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华盛顿——这是美国历史上首次有美国前总统遭受刑事指控。有必要再强调一遍：有史以来第一次，一位美国总统遭到犯罪起诉。
自特朗普2016年入主白宫以来，发生了太多不可想象的第一次，有太多不可侵犯的界限被逾越，太多难以理喻的事件震惊世界，以至于很容易就会忽视这一特殊时刻到底是多么不可思议。
此案的种种粗鄙的细节及其涉及的新奇法律理论和政治影响承载了所有关注的目光，但它更广泛的意义还在于，一个国家就这样踏上了从未涉足之路，这将对世界最古老的民主政体的兴衰产生深远影响。两百多年来，总统之位神圣不可侵犯，即便深陷丑闻，总统也能在任职期间——甚至卸任以后——免于起诉。
历史先例不再适用。这一禁忌已被打破。新的先例已经确立。前总统受审是否会使得这个国家分裂，就像水门事件后一些人所担忧的那样？国内外是否会有很多人将其视为胜利者的正义，就像继任领导人将前任投入大牢的发展中国家一样？亦或者，这会成为一个清算时刻，表明即使是这个星球上曾经最有权势的人也不能凌驾于法律之上？
“无论起诉理由是否适当，这都是美国政治及美国法制史上一次意义重大的突破，”哈佛大学法学教授、曾在乔治·布什总统任内担任司法部高级官员的杰克·戈德史密斯说道。
暂不论这是否足以动摇共和国的根基，破天荒的起诉或许不会到此为止。特朗普可能会在佐治亚州面临第二次起诉，以及来自联邦检察官的第三次，甚至第四次起诉。
让人始料未及的是，这场打破藩篱的起诉涉及支付封口费掩盖桃色丑闻这种不体面的事体。考虑到被告人曾经参与的那些更为惊天动地的事件——从试图推翻选举到煽动对国会山发起袭击以阻止权力移交，曼哈顿检方提起的指控似乎没有那么强烈的划时代意义。
但重点若在于问责，那此案可能会重新划定界限，减轻佐治亚州和华盛顿检察官跟进的压力，在掌握证据的情况下提出更严重的指控，因为他们无需再承受为前所未有之举辩护的负担。就让这些多到需要律师用记分卡统计的起诉全留给这唯一一位在国会被弹劾两次的总统吧。
虽然起诉特朗普让这个国家面临未知，但宪法起草者们大概只会对起诉如此姗姗来迟感到惊讶。司法部政策坚称现任总统不能被起诉，但制宪者倒是明确考虑到了总统离任后被起诉的可能性。
宪法第一条第三款规定，总统若被众议院弹劾定罪，且被参议院免职，“仍应负有刑责而得依法被起诉、审理、判决和惩罚”。
“总的来说，我们对这一措辞的解读是，无论总统在任期间遭受了何种弹劾，他离任后仍可能因其任内的不当行为承担民事或刑事责任，”北卡罗来纳大学宪法教授迈克尔·格哈特表示。
换而言之，任何前总统都不能免于刑事责任。“若是知道有哪个总统可能在任内或卸任后凌驾于法律之上，制宪者定会感到震惊，”格哈特说。
事实上，在指控特朗普煽动2021年1月6日国会山袭击事件的第二次弹劾审判中，来自肯塔基州的共和党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔参议员声称，自己投他无罪是因为特朗普已经离任，但他也表示，特朗普仍可面临刑事起诉。
“我的观点是，只要提起的案件是一般情况下会起诉的罪行，且证据也像通常情况下一样有力——也就是说不会被视为选择性起诉——那我们就必须向政客问责，不管他们正在或曾经担任何种职位，”罗伯特·穆勒的副手安德鲁·韦斯曼说，穆勒曾是负责调查特朗普竞选活动与俄罗斯关系的特别检察官。
霍夫斯特拉大学彼得·卡利科政府学院执行院长、负责一个总统历史项目研究的米娜·博斯表示，要求领导人必须承担责任会让这个饱受极化困扰、对民主制度忧心忡忡的国家更加强大。“积极并持续致力于确保所有公职人员遵守法治，是应对这些挑战的关键，”她说。
但也有人担心这对总统职位的长期影响，尤其是因为，这次起诉是由一名地方检察官而不是司法部提出的，这为全国各地的检察官自行追究总统责任打开了大门。
2008年，自由派的佛蒙特州两个小镇的选民通过决议，指控小布什和副总统迪克·切尼犯有“违宪罪”，并指示镇上的律师起草起诉书。虽然没有任何结果，但不难想象，一位保守的地方检察官会试图指控拜登总统没有充分保护边境之类的罪名。
戈德史密斯说，任何起诉都可能撕毁这个体系的结构。他说：“特别是，如果这次起诉之后，特别检察官提出了合理的起诉，我们将在中期内看到相互指责和报复，这一切都会在政治层面上损害我们的国家健康。”
甚至在没有评估实际证据的情况下、在出现任何起诉之前，特朗普的盟友就给曼哈顿的案件打上了政治的烙印。无论地区检察官阿尔文·布拉格发现了什么都无关紧要——为了捍卫他们政党的上一位总统，以及可能的下一任提名人，他们先发制人地宣布起诉是非法的，因为起诉是由民主党人提起的。
田纳西州共和党众议员、众议院国土安全委员会主席马克·格林把对特朗普的起诉比作欠发达国家的政治案件。“丹尼尔·奥尔特加在尼加拉瓜逮捕了他的反对派，我们称这是一件可怕的事情，”他上周表示。“拜登先生，总统先生，请考虑一下。”
以似是而非的、出于政治目的的指控关押前领导人在专制国家可能很常见，但一些最发达的民主国家也并不回避将其领导人送上法庭。在以色列，前总理埃胡德·奥尔默特因受贿、欺诈和其他指控在监狱中度过了一年多的时间，现任总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡目前正因类似指控接受审判。
在意大利，前总理西尔维奥·贝卢斯科尼刚刚作为执政联盟的一员重新获得一些权力，在漫长的职业生涯中，他面临过35起刑事诉讼，尽管他只有一次因税务欺诈被明确定罪，并被判处一年的社区服务。他曾经涉及一起未成年人卖淫案，被指控贿赂证人，上个月，法院裁定他无罪获释。
近年来被定罪的其他民主领导人包括法国前总统雅克·希拉克（挪用公款）和尼古拉·萨科齐（以权谋私）、韩国前总统朴槿惠（腐败）和台湾前总统陈水扁（受贿）。
在美国，茶壶山事件、水门事件、伊朗门事件和白水事件从来没有把哪一位总统送上被告台。唯一一位以被告身份进入警局的在任总统是尤利西斯·格兰特，当时他驾驶马车在华盛顿的街道上超速行驶，被警察拦下，而他付了20美元就走了。
虽然以前没有总统被起诉过，但早期的副总统亚伦·伯尔在卸任后因密谋将西部领土分割成一个新国家而以叛国罪受审，不过后来被无罪释放。将近两个世纪后，另一位副总统斯皮罗·阿格纽因在一起腐败案中认罪辞职。
特朗普不会因为起诉甚至定罪而被禁止竞选他的旧职位。1920年，社会党领袖尤金·德布斯在监狱里第五次竞选总统，当时他因为反对第一次世界大战而入狱。他获得了919799张选票，占总票数的3.4%。当然，与特朗普不同的是，他不是主要政党的候选人，也没有获胜的希望。
至少还曾有几位总统担心在卸任后会被起诉。理查德·尼克松在辞职一个月后被他的继任者杰拉尔德·福特赦免，使他在水门丑闻中免于受到起诉。比尔·克林顿在其任期的最后一天与白水事件检察官达成了一项协议，承认在宣誓后就自己与莫妮卡·莱温斯基的婚外情提供了虚假证词，为此他放弃五年的律师执照，并支付2.5万美元的罚款，以换取不以普通公民身份面临指控。
历史学家理查德·诺顿·史密斯为福特写的传记《一个普通人》(An Ordinary Man)将于下月出版，他说，福特赦免尼克松并不是想开一个先例，禁止未来起诉总统，而是想让这个国家走出水门事件，因为他面临着通货膨胀、越南战争的收尾和公众的深刻怀疑等挑战。
“与其说他宽恕尼克松，不如说他试图忘记尼克松，”史密斯说。“也就是说，是为了抵制大众、政治和媒体的痴迷，可以理解的是，这种痴迷是围绕着一个美国总统面临牢狱之灾这个以前不可想象的概念而形成的。这种情况的存在让他无法做他该做的事情，也让美国人难以翻过这一页，去正视和处理尼克松留下的所有问题。”
他还说，这一决定不应意味着特朗普因为福特而得到了一块“免罪金牌”。“让福特成为后续总统错误行为的替罪羊，这似乎有点不公平，”史密斯说。“正如他自己在1980年警告的那样，如果选民选择了一位嚣张的总统，‘我是说以一种危险的方式，上帝保佑这个国家。’”

A woman has been caught drink driving at Bolivar overnight. Just before 9pm Saturday 1 April police were driving south along the North South Motorway in the 110km/h zone when they observed a Toyota station wagon also heading south. The Toyota was unable to stay in its lane, swerving from side to side and also speeding up and slowing down.
Police activated their body worn video and captured the vehicle swerving on multiple occasions before activating their emergency lights, managing to stop the car a short time later and speak to the driver. The driver, a 39-year-old Semaphore woman, allegedly returned a positive reading of 0.131.
She lost her licence on the spot for six months and her car was impounded for 28 days. She will be summonsed to appear in court at a later date.
https://www.police.sa.gov.au/sa-police-news-assets/northern-police-district/north-south-motorway-drink-driver

*I am against discrimination and gun control*
Most gun owners should know that gun control began as the government's attempt to limit access to firearms to take away the ability for black people to protect themselves, thus being able to keep them enslaved.
In the pre-Civil War United States: "One crop, slave-grown cotton, provided over half of all US export earnings. By 1840, the South grew 60 percent of the world's cotton and provided some 70 percent of the cotton consumed by the British textile industry." Link here
Any attempts from black people to defend and free themselves would have had an impact in the sale of cotton and would have negatively impacted owners financially.
Events Timeline (Compressed list): Full List here: Link here

• 1640: Virginia implemented Race-based total gun and self-defense against black people first, then mulattoes and Indians.
• 1712: South Carolina implemented Race-based total gun ban*, "*"An act for the better ordering and governing of black people and slaves."
• 1791: 2nd Amendment ratified
• 1819: South Carolina implemented "Master's permission required for gun possession by slave". Possibly the first "permit/license type of law for carrying guns.
• 1825: Florida implemented "Slave and free black homes searched for guns for confiscation". (red flag law?)
• 1828: Florida implemented "Free blacks permitted to carry guns if court approval". (first official government issued gun permit)
• 1857: U.S. Supreme Court upholds slavery, stating that blacks "not citizens." Chief Justice Taney argued if members of the African race were "citizens" they would be exempt from the special "police regulations" applicable to them. Amongst other rights, it would give them full liberty to...."keep and carry arms wherever they went."
• 1861: Civil War broke out
• 1863: Emancipation Proclamation
• 1865: Civil War ends. Constitution was ratified for the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery.
• 1870: Tennessee passed "An Act to Preserve the Peace and Prevent Homicide", "which banned the sale of all handguns except the expensive Army and Navy model handgun which whites already owned or could afford to buy, and blacks could not." (NFA items anyone)

There was a noticeable shift in gun control laws, going from targeting black citizens in the plain text to targeting poor citizens based on where they live, like state or federal public housing projects. Additionally, it passed several laws that either increased the cost of obtaining a firearm or only allowed the purchase of select, expensive firearms.
Poverty rates from 1959 to 2019 shows that black Americans have the highest rate of poverty, followed by Hispanics, Asians and non Hispanics Whites, respectively. Poverty Rates
1893: Alabama implemented first heavy tax on the sale of handguns, which made handguns financially out of reach for poor people.(NFA items anyone.) Also what a lot of Democrats are arguing for currently, suggesting a special tax on firearms and ammunition).
Multiple "Saturday Night Special" economic handgun bans and bans on possessing firearms on public housing were passed and struck down between 1907 and 1998.
1906: Mississippi "enacted the first registration law for retailers in 1906, requiring them to maintain records of all pistol and pistol ammunition sales, and to make such records available for inspection on demand." Based on previous laws, it's reasonable to assume this is meant to target black and poor people in case confiscation was necessary, but would be used against anyone considered against the interests of the government.
1934: Gun Control Act passed (NFA)
1968: Another GCA passed
1988: Maryland passed "Saturday Night Special" economic handgun ban
I think that the answer is...both. Although the first gun control regulations were directed at keeping black people disarmed and enslaved, it did so because in part because they were protecting their immoral financial interests. Additionally, gun control policies doesn't seem to affect the rich and don't apply to the government. Between the history of gun control and actions of a tyrannical governments across the world, I could never give gun control the benefit of the doubt.

This week in Australian History 3 - 8 April
April 3

• 1848 -- Explorer Ludwig Leichhardt was last seen on the Darling Downs.
• 1954 -- Vladimir Petrov, a Soviet diplomat, defects to Australia, sparking the Petrov Affair.
• 1969 -- Actor Ben Mendelsohn is born.
• 1982 -- After almost 27 years in power, the Liberal/National coalition government is voted out in Victoria and replaced by the ALP.

April 4

• 1845 -- The cutter Americana is wrecked in the Torres Strait, the sole survivor, Barbara Thompson, lives with the local indigenous people until 1849.
• 1923 -- The Country Women's Association holds its first annual conference.
• 1929 -- A dam on the Cascade River collapses, the subsequent torrent kills 14.
• 1978 -- Cyclone Alby kills five people in Western Australia.

April 5

• 1932 -- Racehorse Phar Lap is found dead.
• 1933 -- Anthropologist and protector of Aborigines Walter Edmund Roth dies.
• 2004 -- Australia's biggest supplier to the farming community of the potential explosive ammonium nitrate decides to pull the product from its stores in response to concerns it could be used by terrorists.

April 6

• 1844 -- John Gavin is the first European settler to be legally executed in Western Australia. He was executed for murder at the age of fifteen.
• 1895 -- Waltzing Matilda is first performed at the North Gregory Hotel, Winton, Queensland.
• 1942 -- The 41st Infantry Division arrives in Australia, during World War II one million Americans were stationed in Australia.
• 1991 -- Death of cricketer Bill Ponsford, who twice broke the world record for the highest first-class score, aged 90.

April 7

• 1815 -- Bathurst, New South Wales is founded following its discovery by George Evans.
• 1841 -- Edward John Eyre becomes the first European to cross the Nullarbor Plain, arrives in Western Australia.
• 1851 -- Edward Hargraves proclaims the discovery of gold at Ophir, New South Wales. A court later decides that Hargraves companions William Tom and John Lister found the gold.
• 1896 -- Edwin Flack wins the Men's 1500 metres at the 1896 Summer Olympics.
• 1939 -- Sir Earle Page becomes the eleventh Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1967 -- Peter John Badcoe died in the Vietnam War, he was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery, conspicuous gallantry and leadership on more than one occasion.

April 8

• 1802 -- Explorer Matthew Flinders meets the French explorer Nicolas Baudin at Encounter Bay.
• 1817 -- Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales (now Westpac), is established.
• 1867 -- Arthur Streeton, an artist and member of the famous Heidelberg School of Australian artists, is born in Mount Duneed, Victoria.
• 1930 -- Brisbane City Hall is officially opened.
• 1933 -- A secession referendum in Western Australia passes, with 68 per cent voting in favour of secession from the Commonwealth.

I'll never understand how and why the SS take everything the duo said as gospel. I have no problem criticising the RF (and I constantly do) but Sparry and Rachel have lied and played victim so many times, I just don't understand. They claim to be harassed by the press but 95% of stories about them always turn out to be true ans their stories keep changing all the time. Here are a few examples:
-She was accused of collaborating with Scooby Doo on "Finding Freedom", lied about her involvement then had to apologise to court for lying (email evidence are on the internet). The KP staff knew and did nothing to stop this, btw
-In that very book and the engagement interview, we were told that they were set up by a friend and that Harry was beautifully surprised when he met her for the 1st time (meaning he had never seen her before that date) but in the Netflix show, he said he met on on Instagram
-The bullying of her staff was true (confirmed by Harry himself in Spare) and KP lied several time to cover up for her, like lying about why some of her staff when she was in fact bullying them
-Them announcing their pregnancy at Eugenie's wedding was true (confirmed by Harry in Spare)
-Charlotte crying over her dress was true (also confirmed in Spare)
-Megain received a pair of earrings as a wedding gift from a Saudi Prince. He's the alleged kller of a Saudi journalist Jamal Khshoggi. She wore those earrings only days after the assassination and was called out by the media. KP then shamelessly came out and LIED for her, saying that it was a loan. They were eventually exposed last year, I think.
-Them taking 3 private jets in 2 weeks was 100% true. They went to Spain, Italy and the South of France. The only reason they were criticised is because Harry kept lecturing people on climate change and was then called a hypocrite. The story wasn't even leaked by the Palace. They were using NetJets for their travel and the company Instagram/Twitter account started posting pictures of the couple using their jets (Harry's BFF Nacho, at the time, was getting paid to promote the company on social media).
-Them accusing the family of racism and letting them get abused for 2 years only for Sparry to come out and say that they're not racist
-The rift beween the brothers and the couples were true (confirmed in Spare)
-Everything that was said about the relationship between her and her dad turned out to be true
-The baby hospital photo story: at first, they said thatit wasn't safe because Archie didn't have a title or security then they claim it was due to the Emergency Department in the hospital he was born at.
And much more. How some people still believe all their lies is crazy

With all the conflict of border zones in the South China Sea where China pretends to own literally the entire thing despite it crossing into half a dozen sovereign nations territories, and with how much the name itself is largely used by China to assert a false claim of ownership, despite the Chinese name for the sea being literally "South Sea" the only identifying characteristic of the "south china sea" comes from the west and the long history of referring to the body of water relative to a massive trading source.
So if there is all this international dispute which everyone seems to agree that the "South China Sea" is NOT owned by China and everyone disputes their quite outrageous claims, why doesn't the international community come together to officially change the name? I mean, obviously it won't STOP the disputed water from bein disputed, but it would be an international symbol for standing up against China's claim on the water by literally renaming it.
China might be able to use that as propaganda but no one outside of China believes their claims to begin with so it makes no difference. If the international courts have sided with countries against China when it comes to South China Sea disputes, why not actually make a statement by just changing the name as a gesture towards allies that, "no, this not China's sea, this is just the south sea." Just remove the ONE word...why not? It would be nothing but western countries ratifying the change anyway the countries with proximity to the sea already have their own names and even the Philippines has gone ahead and renamed part of the south China sea to "west Philippines" which is pretty awesome. So just ratify it. Then the entire body of water will no longer be associated with china, not even the chinese name for it has any claim of ownership so why should the English version?

Video link: https://youtu.be/UdCj4eHA3r0
transcript link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQlsyGQS008kRuweoLHh-kRileb4W7yB1iiA75oLBNIshVnovdxleYu2QOLGLlKNYwitc3iuQ7h4hXd/pub
Edited to add: Transcript link added. Redditors: I'm puzzled. I wrote a long post with time stamps for the entire video. When I went back to add the transcript link the last 1/3 of the post disappeared. So I'll, recreate it and put it in a comment.
No particularly "juicy" tidbits in today's video, IMHO. Lady C spent 17 minutes discussing Samantha Markle's lawsuit against her sister.
0:35 Markle v. Markle lawsuit. Lady C is in contact with Samantha and Sam forwarded a statement from her attorney which Lady C read:
“It is unfortunate to see that the Press has chosen to wrongly report on the judge's ruling as a total win by Megan. Upon reviewing the order it is made very clear that the entire case was not tossed out, but in fact the judge is allowing Samantha the ability to amend her complaint within a 14-day period. This upcoming Amendment will address certain legal issues that are related to our claims for defamation as it specifically relates to the Oprah interview on CBS. We vehemently oppose the narrative that the press has decided to spin in Megan's favor and look forward to presenting an even stronger argument for the defamation and losses that our client has had to endure. Signed Jamie a Sasson, Esq.”
Lady C does on to dissect the Judge's Order and gives her opinion that the judge's ruling was "narrow" in some aspects. However two new items (to me): (1) the 2nd Amended Complaint will include allegations based on the Netflix documentary, and (2) Samantha has "new" lawyers.
18:42 Why Lady C isn't included in a line up of stars for a celebrity special in South Africa (answer: wasn't offered enough money.)
23:25 Compliments on the King's Speech at the State Dinner in Germany - switching back and forth between German and English.
27:22 More about the King's visit to Germany; He wasn't out of line to talk about the Ukraine war given his position as Head of State.
31:36 Harry looks happy when he's not with Meghan. Lady C's opinions re: Harry's personality.
35:29 Did Harry bump into the photographer on purpose when he arrive for first day of Court? Or was the guy a Netflix photographer?

Israel Today-IBN Today: Four questions about the opponents of judicial reform
https://israelbehindthenews.com/2023/03/30/four-questions-about-the-opponents-of-judicial-reform/
There is no reason to impugn the integrity of the vast majority of those who demonstrated against reforms to the Israeli Supreme Court.
At the same time, most people do not know that there are four issues on which Supreme Court reform would have a very positive impact, and certain interested parties do not want that to happen.
The Palestinian Authority and its allies in Israel
The Israeli Supreme Court has issued a series of inappropriate rulings over the last 30 years that approved Israeli government agreements with the Palestine Liberation Organization. It did so even though the PLO’s ruling party Fatah never ratified the Oslo Accords’ core document—the Declaration of Principles.
The Court even ruled that Israel should be allowed to supply weapons and military training to the Palestinian Authority’s security forces, as they could be relied upon to protect the lives of Jews. The Court would not accept the premise that the P.A. remains at war with the Jews and Israel.
Supreme Court reform could upset the Israel government’s courtship of the P.A. and the PLO and reverse blind Israeli support for the P.A. as a “peace partner.”
Families whose loved ones were murdered, only to witness the release of their killers
During what was described as peace negotiations with the PLO, the Supreme Court allowed as many as 9,000 convicted Arab felons to walk the streets, on condition that they sign a statement that they supported peace.
These felons included convicted murderers released in exchange for Israeli POW Gilad Shalit. Some 40% of these felons have returned to terror.
Supreme Court reform could introduce normative standards of release, which would require an evaluation of each case on the basis of recidivism—the probability that the released felon might repeat his crime.
Israeli contractors who import migrant workers
Over the past decade, the Supreme Court has turned a blind eye to Israel contractors who have imported as many as a quarter-million migrant workers to perform menial labor.
These contractors, working with the Israel Hotel Association and other employers ready to hire workers for below the minimum wage and without social benefits or medical care, hire PR professionals to tell the public that these migrant workers are innocuous asylum seekers.
Migrant workers have run rampant and ransacked neighborhoods in south Tel Aviv, yet the Supreme Court prefers to believe that they are innocent asylum seekers with nowhere else to go.
Supreme Court reform would be a nightmare for these unscrupulous contractors.
The Israeli high-tech industry illegally importing workers
Israel’s booming high-tech industry now recruits workers from abroad, ignoring local high-tech professionals who are seeking employment.
Many of these high-tech companies do not allow their imported workers a day of rest or apply for work visas on their behalf, both of which are mandated by Israeli labor law. The Supreme Court regularly turns a blind eye to these abuses.
Supreme Court reform could hold these companies to account and prevent the further importation of foreign high-tech workers.
On the seder night next week, four questions should be asked about four issues and why some of the parties involved are such strong opponents of judicial reform.
David Bedein is director of the Nahum Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research.

Israel Today-IBN Today: Four questions about the opponents of judicial reform
https://israelbehindthenews.com/2023/03/30/four-questions-about-the-opponents-of-judicial-reform/
There is no reason to impugn the integrity of the vast majority of those who demonstrated against reforms to the Israeli Supreme Court.
At the same time, most people do not know that there are four issues on which Supreme Court reform would have a very positive impact, and certain interested parties do not want that to happen.
The Palestinian Authority and its allies in Israel
The Israeli Supreme Court has issued a series of inappropriate rulings over the last 30 years that approved Israeli government agreements with the Palestine Liberation Organization. It did so even though the PLO’s ruling party Fatah never ratified the Oslo Accords’ core document—the Declaration of Principles.
The Court even ruled that Israel should be allowed to supply weapons and military training to the Palestinian Authority’s security forces, as they could be relied upon to protect the lives of Jews. The Court would not accept the premise that the P.A. remains at war with the Jews and Israel.
Supreme Court reform could upset the Israel government’s courtship of the P.A. and the PLO and reverse blind Israeli support for the P.A. as a “peace partner.”
Families whose loved ones were murdered, only to witness the release of their killers
During what was described as peace negotiations with the PLO, the Supreme Court allowed as many as 9,000 convicted Arab felons to walk the streets, on condition that they sign a statement that they supported peace.
These felons included convicted murderers released in exchange for Israeli POW Gilad Shalit. Some 40% of these felons have returned to terror.
Supreme Court reform could introduce normative standards of release, which would require an evaluation of each case on the basis of recidivism—the probability that the released felon might repeat his crime.
Israeli contractors who import migrant workers
Over the past decade, the Supreme Court has turned a blind eye to Israel contractors who have imported as many as a quarter-million migrant workers to perform menial labor.
These contractors, working with the Israel Hotel Association and other employers ready to hire workers for below the minimum wage and without social benefits or medical care, hire PR professionals to tell the public that these migrant workers are innocuous asylum seekers.
Migrant workers have run rampant and ransacked neighborhoods in south Tel Aviv, yet the Supreme Court prefers to believe that they are innocent asylum seekers with nowhere else to go.
Supreme Court reform would be a nightmare for these unscrupulous contractors.
The Israeli high-tech industry illegally importing workers
Israel’s booming high-tech industry now recruits workers from abroad, ignoring local high-tech professionals who are seeking employment.
Many of these high-tech companies do not allow their imported workers a day of rest or apply for work visas on their behalf, both of which are mandated by Israeli labor law. The Supreme Court regularly turns a blind eye to these abuses.
Supreme Court reform could hold these companies to account and prevent the further importation of foreign high-tech workers.
On the seder night next week, four questions should be asked about four issues and why some of the parties involved are such strong opponents of judicial reform.
David Bedein is director of the Nahum Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research.

Israel Today-IBN Today: Four questions about the opponents of judicial reform
https://israelbehindthenews.com/2023/03/30/four-questions-about-the-opponents-of-judicial-reform/
There is no reason to impugn the integrity of the vast majority of those who demonstrated against reforms to the Israeli Supreme Court.
At the same time, most people do not know that there are four issues on which Supreme Court reform would have a very positive impact, and certain interested parties do not want that to happen.
The Palestinian Authority and its allies in Israel
The Israeli Supreme Court has issued a series of inappropriate rulings over the last 30 years that approved Israeli government agreements with the Palestine Liberation Organization. It did so even though the PLO’s ruling party Fatah never ratified the Oslo Accords’ core document—the Declaration of Principles.
The Court even ruled that Israel should be allowed to supply weapons and military training to the Palestinian Authority’s security forces, as they could be relied upon to protect the lives of Jews. The Court would not accept the premise that the P.A. remains at war with the Jews and Israel.
Supreme Court reform could upset the Israel government’s courtship of the P.A. and the PLO and reverse blind Israeli support for the P.A. as a “peace partner.”
Families whose loved ones were murdered, only to witness the release of their killers
During what was described as peace negotiations with the PLO, the Supreme Court allowed as many as 9,000 convicted Arab felons to walk the streets, on condition that they sign a statement that they supported peace.
These felons included convicted murderers released in exchange for Israeli POW Gilad Shalit. Some 40% of these felons have returned to terror.
Supreme Court reform could introduce normative standards of release, which would require an evaluation of each case on the basis of recidivism—the probability that the released felon might repeat his crime.
Israeli contractors who import migrant workers
Over the past decade, the Supreme Court has turned a blind eye to Israel contractors who have imported as many as a quarter-million migrant workers to perform menial labor.
These contractors, working with the Israel Hotel Association and other employers ready to hire workers for below the minimum wage and without social benefits or medical care, hire PR professionals to tell the public that these migrant workers are innocuous asylum seekers.
Migrant workers have run rampant and ransacked neighborhoods in south Tel Aviv, yet the Supreme Court prefers to believe that they are innocent asylum seekers with nowhere else to go.
Supreme Court reform would be a nightmare for these unscrupulous contractors.
The Israeli high-tech industry illegally importing workers
Israel’s booming high-tech industry now recruits workers from abroad, ignoring local high-tech professionals who are seeking employment.
Many of these high-tech companies do not allow their imported workers a day of rest or apply for work visas on their behalf, both of which are mandated by Israeli labor law. The Supreme Court regularly turns a blind eye to these abuses.
Supreme Court reform could hold these companies to account and prevent the further importation of foreign high-tech workers.
On the seder night next week, four questions should be asked about four issues and why some of the parties involved are such strong opponents of judicial reform.
David Bedein is director of the Nahum Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research.

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Louis Adamic (author) - Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America (Revised Edition) (1934) https://archive.org/details/dynamitestoryofc0000loui_p5d9 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Peter Afrasiabi - Burning Bridges: America's 20-Year Crusade to Deport Labor Leader Harry Bridges (2016) https://archive.org/details/burningbridgesam0000afra (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Peter J. Albert, Grace Palladino - The Samuel Gompers Papers: Volume 8: Progress and Reaction in the Age of Reform, 1909-13 (2001) https://archive.org/details/samuelgomperspap0008unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Peter J. Albert, Grace Palladino - The Samuel Gompers Papers: Volume 9: The American Federation of Labor at the Height of Progressivism, 1913-17 (2003) https://archive.org/details/samuelgomperspap0009unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Peter J. Albert, Grace Palladino - The Samuel Gompers Papers: Volume 10: The American Federation of Labor and the Great War, 1917-18 (2007) https://archive.org/details/samuelgomperspap0010unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Robert J. Alexander - The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s (1981) https://archive.org/details/rightoppositionl0000alex (Borrowable for 14 days)
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America - The Clothing Workers of Chicago, 1910-1922 (1922) https://archive.org/details/clothingworkerso00amaluoft (Public domain)
Thomas G. Andrews - Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War (2008) https://archive.org/details/killingforcoalam0000andr (Borrowable for 14 days)
Ian Angus - Canadian Bolsheviks: The Early Years of the Communist Party of Canada (Second Edition) (2004) https://archive.org/details/canadianbolshevi0000angu (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Steven K. Ashby, C. J. Hawking (authors) - Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement (2009) https://archive.org/details/staleyfightforne0000ashb (Borrowable for 14 days)
Robert Asher, Ronald Edsforth (editors) - Autowork (1995) https://archive.org/details/autowork0000ashe (Borrowable for 14 days)
Robert Asher, Charles Stephenson (editors) - Labor Divided: Race and Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles, 1835-1960 (1990) https://archive.org/details/labordividedrace0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Aleine Austin - The Labor Story: A Popular History of American Labor, 1786-1949 (1949) https://archive.org/details/laborstorypopula0000alei (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Paul Avrich - Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America (1995) https://archive.org/details/anarchistvoiceso0000avri (Borrowable for 14 days)
James R. Barrett - William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism (1999) https://archive.org/details/williamzfostertr0000barr (Borrowable for 14 days)
Philip Bart - Highlights of a Fighting History: 60 Years of the Communist Party, USA (1979) https://archive.org/details/highlightsoffigh00bart (Borrowable for 14 days)
Beth Tompkins Bates - Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 (2001) https://archive.org/details/pullmanportersri0000bate (Borrowable for 14 days)
Earl R. Beckner - A History of Labor Legislation in Illinois (1929) https://archive.org/details/historyoflaborle00beck (Shared by publisher)
Thomas Becnel - Labor, Church, and the Sugar Establishment: Louisiana, 1887-1976 (1980) https://archive.org/details/laborchurchsugar0000becn (Borrowable for 14 days)
Henry F. Bedford - Socialism and the Workers in Massachusetts, 1886-1912 (1966) https://archive.org/details/socialismworkers0000bedf (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Henry F. Bedford - Their Lives and Numbers: The Condition of Working People in Massachusetts, 1870-1900 (1995) https://archive.org/details/theirlivesnumber00unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Daniel E. Bender, Richard A. Greenwald (editors) - Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective (2003) https://archive.org/details/sweatshopusaamer0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Daniel E. Bender (author) - Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor (2004) https://archive.org/details/sweatedworkweakb0000bend (Borrowable for 14 days)
Leigh David Benin - The New Labor Radicalism and New York City's Garment Industry: Progressive Labor Insurgents in the 1960s (2000) https://archive.org/details/newlaborradicali0000beni (Borrowable for 14 days)
David Bensman - The Practice of Solidarity: American Hat Finishers in the Nineteenth Century (1985) https://archive.org/details/practiceofsolida0000bens (Borrowable for 14 days)
Irving Bernstein - The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933 (1960) https://archive.org/details/leanyearshistory00bern_0 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Irving Bernstein - The Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941 (2010) https://archive.org/details/turbulentyearshi0000bern_r4l9 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Samuel Bernstein - The First International in America (1962) https://archive.org/details/firstinternation0000bern (Borrowable for 14 days)
Perry K. Blatz (author) - Democratic Miners: Work and Labor Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875-1925 (1994) https://archive.org/details/democraticminers0000blat (Borrowable for 14 days)
Mary H. Blewett - Surviving Hard Times: The Working People of Lowell (1982) https://archive.org/details/survivinghardtim0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Mary H. Blewett - Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910 (1988) https://archive.org/details/menwomenworkclas0000blew (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Mary H. Blewett - The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960 (1990) https://archive.org/details/lastgeneration00mary (Borrowable for 14 days)
Mary H. Blewett - We Will Rise in Our Might: Workingwomen's Voices from Nineteenth-Century New England (1991) https://archive.org/details/wewillriseinourm0000blew (Borrowable for 14 days)
Mary H. Blewett - Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England (2000) https://archive.org/details/trent_0116404699799 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Ella Reeve Bloor - We Are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor (1940) https://archive.org/details/wearemanyautobio0000unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Kim Bobo (author) - Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid-And What We Can Do About It (2009) https://archive.org/details/wagetheftinameri0000bobo (Borrowable for 14 days)
Phillip Bonosky - Brother Bill McKie: Building the Union at Ford (2000) https://archive.org/details/brotherbillmckie0000bono (Borrowable for 14 days)
Vaughn Davis Bornet - Labor Politics in a Democratic Republic: Moderation, Division, and Disruption in the Presidential Election of 1928 (1964) https://archive.org/details/laborpoliticsind0000vaug (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Richard O. Boyer, Herbert M. Morais - Labor's Untold Story (1988) https://archive.org/details/laborsuntoldstor00boye (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Kevin Boyle - The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968 (1995) https://archive.org/details/uawheydayofameri0000boyl (Borrowable for 14 days)
David Brauer - Nellie Stone Johnson: The Life of an Activist (2000) https://archive.org/details/nelliestonejohns0000john (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Jeremy Brecher - Strike! (Revised, Expanded, and Updated) (2020) https://archive.org/details/strike0000brec_t8h1 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day, Immanuel Ness - The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History (2009) https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofst0000unse_z1v4 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Paul Frederick Brissenden - The I. W. W.: A Study of American Syndicalism (1920) https://archive.org/details/iwwstudyofameri00bris (Public domain)
David Brody - Steelworkers in America: The Nonunion Era (1960) https://archive.org/details/steelworkersinam0000brod_h3y7 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
David Brody - Labor in Crisis: The Steel Strike of 1919 (1987) https://archive.org/details/laborincrisisste0000brod_r4w1 (Borrowable for 14 days)
John Graham Brooks - American Syndicalism: The I. W. W. (1913) https://archive.org/details/americansyndical00broo (Public domain)
Thomas R. Brooks - Toil and Trouble: A History of American Labor (Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged) (1971) https://archive.org/details/toiltroublehisto0000broo (Borrowable for 1 hour)
John Brophy - A Miner's Life (1964) https://archive.org/details/johnbrophyminers0000unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Edwin L. Brown, Colin J. Davis (editors) - It Is Union and Liberty: Alabama Coal Miners and the UMW (1999) https://archive.org/details/itisunionliberty0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Lee Brown, Robert L. Allen - Strong in the Struggle: My Life as a Black Labor Activist (2001) https://archive.org/details/stronginstruggle0000brow (Borrowable for 14 days)
Henry J. Browne - The Catholic Church and the Knights of Labor (1949) https://archive.org/details/catholicchurchkn0000henr (Borrowable for 1 hour)
David Brundage - The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver's Organized Workers, 1878-1905 (1994) https://archive.org/details/makingofwesternl0078brun (Borrowable for 14 days)
Peter H. Buckingham - Rebel against Injustice: The Life of Frank P. O'Hare (1996) https://archive.org/details/rebelagainstinju0000buck (Borrowable for 14 days)
Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, Dan Georgakas - Encyclopedia of the American Left (Second Edition) (1998) https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofam00buhl_0 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Paul Buhle, Alan Dawley (editors) - Working for Democracy: American Workers from the Revolution to the Present (1985) https://archive.org/details/workingfordemocr0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
W. F. Burns - The Pullman Boycott: A Complete History of the Great R. R. Strike (1894) https://archive.org/details/pullmanboycottco00burn (Public domain)
Christina Burr - Spreading the Light: Work and Labour Reform in Late-Ninteenth-Century Toronto (1999) https://archive.org/details/spreadinglightwo0000burr (Borrowable for 1 hour)
James P. Cannon - The History of American Trotskyism, 1928-1938: Report of a Participant (2002) https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica0000cann (Borrowable for 14 days)
Milton Cantor - Black Labor in America (1970) https://archive.org/details/blacklaboronamer0000unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Milton Cantor - The Divided Left: American Radicalism, 1900-1975 (1978) https://archive.org/details/dividedleftameri0000cant (Borrowable for 14 days)
Heath W. Carter - Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago (2015) https://archive.org/details/unionmadeworking0000cart (Borrowable for 14 days)
Kenneth M. Casebeer - American Labor Struggles and Law Histories (Second Edition) (2017) https://archive.org/details/americanlaborstr0000unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Norman Caulfield - NAFTA and Labor in North America (2010) https://archive.org/details/naftalaborinnort0000caul (Borrowable for 14 days)
Ralph Chaplin - Wobbly: The Rough-and-Tumble Story of an American Radical (1948) https://archive.org/details/wobblyroughandtu0000chap (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Eric Thomas Chester (author) - True Mission: Socialists and the Labor Party Question in the U.S. (2004) https://archive.org/details/truemissionsocia0000ches (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Daniel J. Clark (author) - Like Night & Day: Unionization in a Southern Mill Town (1997) https://archive.org/details/likenightdayunio0000clar (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Paul F. Clark, Peter Gottlieb, Donald Kennedy - Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC, and the United Steelworkers (1987) https://archive.org/details/forgingunionofst00clar (Borrowable for 14 days)
Thomas Ralph Clark (author) - Defending Rights: Law, Labor Politics, and the State in California, 1890-1925 (2002) https://archive.org/details/defendingrightsl0000clar (Borrowable for 14 days)
Lizabeth Cohen - Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (2008) https://archive.org/details/makingnewdealind0000cohe_k2g7 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Sanford Cohen - Labor in the United States (Fifth Edition) (1979) https://archive.org/details/laborinunitedsta0005edcohe (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Jeffrey W. Coker - Confronting American Labor: The New Left Dilemma (2002) https://archive.org/details/confrontingameri00coke (Borrowable for 14 days)
John R. Commons et al. - History of Labour in the United States: Volume I (1918) https://archive.org/details/historyoflabouri01commuoft (Public domain)
Joseph R. Conlin - The American Radical Press, 1880-1960: Volume I (1974) https://archive.org/details/americanradicalp0000conl (Borrowable for 14 days)
Peter Cole - Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia (2007) https://archive.org/details/wobbliesonwaterf0000cole (Borrowable for 14 days)
Peter Cole - Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly (2021) https://archive.org/details/benfletcher0000unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
McAlister Coleman - Eugene V. Debs: A Man Unafraid (1930) https://archive.org/details/eugenevdebsmanun0000cole (Borrowable for 14 days)
McAlister Coleman - Men and Coal (1943) https://archive.org/details/mencoal0000mcal (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Patricia A. Cooper - Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919 (1987) https://archive.org/details/oncecigarmakerme0000coop (Borrowable for 14 days)
Cynthia J. Cranford, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker, Leah F. Vosko (authors) - Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, and Unions (2005) https://archive.org/details/selfemployedwork0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Ira B. Cross (author) - A History of the Labor Movement in California (1935) https://archive.org/details/historyoflabormo00cros (Borrowable for 14 days)
Cletus E. Daniel - Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941 (1981) https://archive.org/details/bitterharvesthis0000dani (Borrowable for 14 days)
Clete Daniel - Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States (2001) https://archive.org/details/cultureofmisfort00dani (Borrowable for 14 days)
Max D. Danish - The World of David Dubinsky (1957) https://archive.org/details/worldofdaviddubi00dani (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Taylor E. Dark - The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance (1999) https://archive.org/details/unionsdemocratse00tayl (Borrowable for 14 days)
Eldorous L. Dayton - Walter Reuther: Autocrat of the Bargaining Table (1958) https://archive.org/details/walterreuther0000unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Len De Caux - Labor Radical: From the Wobblies to CIO: A Personal History (1970) https://archive.org/details/laborradicalfrom0000deca (Borrowable for 14 days)
C. L. Dellums - International President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Civil Rights Leader (1973) https://archive.org/details/interpresbrother00dellrich (Transcript)
Milton Derber, Edwin Young - Labor and the New Deal (1957) https://archive.org/details/labornewdeal0000derb (Borrowable for 14 days)
Milton Derber - The American Idea of Industrial Democracy, 1865-1965 (1970) https://archive.org/details/americanideaofin0000derb (Borrowable for 14 days)
Milton Derber - Labor in Illinois: The Affluent Years, 1945-80 (1989) https://archive.org/details/laborinillinoisa0000derb (Borrowable for 14 days)
Ben F. DesRoches (author) - The Union That Changed My Life Forever: Local 1005 United Steelworkers of America, Hamilton, Ontario (2003) https://archive.org/details/unionthatchanged0000desr (Borrowable for 14 days)
Ileen A. DeVault (author) - United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism (2004) https://archive.org/details/unitedapartgende0000deva (Borrowable for 14 days)
Victor G. Devinatz - High-Tech Betrayal: Working and Organizing on the Shop Floor (1999) https://archive.org/details/hightechbetrayal0000devi (Borrowable for 14 days)
Farrell Dobbs - Teamster Rebellion (1972) https://archive.org/details/teamsterrebellio00farr (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Farrell Dobbs - Teamster Power (1973) https://archive.org/details/teamsterpower0000dobb (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Farrell Dobbs - Teamster Politics (1975) https://archive.org/details/teamsterpolitics0000dobb (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Farrell Dobbs - Teamster Bureaucracy (1977) https://archive.org/details/teamsterbureaucr0000dobb (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Theodore Draper - The Roots of American Communism (1957) https://archive.org/details/rootsofamericanc0000unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Theodore Draper - American Communism and Soviet Russia: The Formative Period (1960) https://archive.org/details/americancommunis0000drap (Borrowable for 14 days)
Philip Dray - There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America (2010) https://archive.org/details/thereispowerinun0000dray (Borrowable for 14 days)
David Dubinsky, A. H. Raskin - David Dubinsky: A Life With Labor (1977) https://archive.org/details/daviddubinskylif00dubi (Borrowable for 14 days)
Melvyn Dubofsky - When Workers Organize: New York City in the Progressive Era (1968) https://archive.org/details/whenworkersorgan0000dubo (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Melvyn Dubofsky - American Labor Since the New Deal (1971) https://archive.org/details/americanlaborsin00dubo (Borrowable for 14 days)
Melvyn Dubofsky - We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (1973) https://archive.org/details/weshallbeallhist0000dubo_k0d1 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Melvyn Dubofsky -'Big Bill' Haywood (1987) https://archive.org/details/bigbillhaywood00dubo (Borrowable for 14 days)
Melvyn Dubofsky, Foster Rhea Dulles - Labor in America: A History (Seventh Edition) (2004) https://archive.org/details/laborinamericahi0000dubo (Borrowable for 14 days)
Melvyn Dubofsky, Joseph A. McCartin (editors)- American Labor: A Documentary Collection (2004) https://archive.org/details/americanlabordoc0000unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Melvyn Dubofsky, Warren Van Tine - John L. Lewis: A Biography (Abridged Edition) (1986) https://archive.org/details/johnllewisbiogra00dubo (Borrowable for 14 days)
Melvyn Dubofsky, Warren Van Tine - Labor Leaders in America (1987) https://archive.org/details/laborleadersinam00grap_0 (Borrowable for 14 days)
John Gregory Dunne (author) - Delano: The Story of the California Grape Strike (2008) https://archive.org/details/delanostoryofcal0000dunn (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Robert W. Dunne - The Americanization of Labor: The Employers' Offensive Against the Trade Unions (1927) https://archive.org/details/americanizationo00dunnrich (Public domain)
Donald Drew Egbert, Stow Persons - Socialism and American Life: Volume 1 (1952) https://archive.org/details/socialismamerica0001dona_j5s9 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Donald Drew Egbert, Stow Persons - Socialism and American Life: Volume 2: Bibliography: Descriptive and Critical (1952) https://archive.org/details/socialismamerica0002unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Barbara Ehrenreich - Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America (2001) https://archive.org/details/nickeldimedonnot00ehre (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Melech Epstein - Jewish Labor in U. S. A.: An Industrial, Political and Cultural History of the Jewish Labor Movement, 1882-1914 (1969) https://archive.org/details/jewishlaborinusa0000epst_a4w4 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Suzan Erem (author) - Labor Pains: Inside America's New Union Movement (2001) https://archive.org/details/laborpainsinside0000erem_o7p5 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Harold U. Faulkner, Mark Starr - Labor in America (New Ediition) (1955) https://archive.org/details/laborinamerica0000unse_r5i8 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Dale Fetherling - Mother Jones, The Miners' Angel: A Portrait (1974) https://archive.org/details/motherjonesminer0000feth (Borrowable for 14 days)
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Ronald L. Filippelli - Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia (1990) https://archive.org/details/laborconflictinu0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Ronald L. Filippelli. Mark McColloch - Cold War in the Working Class: The Rise and Decline of the United Electrical Workers (1995) https://archive.org/details/coldwarinworking0000fili (Borrowable for 14 days)
Nathan Fine - Labor and Farmer Parties in the United States, 1828-1928 (1928) https://archive.org/details/laborfarmerparti0000fine (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Gary M. Fink - Labor's Search for Political Order: The Political Behavior of the Missouri Labor Movement (1973) https://archive.org/details/laborssearchforp00fink (Borrowable for 14 days)
Gary M. Fink - Labor Unions (1977) https://archive.org/details/laborunions00fink (Borrowable for 14 days)
Gary M. Fink - Biographical Dictionary of American Labor (1984) https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000unse_p4q4 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Gary M. Fink - The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of 1914-1915: Espionage, Labor Conflict, and New South Industrial Relations (1993) https://archive.org/details/fultonbagcottonm00fink (Borrowable for 14 days)
Gary M. Fink, Merl E. Reed - Essays in Southern Labor History: Selected Papers, Southern Labor History Conference, 1976 (1977) https://archive.org/details/essaysinsouthern0000sout (Borrowable for 14 days)
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Leon Fink - Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics (1983) https://archive.org/details/workingmensdemoc00fink (Borrowable for 14 days)
Leon Fink, Brian Greenberg - Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: A History of Hospital Workers' Union, Local 1199 (1989) https://archive.org/details/upheavalinquietz00fink (Borrowable for 14 days)
Harry Fleischman - Norman Thomas: A Biography: 1884-1968 (1969) https://archive.org/details/normanthomasbiog00flei (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn - The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography: My First Life (1906-1926) (1973) https://archive.org/details/rebelgirlautobi00flyn (Borrowable for 14 days)
Albert Fried - Socialism in America: From the Shakers to the Third International: A Documentary History (1970) https://archive.org/details/socialisminameri0000albe (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Franklin Folsom - Impatient Armies of the Poor: The Story of Collective Action of the Unemployed, 1808-1942 (1991) https://archive.org/details/impatientarmieso00fols (Borrowable for 14 days)
Moe Foner, Dan North - Not for Bread Alone: A Memoir (2002) https://archive.org/details/notforbreadalone00moef (Borrowable for 14 days)
Philip S. Foner - History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Volume I: From Colonial Times to the Founding of the American Federation of Labor (1947) https://archive.org/details/historyoflabormo0001fone (Borrowable for 1 hour)
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Philip S. Foner - History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Volume II: From the Founding of the American Federation of Labor to the Emergence of American Imperialism (1955) https://archive.org/details/historyoflabormo0002fone (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Philip S. Foner - History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Volume III: The Policies and Practices of the American Federation of Labor, 1900-1909 (1964) https://archive.org/details/historyoflabormo0000fone_j7s2 (Borrowable for 14 days)
Philip S. Foner - History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Volume IV: The Industrial Workers of the World, 1905-1917 (1965) https://archive.org/details/historyoflabormo0004fone (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Philip S. Foner - The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Impact on American Radicals, Liberals, and Labor: A Documentary Study (1967) https://archive.org/details/bolshevikrevolut0000unse (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Philip S. Foner - American Socialism and Black Americans: From the Age of Jackson to World War II (1977) https://archive.org/details/americansocialis0000fone (Borrowable for 14 days)
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Philip S. Foner - Women and the American Labor Movement: From the First Trade Unions to the Present (1979) https://archive.org/details/womenamericanlab0000fone (Borrowable for 14 days)
Philip S. Foner - Fellow Workers and Friends: I.W.W. Free-Speech Fights as Told by Participants (1981) https://archive.org/details/fellowworkersfri0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Philip S. Foner - Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981 (Second Edition) (1981) https://archive.org/details/organizedlaborbl0000fone (Borrowable for 14 days)
Philip S. Foner - History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Volume VI: On the Eve of America's Entrance into World War I, 1915-1916 (1982) https://archive.org/details/historyoflabormo0000fone (Borrowable for 14 days)
Philip S. Foner - Mother Jones Speaks: Collected Writings and Speeches (1983) https://archive.org/details/motherjonesspeak0000jone (Borrowable for 14 days)
Philip S. Foner - History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Volume VIII: Postwar Struggles, 1918-1920 (1988) https://archive.org/details/historyoflabormo0008fone (Borrowable for 1 hour)
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Philip S. Foner - History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Volume IX: The T.U.E.L. to the End of the Gompers Era (1991) https://archive.org/details/historyoflabormo0009fone (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Philip S. Foner, Brewster Chamberlin - Friedrich A. Sorge's Labor Movement in the United States: A History of the American Working Class from Colonial Times to 1890 (1977) https://archive.org/details/friedrichasorges0000sorg (Borrowable for 14 days)
Philip S. Foner, Ronald L. Lewis - Black Workers: A Documentary History from Colonial Times to the Present (1989) https://archive.org/details/blackworkersdocu0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Ken Fones-Wolf - Trade Union Gospel: Christianity and Labor in Industrial Philadelphia, 1865-1915 (1989) https://archive.org/details/tradeuniongospel0000fone (Borrowable for 14 days)
William Z. Foster - American Trade Unionism: Principles and Organization, Strategy and Tactics (1947) https://archive.org/details/americantradeuni0000fost (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Charlie Fox - Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression (2000) https://archive.org/details/fightingbackpoli0000foxc (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Mary Harrita Fox - Peter E. Dietz, Labor Priest (1953) https://archive.org/details/peteredietzlabor0000foxm (Borrowable for 1 hour)
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Peter L. Francia (author) - The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics (2006) https://archive.org/details/futureoforganize0000fran (Borrowable for 14 days)
Dana Frank - Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 (1994) https://archive.org/details/purchasingpowerc0000fran (Borrowable for 14 days)
Steven Fraser - Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor (1991) https://archive.org/details/laborwillrulesid00fras (Borrowable for 14 days)
Chris Friday - Organizing Asian American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870-1942 (1994) https://archive.org/details/organizingasiana00frid (Borrowable for 14 days)
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Walter Galenson - The United Brotherhood of Carpenters: The First Hundred Years (1983) https://archive.org/details/unitedbrotherhoo0000gale (Borrowable for 14 days)
Walter Galenson - The American Labor Movement, 1955-1995 (1996) https://archive.org/details/americanlabormov0000gale (Borrowable for 14 days)
Jérôme Gautié, John Schmitt (editors) - Low-Wage Work in the Wealthy World (2010) https://archive.org/details/lowwageworkinwea0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
Miles Galvin - The Organized Labor Movement in Puerto Rico (1979) https://archive.org/details/organizedlabormo0000galv (Borrowable for 1 hour)
John S. Gambs - The Decline of the I. W. W. (1932) https://archive.org/details/declineofiww0000gamb (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Joseph Gerteis (author) - Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement (2007) https://archive.org/details/classcolorlinein0000gert (Borrowable for 14 days)
Silvia Giagnoni - Fields of Resistance: The Struggle of Florida's Farmworkers for Justice (2011) https://archive.org/details/fieldsofresistan0000giag (Borrowable for 14 days)
Sam Gindin - The Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union (1995) https://archive.org/details/canadianautowork0000gind (Borrowable for 14 days)
Ray Ginger - The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs (1949) https://archive.org/details/bendingcrossbiog00ging (Borrowable for 1 hour)
Louis Goldblatt - Working Class Leader in the ILWU, 1935-1977: Volume I (1980) https://archive.org/details/workingclassleader01goldrich (Transcript)
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Steve Golin (author) - The Fragile Bridge: Paterson Silk Strike, 1913 (1988) https://archive.org/details/fragilebridgepat0000goli (Borrowable for 14 days)
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Samuel Gompers - Seventy Years of Life and Labor: An Autobiography (1925) https://archive.org/details/seventyyearsofli0000gomp_a0u4 (Public domain)
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Carol Groneman, Mary Beth Norton (editors) - "To Toil the Livelong Day": America's Women at Work, 1780-1980 (1987) https://archive.org/details/totoillivelongda0000unse (Borrowable for 14 days)
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Jonathan Philip Grossman - William Sylvis, Pioneer of American Labor: A Study of the Labor Movement During the Era of the Civil War (1945) https://archive.org/details/williamsylvispio0000gros (Borrowable for 14 days)
Frank L. Grubbs - The Struggle for Labor Loyalty: Gompers, the A. F. of L., and the Pacifists, 1917-1920 (1968) https://archive.org/details/struggleforlabor01grub (Shared by publisher)
Daniel Guérin - 100 Years of Labor in the USA (1979) https://archive.org/details/100yearsoflabori0000guer (Borrowable for 14 days)
Fred Halstead - Out Now!: A Participant's Account of the American Movement Against the Vietnam War (1978) https://archive.org/details/outnowparticipan00halsrich (Borrowable for 14 days)
Hilton E. Hanna, Joseph Belsky - Picket and the Pen: The "Pat" Gorman Story (1960) https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_r7y1 (Borrowable for 1 hour)
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Harry Haywood - Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist (1978) https://archive.org/details/blackbolshevikau0000hayw (Borrowable for 1 hour)
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She owes around south of 3,000 on credit card debt and is in the process of selling her home.
If the courts put a lien on her home to collect their debt, while the home is being sold what complications does that cause?
If her home is sold she would be able to pay the debt in a lump sum, but the courts/debt collector wouldn't know the exact date of payment.
I'm just trying to help my Mom out as she's in a vulnerable position in her life, I really don't know anything about legal stuff at all. Not sure what my options are

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-31-2023
The second Summit for Democracy organized by the White House concluded yesterday with an invitation to a third summit, to be held in Costa Rica later this year. The second summit was not just a United States party: its virtual sessions were co-hosted by Costa Rica, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Zambia. Over the course of three days, participants from more than 100 countries discussed ways to surge resources to reformers during democratic openings, address inequality, promote economic growth, combat corruption, advance the status of women, promote media freedom, encourage youth political participation, combat hate speech, strengthen unions, and defend the rule of law.
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden congratulated the attendees for helping to make democracy work, turning the tide against autocracies. In the U.S. he said, “we’ve demonstrated that our democracy can still do big things and deliver important progress for working Americans.” As ordinary Americans have seen lower costs for prescription drugs and health insurance premiums, progress on rebuilding infrastructure, innovation, and policies to address climate change, they have, Biden said, “resoundingly and roundly rejected the voices of extremism attacking and undermining our democracy.”
Biden highlighted the ways other countries are advancing democracy: Angola is trying to build an independent judiciary, the Dominican Republic and Croatia have combated corruption. Biden called out “many other countries…from countries taking the first steps toward reform to well-established democracies of people making real changes to protect and strengthen their democracy.” The work of democracy “has never been easy,” he said. It “is hard work. The work of democracy is never finished. It’s never laid down and that’s it, all you have to do. It must be protected constantly.”
He continued: “We have to continually renew our commitment, continually strengthen our institutions, root out corruption where we find it, seek to build consensus, and reject political violence, give hate and extremism no safe harbor.”
The U.S. has invested in global democracy by committing more than $1 billion to shore up government transparency and accountability, support media freedom, fight international corruption, defend elections, and promote technology that advances democracy. It intends, Biden says, to commit $9.5 billion over three years.
Protecting democracy, the president said, “is a defining challenge of our age.”
Today, Leslie B. Dubeck, the general counsel for the Manhattan district attorney’s office, wrote to Representatives Jim Jordan (R-OH), chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary; Bryan Steil (R-WI), chair of the House Committee on House Administration; and James Comer (R-KY), chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, to warn them that their attacks on Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg and his office were “unlawful political interference.”
Jordan, Steil, and Comer have tried to intervene in the district attorney’s investigation of former president Trump. Even before a grand jury of ordinary citizens voted to file charges against Trump, the three men demanded the district attorney share with them confidential information about the state of the investigation. The district attorney did not give it to them because, as Dubeck said, “our Office is legally constrained in how it publicly discusses pending criminal proceedings,… as you well know. That secrecy is critical to protecting the privacy of the target of any criminal investigation as well as the integrity of the independent grand jury’s proceedings,” she wrote.
She called their interference “unnecessary and unjustified” and reminded the men that Congress has no jurisdiction over individual criminal investigations. Nor does it have jurisdiction over state investigations. “The Committees’ attempted interference with an ongoing state criminal investigation—and now prosecution—is an unprecedented and illegitimate incursion on New York’s sovereign interests,” she wrote.
Dubeck noted that the men were reportedly working closely with Trump to attack the district attorney’s office and the grand jury process, making it seem that “you are acting more like criminal defense counsel trying to gather evidence for a client than a legislative body seeking to achieve a legitimate legislative objective.”
Dubeck noted that Trump has been threatening Bragg personally and warning that his indictment might unleash “death & destruction.” She pointed out that the three men, as committee chairs, “could use the stature of your office to denounce these attacks and urge respect for the fairness of our justice system and for the work of the impartial grand jury.” Instead, they and their colleagues were collaborating with Trump to attack the justice system as politically motivated. “We urge you to refrain from these inflammatory accusations, withdraw your demand for information, and let the criminal justice process proceed without unlawful political interference,” she wrote.
Dubeck concluded by noting that subpoenaing the district attorney for information about an ongoing state criminal prosecution, as they threatened to do, was “unprecedented and unconstitutional” and expressed hope they would “make a good-faith effort to reach a negotiated resolution.”
Also today, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis ruled in favor of Dominion Voting Systems in a key point of the company’s lawsuit against the Fox News Corporation for defamation. The ruling also established the central point for dismissing the story that Trump had won the 2020 election. Davis wrote—in italics—“The evidence developed in this civil proceeding demonstrates that [it] is CRYSTAL clear that none of the Statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true.”
The Fox News Corporation had argued that the false statements of its hosts claiming that the voting system had thrown the 2020 presidential election to Biden were not defamatory because they were opinions. In his decision the judge went through the statements, calling out 20 occasions on which lies were stated as facts and similar occasions on which deliberately omitted material changed the meaning of what was presented.
The judge has determined that the hosts’ statements were false. Now the case will go to a jury trial in April to determine whether Fox hosts knew they were lying and whether Dominion sustained damages from the defamation. The company is suing for $1.6 billion.
In the last stop of her Africa visit, Vice President Kamala Harris today was in Zambia, which co-hosted this week’s Summit for Democracy. Neither Harris nor Biden will comment in any way about the impending indictment of the former president. At a press conference in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, today, a reporter from the Wall Street Journal reminded Harris that she had “spoken about democracy and the rule of law at every stop in Africa,” and asked her to comment on news of the indictment.
When she declined, Zambian president Hakainde Hichilema stepped forward. “[L]et’s remove names from your question,” he said.
“Let’s put what we decided we will do to govern ourselves in an orderly manner. First, our constitutions, bedrock law. Then, secondary laws, other regulations create a platform or framework around which we agreed, either as Americans or as Zambians, to govern ourselves. And so, to live within those confines.
“And when there’s transgression against law, it does not matter who is involved. I think that is what the rule of law means.”
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Notes:
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/28/1166422842/democracy-summit-us-linda-thomas-greenfield
https://www.state.gov/summit-for-democracy-2023/#OfficialEvents
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/03/29/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-summit-for-democracy-virtual-plenary-on-democracy-delivering-on-global-challenges/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W_diCqo6vhInRaca7CBmCN__BoWT2Mm9/view
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/manhattan-da-slams-house-gop-for-giving-trumps-inflammatory-accusations-a-platform
https://courts.delaware is.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=345820
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-deals-fox-defeat-in-dominion-case
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/31/media/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit/index.html
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/03/31/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-and-president-hichilema-of-zambia-in-joint-press-conference/

When Ebenezar found out about Thomas, I initially was disappointed by his reaction. But then I thought about it more and Ebenezar couldn't get over his bigotry and refused to accept his biracial grandson as kin. If that wasn't planned then it's a remarkable coincidence. Yeah he's got other reasons to hate the White Court but when he talks about his daughter being with a white vampire, it parallels a lot of what you would expect from someone that's bigoted and against racial mixing.
I really got a kick out of that realization. It's like my brain was saying "you mean to tell me that a guy who lived in the south for 400 ish years refuses to accept his biracial grandson as kin? Let me find my Pikachu shocked face"

When Ebenezar found out about Thomas, I initially was disappointed by his reaction. But then I thought about it more and Ebenezar couldn't get over his bigotry and refused to accept his biracial grandson as kin. If that wasn't planned then it's a remarkable coincidence. Yeah he's got other reasons to hate the White Court but when he talks about his daughter being with a white vampire, it parallels a lot of what you would expect from someone that's bigoted and against racial mixing.
I really got a kick out of that realization. It's like my brain was saying "you mean to tell me that a guy who lived in the south for 400 ish years refuses to accept his biracial grandson as kin? Let me find my Pikachu shocked face"

On This Date, a book authored by Carl M. Cannon, has a timely bit of American history relevant for any Christian observing the Passover.
It was on the day before the Passover, April 9, 1865, that Robert E. Lee told his aide, “The time had come for capitulation”—for surrender. His aide, Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, replied that any other fate would be preferable.
Lee planned to meet Ulysses S. Grant “with a view to surrender.” Grant, who had been clear of his desire to punish Lee and his army, on this day took the role of statesman. The specifics of the surrender were not to be punitive; in fact, the Confederate army “were allowed to keep their lives, their horses (if they had them), and their side arms” (Cannon, 2017). This allowed Lee and his men to keep their dignity. Grant struggled to resolve within himself his esteem for the valor with which the South had fought and his complete disdain for the institution of slavery that had incited them “to take up arms against their own nation in the first place” (ibid.).
Before God the Father draws a person to Jesus (John 6:44) there is utter and sometimes unbridled hostility toward the way of life dictated and preserved by the Holy Bible (Romans 8:7). Once God opens the mind of man to this new life, the day of reckoning becomes visible on the horizon. He must now choose between total surrender as the order of day, or complete denial of the truth now made plain. The penalty of sin is death and the acceptance of the shed blood of Christ leads to eternal life (Romans 6:23). There is no middle ground.
Contrary to the conditions of Lee’s surrender, the Christian not only lays down all implements of war, but also forsakes any sense of self-seeking, self-centeredness, or self-righteousness; self. With this renunciation comes the mandate to live as bondservants to Jesus, with every word of God as the road map to real peace, inward and outward. Christians then make a covenant with their Creator—a covenant of unconditional surrender and obedience.
Passover is an annual remembrance of that covenant with God. Each Passover, Christians engage in a memorial of Christ’s sacrifice, His shed blood as payment for their sins. At Passover, Christians are reminded of Christ’s broken body for their physical healing—and the “surrender agreement” they each made at baptism.
General Robert E. Lee had only to surrender once, at the home of Wilmer McLean in a village called Appomattox Court House. He and his men left with their dignity intact and without any threat of retribution. A Christian must surrender himself or herself every day. For some, that capitulation becomes more and more difficult to focus on as the weeks and months fall from the calendar. Outside influences fueled by the passing pleasures of sin (Hebrews 11:25), as well as by “the prince of the power of the air” (the Devil’s influence, Ephesians 2:2), may serve to diminish a Christian’s diligence to abide by the terms of surrender agreed upon at their baptism.
Passover brings with it a chance to examine the path taken and continue on that mid-course correction. It is a chance to remember and reinforce one’s commitment to serving with zeal, as slaves to obedience leading to righteousness, and forsake all sin (Romans 6:16).
Passover (observed this year, 2023, on April 5) is the first step in God’s magnificent plan for the salvation of all mankind. To discover the rest of His plan, order or read online the booklet The Holy Days: God’s Master Plan.
Article written by Richard Franz, The Living Church of God Magazine, April 1, 2023
Originally Published: 04th April 2020