I've made a meme comparing the defense of the steel factory in Mariupol to that of Stalingrad in 1943. That's sure to raise some hackles because some of the military in Mariupol are in the Azov Regiment and are neo-Nazi. On the other hand the Soviet Army was a tool of Stalin who had committed mass murder of Poles in 1939 and genocide in Ukraine in the early '30's. Still, both these defenses in '43 and today can be admired. Attached is the meme. What do you think?
Next Event: "Prisoners of Assad: Save the Alabassi Family, Save Majd Kamalmaz"
Sat. May 14 at 1 p.m. Eastern online and in person at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme, CT
If you get too many emails and would rather not get these occasional notes on Syria and or Ukraine just let me know.
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