"Leaps of Faiths" and More

I.) Leaps of Faiths - Adam McGibbon, "Leaps of Faiths," The Nation, September 23, 2019
"Segregation in education is one of the biggest enduring legacies of Northern Ireland's troubled past. According to the most recent data, 93 percent of the province's children attend segregated schools -- that is, schools that overwhelmingly educate children from only a Catholic or Protestant background. In a deeply divided society  emerging from 40 years of conflict, reinforcing the divisions of the past forestalls peace and reconciliation." "The damaging effects of segregated education are not limited to the interpersonal realm. The state spends hundreds of millions of pounds administering what are effectively two parallel education systems, one Catholic, and one Protestant." "But today, only 7 percent of Northern Ireland's school-age children attend integrated schools."

A parent-led movement is picking up speed. "So far this year, six schools across Northern Ireland voted to integrate via parental ballots, with huge majorities in favor."

II.) Humiliating Palestinians - Eric Alterman, "Likud's Cheerleader in Chief," The Nation, September 23, 2019
"He [Trump] consistently allowed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to inviscerate and humiliate Palestinians, and to erase any vestiges of the peace process." "Today, nearly half of Palestinian Jews say Trump favors Israel 'not much' -- far more than Protestants or Catholics. As Israel becomes more like the apartheid state its enemies have accused it of always having been, more and more American Jews -- especially the young -- are running away from it and looking for new ways to express their Jewish identities." "And, yes again, Trump is really catering to his evangelical base, not to Jews. And here again, he is doing it in his own ridiculous way, retweeting an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist."

III.) Strikes Raising Expectations - Jane Olevey for the Nation, "Strike!" The Nation, September 23, 2019
"These recent strikes are raising expectations that American workers will fight to regain ground lost to decades of defeats. And each time workers walk off the job and win, today's rampant  inequality -- the direct result of a 50-year assault on unions -- gets more attention. A bevy of policy proposals have been floated on how to rebuild worker power."

"The real solution is simple: Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 and end the historic and sexist exclusions under the original National Labor Relations Act, but including domestic and agricultural workers (who are primarily women and people of color) and workers in today's contract, part-time, and platform labor force. To achieve a full restoration of worker freedom in America today will require exactly what it  took to first pass the NLRA in 1935: massive strikes, lots of them, in strategic industries and politically strategic states." 

"Marxists, low-wage, largely immigrant workers did what academics have long declared impossible: challenged a multinational corporation and won."

ADDENDUMS:
*Letter writer Antonia Atlas Dosik, The New Yorker, September 9, 2019
"Today, with one in four women and one in seven men in abusive relationships, Transition House and organizations like it remain necessary and relevant."
*Alice Markham-Cantor, "A Hard Reign," The Nation, September 23, 2019
"Homeland security announced in August that at least $155 million of the Federal Emergency Agency's disaster relief fund would be transferred to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to pay for detention beds and other costs associated with holding, transporting, and deporting undocumented immigrants."
*On September 25, Trump declared that Nancy Pelosi was no longer Speaker of the House, and that the party had been "taken over" by "radical leftists" trying to oust her from office.
*Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin says "a rough transcript of Trump's July 25 phone conversation show that Rudy Giuliani met with Mr. Yermak (a top aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zolansky)  not at State Department request, but was "simply following upon Trump's request."