Thursday, January 22, 2026

Review: Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance

Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance by Susan Simensky Bietila
My rating: 0 of 5 stars

biography start

Bessarabia

1920s

Palmer raids,, ice Bondi raids

Family fled 1921 year of second 1919 1921 pogrom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_H...

"TRUMP FLAMBOYANTLY PROCLAIMS HIS IRRATIONAL WHIMS LIKE A TRUE CZAR.

HE COMMANDS TOADIES TO SCAPEGOAT IMMIGRANTS, MEXICANS & MUSLIMS, IMPRISONING EVEN CHILDREN.

WHEN HE WAS MADE AN HONORARY COSSACK IT WAS CLEAR THAT THEY RECOGNIZED ONE OF THEIR OWN."

"chose Brooklyn College and started there in 1964.

The summer before college, I worked at a racially integrated summer camp in the Catskills run by communist-influenced, antiracist organizers from my neighborhood. I learned about people a year or two older who had joined civil rights marches and voter registration drives in the South, as well as some guys who were moving to Canada to avoid the military draft. At night, after the campers were tucked in, the camp counselors sat around a campfire, where I learned that the US was at war with Vietnam. I felt physically shaken by the realization that the US was not a democracy but instead the number-one imperialist power after World War II's destruction of Europe. One of the other counselors was in the newly formed Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and gave me the name of the student who was starting a chapter...

The New Left introduced me to unvarnished history and critical thinking. This changed my life."

Chapter worth of text interspersed graphic novel like panels

Brooklyn College Vietnam antiwar student demonstrations

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