Trump may not be a fascist.....

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

....but he certaintly likes the trappings of it.
vPRfP_TEQ-g

That's a trio of young girls, decked out in American cosplay, singing a jaunty tune about crushing America's enemies and singing of the glory of President Trump and the need for strength or 'get crushed every time'.

OK, I know that in really technical terms Trump isn't close to the fascism of Mussolini or Hitler.....but he really is increasingly starting to look like a rather oafish version of Buzz Windrip (literature reference!). At this point all he really needs now is his own group of uniformed thugs to push people around (instead of just random supporters at rallies).

For the record, I doubt that Trump will actually win the Presidency, or even get the GOP nomination for that matter. But what does concern me is that he's managed to set a rather scary precedent for openly Far Right politics in this country. At this point those on the right have had to hide their fascist tendencies underneath down home goodness and 'christian' values. But Trump has broken that taboo, and considering that yet another financial crisis seems to loom over the horizon......

Let's just say that I'm no really afraid of Trump.

I'm afraid of the person that's going to appear AFTER Trump.

[Heretek]

....but he certaintly likes the trappings of it.
vPRfP_TEQ-g

That's a trio of young girls, decked out in American cosplay, singing a jaunty tune about crushing America's enemies and singing of the glory of President Trump and the need for strength or 'get crushed every time'.

OK, I know that in really technical terms Trump isn't close to the fascism of Mussolini or Hitler.....but he really is increasingly starting to look like a rather oafish version of Buzz Windrip (literature reference!). At this point all he really needs now is his own group of uniformed thugs to push people around (instead of just random supporters at rallies).

For the record, I doubt that Trump will actually win the Presidency, or even get the GOP nomination for that matter. But what does concern me is that he's managed to set a rather scary precedent for openly Far Right politics in this country. At this point those on the right have had to hide their fascist tendencies underneath down home goodness and 'christian' values. But Trump has broken that taboo, and considering that yet another financial crisis seems to loom over the horizon......

Let's just say that I'm no really afraid of Trump.

I'm afraid of the person that's going to appear AFTER Trump.

Ha, sounds to me like you haven't heard his most recent campaign ad:

"Obama and his administration refuse to call it, but guns don't kill people, Radical Islamic Terrorists do. That's why Donald Trump is proposing a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US (picture of San Bernadino shooters). The absolute largest threat to the United States is ISIS, which is why Trump is going to bring the fight to them and cut the head off of ISIS, and take their oil (picture of bombing an oil refinery. Or a town). And to put a stop to illegal immigrants taking American jobs, Trump is going to build a wall, and make Mexico pay for it (picture of what looks like the wall in Israel). 'It's time to make America great again!'"

Sounds like fascism to me. It's all there. National revival, racism, restriction of liberties, scape-goating a religion, emphasis on war and violence, "it's everyone else's fault."

I wouldn't be surprised if he called for the burning down of the capitol and blamed the democrats/socialists/communists/everything he thinks his opponents are. Plus he's already accused Sanders of being a communist. If he did win, I can see him using those new-found executive powers to order Sanders and Clinton arrested as terrorists, perhaps assassinated.

I can see parallels to Germany, election time, pre-WW2. Left Vs. Right, failure of economy, etc. Even if it's not the actual left speaking, we will surely suffer for it.

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

Donald Trump isn't a fascist but he sure seems to revel in play acting one.

By the way that video is probably the worst thing I've seen in my entire life.


Sounds like fascism to me. It's all there. National revival, racism, restriction of liberties, scape-goating a religion, emphasis on war and violence, "it's everyone else's fault."


Fascists might call for those things, but so do any number of rightwing populist movements. Call me when he has an actual paramilitary group and coherent, hyper-centralized political movement.

[Rafiq]

On the contrary, such obscene spectacles are and have always been inherent to Fascism. Even Islamism has these. You don't think such obscenity, or comparable forms of obscenity, are present for Putin, Orban, le Pen, Hamas, Hezbollah, and so on? they are.

It's Fascism's pure opportunism, conveying its messages through what it conceives the 'stupid masses' need. This is pure Fascist opportunism and nothing more.

[Turinbaar]

Here's an interesting read on his family history. His father was a member (though Trump denies it) of the New York chapter of the Klan and was arrested in a 1927 brawl with the police at a rally.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/09/22/in-interview-donald-trump-denies-report-of-fathers-arrest-in-1927/?_r=0

http://ahtribune.com/us/2016-election/242-trump-grandfather-pimp-father-kkk.html

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

On the contrary, such obscene spectacles are and have always been inherent to Fascism. Even Islamism has these. You don't think such obscenity, or comparable forms of obscenity, are present for Putin, Orban, le Pen, Hamas, Hezbollah, and so on? they are.

I don't think anybody here is denying that fascism utilizes such spectacles. They're not exclusive to fascism, but yes of course fascists utilize them.

That said as far as fascist spectacle is concerned, this is pretty pathetic compared to the Nuremberg rallies.

[Aslan]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/osjLnq2V-7M/hqdefault.jpg

That shit is intolerable in my opinion... The use of little girls for propaganda like that is just disgusting too, but he'll never win. Or at least I hope he won't in the future.

[Heretek]

I don't think anybody here is denying that fascism utilizes such spectacles. They're not exclusive to fascism, but yes of course fascists utilize them.

That said as far as fascist spectacle is concerned, this is pretty pathetic compared to the Nuremberg rallies.

I think that it is a mistake to assume fascism does not evolve with time. Anarchism and Communism certainly have, which is why we have so many different tendencies. Tactics haven't really done well in that regard

Followers change, as do the tactics. Let's not forget our admins' decision to classify Daesh as fascist and Sparts as fascist apologists. :huh:

Right now of course there are no uniformed thugs. There are enough anti-fascists in the US to simply stomp such deliberate violence. So roving bands of thugs technically unaffiliated with Trump get a "pass." Simply rogue psychopaths, or whatever avoids a PR disaster. Violence has been inflicted at Trump rallies against opponents with Trump simply watching, or in one or two cases, supporting those actions. The current establishment has in interest in keeping fascists out of power, so they wouldn't exactly support fascist actions, even if they repress the same groups.

[ComradeAllende]

Sounds like fascism to me. It's all there. National revival, racism, restriction of liberties, scape-goating a religion, emphasis on war and violence, "it's everyone else's fault."

I can't see it. It's got (most) of the elements, but there's no organized social/political movement with Trump at the head. America's constitutional and electoral system tends to sideline such movements; it's (partly) why the KKK had to work within the old Democratic Party and (partly) why the mass-based Socialist Party never got off the ground.


I wouldn't be surprised if he called for the burning down of the capitol and blamed the democrats/socialists/communists/everything he thinks his opponents are. Plus he's already accused Sanders of being a communist. If he did win, I can see him using those new-found executive powers to order Sanders and Clinton arrested as terrorists, perhaps assassinated.

Trump's caricature of "the opposition" is less partisan/ideological and more social/nationalist. He castigates the "elites" (both in the GOP and the DNC) while bashing "politically-correct" sentiment and perceived anti-Americanism, whether it emanates from social critique (BLM) or simply being nonwhite.

Also I haven't heard of him calling Sanders a communist, but if he did, it's good to know that old-fashioned red-baiting is still alive in America :laugh:


I can see parallels to Germany, election time, pre-WW2. Left Vs. Right, failure of economy, etc. Even if it's not the actual left speaking, we will surely suffer for it.

Suffer we will, and not just for our institutional weakness in the Age of Trump.

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

I think that it is a mistake to assume fascism does not evolve with time. Anarchism and Communism certainly have, which is why we have so many different tendencies. Tactics haven't really done well in that regard

Followers change, as do the tactics. Let's not forget our admins' decision to classify Daesh as fascist and Sparts as fascist apologists. :huh:


Sure, the formulation of fascism changes in different historical contexts, but the point I'm making is that not all reactionary populists are intrinsically fascist, although they may be similar.

Also, I'm not saying Trump's followers aren't potential fascists or that he can't function as the Duce figure, the movement behind him is pretty clearly open to those forms of politics.



Right now of course there are no uniformed thugs. There are enough anti-fascists in the US to simply stomp such deliberate violence. So roving bands of thugs technically unaffiliated with Trump get a "pass." Simply rogue psychopaths, or whatever avoids a PR disaster. Violence has been inflicted at Trump rallies against opponents with Trump simply watching, or in one or two cases, supporting those actions. The current establishment has in interest in keeping fascists out of power, so they wouldn't exactly support fascist actions, even if they repress the same groups.The GOP establishment is actually pretty ambivalent towards Trump.

As for the number of antifascists ... I'm not so sure if it's the strength of antifascism that keeps them at arm's length. I think it's the historical success and power of American classical liberalism.

[Synergy]

I wouldn't be surprised if he called for the burning down of the capitol and blamed the democrats/socialists/communists/everything he thinks his opponents are. Plus he's already accused Sanders of being a communist. If he did win, I can see him using those new-found executive powers to order Sanders and Clinton arrested as terrorists, perhaps assassinated.


I don't think Trump really cares about any of this stuff, he just wants to be president because he's an egomaniac. There's no reason to assume he'll just start assassinating members of congress or whatever.

[UnapologeticPsychopath]

Be thankful you don't have Rupert Murdoch campaigning to be President. He is like royalty in the UK which all politicians bow too.

You will listen to what the Daily Mail says and you will like it.

[Red Red Chile]

Trump's daughter is Jewish.

[Heretek]

Trump's daughter is Jewish.

What does this have to do with anything?

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

Trump's daughter is Jewish.

It is a mistake to think of fascism as inherently antisemitic, even though it is certainly true that fascism as an ideology is more likely to target groups seen as too "cosmopolitan". The Italian fascists did not adopt antisemitism as a ruling policy until Hitler pressured them to, and there are fascist-in-all-but-name strains in the more extreme wings of the Zionist movement in Israel.

That doesn't inherently justify the claim that Trump is a fascist, but it doesn't mean that you can use any connection he has to Jews to prove he isn't.

[John Nada]

Holy shit!:ohmy: Donald Trump's like something out of some 70s-90s dystopian sci-fi. He reminds me of that politician in The Dead Zone (http://stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/Greg_Stillson). Like with the outrageous, demagogic, nonsensical platform.

[tresha]

Maybe Trump is not yet a fascist for now because, he has no full authority to implement rules. But, what if he win in presidential election then he will have authority and power to implement new rules. There will be also a possibility that he can be a fascist too, if he decide to be fascist.

[Andrew_Zito]

"OK, I know that in really technical terms Trump isn't close to the fascism of Mussolini or Hitler."

Why what sort of wig does he need and what sort of flag should he wave?
Who says? and Why7

[logfish111]

Those poor kids...

Anyway, I agree with the OP in that it's not Trump I'm scared of (because Trump is a professional bullshitter who probably only believes about 10% of what he says) but its the ideas he is promoting that scares me. There actually seems to be a fairly large section of society who hear Trump say "ban all muslims" and respond with cheers. Absolutely disgusting precedent to set.

[Luís Henrique]

Trump is no Hitler, and no Mussolini.

But he very much looks like something almost as dangerous: an American Berlusconi.

Luís Henrique

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

Luis - worth noting, Berlusconi had the neo-fascists in his coalition. This makes sense re the parallel with Trump - whether he is actually fascist himself, he certainly seems comfortable courting and energizing a fascist politics.

[Luís Henrique]

Luis - worth noting, Berlusconi had the neo-fascists in his coalition. This makes sense re the parallel with Trump - whether he is actually fascist himself, he certainly seems comfortable courting and energizing a fascist politics.

Fascism is impossible without a politics of ambiguity. And Trump is certainly a master of ambiguity. Stephen Colbert tried to expose this, by staging a debate between Trump and Trump, but I am pretty certainly it was preaching to the choir. Trump's fans might even see this as evidence of their idol's genius (which, in a certain distorted way, it indeed is).

Luís Henrique

[ckaihatsu]

Bragging about predatory behavior toward women?


Chris,

The Fraternal Order of Police, which represents more than 330,000 police officers across the country, has endorsed Donald Trump for president—but after the events of the past week, one thing is clear: Donald Trump has no interest in keeping women safe.

As women, we need to be able to trust the police officers in our community. They're a resource to turn to if we need to report sexual assault or domestic abuse, and they work to protect reproductive health care clinics from all-too-common anti-choice violence.

As many as 11 women have come forward accusing Donald Trump of sexual assault. Women need to trust the police to investigate sexual abuse cases—not to endorse a candidate accused of them.

Sign the petition to join NARAL and HuffPost in calling on the Fraternal Order of Police to rescind their endorsement of Donald Trump, a presidential candidate who brags about committing the heinous crime of sexual assault. (http://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/sign/161018_fop/?t=1&akid=1747.462514.-BFzNL)

Many politicians have defended Donald Trump by dismissing his remarks as "just words." But many threats that begin as "just words" often escalate to do so much more harm: The domestic terrorist who killed three people and injured nine at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs last year used the same hateful rhetoric peddled by anti-choice politicians, and he acted on the dangerous suggestions by extremists that abortion opponents should target doctors and their families.

The police are sworn to serve and protect all people. Donald Trump has shown he is uninterested in protecting all people, and thousands of women have come forward in the last week with personal stories of sexual assault that parallel Trump's bragging. He's perpetuating a culture that stigmatizes the reporting of sexual assault and silences women who wish to come forward.

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No matter who commits it, sexual assault is a serious issue and a serious crime. If Donald Trump was truly "committed to law enforcement," he would understand why his remarks about forcibly groping and kissing women without their consent are so problematic.

But he does not. We deserve a president who shows women respect and who wants to do everything they can to help us and our families get ahead. That means keeping us safe from sexual assault and harassment.

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[Kardie]

Trump is no Hitler, and no Mussolini.

But he very much looks like something almost as dangerous: an American Berlusconi.

Luís Henrique

I think it's really hard to workout Trumps true agendas. Sucks that neither presidential candidate is at all trustworthy.

[RedAnarchist]

I think it's really hard to workout Trumps true agendas. Sucks that neither presidential candidate is at all trustworthy.

Has there ever been a serious candidate for POTUS who was?

[SkepticalofYourDogma]

I believe Trump genuinely cares about his country. He is far too wealthy and powerful to seek a Fascist position in the country, I think he is idealistic. Which is better than Clinton's version of pragmatism.

[Full Metal Bolshevik]

I believe Trump genuinely cares about his country. He is far too wealthy and powerful to seek a Fascist position in the country, I think he is idealistic. Which is better than Clinton's version of pragmatism.
Of course you think that.

[Mr. Piccolo]

Trump himself may not be a fascist but some of his followers certainly are. Trump is very popular with the Alt-Right, which is the modern brand name for fascism. Since Trump has not held elected political office we cannot exactly say how he would govern but from what I can tell he would be pretty bad for working people.

https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-is-the-anti-labor-day-candidate-running-against-fair-wages-worker-rights-and-unions/

(https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-is-the-anti-labor-day-candidate-running-against-fair-wages-worker-rights-and-unions/)

[(A)]

I dont think trump is a fascist; at least not the way he pretends to be.
Trump is the only human being on this planet who could Get Clinton elected. She lost to Obama at the 08 primaries...
She literally had to rig the DNC this time just to beat sanders.
There was no way she could win unless the person she was facing was a Racist, Sexist, Fascist, Capitalist.

[ckaihatsu]

#RapeCulture is real. Trump and a key moment of national discussion

Commentary by Meredith Aby-Keirstead

Minneapolis, MN - Recently the Washington Post exposed Donald Trump’s conversation with Billy Bush where he bragged about sexually assaulting multiple women. Then Trump dismissed the discussion as “locker room talk” and in the presidential debate denied that he had ever sexually assaulted anyone. Every time I turn on the radio or open my computer I see or hear woman after woman accusing Trump of sexual assault. Since that time I have found myself experiencing moments of rage, depression and anxiety and have been shocked at the ways these events have rocked the U.S.

Many women, like myself, have experienced profound flashbacks to times when we were sexually assaulted. These flashbacks have been triggered by the comments of right wing commentators who call these charges “made up” and who call women who speak out “media whores”. But these instances of PTSD have also been triggered by those who denounce this national conversation as a “distraction.”

This is a key moment in the national discussion about gender relations and women’s oppression. When I was in college Anita Hill went on national television to accuse Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment and began a similar national conversation. Before 1991 many of us had no language for what we experienced and did not feel we had community support to challenge the sexual harassment we faced. When I was in college in the 1990s we were just starting to have a conversation about consent and date rape. But this conversation has deepened over the past 20 years and now we have created an understanding that yes means yes and about what is really needed for consent.

I have learned a lot from this generation of student activists about the importance of naming aspects of rape culture. I would have benefited from this analysis as a college student. When I was propositioned and touched by a man who was using his power over me I didn’t have words to describe what had happened to me but I was fortunate that when I did finally tell someone what happened she believed me and got me help so I could get out of that situation.

Through my discussions with women the past two weeks it is apparent that almost every woman I know has experienced some form of sexual harassment and assault. This makes sense when you consider that one in four women are raped in college and nine in ten of them knew their rapist. Such a prevalence of severe sexual assault requires an environment steeped in all levels of it.

As our awareness of the severity of the problem has grown, we are increasingly dismayed by the lack of progress in combatting it in the general population. Many of us have been shocked at the recent treatment of rapists by the American ‘judicial system’ and have wanted there to be a much larger understanding of the messages boys and girls receive that promote rape.

Now, while everyone in the U.S. is talking about Trump’s bragging that he sexually assaults women, is a critical moment. Women across the country are telling their stories about sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape - many for the first time - in order to raise awareness of the pervasiveness of rape culture. Men have the opportunity to denounce Trump and rape culture and to demand more respect for women. We must seize this chance to reshape our society’s cultural norms.

Some people have made a significant error. Those who view the national outrage around sexual assault “a distraction” during this presidential election are siding against women’s liberation. The issue of sexual assault is more important than who wins the presidential election. Whoever is elected, Clinton or Trump, will continue the war on terror and provide significant barriers to the people’s movements for social justice. For the most part the ruling class, even before these debates, had lined up for Clinton and the election results have been decided. However, the national discussion around rape culture has the potential to transform women’s lives and to bring a real awareness to the struggle for women’s liberation in a way I have rarely seen.

I urge everyone to struggle for women’s liberation in the activism they do - whether that’s in the anti-war movement, student organizing, immigrant rights, the Black lives matter movement, the labor movement, the environmental movement, etc. One way that we can do this is by denouncing Trump’s attempt to normalize sexual assault and to make it a priority to support the women we organize with. Sexual assault is not just a women’s issue, but a societal one. At this important juncture, when women speak out about their experiences, we need to listen to them, believe them, support them and recognize the importance of the discussion.

Meredith Aby-Keirstead is a frequent contributor to Fight Back News and a leader in the anti-war movement in Minneapolis, MN.

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

[ckaihatsu]

In an even more ominous note, a black church in Mississippi was burned and partially destroyed Tuesday night and defaced with pro-Trump graffiti. The fire destroyed much of the main sanctuary at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi. It came as a newspaper associated with the Ku Klux Klan, the Crusader, published an endorsement of Trump under the headline, “Make America Great Again.”

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/11/03/elec-n03.html

[General Winter]

In fact, there is nothing surprising in the appearance and in therapid rise of Trump. Trump is an American ISIS. Trump and ISIS, as well as rising right-populist fascist parties in Europe ,have the same nature and cause. Trump is a reactionary, dark, mixed up in ignorance responce to the impossibility of further development of mankind on a capitalist basis. In the modern world really all from top to bottom is false.Freedom, democracy, human rights are fake,environmental control is a profanation,antipoverty programs are a hypocrisy,civil society is a set of organizations created and funded by the government,etc. Now when capitalism does not work any more, the old ideological superstructure can not exist any more.And here comes the time of Trump,ISIS,etc.Justly unmasking rottenness, lies and hypocrisy of the existing order, they called peoples back.They inflame the darkest instincts of people. From the fact that freedom, democracy and human rights in the modern world are fake, the crowds led by Trump come to the idea that a person should not have rights, freedom and democracy.And just those who need freedom, democracy and human rights most of all are ahead of this madness.

Why then the establishment is so afraid of Trump? Those who are in power are afraid of any uncontrolled activity from below - hell knows what would want then that yokels who follow now Trump?

Here is an interesting Lenin;s remark:

"There is in our Black-Hundred movement one exceedingly original and exceedingly important feature that has not been the subject of sufficient attention. That feature is ignorant peasant democracy, democracy of the crudest type but also extremely deep-seated. No matter how much the commanding classes try to fence our political parties off from the people both by means of the June Third election law and by thousands of “peculiar features” of our political system, reality has its way. Every political party, even of the extreme Right, has to seek some sort of link with the people.

The extreme Rights constitute the party of the landowners. They cannot, however, confine themselves to links with the landowners alone. They have to conceal those links and pretend that they are defending the interests of the entire people, that they stand for the “good old”, “stable” way of rural life. They have to appeal to the most deep-rooted prejudices of the most backward peasant, they have to play on his ignorance.

Such a game cannot be played without risk. Now and again the voice of the real peasant life, peasant democracy, breaks through all the Black-Hundred mustiness and cliché. Then the Rights are compelled to get rid of the “inconvenient” peasant democrat." https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/sep/26.htm

[ckaihatsu]

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Chris,

Our steering committee met this weekend and discussed what's on everyone's mind: this election.
Here are some of our thoughts.

This campaign has featured the most vicious open in-fighting in the last 100 years of U.S. history

Trump has repeatedly called for locking up his opponent, Hillary Clinton, and has implied twice that she should be assassinated.

He has said that he won't accept the results of the elections if he doesn't win. He refuses to back down and this has caused more than a few of his followers to speculate on civil war if he loses. This is a very dangerous situation.

There are deep divisions between those at the top of the ruling class about the best way to run their empire. These are sure to sharpen in coming days, even after the elections. Whatever happens on Tuesday, we don't expect a respite from the animus that has polarized the country on a terrible basis.

Is there potential for a deeper legitimacy crisis? Could those who run the system decide to make a leap towards fascism, and what would that mean? What is required of us now?

To get into some of the answers to these questions, we encourage our readers to dig deeply into these articles from revcom.us.

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At this point, anything can happen — but the following we know:

There is a fascist wing of the Republican Party that has been working over a period of decades to consolidate power. Through Donald Trump they could succeed in winning the presidency.

We are told that to stop Donald Trump, we must vote for Hillary Clinton. But this is not a solution that will bring justice, or peace.

1. The Democrats have pledged to respect the results of the election if Trump wins. Clinton has never attacked Trump's essential legitimacy, even while he has continued to attack her. She touts her qualifications to be commander in chief, as someone who is able to seek common ground and work with the neo-cons. Joe Biden himself said on CNN about Trump, "If he wins, I'll extend a hand. He would be the president of the United States. Period."

2. Clinton has decades of experience as a tool for the interests of this empire that is killing the planet and its people. She is a proven war criminal who played a key role in her husband's administration, which imposed sanctions on Iraq that caused the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children. She runs on her competence to lead a "super-predator" military that is currently waging unjust war on seven countries. She authorized drone strikes as Secretary of State that have killed civilian populations, and she pledges more support for these types of killings. Clinton threatens a "no fly" zone over Syria; similar actions led to the deaths of thousands in Kosovo and Libya.

Clinton's promise to extend the legacy of Obama should be taken as a guarantee of expanding the endless war on the world. No less than the former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzei (previously a cheerleader for the U.S. occupation) said in the Washington Post this week:

"Just show me one example of a bombing that has taken Afghanistan one step closer to peace. Fifteen years on, do we have more Taliban or less, more terror or less? Is this really a war against terror, or is it something else in which the lives of Afghans don't matter?"

Clinton and Trump are criminal choices, and we need to reject them both.

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"There is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting our hopes and energies into 'leaders' who tell us to seek common ground with fascists and religious fanatics is proving every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize people."

"That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn - or be forced - to accept."

Now is the time to think deeply about what it will actually take to stop the crimes of our government and to put our energies into bringing down this empire and stopping its systematic war crimes at the soonest possible time.

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Trump himself may not be a fascist


We don't have the luxury to believe Trump may not be a fascist given that he's done everything in his power to make that impression.

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We are told that to stop Donald Trump, we must vote for Hillary Clinton. But this is not a solution that will bring justice, or peace.

Choosing the lesser evil isn't about accepting the lesser evil as an ultimate solution. It's about not allowing oneself to be annihilated by the greater evil. Why would you let a mad man get in power. It says here that he's a fascist. & what American leader isn't a war criminal?


But these people have been around for 40 years with their above it all line & failed to create a mass movement.

We need to correct *that* error.

[ckaihatsu]

Choosing the lesser evil isn't about accepting the lesser evil as an ultimate solution.


If you notice, that's what the entire article is about. (Also those aren't *my* words, as you erroneously indicate.)





It's about not allowing oneself to be annihilated by the greater evil. Why would you let a mad man get in power. It says here that he's a fascist. & what American leader isn't a war criminal?


But these people have been around for 40 years with their above it all line & failed to create a mass movement.


Well, it's an uphill battle -- you're making it sound like the WCW / RCP is at fault for there being a lack of generalized revolution.





We need to correct *that* error.


Yup.

[ckaihatsu]

Urgent Alert: PCJF in Court Monday Morning Battling for Right to Protest at Trump Inauguration


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Urgent Alert: PCJF in Court Monday Morning Battling for Right to Protest at Trump Inauguration

Government Asserts Free Speech Exclusion Zones are Outside the First Amendment’s Protections

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Trump is elected and Free Speech rights are already at stake starting Day 1 – Inauguration Day, January 20, 2017.

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Monday, November 14 — Join the PCJF in Court in Washington, D.C.
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We are going to court on Monday. We know that you share our sense of urgency and we are counting on you and others to support this fight.

The government has announced that on Inauguration Day space alongside the Pennsylvania Avenue inaugural parade route including Freedom Plaza and the area in front of the Trump Hotel will be free speech exclusion zones reserved for Trump supporters and funders.

On Monday morning, November 14th, at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the PCJF will defend the First Amendment rights of the people.

In an unprecedented court filing, the U.S. Government and its Justice Department argue that the government may take the public parklands, sidewalks and streets of America at the central moment of their use by the people for assembly, speech and debate, and petitioning of the government and redesignate our public spaces into exclusive “government speech” or No Free Speech Zones. There is no limitation to the scope of these zones.

The government has argued in its brief to the Court that with respect to these exclusion zones “the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment is not implicated” – that Free Speech rights under the First Amendment do not apply to demonstrations on public space if the government chooses to support a pro-government or favored viewpoint instead.

This is a new constitutional doctrine — carving a massive hole into the First Amendment — that the Justice Department is for the very first time in history arguing exists.

You can imagine what this means for democracy in America.

If the government wins court approval of this radical evisceration of First Amendment rights, you can expect that President Trump (or any mayor or governor) will be able to prevent or displace protest on public space at will simply by declaring that public forums like our sidewalks and parks are reserved for private organizations espousing a pro-government viewpoint. If they can do it on Pennsylvania Avenue, “America’s Main Street,” on Inauguration Day, they will do it everywhere they wish.

At Monday’s hearing, the PCJF will demand that Freedom Plaza — so named in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s leadership of a civil rights movement that spoke truth to power and which so profoundly benefited our society — be made available to dissent, and that the buffer zone around Trump Hotel reserved for Trump supporters be disallowed.

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The extreme danger posed to the Bill of Rights and the right to protest by the actions of the government cannot be overstated.

The PCJF has fought for the right to protest along the Inaugural route for 16 years regardless of administration. This case alone has been litigated since 2005.

As people come to Washington, D.C. to demand justice and equality, you can count on the PCJF to remain a staunch defender of Free Speech rights in the nation’s capital.

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Rise Up... Get Into The Streets... Unite with People Everywhere
to Build Up Resistance in Every Way You Can

Don’t Stop: Don’t Conciliate... Don’t Accommodate... Don’t Collaborate

Donald Trump has now won the presidency. Under the slogan “Make America Great Again,” he has viciously attacked Mexicans and Muslims, threatened to deport millions and boasted that he will build walls and close borders. He incites people to fear and hate those who are “different,” or who come from other countries or nationalities, or practice different religions. He crudely demeans and degrades women, and openly boasts about molesting them. He’s a champion of white supremacy who has insulted and threatened Black people, and whipped up a racist lynch-mob mentality. Trump has mocked the disabled. He is an aggressive and unapologetic militarist, who threatens to use nuclear weapons and will have his fingers on the nuclear codes.

He openly advocates war crimes and crimes against humanity—including torture and killing the families of people accused of terrorism. He plans to pack the Supreme Court with justices who will gut and reverse the right to abortion, gay rights, and other important legal rights. He calls climate change a hoax and his policies will wreak further devastation on the environment. He has attacked and threatened the press and stirred up his supporters to do the same. Trump has utter contempt for facts and the truth, and consistently lies to advance his agenda. As for the rule of law, Trump went so far as to openly threaten his opponent, Hillary Clinton, not only with jail, but even assassination. Donald Trump is an outright fascist. And he is now the president-elect.

Fascism is a very serious thing. Fascism foments and relies on xenophobic nationalism, racism, and the aggressive reinstitution of oppressive “traditional values.” Fascism feeds on and encourages the threat and use of violence to build a movement and come to power. Fascism, once in power, essentially eliminates traditional democratic rights. Fascism attacks, jails, and executes its opponents, and launches violent mob attacks on “minorities.” In Nazi Germany in the 1930s and ’40s, under Hitler, fascism did all these things. They imprisoned millions in concentration camps and exterminated millions of Jews, Roma people (Gypsies), and other “undesirables.” And Hitler did almost all of this through the established institutions and the “rule of law.” This is where this goes. And yes, Hitler himself could “talk graciously” when he felt it would serve his interests and lull his opponents.

Trump did not even win the popular vote, (even though he did win the “electoral college” which decides elections in the U.S.). Hitler himself came to power through democratic procedures, including through the process of elections. Should people have accepted Hitler?! Unfortunately, they did, at a horrific cost to humanity. Today, with nuclear weapons, that cost could be far higher.

In the name of humanity, we must refuse to accept a fascist America!

The fact that Trump won as many votes as he did must be understood. The fact that he got more than even 10 percent of the vote is disgraceful and reveals some very ugly things about America. So why did this happen? The world today is turbulent, full of changes. Those who supported Trump’s fascist program were overwhelmingly sections of white people, especially but not only white men, who yearn for the days of open white supremacy and American global domination, and the blatant subjugation of women. A significant minority of white people did oppose him, but we have to confront how deep the racism, the national chauvinism, and the hatred of women is woven into this society... and not give in to this, but vigorously challenge and fiercely oppose it.

But even more than this, Trump was backed by powerful forces in this society. Beyond those who directly supported him, the media, the Democratic Party, and others treated him as a legitimate candidate, refused to call him out as the fascist he is, and now call on everyone to accept his ascension to power. All the major powerful forces in this society bear the responsibility—it is they who have, over decades, either built up this fascist force or have “enabled” it.

You cannot try to “wait things out” with fascists. Those who lived through Hitler’s Germany and sat on the sidelines, looking on as Hitler rounded up one group after another, became shameful collaborators with monstrous crimes against humanity. Trump and his regime must be resisted and defied, beginning now, in many different ways and in every corner of society.

Reconciliation and collaboration would be nothing less than criminal and deadly. Literally. Come together... resist... and let the whole world know that we will not allow this to stand!

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Thousands march to reject Trump in Minneapolis, block Interstate 94 (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=12f8615f21&e=d323598fe4)

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By Brad Sigal

Minneapolis, MN - Two days after Donald Trump was declared the winner in the presidential election, several thousand people poured into the streets of Minneapolis, Nov. 10, to express their outrage and pledging to resist Trump’s entire reactionary agenda. Chants ranged from “We reject the president elect!” and “Not our president!” to chants supporting particular struggles and movements like immigrant rights, Black Lives Matter, Native struggles, environmental struggles, LGBTQ and women's liberation, and more.

The marchers were overwhelmingly young. Bystanders and passing cars responded enthusiastically, with many chanting along with the marchers and some joining and swelling the size of the march. All the speakers at the march emphasized the need to resist Trump’s agenda immediately.

The march first passed through the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, home to a large Somali and East African community. In the last week of the presidential campaign, Donald Trump spoke in Minneapolis and lashed out with threats against the Somali community. The march then went down Franklin Avenue, passing by the Republican Party headquarters at 22nd and Franklin Avenue. Heading back toward Riverside Avenue, marchers suddenly sprinted toward the Highway 94 entrance, flooding past police cars trying to block the entrance. Thousands of people surged onto the highway, shutting down the main artery through the Twin Cities for over an hour, symbolizing that there will not be business as usual for Donald Trump. Marchers held the highway until 9:00 p.m., then decided to leave the highway on the Cedar Avenue exit, returning to the march starting point. Nobody was arrested.

The march’s starting and ending point was outside the University of Minnesota Humphrey School building. It started there in solidarity with an immigrant rights protest that had been previously planned there the same evening by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC), to protest a speech by Senator Amy Klobuchar due to her inaction on stopping the jailing of immigrant children who cross the border into for-profit ‘family detention centers’. 40 legislators have signed on to a letter asking President Obama to shut down these detention centers, but Klobuchar so far has not. Facing the prospect of a very large protest, at the last minute Klobuchar’s event was moved to McNamara Alumni Center on the other side of the university campus. MIRAC protested outside her speech at McNamara, then also participated as a contingent in the anti-Trump protest.

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Chris,

“Alt-right” is a term white nationalists and white supremacists use to obscure their overtly racist, anti-Semitic, xenophobic and misogynist agenda.

Too many media outlets are using the term without definition or context — and these omissions help normalize extremist groups and create an environment where increased levels of dehumanization, harassment and violence against Muslims, immigrants, people of color, women and LGBTQI folks become daily occurrences.

Tell the media: Stop doing PR for racists (http://act.freepress.net/sign/journ_media_alt_right/?t=2&akid=5902.9036884.JoUDCj).

The Associated Press just released standards for reporting on the “alt-right” — urging the media to stop using the term without context.1 All news outlets should follow the AP's recommendation to “avoid using the term generically and without definition ... because it is not well known and ... may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters’ actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience.”

Urge the media to stop using the term “alt-right” without context. News outlets need to call out racism, white nationalism, neo-Nazism, white supremacy and misogyny for what they are. (http://act.freepress.net/sign/journ_media_alt_right/?t=3&akid=5902.9036884.JoUDCj)

People’s lives are at risk as members of the incoming Trump administration call for mass deportation of undocumented people, a ban on Muslims entering the country,2 and suppression of the Black vote.3 According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there were 701 reported incidents of hateful harassment in the 10 days following the election.4 These incidents can't be separated from Trump's hateful platform or the agenda of the so-called “alt-right.”5

The media must hold the administration and white supremacist groups accountable for their actions and stop doing PR for racists. (http://act.freepress.net/sign/journ_media_alt_right/?t=4&akid=5902.9036884.JoUDCj)

Thanks for all that you do—

The Free Press team
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P.S. Urge the media to stop using the term “alt-right” without context. News outlets should call out racism, white nationalism, neo-Nazism, white supremacy and misogyny for what they are.



1. “Writing About the ‘Alt-Right,’” Associated Press, Nov. 28, 2016: https://act.freepress.net/go/16583?t=8&akid=5902.9036884.JoUDCj

2. "What the Alt-Right Actually Wants from President Trump," Vox, Nov. 28, 2016: http://act.freepress.net/go/16584?t=10&akid=5902.9036884.JoUDCj

3. "Trump’s Chief Adviser Reportedly Made These Incredibly Racist Comments About Voting," Fusion, Nov. 28, 2016: http://act.freepress.net/go/16585?t=12&akid=5902.9036884.JoUDCj

4. "Update: Incidents of Hateful Harassment Since Election Day Now Number 701,” Southern Poverty Law Center, Nov. 18, 2016: https://act.freepress.net/go/16586?t=14&akid=5902.9036884.JoUDCj

5. "Hitler Salutes and White Supremacism: A Weekend with the ‘Alt-Right,’" The Guardian, Nov. 21, 2016: https://act.freepress.net/go/16587?t=16&akid=5902.9036884.JoUDCj


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DEAL FROM STRENGTH OR GET CRUSHED EVERY TIME???

Holy shit that's fascistic. Blatantly fascistic. I can't believe he got away with that.

[Jiefangjun]

DEAL FROM STRENGTH OR GET CRUSHED EVERY TIME???

Holy shit that's fascistic. Blatantly fascistic. I can't believe he got away with that.

Probably got away with it because it was fan written/performed. The fact it was approved by the campaign managers though....

[willowtooth]

DEAL FROM STRENGTH OR GET CRUSHED EVERY TIME???

Holy shit that's fascistic. Blatantly fascistic. I can't believe he got away with that.
He didn't? this was a huge deal back when it happened. Especially since he refused too pay them, and the dad (the guy who wrote the song) sued Trump

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Black Texas man's SUV burned, house defaced with n-word graffiti

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A Houston-area man said he woke up to find his SUV on fire and his house defaced with racist graffiti. (HCFMO)

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Updated: Friday, December 30, 2016, 1:42 PM

A black Texas man says he woke up to find his SUV burned in his driveway and n-word graffiti scrawled on his home.

The unidentified man’s house in Highlands, outside Houston, was spray-painted in red with “get out” and “leave” in addition to repeated uses of the racial slur.

Firefighters were called to the home at 5 a.m., when the owner was still inside asleep and did not know what was going on outside, Harris County Fire Marshal spokeswoman Rachel Moreno told the Daily News

The 51-year-old man told KPRC that he lives alone at the home and told the station “Why me? I don’t do much. I don’t go a lot of places. I pretty much stay home.”

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Harris County Fire Marshals are investigating a vehicle fire at a home that was vandalized with the n-word. (HCFMO)

He said that there have been previous times where someone in a car yelled the n-word at his home, but that he is not afraid and has no plans to move.

The Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office said that it is meeting with the FBI, and that the fire and vandalism are being investigated as a possible bias incidents.

Moreno said that firefighters used a power washer to clean the graffiti from the house.

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[JAC0BIN]

I for one have always felt the USA has the unique cultural and economic 'triggers' that could eventually lead to fascism (IE past glory, American exceptionalism widely accepted, war-time economy, threat of scapegoats etc) even before the partriot act, 9/11, NSA, DHS, etc, but with these new tools the ABILITY is CLEARLY there for the taking. All fascism in the USA has missed in the past is a coherent, centralized group with INTENT to do so.

Is Trump fascist, probably not. Hes more of a twitter-maniac. But the USA is clearly fascistic as of this point, and any rebuttal only lacks the will to take the facts to their logical conclusion.

[criticalrealist]

IMO, the Trump administration could move in a fascistic direction following a major crisis.

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As for Medicare, Obamacare was actually financed in part by cuts in the program’s reimbursements to hospital and other providers, estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars. These funds, if recaptured through Obamacare repeal, will not be returned to Medicare, but will be made available instead for the real priorities of the Trump administration, increased military spending and a huge tax cut for the wealthy.




A reactionary provision expected to be incorporated either into the Obamacare repeal or the budget and tax legislation is an outright ban on any federal funds going to Planned Parenthood, which provides health services, including cancer screening, contraception and abortion, to millions of working-class women. The organization has been targeted by the Christian fundamentalist right because it is one of the few providers of abortion services in many states, and because it aggressively defends women’s rights to the full range of family planning services.




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[ckaihatsu]

First he attacked Leslie Jones, now they’re giving him a book deal

Book publisher Simon & Schuster is paying hatemonger Milo Yiannopoulos $250,000 to write a book.

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Don’t let Simon & Schuster spread hate speech. Demand they immediately cancel the white supremacist book deal!

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Dear Chris,

One of the largest book publishers in the country, Simon & Schuster, just rewarded a white supremacist spokesperson with a massive book deal.

Milo Yiannopoulos - a Breitbart publisher and spokesperson for white supremacy - has made a name for himself as a mouthpiece for hate speech. Yiannopoulos was banned from Twitter last year after leading a campaign of racial, anti-Black and sexual harassment against actress Leslie Jones. The harassment driven by Yiannopoulos was so severe that Jones had to temporarily quit Twitter. Now he’s getting $250,000 from Simon & Schuster to promote his hateful ideas.

The Simon & Schuster book deal will give Yiannopoulos exactly what Twitter took away from him: a mainstream platform, one beyond the openly white supremacist Breitbart, that he can use to spread his views of hate for Black people, women, Muslims, and transgender people.

Demand Simon & Schuster cancel the white supremacist book deal! (https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7231?t=3&akid=6678.872082.1JyzcO)

Simon & Schuster is enabling white supremacists and is openly peddling hate speech for profit. Simon & Schuster is banking on white supremacists all over the country buying this book. Not surprisingly, white supremacists have already pushed the book’s pre-sales to No. 1 on Amazon, giving it a sleek “bestseller” label that further legitimizes Yiannopoulos’ hate speech.1 This book deal is so disturbing that even some segments of Simon & Schuster are speaking out against the book deal.2 The United Kingdom branch of Simon & Schuster has already publicly refused to sell this hateful book.

Simon & Schuster claims that they “do not and never have condoned discrimination or hate speech in any form,” but handing a purveyor of hate speech and white supremacy a $250,000 megaphone is a clear statement that this publisher is willing to enable and profit from calls to harm people of color.

Demand Simon & Schuster cancel the white supremacist book deal! (https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7231?t=4&akid=6678.872082.1JyzcO)

This is not normal. White supremacists should not be getting six-figure deals to promote their hate under the guise of mainstream platforms. Black communities know all too well how perpetuating stereotypes and hateful rhetoric can empower a racist and violent agenda.

In the week following the election, more than 900 incidents of harassment and hate crimes targeting Blacks folks, people of color, Muslims, immigrants, the L.G.B.T. community, and women have been reported.3 The violence of these emboldened cowards will only continue if companies like Simon & Schuster continue to normalize white supremacy.

We will not stand by and let companies profit from white supremacy. Join us in demanding Simon & Schuster cancel the white supremacist book deal! (https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7231?t=5&akid=6678.872082.1JyzcO)

Until justice is real,

--Brandi, Rashad, Arisha, Anika, Jade, Evan, Bernard, Corina and the rest of the Color Of Change team.

References:

1. "Simon & Schuster stands by Milo Yiannopoulos book despite backlash," The Guardian, 30 December 2017.
https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7232?t=7&akid=6678.872082.1JyzcO

2. "S&S UK will not publish controversial Milo Yiannopoulos," The Bookseller, 3 January 2017. http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7233?t=9&akid=6678.872082.1JyzcO

3. "Ten Days After: Harassment and Intimidation in the Aftermath of the Election," Southern Poverty Law Center, 29 November 2016. https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7234?t=11&akid=6678.872082.1JyzcO


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On the contrary, such obscene spectacles are and have always been inherent to Fascism. Even Islamism has these. You don't think such obscenity, or comparable forms of obscenity, are present for Putin, Orban, le Pen, Hamas, Hezbollah, and so on? they are.

It's Fascism's pure opportunism, conveying its messages through what it conceives the 'stupid masses' need. This is pure Fascist opportunism and nothing more.

I'd agree more with you if I could. Well said. Fascism has always had spectacle front-and-centre. Nuremberg Rally much Mr.Trump?

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First he attacked Leslie Jones, now they’re giving him a book deal

Book publisher Simon & Schuster is paying hatemonger Milo Yiannopoulos $250,000 to write a book.

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Don’t let Simon & Schuster spread hate speech. Demand they immediately cancel the white supremacist book deal!

TAKE ACTION (https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7231?t=2&akid=6678.872082.1JyzcO)

That prick-faced oxygen-thief couldn't have a more punchable face if he tried.

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That prick-faced oxygen-thief couldn't have a more punchable face if he tried.

Idk if it can beat the Zodiac Killer...

19592

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Petition asking Trump AG pick Sessions if he'll continue Justice Dept criminal contempt case on Arpaio


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Ask Trump AG nominee Sessions if he will continue Justice Department criminal contempt proceeding against Arpaio

Sessions' Senate confirmation hearings start on Tuesday! (http://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed9906/14552b18/452432c9/2b77cd9f/2066516229/VEsC/)

Everyone knows Republican U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions as one of the most anti-immigrant lawmakers in Congress. He has opposed every practical immigration reform plan during his 20 years representing Alabama.

Since Donald Trump nominated Sessions to be Attorney General, the senator has misled the Senate and the nation about his 1980s civil rights record as U.S. Attorney in Alabama. Sessions claimed he “personally” litigated four civil rights cases then. But the former Justice Department attorneys who actually brought three of the lawsuits wrote a Jan. 3 article in the Washington Post clearly stating Sessions had no real involvement in any of them. All he did was sign his name on the lawsuits as U.S. Attorney.

An even more important question arises as Sessions’ Senate confirmation hearings take place this week: Will Sessions as Attorney General pursue a criminal contempt of court proceeding that could put former Maricopa County (Phoenix, Arizona) Sheriff Joe Arpaio in jail for ignoring a 2011 federal judge’s injunction?

Arpaio was found guilty of unlawfully detaining Latinos and immigrants during discriminatory neighborhood raids and police stops where people were racially profiled solely because of their race and language. The 2011 federal court injunction ordered Arpaio to stop these illegal practices. Arpaio, who was overwhelmingly defeated for re-election last November, deliberately refused to obey the judge’s order. Now he faces jail time.

Arpaio was an early key supporter of Trump’s presidential campaign. The U.S. Justice Department’s chief duty is enforcing the laws of our country. As Attorney General, will now-Senator Jeff Sessions continue pushing to put Trump ally Arpaio in jail for flouting the judge’s order? That is a key question Senator Sessions should be made to answer during his Senate hearings.

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The White House Press Corps Needs To Hear From You


Dear Chris,

I wanted to give you a quick update on the petition to the White House press corps that you recently signed...

On Donald Trump’s first full day as president of the United States, he went to CIA headquarters and informed the national intelligence community that he has an “ongoing war with the media.”[1] At his first White House press briefing, Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer berated the press corps for accurately reporting the crowd size at Trump’s inauguration, then warned them that the president will hold them “accountable” for this kind of reporting in the future.[2] On Sunday morning, Trump’s team blacklisted CNN.[3]

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Even more disturbing, Trump’s aide Kellyanne Conway announced that the Trump administration will rely on “alternative facts” when pressed on their falsehoods. [4] (Note: There’s no such thing as “alternative facts.” Alternative facts is just another way of saying lie.)

As we warned when we launched this action, the Trump administration has already started crowding out reporters in the White House press corps in favor of extreme right-wing and fake news sites like Breitbart, Alex Jones, and other fringe sources you’ve probably never heard of. [5]

We will be engaging directly with the White House Correspondents Association later this week and doing a formal delivery of our petition next week.

Going into this, let’s make our voices as loud as possible. We already have 290,000 signers! Let’s get it 350,000!

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This is a crisis. We need to raise all of our voices to ensure that the media stand up to Trump’s growing blacklist before it’s too late. It’s a scary thing to say, but the truth is that they have to stand together before they all fall -- one by one..

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Footnotes:
[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/21/media/donald-trump-war-with-the-media/
[2] https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/01/21/white-house-press-secretary-just-declared-war-reality-and-press/215076
[3] https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/01/22/trump-team-blacklists-cnn-sunday-after-inauguration/215079
[4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/22/how-kellyanne-conway-ushered-in-the-era-of-alternative-facts/
[5] https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/01/18/donald-trump-wants-army-jeff-gannon-shills-white-house-press-briefing-room/215043



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1984 hits No. 1 on Amazon after Kellyanne Conway's 'alternative facts' quote (http://ew.com/books/2017/01/25/1984-no-1-kellyanny-conway-alternative-facts/)

EW.com - ‎3 hours ago‎

George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 has topped Amazon's best seller list just three days after Kellyanne Conway used the phrase “alternative facts” in an interview on Sunday's Meet the Press.

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Trump banned the EPA from telling the public facts!

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Trump: Reverse the Gag Order on the EPA


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Chris,

Trump has placed a gag order on employees of the Environmental Protection Agency. This means that folks with an expertise in issues of pollution, environmental protections, and climate change can no longer speak with the media, the public or members of Congress. This horrifying stifling of the free exchange of information is a devastating instance of censorship and it cannot be tolerated.

Sign on to tell Trump that you demand he lift the order and allow the EPA to continue to disseminate accurate information about the state of our environment. (http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AW1Gj/zSeN/t8hl)

Trump's press secretary has argued that this is a normal act for an incoming administration, but that's not true. Trump's climate denial and anti-science stance is a clear and present threat to the safety and sustainability of our planet.

If we allow Trump to censor the kind of information experts can share, we allow him to tell a twisted and inaccurate story for his own benefit. We know that Trump is pro oil drilling, even though it's harmful to our environment and that does not even promise the best and most sustainable jobs. But if he can suppress those facts, his story will begin to be what folks believe.

We have to fight for facts and information. Lying about the state of the environment doesn't change it, it only puts us behind in dealing with what is the biggest threat to our world right now.

If you care about the planet, please sign on to demand the new President ungags the EPA. (http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AW1Gj/zSeN/t8hl)

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Week one of the Trump administration: A government of war and social reaction

By Joseph Kishore

28 January 2017

It is one week since the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States, and the actions and orders of the new government make clear what the working class can expect from the next four years.

At the center of Trump’s “America First” agenda is a massive escalation of military violence. At a swearing-in ceremony at the Pentagon Friday for the new secretary of defense, retired general James Mattis, Trump signed an executive order to begin a major “rebuilding” of the military. The order directs Mattis to prepare a policy to upgrade the US nuclear arsenal and prepare for conflict with “near-peer competitors,” a term that traditionally refers to China and Russia.

The action follows Trump press secretary Sean Spicer’s reaffirmation of a statement by incoming Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil, that the US would seek to bar Chinese access to islets in the South China Sea, implying military actions that would amount to a declaration of war.

Trump has also pledged to establish “safe zones” in Syria, which will be coupled with a temporary ban on all immigration from a number of majority Muslim countries. While Democrats have denounced Trump for being “too soft” on Russia, during the elections the Clinton campaign called for the setting up of “safe” no-fly zones, policed by US military aircraft, as part of an effort to counter Russian backing of the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. In a speech at CIA headquarters, Trump also said that the US should have “taken the oil” in Iraq, and pledged that the CIA would have another chance to do so.

On domestic policy, Trump signed a series of executive orders that freeze hiring on all federal workers, freeze all pending government regulations and remove all obstacles to the completion of the Keystone and Dakota Access oil pipelines. Early in the week, he held meetings with the CEOs of the largest US manufacturing companies and with US auto companies, promising to “cut regulations 75 percent” and shift the business climate from “truly inhospitable to extremely hospitable.”

On Wednesday, Trump announced that his administration would proceed with the construction of a wall along the US-Mexico border, while launching a crack-down targeting millions of immigrant workers for detention and deportation. The same day, he said that the White House would seek a “major investigation” into completely unfounded allegations that “voter fraud” by millions of people cost him the popular vote in November—a claim aimed at creating the conditions for a further assault on the right to vote.

As part of a policy of extreme economic nationalism, early in the week Trump signed an executive order blocking US entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership and pledged to renegotiation the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Many of the policies of the incoming administration were outlined in Trump’s interview Wednesday night with ABC News anchor David Muir, during which Trump interspersed lying claims about his own popularity and the size of his inauguration with casual threats of war, torture and repression. The overall impression of Trump during the interview was that of a gangster in the Oval Office, the assumption of power by an underworld reflecting all that is corrupt and filthy in American capitalist society.

On torture, Trump proclaimed that if Mattis and incoming CIA Director Mike Pompeo “want to do [waterboarding], that’s fine. If they do wanna do, then I will work toward that end.” A draft memorandum is circulating in the White House that would reopen secret CIA prisons and torture centers overseas.

And this is only the first week. With the support of Democrats, Congress is moving rapidly to approve Trump’s cabinet of billionaires, former generals and corporate CEOs, and it has already approved Mattis, Pompeo and the head of the Department of Homeland Security, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly. Trump’s other cabinet picks are committed to a policy of destroying public education, eliminating basic social services and slashing Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

There is no doubt that the election of Trump marks a watershed in American politics. However, when future historians examine this period, they will inevitably direct attention to what preceded it, to the conditions and climate out of which the Trump presidency arose. Many factors could be pointed to—the extraordinary decay in the political culture of the United States, the domestic consequences of unending war and violence abroad, the extreme growth of social inequality and the rise of a parasitic financial oligarchy.

Rather than a complete break, the Trump presidency represents a transformation of quantity into quality. He is, in the final analysis, the product of the desperate crisis that afflicts American and world capitalism.

For four decades, the ruling class in the United States has been engaged in a campaign of social counter-revolution, systematically eliminating all the gains won by workers through bitter struggles in previous decades. The Obama administration accelerated these processes. Obama’s White House continued and expanded the bank bailouts initiated under the Bush administration and helped funnel trillions of dollars to Wall Street through the Federal Reserve’s “quantitative easing” programs, while working, as in the 2009 auto restructuring, to slash wages for the working class.

The results are expressed in the extraordinary growth of social inequality. According to a recent report by University of California Berkeley economists Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, between 1980 and 2014, the share of pre-tax national income going to the bottom 50 percent of the population fell from 20 percent to 12 percent, while the share going to the top 1 percent increased from 12 percent to 20 percent. The gains for the top .1 and .01 percent of the population are even more extreme.

The foreign policy of the Trump administration likewise does not arise out of nowhere. For a quarter century, the American ruling class has been engaged in a desperate project to reverse its economic decline through military force—in the Balkans, North Africa, the Middle East and central Asia. Fifteen years of the “war on terror” have metastasized into an ever more direct conflict with larger competitors. Trump’s focus on China is in fact in continuity with the Obama administration’s “pivot to Asia,” which has seen the deployment of US military resources throughout the South Pacific and East Asia.

What Trump adds to these processes is the distinct odor of fascism, of extreme nationalism and the threat of violent repression of opposition. His declaration in his inaugural address that the “bedrock of our politics will be total allegiance to the United States of America” is a threat to criminalize dissent, which will be associated with treason.

However, here too Trump is giving naked expression to the long-term decay of democratic forms of rule. It was, after all, Obama who will go down in history as the president who proclaimed the power to assassinate US citizens without due process. Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, drone assassination, NSA spying—this is the toxic mix out of which Trump’s particular contempt for constitutional norms emerges.

In July, as Trump was formally nominated as the candidate of the Republican Party at the Republican National Convention, the WSWS noted that “Trump’s particular fascistic personality was forged not in the beer halls of Munich and the trenches of World War I, but in the real estate market of New York City. With his casinos, his fictional universities and his endless stream of failed businesses, this personification of corporate fraud could hardly be a more fitting symbol for the state of American capitalism.”

There are sharp and bitter divisions within the American ruling class, but these divisions are over tactics, not basic class policy. It will not take much for Trump to bring on board many of his present critics within the political establishment and media, or, for that matter, more privileged sections of the upper middle class.

It is not from such forces that enduring opposition to the new administration will develop, but from the working class, in the United States and internationally. Trump’s absurd posturing as a defender of the “forgotten man” will, sooner rather than later, give rise to bitter class conflict as the impact of the new administration’s policy are felt. It is to the broad mass of the working class that socialists must now turn, and, through systematic organization and education, forge a political leadership to prepare for the struggles on the horizon.

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Donald Trump vs. Civil Rights


Congress has to choose a side: Trump or the civil rights of all Americans

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Don't eliminate the Civil Rights Division!


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Dear Chris,

2017 could be the year Civil Rights dies in this country.1 For the past 50 years the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice has protected the rights of all Americans--including voting rights, the rights of Black folks and other people of color, women, people with disabilities, and religious minorities.2 And now, Donald Trump wants to eliminate all of that.

Hours after being sworn in, Trump announced that over the next 10 years, he will cut over 10 trillion dollars from the country’s budget.3 The Civil Rights Division will take major hits, and could possibly be eliminated. This is clear and blatant racism in action. We have to fight back and create a firestorm of pressure. Republicans in districts that rely heavily on the votes of Black people and other people who care about our rights will need to stand on the side of justice. And Democrats will have to pick a side: Trump or the civil rights of all Americans. The road ahead is long and the journey won't be without struggle, but we can save the Civil Rights Division with your help, Chris. Will you sign this petition?

Ask Members of Congress: “Which side are you on?” Protect civil rights, not bigots. (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/save-civil-rights-division-stop-trumps-racism-now/?t=3&akid=6783.872082.mdLWQE)

The Civil Rights Division has a long legacy of fighting for the freedoms we all deserve. Our movement leaders, known and unknown, fought and organized selflessly for years to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957--and this sparked the creation of the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.4 For them, this meant access to equality and equity for future generations -- us. Cutting this division is a slap in the face to the struggle and resistance of Black folks in this country. Civil rights protect every citizen in this country, not just the marginalized and oppressed. To cut its funding shows the priorities of this administration: they’d rather spend money building a wall than protecting the rights of anyone who isn’t a wealthy white man.5

The Civil Rights Division exposed the Ferguson criminal justice system for extorting money from poor Black folks with a scathing report issued after the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr. in 2014. They investigated the Baltimore Police Department after the killing of 25-year-old Freddie Gray in 2015. And the report uncovered rampant racism and sexual assault. The Civil Rights Division even forced policing reform with a consent decree in Cleveland after the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice and 37-year-old Tanisha Anderson in 2014. The department currently enforces similar decrees around the country to guarantee crucial civil rights victories like school desegregation and voting rights.

We know the fight for our freedom isn’t over--just in the first two weeks of Trump’s presidency we saw over 300 acts of violent hate crimes. White nationalist are literally trying take away our rights to live, breathe, and be in our communities. So there’s no way we can afford to cut out the one federal agency that’s been fighting against hate.

Stop Trump from killing civil rights in this country as we know it. (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/save-civil-rights-division-stop-trumps-racism-now/?t=4&akid=6783.872082.mdLWQE)

Until justice is real,

Arisha, Rashad, Scott, Malaya, Enchanta, and the rest of the Color Of Change team


References:

“Trump budget draft target cops, crime victims, ” The Marshall Project, 01.19.2017. https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7307?t=6&akid=6783.872082.mdLWQE

“U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights division accomplishments 2009-2012 ,” Department of Justice, ">https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7308?t=8&akid=6783.872082.mdLWQE

“Trump team prepare drastic cuts” The Hill, 1.19.2017 http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7309?t=10&akid=6783.872082.mdLWQE

“The Civil Rights Act of 1957, ” House of Representatives, http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7311?t=12&akid=6783.872082.mdLWQE

“Trump signs order for Mexico border wall” Aljazeera, 1.25.2017 http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7312?t=14&akid=6783.872082.mdLWQE


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Federal employees resist administration attempts to impose media gags

By Bryan Dyne

3 February 2017

Orders given last week by top officials at various federal agencies—including the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Parks Service, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services—have caused confusion and concern among a number of the employees and scientists that work for these departments.

The Monday after Trump’s inauguration, the new administration imposed a freeze on new contracts and grants given by the EPA, $4 billion which funds research, redevelopment of industrial sites, outreach, water and air quality, according to Reuters. A media gag order was simultaneously put in place, with employees being told to halt all forms of external communications, including press releases, social media, blogs, list servs, webinars, speaking engagements and updates to the EPA website.

One EPA employee, who spoke to the non-profit investigative publication ProPublica anonymously, said that the hiring freeze wasn’t uncommon during a presidential transition, but that a freeze on grants and contracts seemed extraordinary. The employee also said that the freeze appeared to be nationwide.

Other agencies were given similar instructions. Employees at the Department of Health and Human Services were told not to send “any correspondence to public officials,” including members of Congress. A memo sent to employees at the Department of Agriculture stated that all communications with the media and social media posts had to be reviewed by the new administration. Officials at the Department of the Interior ordered the National Parks Service to halt posting on their social media accounts.

The next day, the Trump administration ordered the EPA’s communication team to remove the agency’s climate change web page. This includes information on the causes of global warming, an overview of greenhouse gases and projected trends of climate change. The site also includes a compilation of peer-reviewed climate research and a variety of detailed environmental data. This would be similar to what has already occurred on the White House web site, which had all references to climate change deleted minutes into the Trump presidency.

This immediately prompted climate scientists and computer experts outside the government to copy, archive and mirror all the data on the EPA’s web site. The goal is to ensure that the data remains publicly available.

There was a backlash to these repressive measures among government employees and scientists. The departments initially hit by the media gags regularly discuss the impacts of climate change in their respective fields. The moves at the EPA in particular have sparked worry that the Trump administration is going to follow through with the pro-corporate policies that have been put forward by Trump EPA transition team leader Myron Ebell, who has stated he wants to cut 5,000 of the agency’s employees and halve its budget.

Their fear is not unfounded. There have already been two executive orders which reduce the EPA’s ability to provide environmental oversight on new infrastructure and manufacturing projects and another mandating that for every new government regulation, two old ones must be abolished. Moreover, Trump’s pick for EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, filed numerous lawsuits against the agency while he was Oklahoma state attorney general, and has in the past fervently argued for the deregulation of greenhouse gases in order to aid the coal, oil and gas industries.

One of the few widely publicized employee reactions came from the Badlands National Park Twitter account, which posted three tweets on different aspects of climate change. While the tweets were soon deleted, other national parks, including Golden Gate National Park and Redwood National Park, soon followed suit, posting more of the science behind global warming.

Death Valley National Park tweeted a more political post, a photo of a Japanese-American interned during World War II as the news spread that Trump was going to sign executive orders withholding visas and blocking refugees from mostly Muslim countries.

This also prompted the creation of “alternative” or “rogue” government Twitter accounts, including for the National Parks Service, the EPA, the USDA, and the Department of Health and Human Services, each claiming to be the “unofficial resistance” accounts of employees opposed to the Trump administration. Over the course of the next few days, dozens of such accounts have appeared and have begun posting tweets in opposition to the new government’s policies. At first, the accounts all claimed to be run by an employee of the given department, but now many have posted that government employees no longer run them, likely to prevent any violations of the Hatch Act (legislation which prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activity while working).

Alongside the growth of the “rogue” social media accounts, a “March for Science,” tentatively scheduled for April 22, has been called in opposition to the Trump administration’s policies. It is loosely based on the various protests that occurred during and immediately after Trump’s inauguration, in this a case a protest against the rejection of a variety of scientific facts by different members of the new administration.

In the meantime, some of the new administration’s repressive measures have been relaxed. On January 25, the EPA suspended plans to remove climate change from its web site and the National Parks Service resumed posting on social media. A memo was sent to employees at the US Department of Agriculture stating that the previous email, telling employees to halt outside communications, “should not have happened.” Lastly, the freeze on EPA grants was lifted last Friday and there are no reported contract delays resulting from the temporary freeze.

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Sebouh80 • 6 hours ago

Democrats backing of Trump administration’s new sanctions against Iran is a further proof that no section of American ruling bourgeoisie is against war efforts in the Middle East. For people like us who live in Lebanon think that the Democrats and Republicans are the heads and tails of the same coin.

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Internal American rhizome: the Quebec mosque attack: Bissonette is a Lakota name, and the risk is sabotage to the Lake Superior pipeline.
Vnutrennie amerikanskie kornevishcha: ataka mecheti Kvebec Bissonette eto imia Lakota, i risk vreditel'stvo k truboprovodu ozera.

Sharia 'path to water.'
Shariat 'put k vode.'

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Lawmakers push legislation seeking to criminalize protest throughout the US

By Nick Barrickman

8 February 2017

As mass protests grow internationally against the anti-democratic measures enacted by President Trump, Republican state legislators in the US are preparing a raft of bills intended to restrict demonstrators’ right of free speech and ability to peacefully assemble.

At least 10 state legislatures are planning to vote on bills attacking the right to protest in various ways. “I’ve never seen a coordinated attack on protesters’ rights anywhere near this scale,” stated the American Civil Liberties Union’s senior staff attorney Lee Rowland to the Washington Post. “What all of these bills have in common is they may be dressed up as being about obstruction or public safety, but make no mistake about it: These are about suppressing protests with draconian penalties so that the average person would think twice before getting out on the street and making their voice heard.”

The bills range from the overtly reactionary to the “merely” anti-democratic. In North Dakota, where ongoing protests against construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) are occurring, state Republicans have sponsored House Bill 1203, which grants legal exemption to motorists who “negligently [cause] injury or death to an individual obstructing vehicular traffic on a public road…” The bill is in response to anti-DAPL protesters that have snarled traffic on major roadways.

Indiana’s Senate Bill 285 empowers law enforcement to “use any means necessary to clear the roads of the persons unlawfully obstructing vehicular traffic” once a gathering has been determined to be unlawful. In Missouri, a bill would target anyone “wearing a mask, hood, or covering that conceals the person’s identity during an unlawful assembly or riot.”

In Washington state, lawmakers wish to increase the amount of jail time for an individual engaged in an “economic disruption,” while forcing those convicted to pay up to three times the cost of damages incurred by a protest. In Minnesota, which has been wracked by protests against police brutality, in addition to the anti-Trump demonstrations, Republicans have authored a bill which would force protesters convicted of blocking roadways to pay for the incurred costs of law enforcement and security at the event.

Last year the Michigan House of Representatives passed a bill that would fine a person $1,000 a day and an organization (such as a union) up to $10,000 a day for picketing.

Numerous liberal commentators have noted the implications of such laws for free speech. “As someone who is a direct beneficiary of the civil rights movement and all the gains that were the direct result of civil disobedience, I strongly oppose this effort to further criminalize dissent,” said Virginia State Senator Jennifer McLellan to The Intercept in response to state legislation which would increase fines for someone refusing to disperse from an unlawful gathering.

“The way the bill is worded is very broad: Take the student sit-in leaders — you could put those protesters in jail for up to a year,” McLellan added, referring to the student protests that occurred against segregated lunchrooms in the 1960s.

The legislative attacks against free speech come as President Trump has issued executive orders and made statements asserting near-dictatorial powers. In late November, the president-elect attacked the Constitutionally-protected act of flag burning, declaring in a Twitter comment “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag—if they do, there must be consequences—perhaps loss of citizenship or a year in jail!”

In a Thursday message on social media, Trump tweeted threats to cut federal funding to the University of California, Berkeley campus after protests against ultra-right lecturer and editor at the “alt-right” Breitbart News, Milo Yiannopoulos, forced the fascistic provocateur to cancel his speech last week.

The largely peaceful protests, which were broken up when a small group of “black bloc” anarchists sought to confront police and physically assault Trump supporters, have been seized upon by the president and his sympathizers in order to present all opposition to his administration as violent and illegitimate.

The campaign has inspired the more deranged elements within the Republican Party to encourage violence against anti-Trump protesters. In a particularly crude example, Dan Adamini, the secretary of the Marquette County Republican Party and a local Michigan right-wing radio host, drew outrage for comments he made on social media in response to the UC Berkeley protests.

Tweeting a day after the protests forced Yiannopoulos to cancel his engagement, Adamini mused, “Violent protesters who shut down free speech? Time for another Kent State perhaps. One bullet stops a lot of thuggery.” Adamini followed this comment with a Facebook post that declared “I’m thinking that another Kent State might be the only solution...They [protesters] do it because they know there are no consequences yet.”

Adamini’s “Kent State” comments refer to the May 4, 1970 shootings at Ohio’s Kent State University, where National Guardsmen opened fire on an anti-war protest, killing 4 students and injuring 9 others. Adamini has since shut down his social media accounts due to the slew of hostile commentary his posts have received.

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Trump proposes tax break for church political activities

By Ed Hightower

8 February 2017

President Donald Trump made a bizarre and rambling speech at the National Prayer Breakfast last week attacking the bedrock democratic principle of the separation of church and state, by promising to eliminate restrictions under the tax code on political activities by religious groups.

Trump told the audience of religious and political leaders that he would “get rid [of] and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution.”

The president was referring to a section of the tax code that makes the tax-exempt status of religious or charitable organizations dependent on their refraining from endorsing candidates for office or from otherwise engaging in partisan electoral politics. The rule, part of the 1954 version of the Internal Revenue Code and bearing the name of then-senator Lyndon Johnson, was regarded for decades as spelling out in the language of tax law the longstanding custom that church groups did not engage in overt political campaigns.

Only in the last 25 years have politically active right-wing Christian fundamentalists and Republican politicians begun to paint the Johnson Amendment as a violation of freedom of speech and religion. This turns reality on its head.

The Johnson Amendment applies only to organizations that are eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions, such as churches and synagogues, universities, or any number of charities e.g. the Salvation Army, Goodwill, the Red Cross and so on. Since 1917 American tax law has favored such enterprises on the grounds that they serve a public good. In order to encourage donations to organizations that will provide important social services, the tax code has allowed taxpayers to deduct from their taxable income a certain amount of funds they donate to such groups. These 501(c)3 organizations—named for the section of the tax code that applies to them—are essentially subsidized by the federal government through the tax revenue that it gives up.

There are 29 categories of non-profit organizations in section 501 of the tax code, covering everything from professional organizations, chambers of commerce, athletic leagues and social clubs, political parties, all of which can avoid paying taxes on the money they collect from members. Those who donate to most of these groups, however, are not be able to take a tax deduction for it. Only 501c(3) and 501(c)4 organizations offer this substantial benefit to their donors.

The Johnson Amendment allows the Internal Revenue Service to revoke an organization’s 501c(3) or 501(c)4 status if it endorses a political candidate or otherwise engages in partisan politics. This does not prohibit an organization from taking a position on a political issue. For example, the Catholic Church opposes abortion, says so openly and constantly, and maintains its tax status, receiving money that can be deducted from the donor’s taxable income. A priest or bishop can vote for whatever candidate or party, and can even speak at a political event if they refrain from doing so in their capacity as a religious leader. This happens every day in the United States without a single federal agent raising an eyebrow.

The law does not prohibit the aforementioned political activities, it only imposes an indirect financial penalty, because the church organization that engaged in electoral campaigns and other partisan activities would lose contributions from donors who only gave in order to gain the tax deduction.

It should be noted that Johnson proposed the amendment to the tax code in 1954 not out of a deep commitment to constitutional principles, but rather out of political expediency. (At the time, certain religious leaders in Texas supported his opponent in a primary campaign.) The Amendment served basically to codify what had been the relationship between religious groups and the IRS.

For decades, the Johnson Amendment was a complete political non-issue. However, politicization of the evangelical protestant churches, most notably the Southern Baptists, which developed in reaction to Supreme Court decisions desegregating public schools (1954), striking down school prayer (1962), permitting marriage betweens persons of different races (1967) and legalizing access to abortion (1973).

In 1979 the right-wing minister Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority, which opposed homosexuality, abortion, secularism in thoroughly political terms, jettisoning the traditional Baptist position of abstention from partisan politics. The organization served to integrate the new Christian fundamentalist movement into the Republican Party. Politically active evangelical churches now form the principal social base of the Republicans.

Evangelical churches brought court cases challenging the Johnson Amendment but lost in the Supreme Court on numerous occasions. Finally, in 2008, they began a campaign of open defiance, seeking to provoke a confrontation with the IRS by preaching partisan political sermons on a coordinated, advertised day. With the tacit approval of the Obama White House, the IRA took no action against any of the churches involved. Only one in 2,000 instances of “pulpit freedom Sundays,” as they were called, resulted in an audit. At the same time, the Republican Party adopted the repeal of the Johnson Amendment as part of its political platform.

Trump, who had little prior connection to the Christian Right, made repeal of the Johnson Amendment part of his 2016 presidential campaign to curry favor with this reactionary constituency and its leaders.

While the Johnson Amendment did not represent a very significant advance for secularism, its removal would have immediate and substantial consequences for the separation of church and state. Repeal of the Amendment would turn “faith leaders” and religious outfits into entities with more rights than normal citizens, especially if those citizens are disinclined to support any religion at all.

The Trump administration is making every effort to mold the most debased sections of society into a fascistic base of support for social policies that will devastate the working class and broad layers of the middle class. Paeans to the clergy, the appointment of pro-life judges, the curtailing of the rights of religious minorities and foreign nationals, these are the political chum thrown out to mobilize support for dictatorship.

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Tell Trump: Don't gut protections for working people


Chris,

We are concerned that Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are preparing to revoke a suite of Obama-era executive orders that have provided basic protections for U.S. workers.

These executive orders raise wages, improve worker safety, and help ensure that taxpayer dollars do not support companies that break the law. Specifically, the orders under threat:

• Provide paid sick leave for federal contractors

• Limit gender and race wage discrimination by increasing pay transparency

• Boost wage growth by requiring a minimum wage of $10.20 for federal contractors—lower than what is needed but higher than the current federal minimum wage of $7.25

• Safeguard federal contract workers from being forced into unfair internal arbitration systems that make it harder to fight back against discrimination, wage theft, and other violations of worker rights

• Require transparency from contractors about violations of labor laws and ensure that federal dollars don’t reward unscrupulous employers

Approximately 25 percent of the U.S. workforce is employed by companies that do business with the federal government, representing $500 billion of business each year on contracts for goods and services. The federal government has the responsibility to ensure that these taxpayer dollars are used to do business with honest employers who comply with workplace protections.

Hold President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans accountable! Don’t let them turn back the clock on workers’ rights.

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If President Trump were serious about enacting a real agenda that supports working people, he would not gut rules that support good jobs and workers’ rights. He would not eliminate paid sick leave for over one million federal contract workers. And he would not nominate a labor secretary whose fast-food chain has a long history of wage theft and who himself has a long record of anti-worker and anti-government rhetoric.

The Obama-era executive orders hardly constitute a radical agenda. Instead, it is the anticipated actions by President Trump and the GOP controlled Congress that signal something radical—a radical assault on the workers candidate Trump claimed to support.

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If President Trump were serious about protecting working people, he would advance an agenda designed to promote a fair economy, not implement executive orders that hurt millions of people.

Thank you for all that you do to build an economy that works for everyone, not just for the one percent.

Sincerely,
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Disney, Dump Trump!


Tell Disney CEO, Bob Iger: quit Trump's Business Council now!

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Bob Iger must stand with the families who made Disney a success--not the administration that seeks to harm us.

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Dear Chris,

Disney CEO, Bob Iger skipped a meeting of Donald Trump's Business Council on Friday but won't formally quit even after Uber CEO, Travis Kalanick stepped down.1 And in the wake of Trump's violent policies, skipping a meeting is not enough--Bob Iger must #QuitTheCouncil now.

Remember, it's only due to pressure from Color Of Change members and partners that Travis Kalanick quit Trump's Business Council in the first place--now it's time to keep the momentum going and put the pressure on Disney CEO, Bob Iger to #QuitTheCouncil and reject Trump's anti-human, anti-American administration now.

Join Color of Change in telling Disney CEO, Bob Iger that actions speak louder than words: quit Trump’s Business Council now! (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/tell-ceos-quit-council/?t=3&akid=6942.872082.UJWFki)

Disney CEO, Bob Iger can't continue to take money from our Black, Brown, and Muslim families while advising and supporting Trump. And simply skipping one meeting, but still remaining a member of Trump's Business Council sends mixed messages. If the CEO of Disney is serious about standing for the thousands of Disney fans and customers who are Muslim immigrants, he needs to reject Trump’s entire agenda--not just the parts that will affect his bottom line.

That's why we joined with our partners at Muslim Advocates, Free Press, Center for Media Justice, CREDO, and MoveOn to tell CEOs to #QuitTheCouncil now. Because at this moment in our nation’s history, there are no sidelines--Iger's involvement on Trump’s Business Council isn’t an arbitrary gesture, he is effectively supporting and advancing the deep harm that many communities will face. We, the people, say no to corporations and CEOs who are willing to sell out American values and democratic principles for a seat at a crooked table. Bob Iger and Disney must stand with the American people and against Trump’s entire administration of hate.

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It’s clear that Trump’s Muslim ban is more about solving imaginary problems, protecting his business interests and creating a climate of fear and anti-Muslim bigotry than it is about protecting the country from serious threats. While Trump claimed the purpose of his Muslim ban was to protect the United States from terrorism, he targeted African and Arab countries whose citizens haven’t been responsible for any American deaths. In fact, countries who have disproportionately been responsible for terrorism are missing from the Executive Order--and they happen to be the same countries that Trump has business ties to.2 We won’t stand for any corporate enablers or lying CEOs who are playing the same game that Trump is--pretending to protect us and throwing marginalized communities under the bus in the process. Bob Iger must quit the Business Council now.

Tell Bob Iger that skipping a meeting is not enough--quit Trump’s Business Council now! (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/tell-ceos-quit-council/?t=5&akid=6942.872082.UJWFki)

Bob Iger is placing access to power over people’s lives and putting money over this country’s future. Disney has been able to become a successful company because of families of all colors and creeds. It’s unacceptable that they’re willing to cooperate with an administration who seeks to harm their base and throw away the very people who made them a success in the process.

Tell Disney CEO, Bob Iger to stand up for the people who made Disney a success and quit Trump’s Business Council now! (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/tell-ceos-quit-council/?t=6&akid=6942.872082.UJWFki)

This is not about politics. It’s not about Democrats and Republicans, or the political left and right. Trump is separating children from their mothers and depriving families of food in an effort to pander to anti-Muslim bigotry in this country. His violent rhetoric and actions are bringing real life consequences for vulnerable families.

Tell Bob Iger to quit Trump’s Business Council now! (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/tell-ceos-quit-council/?t=7&akid=6942.872082.UJWFki)

Until justice is real,

--Brandi, Rashad, Arisha, Anika, Jade, Evan, Bernard, Corina, the rest of the Color Of Change team

References:

“Disney's Bob Iger Won't Attend White House Meeting.” Deadline, 2 February 2017. http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7407?t=9&akid=6942.872082.UJWFki
"Who Hasn't Trump Banned? People From Places Where He's Done Business." New York Times, 29 January 2017. https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7381?t=11&akid=6942.872082.UJWFki

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Chinese foreign minister warns against war with the US

By Peter Symonds

9 February 2017

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi declared on Tuesday in Canberra that a war between the United States and China was unthinkable because of the disastrous losses that conflict would bring to both sides. However, the very fact that Wang was questioned about the Trump administration’s belligerent stance toward Beijing is another indication of the growing fears of conflict between the two nuclear-armed powers.

Speaking at a joint press conference with his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop, Wang was asked by an Australian journalist for his reaction to statements by the new US administration signalling “a stronger and even more aggressive posture towards China on a range of issues… How concerned are you really by the possibility of war between the US and China?”

The journalist specifically highlighted the comments of Trump’s top adviser Steve Bannon, predicting war between the US and China in five to ten years over the South China Sea. Bannon, who was speaking last March on the extreme right-wing web site Breibart, said: “There is no doubt about that. They’re taking their sandbars and making basically stationary aircraft carriers and putting missiles on those.”

Wang was at pains to play down the danger of war, declaring that despite “tough or sometimes even irrational failings on China-US relations” over the past four decades, the relationship had “defied all kinds of difficulties and has been moving forward continuously.”

Taking a shot at Bannon, Wang declared: “Any sober-minded politician, they clearly recognise that there cannot be conflict between China and the United States because both will lose, and both sides cannot afford that.”

However, while continuing the confrontational stance of the previous Obama administration’s “pivot to Asia” against China, the Trump administration represents a fundamental shift toward a no-holds barred assertion of the interests of American imperialism. Trump’s “America First” demagogy, which has been directed in particular against China, signifies a ruthless determination to halt the historic decline of the US in a struggle against rivals and allies alike through all, including military, means.

Moreover, while Yang is dismissive of Bannon, Trump has placed the fascistic, former editor of Breitbart News on the top tier of his National Security Council—that is, the body tasked with responding to emergencies and crises, as well as preparing and overseeing provocations, military interventions and wars.

It is no accident that Bannon focused on the South China Sea, which the Obama administration transformed into a dangerous international flash point through its destabilising interventions into China’s territorial disputes with its neighbours. Using China’s land reclamation activities on a handful of islets, Obama gave the green light for three “freedom of navigation” operations—that is, the dispatch of US navy destroyers within territorial waters claimed by China.

Trump and his advisers have been critical of the Obama administration’s actions for not being forceful enough in confronting Beijing over the South China Sea. In his confirmation hearing, Rex Tillerson, now US Secretary of State, said the Trump administration would “send China a clear signal that, first, the island-building stops and, second, your access to those islands also is not going to be allowed.”

Sending US destroyers within the 12-nautical-mile limits around Chinese islets was a reckless and provocative course that risked a military clash. Tillerson’s threat to block Chinese access in its South China Sea could be implemented only by imposing a naval blockade in the disputed waters—a flagrant act of war.

Foreign Minister Wang suggested that the Trump administration in office was already moderating its hard-line, anti-China stance. He pointed out that James Mattis, the new US Defence Secretary, stressed the importance of diplomacy in relation to the South China Sea disputes.

Mattis, who visited South Korea and Japan in his first overseas trip, had already raised tensions with China by concluding an agreement with Seoul to deploy an anti-ballistic missile system in South Korea and threatening North Korea with “overwhelming” force if it attacked the US and its allies. In Japan, Mattis affirmed that the US would back Japan in any war with China over disputed islets in the East China Sea.

Having provoked angry reactions from Beijing on these two volatile flash-points, Mattiss’s comments on the South China Sea were relatively low-key. He declared that China’s land reclamation activities had “shredded the trust of nations in the region” but the US would exhaust diplomatic efforts to resolve the issues. “At this time, we do not see any need for dramatic military moves,” he added.

While publicly calling “at this time” for diplomacy before conflict, privately, according to several news sources, Mattis spoke of far more aggressive military measures to top Japanese officials.

The Nikkei Asian Review reported: “Mattis said America would no longer be that tolerant of China’s behaviour in the South China Sea. He pledged to take an active role in protecting freedom of navigation… Specifically, the US is set to increase the frequency of patrols within 12 nautical miles of man-made islands China has constructed in the sea.”

The newspaper also noted comments by the US defence secretary “likening China’s expansion today to an effort to re-create the tributary system of the Ming Dynasty… In Mattis’s telling, Beijing could be trying to use its military and economic might to re-create a similar set-up today, though such efforts will not be tolerated in the modern world.”

Confronted with a bellicose US administration and the threat of war, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) veers between trying to appease Washington and engaging in an arms race that only heightens the danger of conflict. A senior official with China’s Central Military Commission, Liu Guoshun, warned last month that “a war within the [US] president’s term, war breaking out tonight, are not just slogans but the reality.”

The Chinese regime, which represents the interests of a tiny ultra-rich elite, is organically incapable of making any appeal to the only social force capable of halting the drive to war—the working class in China, the United States and internationally.

The threats by the Trump administration to implement trade war measures against China, to tear up alliances and multilateral arrangements if they are not in the immediate interests of American imperialism and, above all, to expand and use the US military to enforce American dominance are destabilising the entire region. The disputes in the South China Sea are just one of the triggers that could precipitate a catastrophic war.

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The word 'stupido' carries different connations than its English equivalent, explicable in Trump's wall, which will tend to be the undoing of the double-bind inherent in the Brownsville Agreement. Suggested texts for the anxiousness of exegesis would include Morgan, The Reaper's Line and Bosteels' "speculative leftism" in The Actuality of Communism.

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Theo and the State Agent must first be placed on stage so that their lip movements and gestures will carry these different connotations of stupidity (which always gets precisely the reality it deserves) in a non-verbal style of format for the planet see. Resonating in the unconscious of the prisoners, it will take a bit of time for the news to be digested, the news that the media, like a juvenile delinquent, is in trouble....von Kleist, Ueber das Marionettentheater.

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Week three of the Trump presidency: A crisis of bourgeois rule and turn toward dictatorship

By Joseph Kishore

9 February 2017

Three extraordinary developments over the past several days have exposed the breakdown of democratic forms of rule in the United States.

On Monday, Trump delivered a political speech at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida in which he attacked the press and implied that it was aiding the enemy by not reporting terrorist attacks. “They have their reasons and you understand that,” Trump told the military, appealing for its support. Defending his anti-Muslim travel ban, he said, “We need strong programs” to keep out “people that want to destroy us and destroy our country.”

Two days later, on Wednesday, Trump gave a speech before a police organization, the Major Cities Chiefs Association, bitterly attacking the judiciary. The appearance came on the eve of a decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on his travel ban.

“We need security in our country,” Trump told the police. “And we have to give you the weapons that you need. And this [the order on immigration] is a weapon that you need. And they [the courts] are trying to take it away from you, maybe because of politics or maybe because of political views. We can’t let that happen.”

This was nothing less than a call from the US president for the police to oppose or defy an unfavorable court ruling. He underscored the point by adding, “One of the reasons I was elected was because of law and order and security… And they’re taking away our weapons one by one, that’s what they’re doing.”

In between these two speeches, on Tuesday night, Republicans in the US Senate took the extraordinary step of halting a speech by Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren against the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, the nation’s chief law enforcement official.

Warren was reading from a letter sent by Coretta Scott King, the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986 opposing the nomination of Sessions for a federal judgeship. Republican Senators interrupted Warren, invoking an obscure rule barring senators from imputing to other senators “any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a senator.” Warren was ordered to stop talking and return to her seat.

The invocation of this gag rule recalls in its own way the pre-Civil War rule established in Congress to prevent members of either house from talking about slavery on the floor of the legislative chambers. The ban on discussion of slavery was imposed because the issue was so explosive.

Each one of these events is an indication of a violent break with the most basic forms of bourgeois democracy. The first targeted the press, which is protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution; the second was an attack on the judiciary, one of the three “coequal,” according to the Constitution, branches of government; the third was an attempt to muzzle debate in Congress.

Within this context, the response of the Democratic Party is significant. When Warren was told to sit down, she complied, and no Democrat took any serious action to block the gag order. The debate continued throughout the day Wednesday, culminating in a 52–47 vote to confirm Sessions as the next attorney general.

As for Trump’s speeches before the military and police, they have been downplayed or ignored and their ominous implications covered up.

There are significant political divisions within the ruling class, but these are centered on issues of foreign policy. While Democrats, including Warren, have engaged in empty posturing over Trump’s various far-right cabinet appointments, they have done nothing to prevent the nominations from going through.

What they have relentlessly pursued, however, is a campaign to demonize Russia and denounce Trump for being too close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. This has been their main point of attack against the new president.

They speak for those factions of the military-intelligence apparatus that backed the Hillary Clinton campaign in large part out of concern that Trump will shift away from an aggressive anti-Russia policy. The new administration is for the present focusing its war-mongering on China and Iran.

While the immediate object of Trump’s vitriol is his critics within the establishment, the more fundamental target is the working class, and the methods being prepared against working-class opposition are far more violent. His speech on Wednesday was a pledge to eliminate all restraints on the use of force by the police. “My message today is that you have a true, true friend in the White House,” he proclaimed. “I support our police. I support our sheriffs. And we support the men and women of law enforcement.”

The Trump administration expresses the dictatorship of the American oligarchy in its most ruthless form. His administration, packed with billionaires and generals, is determined to massively expand the military in preparation for a major war while escalating the social counterrevolution within the United States. This includes the slashing of health care, the destruction of public education and the elimination of all restraints on corporate profits. To implement this policy, the most basic democratic forms must be cast aside.

The Trump administration is not an aberration in an otherwise healthy society. It is the culmination of a longstanding crisis of American democracy. In 2000, when the Supreme Court intervened in the election to halt the recount of ballots in Florida and hand the presidency to George W. Bush, the World Socialist Web Site noted that the decision of the court and the absence of any serious opposition from the Democratic Party demonstrated the absence of any significant constituency for democratic rights within the ruling class.

The past sixteen years have confirmed this analysis. Under Bush, the attacks of September 11, 2001 were used to proclaim a “war on terror” and justify unending war abroad and the most far-reaching attacks on democratic rights within the United States. Far from reversing these processes, Obama extended them, including the assertion of the right of the president to order the extra-judicial assassination of US citizens.

Now, with the rise to power of Trump, openly dictatorial measures are being prepared.

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[badger2]

Because of the accelerations, quality vetting of incoming migrants becomes impossible, bringing to light the CIA's/FBI's most traditional conundrum: the concept of intent.

[badger2]

"Better a street-sweeper than a judge." (Deleuze)

'Only if a common law judgment can express through the modification of its concepts its cause in an encounter, can it be adequate. Taking the necessary precautions, we could call this judgment leftist. Remember that for Deleuze the left has nothing to do with the realization of certain political protocols, but is tantamount to embracing movement. In this same way, the Supreme Court's Delgamuukw decision is not of the left because it upholds minority rights or advances multiculturalism. Instead it is leftist in its acknowledgment of movement (i.e., the recognition of sui generis encounters), and, with that acknowledgment, it is able to construct an effective adjudicative problem.'

(....tbc)

[badger2]

'Deleuze says that "Being open [to movement] is setting out the 'facts,' not merely of a situation, but of a problem. Making visible things that would otherwise remain hidden," or as he says, without adequate problems "one may speak in connection of a (real inability to get at the facts, 'impuissance a informer' [italics])." '
(Lefebvre, The Image of Law)

It is impossibile to get at the facts of intent even if quality vetting is in place. Islamochristianity morphing.

[Chicano Shamrock]

What is going on with this thread? Why is it just one person posting ridiculous stories one after the other? Did this forum just completely die?

Also why are these stories just the regurgitation of liberal talking points? How exactly is Trump's administration one of hate?

For years on this site we have wanted an end to the globalist agenda and someone comes along and is pulling out of globalist trade deals and it's like but but but I think he's racist!

[willowtooth]

What is going on with this thread? Why is it just one person posting ridiculous stories one after the other? Did this forum just completely die?

Also why are these stories just the regurgitation of liberal talking points? How exactly is Trump's administration one of hate?

For years on this site we have wanted an end to the globalist agenda and someone comes along and is pulling out of globalist trade deals and it's like but but but I think he's racist!

well to answer your first question, yes the forum has been pretty dead ever since the last purge a few months ago. I guess chris is just trying to keep activity up, sort of like the last scene in Titanic where rose screams "I'm alive!"amongst a pile of frozen corpses. Or like the will smith movie I am Legend where everyday he plays his messages on the radio saying "he's alive he can provide food shelter and medicine", and after all this thread is over 1 year old its not like necroposting ever hurt anyone.... except maybe the zombies?

but yeah trumps racist as fuck, and ending globalism is the last thing he wants to do, hitler also decried globalist capitalist jews who steals germany's money and hide it in their Jew cave or whatever and he's basically doing the same thing. Trump owns sweatshops what on earth would make you think he wants to end globalism atleast as socialists define it?
'

[Chicano Shamrock]

What is racist about him tho? Or what in his policies show racism? Also he is known as a building guy not a clothing guy. Do you know that he owns sweat shops? Where? Does he have a clothing line? Does he own the factory or source the work out to independent manufacturers?

Like I'm all down with knowing what someone is up to but without facts it is a little silly.

Jumping straight to the Hitler comparison is not fair. At least not yet. He hasn't done anything to earn that.

I think this is a pretty crazy time. It's the first time that I know of that the complete system is against a president. JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs released statements against him recently. It was something like 93% of Washington DC voted against him.

The status quo and the power structure of the country is throwing a fit over this guy. I don't know why you guys are too.

Look at the big picture. Why does it seem that the complete power structure is against this?

[willowtooth]

What is racist about him tho?

http://www.npr.org/2016/09/29/495955920/donald-trump-plagued-by-decades-old-housing-discrimination-case

Or what in his policies show racism?

http://www.vibe.com/2017/01/vincente-fox-trump-wall-tweet/


Also he is known as a building guy not a clothing guy.

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/31/436302090/are-some-of-trumps-new-york-city-buildings-a-mirage


Do you know that he owns sweat shops? Where?

http://well-spent.com/trump-sweatshop-conditions-bad-even-sweatshop/


Does he have a clothing line?

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/10/photos-what-ivanka-trump-fashion-looks-like/


Does he own the factory or source the work out to independent manufacturers?

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-hunter/donald-trump-i-never-disputed-some-my-clothing-line-was-made-mexico


Like I'm all down with knowing what someone is up to but without facts it is a little silly.

Jumping straight to the Hitler comparison is not fair. At least not yet. He hasn't done anything to earn that.

http://i.imgur.com/I4t07Tl.png


I think this is a pretty crazy time. It's the first time that I know of that the complete system is against a president.Republicans seem to love him


JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs released statements against him recently. was that statement we'll take the job? http://www.reuters.com/article/us-goldman-sachs-senators-idUSKBN15P2KI


It was something like 93% of Washington DC voted against him. D.C. is a mostly impoverished city it was the murder capitol for awhile, most people who work in D.C live in the suburbs. D.C is majority black, and black people vote democrat because republicans are racist assholes


The status quo and the power structure of the country is throwing a fit over this guy. I don't know why you guys are too. status quo seems happy as hell? what status quo are you talking about?


Look at the big picture. Why does it seem that the complete power structure is against this?because they're not? Trump was in the primary because the republicans still haven't recovered from Bush. He won because millions of people stayed home on election day thinking Hillary was guaranteed to win. The GOP seems happier than a pig in shit

[jdneel]

Does anyone know about the state of the Communist Party in Putin's Russia?

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[ComradeAllende]

The Communist Party of Russia is basically the same as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, just without the power. Same Marxist-Leninism, antipathy towards homosexuals, and general support for emphasizing Russian history and culture ("left-wing nationalism" at its finest). Although they do possess factions ranging from plain-vanilla reformism to retro-ML principles.

[General Winter]

The Communist Party of Russia is basically the same as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, just without the power. Same Marxist-Leninism, antipathy towards homosexuals, and general support for emphasizing Russian history and culture ("left-wing nationalism" at its finest). Although they do possess factions ranging from plain-vanilla reformism to retro-ML principles.

What a comprehensive knowledge,indeed! But there is a question : what party do you mean? As far as I know there is a Communist multiparty in Russia.And the source of your useful piece of information,please,I hope it was picked out of nose.

[Fellow_Human]

It's a joke. A heap of reactionary provincial pensioners longing for the return of their youth, convinced that it would return with the return of Stalin. All a part of the controlled opposition, of course; decently treated by the oligarchy.

P.S. The nominally communist parliamentary parties in the other post-Soviet states have all been collaborators of Russian imperialism and sat in coalitions with anti-Western authoritarian conservative right-wingers.

[Noa Rodman]

There is the Рабочая Партия России (Workers' party of Russia) founded in 1993 and related Фонд Рабочей Академии (Fund of workers' academy): http://www.rpw.ru/index.html
They are active on social media, for example:
https://www.youtube.com/user/fondrabakademii/videos

Main theorist is professor Michael Popov, expert on Hegel, orthodox Marxist, though also upholds the Stalinist legacy until 1961 (against Gorbachov see eg his speech in 1990 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R0SJN9YCBk)). Just google his name for tons of lectures online: Михаил Васильевич Попов

[ComradeAllende]

What a comprehensive knowledge,indeed! But there is a question : what party do you mean? As far as I know there is a Communist multiparty in Russia.And the source of your useful piece of information,please,I hope it was picked out of nose. Chill out dude. Never said it was comprehensive or anything. Although I have yet to see any rebuttals or evidence to the contrary, at least not from you. Russia is generally homophobic (a by-product of religious conservatism and Stalin's own homophobic policies), as anyone who watched the Sochi Olympics debacle would know.

[General Winter]

Once again,dude:


The Communist Party of Russia...

There are several communist parties in Russia.What party do you mean?


...is basically the same as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The CPSU was different in different periods.What period do you mean?


Same Marxist-Leninism...

Have you read the party's programme? Any links?


...antipathy towards homosexuals...

Where have you found it? In party's programme,in party's press,in party leader's speeches? Concrete examples,please.

[willowtooth]

Once again,dude:



There are several communist parties in Russia.What party do you mean?



The CPSU was different in different periods.What period do you mean?



Have you read the party's programme? Any links?



Where have you found it? In party's programme,in party's press,in party leader's speeches? Concrete examples,please.

The CPRF has been anti LGBT


In an explanatory note, the authors contend that homosexuality is “socially infectious,” especially for children and teenagers exposed to public manifestations of homosexuality. They also conflate homosexuality with pedophilia, explicitly accusing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement of striving to support pedophilia. The measure’s authors claim that the measure will protect public health and morals.
Nikitchuk said (http://www.gazeta.ru/social/news/2015/10/23/n_7804979.shtml) in a media interview that the law would be applied only to gay men, because women are “more reasonable” and "respected." In another interview, Nikitchuk condemned (http://echo.msk.ru/programs/beseda/1645480-echo/) Western countries for protecting rights of LGBT people as human rights, saying that “normal people,” especially the young, should be protected from “these mentally abnormal” people. He also called gay people “cattle” and said they “infect people around them.”

https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/11/04/russia-homophobic-abusive-bill

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Unspoken Words: Nuclear War Provocations and Plans (http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/1369.php)


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Unspoken Words: Nuclear War Provocations and Plans

Judith Deutsch

During the election campaign there was a brief period of anxiety about Clinton or Trump taking possession of the nuclear code, with the power to eradicate our species at the push of a few buttons. But where has discussion, let alone mention, of nuclear weapons gone? An exception is the brief article by Robert Dodge in CounterPunch about the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists advancing the Doomsday Clock to 2 1/2 minutes before the midnight of human extinction caused by nuclear war or climate change: "Nuclear weapons are not even on the radar of our congress. Their phones are not ringing off the hook about nuclear weapons."

In a January 30th interview with Sonali Kolhatkar, George Lakoff discussed Trump's trial balloon about nuclear weapons in which Trump said that if we have them, we should use them. Lakoff said that there was a very brief reaction and then it's gone, signaling that the public doesn't care. Doesn't care or doesn't know? Harvard professor Elaine Scarry has said that some of her students had never heard of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It is a dangerous time to not know about nuclear weapons. Trump inherited from Obama the ongoing U.S./NATO/Israeli escalation and military encirclement against Iran, China, and Russia, and the $1-trillion program to modernize nuclear weapons. On January 28th the Ron Paul Institute reported that Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) introduced a bill to Congress: "... it specifically authorizes the president to launch a pre-emptive war on Iran at any time of his choosing and without any further Congressional oversight or input, as the President determines necessary and appropriate in order to achieve the goal of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons" (emphasis added).

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[General Winter]

Mr.Allende have lost tongue.It is so easy to crap along having no clue about the subject and so difficult to answer for your words.


The CPRF has been anti LGBT

https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/11/04/russia-homophobic-abusive-bill

Splendid! But find Marxist-Leninism in the CPRF's programme and anti LGBT actions of RCWP, for example.

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

General Winter I think it is safe to assume that the one in question is the KPRF, by far the largest of the Communist Parties in Russia and also quite reactionary in many of its views. For instance, we can assume, based on the overwhelming Duma vote in its favor, that the KPRF voted for the bill decriminalizing spousal abuse.

That's not to say that there aren't Communist Parties in Russia that don't hold lines we might be more sympathetic towards.

[General Winter]

General Winter I think it is safe to assume that the one in question is the KPRF, by far the largest of the Communist Parties in Russia and also quite reactionary in many of its views.


Actually it can be reactionary because the CPRF is a purely parlament party and in pursuit of votes it tries to please both lefts and rights,hence it's political whateverism,ideological diffuseness.A total crap is that the CPRF is " the same Marxist-Leninist" - they reject the principle of the dictatorship of proletariat,the necessity of abolition of private property,the revolutionary way of taking power. ComradeAllende talks perfect nonsense.

[ckaihatsu]

imaduwa • 8 hours ago

This is interesting. Thank you Tom Ely. Russian intervention yet remains to prove. In the mean time US political establisment is getting its factional fight beyond evry one's control. Real power in the political estblisment seem to lie not in senate or congress but in CIA, FBI and NSA. Anti Trump camp is getting reshaped drawing from both the democtats and GOP. May be 1% is the most powerful. Intelligence and Spying appratuses will not have any confict with the 1% whose strength primarily drew from Obama's quantitative easing. Whatever sinister is happening within the increasingly divisive bourgeoisie polity, US working class, youth, elderly and all the oppressed need joining hands with each other to prevent war with Russia. Revplutionary triuvirate's anti war, anti austerity movement must be made a success to redeem the humanity from the nuclear inferno. Long live the US and internationa revolution.

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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/02/16/trum-f16.html

[Jimmie Higgins]

For years on this site we have wanted an end to the globalist agenda and someone comes along and is pulling out of globalist trade deals and it's like but but but I think he's racist!Many outright racists are anti-globalization... Pat Buchanan being a prominent US example.

Most of the revolutionary left is against capitalist globalization, I am in favor of internationalist working class globalization. How is "workers of the world unite" not a "globalist" slogan if we take "globalization" in the broadest sense?

Capitalist globalization, neoliberalism was the ruling consensus and that consensus has been cracking up since at least the recession. But this doesn't make all anti-globalizations equal in terms of the potential effect on the international working class.

Trump's 'America first' protectionist rehotric, if acted on, will not create better conditions for workers. Migrants will continue to be kept precarious and vulnerable (as under so-called globalization) and Trump's "bringing jobs back" claims are based on breaking the remaining labor protections of the former industrial areas and handing out giveaways to companies to "attract jobs".

Trump's racism is not a side-note in this. Protectionism and isolationist ideas in the US have almost always gone hand-in-hand with racist ideas and movements. Not to mention that all of these ideas are potentially a barrier to people developing class consciousness in times of crisis, if widespread.

[willowtooth]

Many outright racists are anti-globalization... Pat Buchanan being a prominent US example.

Most of the revolutionary left is against capitalist globalization, I am in favor of internationalist working class globalization. How is "workers of the world unite" not a "globalist" slogan if we take "globalization" in the broadest sense?

Capitalist globalization, neoliberalism was the ruling consensus and that consensus has been cracking up since at least the recession. But this doesn't make all anti-globalizations equal in terms of the potential effect on the international working class.

Trump's 'America first' protectionist rehotric, if acted on, will not create better conditions for workers. Migrants will continue to be kept precarious and vulnerable (as under so-called globalization) and Trump's "bringing jobs back" claims are based on breaking the remaining labor protections of the former industrial areas and handing out giveaways to companies to "attract jobs".

Trump's racism is not a side-note in this. Protectionism and isolationist ideas in the US have almost always gone hand-in-hand with racist ideas and movements. Not to mention that all of these ideas are potentially a barrier to people developing class consciousness in times of crisis, if widespread.
Its not really protectionism because he's not protecting anyone. protectionism means to tax imports so that anything that can be made in the country, will be, and only some rare luxury goods will be imported. Do you really think that Trump wants to tax his own sweatshops so that the US garment industry will be revitalized? Do you think he wants to raise the cost of his french champagne? What he is essentially proclaiming is that by lowering the taxes of the wealthy they will magically bring back all the jobs lost to automation or offshoring, despite zero economic evidence suggesting that would happen. It is essentially apart of his racist rhetoric, so you say "well many racists have been anti globalist , trump is only anti globalist in so far that he is racist. So that he can say the chinese are offshoring your jobs, and the lazy mexicans are stealing your jobs here at home. He will never say any european country needs to be "protected" against. So its not protectionism its just race baiting.

globalism is imperialism, often american racists will copy nazi rhetoric, "oh we just want to be nationalists and the people born here have the right to the land over the foreigner because we are the natives" but that doesn't make any sense in the USA because whites aren't native. So if your going to say you support a whites only america, then you can't even say you are a nationalist, you are saying you believe in white imperialism and christian dominion over the entire world. So therefore you are de facto an imperialist aka a globalist. They are anti globalist in the sense that the are anti most human beings on the globe who aren't white. They are against internationalism in the sense that they wish to murder most people outside their nation who aren't white. They have more loyalty to a white person living in malaysia, than they do their own malaysian next door neighbor. Even if they did pass some law that taxes imports it would only target one brown country or another he would never tax Italy or Germany. That is imperialism/globalism its not protectionism

[Raul Castro]

Personally I think no but let's have a fair and honest discussion, to me personally i think this fascist baiting is wrong and it disenfranchises workers who were misled to vote for him because they believed his demogagic attacks on immigrants

[Jimmie Higgins]

No, I don't think he's fascist in the sense of a fascist movement, but I think he has made many radicalizing middle-class people who are more or less the potential basis for a fascist movement feel more bold.

Trump is more similar to past us right-populists. I think it's easy to understand why many people in the us would confuse right-wing populist racist demagoguery with similar rhetoric from fascists. People tend to think of fascism as some combination of far-right ideas and rhetoric, but it's disorienting to think of it that way and is not very historically accurate.

but I don't think attacking his racism or bigotry or false-solutions to people in former industrial areas disenfranchises anyone. If I have an issue with people calling trump a fascist (if they mean it as an analysis, not just some slur) is that it is inaccurate and misses a bigger problem that Trumpism comes out the mainstream of US politics and is not a boil on the so-imagined otherwise reasonable and moderate American government. His bigotry is like the drunk version of mainstream politics.

[jdneel]

I don't fault the workers he misled. The Democrats have long abandoned the working class. All I've heard heard from Obama and Clinton is about the plight of the middle class. American politicians no longer even pretend to care about the issues of anyone who can't attend a $10,000.00 a plate re-election banquet. No surprise. The Democrats are just the flip side of the Capitalist coin.
What disturbs me about Trump is how he divides the workers. Whites against Hispanics, etc. Here he shows some rather fascistic tendencies. That coupled with his vitriolic attacks on anyone who dares disagree with him.We Socialists call on workers of all races and nationalities to unite against our common oppressors.


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[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

Is he a classic fascist? No. Does he have fascist tendencies? Yes. Does he appeal to fascists? Yes. Does he represent a new American form of fascism? Quite possibly.

[MikeN]

Starting from 2012 Putin finally abolished the multi party system, leaving only one party of the country's bourgeoisie class - the united russia party, at the same time he allowed registration of infinite number of political parties, making it an absolute democracy on paper. Now there are about 100 officially registered parties, all of which being just templates no one has any idea about. The old communist party has a few places in the parliament and its absolutely powerless, you can view it as a wing of the united russia.

[Raul Castro]

Many liberals, some conservatives, and the entire middle class "left" call President Donald Trump Fascist. Is there really a difference a fundamental difference between his policies and other administrations both democratic and republican. Claiming to be fighting fascism to "nip it in the bud", small anti-working anarchist groups have carried out numerous actions in the U.S. that pose a deadly danger to working class - from sucker punching white supremacist Richard Spencer as he was speaking to a reporter, to assaulting workers that supported Donald Trump, to disrupting and shutting down campuses speeches by individuals they disagree with. That's the opposite of what the Socialist Workers Party stands for: Mobilizing the working class to organize independently of the capitalist rulers and their parties, joining today's labor and political struggles seeking to build a revolutionary party capable of overthrowing capitalist rule and it's dog-eat-dog rule. We stand for free speech, which the working class needs most of all. Trump's demagogic attacks on immigrants, Muslims, women and others aim to divide and weaken the working class. Setting the stage to roll workers gains in wages, social security, wages, healthcare, union rights, and more

[jdneel]

I believe Donald Trump to be a Proto-Fascist. He preys on people's fear and prejudices to acquire and maintain power. Although he doesn't come out directly to attack non-white peoples, he uses buzz words that his more radical right wing adherents understand.
And what adherents he has. He was actually endorsed by various Nazi, KKK and White Nationalist groups. If Trump himself is not a Fascist, many of his followers undoubtedly are.


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[Jimmie Higgins]

Its not really protectionism because he's not protecting anyone. protectionism means to tax imports so that anything that can be made in the country, will be, and only some rare luxury goods will be imported. Do you really think that Trump wants to tax his own sweatshops so that the US garment industry will be revitalized? Do you think he wants to raise the cost of his french champagne?

I'm sorry, I must have been unclear. I was replying to the other poster who assumes that Trump would end neoliberal policies. Even if we take that argument at face value, that kind of opposition to globalization is not something that would put the working class in a better position. Like I said, even if Trump's protectionism was more than rhetoric and acted on, it wouldn't help the working class.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Isn't there a thread like this? I don't think he's a fascist and I think it's hard to identify fascism by policy positions. But fascists do believe they have a supporter/ally in him. If he fails because of political impasses or is removed, it could cause the middle-class MRA types to further radicalize and organize outside of electoral politics and social media trolling.

So I think it's possible that Trumpism could be the basis for a fascist movement in the u.s. Which is why we should be confronting them and push them back into their internet caves.

[Raul Castro]

well let's see 400 members of the national socialist movement, 3,000 ku klux klan members, 60,000,000 plus americans voted for donald trump those numbers don't check out much

[MarxSchmarx]

Merged various Trump is a fascist threads.

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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/02/28/pers-f28.html


The Trump administration and the crisis of American capitalism

By Joseph Kishore

28 February 2017

President Donald Trump will deliver an address to both houses of Congress tonight, broadcast live throughout the United States. According to talking points released by the White House yesterday, the speech will “lay out an optimistic vision for the country” and “invite all Americans of all backgrounds to come together in the service of a stronger, brighter future for our nation.”

The very fact that Trump will be delivering the address is proof that the “state of the union” is neither optimistic nor bright. Trump and his administration of political thugs are testament to the horrifying decay of political culture in the United States. The agenda that the administration is rapidly implementing holds out for the working class of the entire world a future of unending war, dictatorship and social devastation.

The first five weeks of the Trump administration have given ample demonstration of this fact. Trump is packing his administration with CEOs, billionaires, ex-generals and individuals dedicated to what his chief strategist Stephen Bannon referred to last week as the “deconstruction of the administrative state.” In a policy directive released yesterday, the Trump administration calls for a massive 10 percent increase in spending on the military, to be paid for through cuts in everything else: public education, mass transportation, housing, job training, the arts, pollution controls, and health and safety regulations.

The “administrative state” is to be replaced with the “garrison state,” with all the resources of American society subordinated to the preparations of the ruling class for world war.

Among the first actions of the new government is a brutal crackdown on immigrant workers. Thousands are being rounded up and deported, and the Trump administration is setting up the framework for mass internment camps. The government is encouraging the most backward and reactionary elements, expressed in the wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers and the racially-motivated shooting of two Indian men in Kansas last week.

In all its actions, the new government is implementing a definite political strategy. One should not hesitate to use the word “fascism.” The denunciation by Bannon of the “corporate globalist media,” Trump’s demand for “total allegiance to the United States of America” and his call for a “new national pride” founded on the “blood of patriots”—this is language inspired by Mussolini and Hitler. The Trump-Bannon government is using the immense power of the presidency to develop a fascistic movement, which will increasingly take on extra-parliamentary forms.

Throughout his campaign and in the first weeks of his administration, Trump has pitched his rhetoric to the discontent and frustration of broader sections of the population. With lying and empty rhetoric about the “forgotten man” and pledges to “Make America Great Again,” he is seeking to direct social anger against the “enemy” abroad and establish the base for an authoritarian and militarist agenda.

Trump does not have mass support. Indeed, his presidency is the most unpopular in the history of the United States. Polls make clear that his attack on immigrants and other reactionary measures are broadly opposed. In the first weeks of his administration, Trump has confronted protests involving millions of people in the United States and internationally.

However, in the absence of any progressive political outlet for this anger, it is the extreme right that is benefiting. This is true not only in the United States, but also in Europe, where far right and fascistic political movements are also on the rise.

The administration’s greatest asset is the spineless and reactionary character of his critics within the political establishment. The Democrats are doing everything they can to divert and disorient popular opposition. Along with their allies in the media, they are promoting a vile, neo-McCarthyite campaign focused on denunciations of the Trump administration for being too soft on Russia. Their strategy is two-pronged. They want to pressure Trump to adopt positions that conform to the demands of dominant sections of the military-intelligence apparatus, while at the same time diverting the anger of millions of workers and youth away from any challenge to the capitalist system.

Responsibility for the rise of Trump lies squarely with the Democratic Party and what is generally presented as “left” politics in the United States. The Democratic Party, no less than the Trump administration itself, is a political instrument of Wall Street and the intelligence agencies. The policies of the Obama administration for the eight years that followed the economic crash of 2008 were dedicated to rescuing and enriching Wall Street. Far from being held accountable for the swindling and criminality that produced the crisis, the financial aristocracy is richer than ever. The Obama administration continued and expanded the wars of the Bush administration, while escalating the attacks on democratic rights and increasing the power of the intelligence agencies.

During the 2016 election campaign, Hillary Clinton ran as the candidate of Wall Street and the status quo, refusing to even acknowledge mass social discontent. While the leftward movement of broad sections of workers and youth was expressed in support for the campaign of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and his call for a “political revolution” against the “billionaire class,” Sanders’ task was to channel this anger behind Clinton, an action that helped assure Trump’s victory. Sanders is now reprising this role in his new position as part of the leadership of the Democratic Party in the Senate.

The obsessive fixation of the Democratic Party and the political organizations that surround it on various forms of racial, ethnic and gender identity politics plays into Trump’s hands. The Democrats and their apologists are opposed to any movement against Trump that is associated with policies of social reform and economic redistribution, beyond a more agreeable distribution of wealth within the top 10 percent. As such, they are incapable of advancing a viable basis for opposing the reactionary chauvinism of the fascistic right.

In the final analysis, the rise of Donald Trump is the expression of the protracted and now terminal crisis of American capitalism. He is not an intruder in an otherwise healthy society. However bitter the dispute within the ruling class, they are all united on the conviction that American imperialism must control the world and the attack on the working class must be intensified. Under Trump, the ruling class is embarking on a new stage in this catastrophic project.

Essential political conclusions must be drawn. It is impossible to separate the fight against the Trump administration from the fight against the social and economic order that has produced it: capitalism. The social force that must be mobilized against Trump is the working class. It is in the working class that real and enduring opposition to the new administration will develop.

The Socialist Equality Party is fighting to arm the working class with a political program that offers a real solution to the great problems that it confronts. The working class can only secure its basic rights—to a secure and good-paying job, health care, housing, education, retirement—by means of a frontal assault on the wealth of the corporate and financial elite. It must reclaim the massive fortunes accumulated by the super-rich through fraud and speculation. The stranglehold of the financial aristocracy must be broken through the transformation of the gigantic banks and corporations into publicly-owned utilities, democratically controlled to meet social need, not private profit.

The social interests of the working class must be connected to the fight against imperialist war, which threatens the entire globe with catastrophe. The SEP fights to counter the reactionary and fascistic nationalism promoted by Trump and similar political tendencies internationally through the unification of workers of every nationality, race and gender on the basis of their common class interests.

The basic and urgent task is the building of a revolutionary leadership, the SEP and our worldwide organization, the International Committee of the Fourth International. The Trump administration represents a clear and present danger. It must be fought through the systematic, persistent and urgent organization of the working class in the fight for socialism.

For more information on how to join the Socialist Equality Party, click here.

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URGENT: Trump administration plans to cripple NOAA


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Chris,

Over the weekend, we learned that the Trump administration plans to gut NOAA’s budget by nearly $1 billion. These budget cuts aren’t just “trimming the fat” they’re cutting straight to the bone.

Critical functions that you and I depend on every day, like our weather satellites, climate research, and coastal management are in jeopardy.

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Our ocean contributes $359 billion to our national economy, and these cuts would have a devastating impact on the seafood, restaurant and tourism industries and local coastal economies. And even more importantly, NOAA keeps our families safe in the event of storms.

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We rely on NOAA for so many essential services:


- Forecasting and tracking hurricanes

- Protecting endangered marine mammals and wildlife

- Providing the data to predict weather forecasts

- Sharing information with fishermen to make decisions on where, how and when to fish

- Keeping trash off our coastlines and researching solutions to plastic pollution

- Managing Coastal Zones and working with local communities on coastal resilience solutions

- Researching the impacts of climate change on fish stocks


America relies on NOAA to do essential work ranging from the bottom of the ocean all the way up to the reaches of space. These cuts are a slap in the face to the American economic engine of our ocean and coastal communities.

This news comes less than 24 hours after the administration proposed massive cuts to the EPA budget, including completely eliminating beach water quality testing.

The Trump administration seems to be sending us a disturbing message: coastal communities and the health of our families don’t matter.

This fight is just beginning, and Congress has the power to stop this–but they need to hear from YOU today. (http://www.e-activist.com/ea-action/broadcast.record.message.click.do?ea.url.id=870953&ea.campaigner.email=boBFmXJG0Szuya%2FTZFVW597cBTh3 KwkR&ea.campaigner.id=gjGS%2FJzFHqaq8wJuoPi1Lg==&ea_broadcast_target_id=0)

NOAA conducts vital research and services that are critical to fishermen, oyster growers and local coastal economies. Budget cuts this deep could have devastating consequences for all of us.

Make sure Congress hears from you and your loved ones today.

For our ocean,

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An affront to women


Dear Chris:

It's official, and it's even worse than we expected.

The House Republicans’ health care repeal bill is an affront to women and families.

Urge your members of Congress to protect our care and reject any attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act and undermine women's health » (http://go.nationalpartnership.org/site/R?i=MFR_kdRdRj5xcseca3Ni8w)

The so-called American Health Care Act would wreak havoc on our health care system. It would:


- Gut the Affordable Care Act as we know it;

- Make health care more expensive for everyone and provide inadequate coverage;

- Defund Planned Parenthood, denying 2.5 million people access to care;

- Slash Medicaid, resulting in less coverage and fewer services for those who are most in need; and

- Expand already harmful abortion coverage restrictions, denying women the care they need.


The Republican health care repeal bill is totally unacceptable.

It reflects an extreme, ideological attempt to deny women access to quality, affordable health care, including the comprehensive reproductive health care and abortion services that are essential to their health, equality and economic security.

That's why we must stand strong and speak out. Together.

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100 Disruptions: Living without internet access


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Millions of families with low incomes are still living without internet access — and are missing out on opportunities to connect to jobs, complete homework and engage in our democracy.

Last year the Federal Communications Commission took an important step toward bridging the digital divide by updating its Lifeline program to subsidize internet access.

But Trump’s FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, has taken steps to limit Lifeline broadband options — a move that’s disproportionately harmed Black and Brown people, who are far less likely to have home internet access.

Thanks to the outcry from nearly 40 advocacy groups — including Free Press — Pai is now inviting public comment on his decision to stop nine companies from providing broadband service to Lifeline customers.

Today’s action is to urge Pai to revoke his decision (http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_lifeline_pai/?t=1&akid=6179.9036884.uoTnCd) and stop blocking opportunities for low-income people to get online.

Thanks for all that you do—

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Quick signature needed: Scott Pruitt's lies


Dear Chris,

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt lied to Congress.

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Pruitt used a private email account to conduct official business when he was Oklahoma’s Attorney General. But in his confirmation hearing in the Senate, he claimed he hadn’t. Pruitt’s lie may have been an effort to cover up communications he had with the fossil fuel industry.

If Pruitt lied to Congress about his email accounts, who knows what else he lied about?

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Pruitt claimed that he used “only my official … email address and government issued phone to conduct official business.”

But an open records request revealed that Pruitt in fact used various private email accounts. And he’s still refusing to release all his communications. This was a blatant, shameless lie to Congress.

Pruitt has already made it clear that he will do everything he can to attack the EPA from within. Now, it’s clear that he’ll even resort to disregarding the law. He has such contempt for the law that he was willing to lie to Congress to help Big Oil. We need your help to hold him accountable!

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News of Pruitt’s lies broke alongside reports that Jeff Sessions had also lied to Congress. He told Senators that he hadn’t had contact with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign. In reality, he met with them -- twice.

And it doesn’t stop there. Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary, lied about the bank he ran “robo-signing” home foreclosures. And Education Secretary Betsy DeVos lied to cover up her connections to anti-LGBTQ groups.

We need to stop with these “alternative facts.” This blatant disregard for the truth has to end. We need your help to send a message to Donald Trump and his cronies: They will not get away with lying to Congress and the American people.

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Last week, the a Texas Senate Committee discussed a bill that would allow the government to decide what information a doctor can keep from a woman about her unborn child.

It passed. Unanimously.

According to the bill, if the fetus has severe disabilities, the doctor would be able to legally withhold this information from her. Especially if the doctor had a sense that the woman may have an abortion, they could intentionally not tell her about the health of her fetus.

For a state that claims to be distrustful of government, this sure puts a lot of power over women's bodies in the hands of legislators. With only 19% of the state legislature being comprised of women - lower than the national average - it seems this bill will simply give men another way to decide what women do with their bodies.

Futhermore, this bill would make it nearly impossible for Texans to sue medical providers for withholding critical information about their bodies.

For particularly vulnerable women, the risk of having a baby with severe disabilities - an expensive, tedious task - can mean spiraling into poverty. This results in even worse health outcomes, both for the mother and child.

This piece of legislation gives male doctors, and the overwhelmingly-male Texas government, the ability to impose their religious beliefs on female patients. Sign this petition now to urge Texan lawmakers: do not allow doctors to lie to women! Protect women's rights now!

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Last week, the a Texas Senate Committee discussed a bill that would allow the government to decide what information a doctor can keep from a woman about her unborn child.

It passed. Unanimously.

According to the bill, if the fetus has severe disabilities, the doctor would be able to legally withhold this information from her. Especially if the doctor had a sense that the woman may have an abortion, they could intentionally not tell her about the health of her fetus.

For a state that claims to be distrustful of government, this sure puts a lot of power over women's bodies in the hands of legislators. With only 19% of the state legislature being comprised of women - lower than the national average - it seems this bill will simply give men another way to decide what women do with their bodies.

Futhermore, this bill would make it nearly impossible for Texans to sue medical providers for withholding critical information about their bodies.

For particularly vulnerable women, the risk of having a baby with severe disabilities - an expensive, tedious task - can mean spiraling into poverty. This results in even worse health outcomes, both for the mother and child.

This piece of legislation gives male doctors, and the overwhelmingly-male Texas government, the ability to impose their religious beliefs on female patients. Texan lawmakers: do not allow doctors to lie to women! Protect women's rights now!

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BREAKING: Trumpcare


Dear Chris,

It’s been less than 72 hours since Trumpcare was unveiled—and the American public is seething. Polls show just 31% support it, while some Republicans are even breaking ranks over how awful it is.1 UltraViolet members have already logged over 1,000 calls and are planning massive protests at Congressional town halls next weekend.

But despite the huge backlash, there are countless people who don’t yet know ANYTHING about the bill--even if they are directly affected. The sister who lost her job and insurance in the last months of pregnancy and now faces a 30% Trumpcare premium hike to go with a hefty hospital bill. The out-of-work friend on Medicaid who is banned by Trumpcare from using it at her local Planned Parenthood--the only health care provider around. The neighbor who has to give up her policy altogether, because, compared to the Affordable Care Act, Trumpcare doesn’t begin to help with her enormous monthly premium.2

Republicans are counting on pushing this thing through before most people even have a chance to hear much about it. In fact, a key House committee just passed Trumpcare at 4:30 a.m. EST today, working 18 hours straight to pull a fast one on constituents. So, there’s no time to lose.3 Can you share this graphic with your friends?

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Thanks for taking action.

--Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Adam, Holly, Kathy, Onyi, Susan, Anathea, Audine, Shannon, Megan, Emma, PaKou, Pilar, and Natalie, the UltraViolet Action team



Sources:

1. Poll: Majority of Americans want to keep Obamacare, USA Today, March 7, 2017

G.O.P. Health Bill Faces Revolt From Conservative Forces, New York Times, March 7, 2017

2. The American Health Care Act: the Republicans’ bill to replace Obamacare, explained, Vox, March 6, 2017

The GOP's Obamacare repeal plan is out--and it's even worse than anyone expected, Los Angeles Times, March 6, 2017

3. GOP health care plan clears first hurdle, debate continues in committee, CNN, March 9, 2017


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Let Illinois parents protect kids from recruiters


Allow Parents the Option to Protect Kids from Military Recruiters in High Schools. (http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qxXEYNk%2Fp9A4uKGHm79JmxR0OaZ3jWz1)


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President Trump has called for a substantial increase in the number of soldiers in the military. Already, recruiters who "chill” in the high schools and lurk online are having a tough time meeting their quotas. They will become even more aggressive.

The "Every Child Succeeds Act" contains a provision that compels high schools to provide the names, addresses, and phone numbers of all students to any military recruiter who requests the information. The law also says that parents have the right to remove their kids' names from the lists being sent to the Pentagon, and that schools have the responsibility to tell parents that. A lot of school systems didn't get the message.

Only in Maryland are parents given an easy and directly presented means of opting out. The choice remains theirs, and they are empowered to make it. A right you do not learn about - or find any means to act on - is not a right at all!

Maryland is the only state thus far to pass a law that puts the military recruiter "opt-out" language on the school's mandatory emergency contact form. As a result, large numbers of Marylanders have exercised their right to opt out.

Click here to ask Illinois legislators to make our state the second to take this step. (http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FWQ5TrCI%2BoBqKy3EhIRHoxR0OaZ3jWz1)

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Background:
> Ch. 105, 2010 LAWS OF MARYLAND, Article – Education 7–111
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It's Working! Stand With The White House Press Corps


Chris,

It's working -- the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) is considering taking a stand against Donald Trump's press blacklist!

When the White House banned The New York Times and CNN from a press gaggle last month, The Associated Press, USA Today, and Time took our advice and boycotted. [1] Soon after, Bloomberg, McClatchy, and The Wall Street Journal publicly pledged to walk out if the White House blacklists an outlet again. [2] And before the weekend was over, reporters at NBC and even Fox News were criticizing their networks for participating and encouraging them to join future boycotts. [3][4]

The reporters who cover Trump are ready to fight the blacklist -- but unless their outlets stand together, the White House won't need to change its bad behavior. It's time to get as loud as we can: Journalists need to know that we've got their backs, and we'll support them if they take action now.

STAND WITH THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS: SHARE THIS PETITION ON FACEBOOK (https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A//petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-the-white-house-3?mailing_id=37121&source=s.icn.em.cr&r_by=1831516) and/or SHARE ON TWITTER (https://twitter.com/home?status=Tell%20the%20White%20House%20Press%20C orps%3A%20Stand%20up%20to%20Trump%27s%20blacklist% 20%20http%3A//mm4a.org/2jozbnU)

During an event at the National Press Club yesterday, WHCA President Jeff Mason said “it is not easy” to get news organizations to agree on a boycott or collective action against a White House when it bans an outlet. [5]

Mason is right: It won’t be easy for news organizations to band together when the White House blacklists a competitor. But our free press depends on the courage of journalists and the citizens who stand up for them, and this is a critical moment to do what’s right.

THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS NEEDS OUR SUPPORT: SHARE THIS PETITION ON FACEBOOK (https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A//petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-the-white-house-3?mailing_id=37121&source=s.icn.em.cr&r_by=1831516) and/or SHARE ON TWITTER (https://twitter.com/home?status=Tell%20the%20White%20House%20Press%20C orps%3A%20Stand%20up%20to%20Trump%27s%20blacklist% 20%20http%3A//mm4a.org/2jozbnU)

Make sure the WHCA hears us: Stand up to Trump's blacklist and we'll stand with you!

Your voice is making a difference.

Onward!

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[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/24/media/cnn-blocked-white-house-gaggle/
[2] http://mm4a.org/2lGFc12
[3] https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/835212139673571330
[4] https://twitter.com/BretBaier/status/835206562549493760
[5] https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/839885760060928000


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Sign if you agree: Save the Endangered Species Act


The email below is from Leda Huta, the executive director of the Endangered Species Coalition. Leda started a petition on CREDO Mobilize, where activists can launch their own campaigns for progressive change. Will you help Leda pressure Congress to stop trying to gut the Endangered Species Act by signing her petition and sharing it with your friends and family?

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Dear Chris,

The United States is a worldwide model of stopping human-caused extinction, largely due to the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The ESA passed Congress with overwhelming and bipartisan support, and President Richard Nixon signed it into law in December 1973.

Yet, despite its success, in the last session of Congress, wildlife opponents introduced more than 130 bills to weaken the Endangered Species Act, including a bill by Wyoming Sen. Barrasso that would delist gray wolves in the Great Lakes and Wyoming. And the attacks are only increasing. Sen. Barrasso started this session of Congress with a hearing to bash the Endangered Species Act.

We have to speak out now to stop these attacks on the Endangered Species Act. That's why I started my own campaign on CREDOMobilize.com, which allows activists to start their own petitions. My petition, which is to Congress, says the following:

The Endangered Species Act is one of the world’s most popular and successful conservation laws. Respect the will of the 90 percent of American voters who support this landmark environmental legislation and stop trying to kill the Endangered Species Act.

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In the four decades it has been law, the Endangered Species Act has enabled the United States to prevent the extinctions of some of the world’s most iconic and cherished species. It brought back the bald eagle, grizzly bear, gray wolf, humpback whale, and American alligator. Its protections enabled the recovery of these and more than 200 other species.

Few laws can claim the success rate or wide popular support that the Endangered Species Act can. Recent national polling found 90 percent support for the ESA among American voters. Another poll conducted after the 2016 election found that 70 percent of American voters oppose any attempts by Congress to slash or deny protections for wolves, greater sage grouse, or other at-risk wildlife. The same poll found that opposition to congressional elimination or denial of Endangered Species Act protections is a bipartisan sentiment. Eighty-one percent of Clinton voters opposed such congressional actions along with 55 percent of Trump voters.

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Americans want Congress to stay out of listing decisions. Yet, Congress continues to attack the ESA – often using completely misleading terms. Some in Congress have announced plans to “modernize” or “reform” the ESA. These are just euphemisms for weakening the it. This law has successfully saved species for four decades. Legislative changes to the ESA from this Congress are not needed for the purpose of preventing extinction.

Just last month, we saw evidence that grassroots pressure can stop Republicans in Congress from attacking wildlife and public lands. In the face of a massive backlash from the public and his constituents, Rep. Jason Chaffetz withdrew legislation that would have sold off 3.3 million acres of public land. Now we need to generate the same level of opposition to recent congressional attacks on the Endangered Species Act.

Will you join me and add your name to my petition to Congress to demand it stop reject the latest Republican attack on the Endangered Species Act? (https://act.credoaction.com/go/13383?t=7&akid=22064.247355.EHYl6X)

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US ruling elite moves to repeal the 1960s

14 March 2017

The repeal of Obamacare, which began last week with the introduction of legislation drafted by Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, working in conjunction with the Trump administration, has become the vehicle for a much wider program of social reaction.

The new legislation, which will cut off health coverage for 24 million people, will essentially put an end to Medicaid, one of the major social reforms of the 1960s, a program that has funded health care for tens of millions of poor, blind or otherwise disabled people, as well as nursing home care for the low-income elderly. It sets the stage, as Ryan has indicated, for even more sweeping legislation that will undermine and eventually destroy Medicare, which has provided health coverage for most elderly people in the United States for more than 50 years.

The major social gains of the 1960s--the last period of significant social reform in American history--are in the final stages of liquidation. This is the culmination of a protracted historical process that began almost as soon as the American ruling elite made its decision, driven by the breakdown of the post-World War II economic boom, to shift from policies of relative class compromise to ruthless class warfare. The initial steps were taken as long ago as the Democratic administration of Jimmy Carter (1977-81), which began to curb social welfare spending and targeted striking coal miners for government intervention under the Taft-Hartley Law.

The attacks were accelerated greatly under Republican Ronald Reagan, who smashed the PATCO air traffic controllers strike, giving the green light for a decade of corporate union-busting and wage-cutting, and slashed federal social spending to fuel a record military buildup. Reagan set the pace for further attacks on the programs established in the 1960s and even in the 1930s, from Clinton’s abolition of Aid to Families with Dependent Children to Bush’s targeting of aid to public education with his “No Child Left Behind” legislation, co-authored by Democrat Edward Kennedy, and the first steps towards the privatization of Medicare.

The Obama administration did not mark a reversal of this decades-long process, but rather its intensification. Obamacare was not an expansion of the welfare state, as its apologists claimed, but a reactionary effort to shift the cost of health care from employers and the government to working people. The all-out support of the Democrats for this legislation, worked out in collaboration with the insurance industry and the drug monopolies, testifies to the rightward evolution of the Democratic Party over the past 40 years.

The eight years of the Obama administration--begun with promises of “hope” and “change” and filled instead with endless war, attacks on jobs and living standards, and the steady erosion of social services such as education and health care--created the conditions for the Republican takeover of Congress and finally the victory of Donald Trump.

The ideologues of capitalism claim that the “free market” will work wonders if only the restraints placed upon its operations by past social reforms are removed. These “restraints” include every social benefit won through the struggles of the working class over more than a century. Now, every one of Great Society liberalism’s “big four,” as one historian described the laws enacted in a six-month period from April to October 1965, is targeted for destruction.

The Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965: This legislation provided the first extensive federal support for local public schools, which had become politically possible following the legal abolition of segregated public schools in the South. Funds were allocated to improve public schools in poor communities, expand libraries and take the first steps in what became known as “special education.” The law established the pre-school program Head Start as a permanent federal program.

Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa has introduced legislation that would rescind the Elementary and Secondary Act and bar the Department of Education from funding any educational program except state-controlled vouchers that could be used for charter or religious schools or for home schooling.

Medicare and Medicaid, established through the Social Security Act of 1965: This bill for the first time provided government-backed health insurance for those over 65, half of whom had no coverage in 1965. Medicare covered hospital care (Part A) and medical and nursing fees (Part B), but did not pay for vision, dental or prescription drugs. Medicaid covered the poorest sections of working people, including children, the disabled and the blind, as well as long-term nursing home care for the poorest elderly.

The Obamacare repeal legislation would put an end to Medicaid as an entitlement program beginning in 2020, when grants to the states would be capped, forcing them to ration care to the poor and disabled. Medicare was already significantly undermined through Obamacare itself, which cut $700 billion in reimbursements over 10 years, and the repeal legislation will set the stage for even larger cuts, based on Ryan’s plan to convert the program from an entitlement to a voucher program.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the most radical democratic measure enacted by a US Congress since post-Civil War Reconstruction. It targeted those states, mainly in the Deep South, where denial of the franchise to minorities was widespread. Before its passage, few blacks were allowed to register and vote in southern states from Texas to Virginia. Afterwards, voter participation among African-Americans rose sharply, as the federal Justice Department continued to oversee state electoral policies to block any efforts to discriminate.

The US Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act by a 5-4 decision in 2013 in Shelby vs. Holder, ruling that the targeting of the southern states for federal intervention could no longer be justified, despite repeated renewal and extension of the law by Congress, most recently in 2006. This decision was part of a wider effort led by Republicans in state after state to enact voter ID laws and other measures whose purpose was to resurrect discriminatory practices against minority and poor voters.

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Celler Act after its leading Senate and House sponsors, abolished longstanding restrictions on immigrants from Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and ended the preference for immigrants from Northern and Western Europe over those from Southern and Eastern Europe. It also allowed unlimited immigration of family members of US citizens and residents, encouraging the growth of immigrant communities.

Trump’s travel ban on visitors from six majority Muslim countries directly violates the 1965 law, which prohibits the use of national origin as a test for restricting immigration. His executive orders on immigration as well as the proposed wall along the US-Mexico border represent an effort to turn the clock back to the period of the exclusion laws that barred Asian immigrants and the bracero program that allowed Mexican immigrants only as semi-slave labor in the fields.

There are other reforms of the 1960s, from the establishment of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for Humanities, to the Clean Water Act and dozens of other anti-pollution laws, which led ultimately to the creation of the Environmental Protection Administration. All these are under attack by the Trump administration and the Republican Congress.

The Democratic Party has collaborated in one attack after another on the social reforms with which it was once identified. The Democrats have spearheaded the attacks on public education, introduced major cuts in Medicare funding as part of Obamacare, and did not lift a finger to restore enforcement after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. They oppose Trump, not in defense of social services, but on behalf of sections of Wall Street and the military-intelligence apparatus, attacking the new administration over its supposed softness towards Russia.

Even in the 1960s, Democratic Party liberalism was not a challenge to capitalism, but rather an effort, at the height of the post-World War II economic boom, to make American capitalism more palatable to the masses, and therefore safer for the capitalists, under conditions of growing mass struggles over civil rights, against the Vietnam War, and for better wages and working conditions. The measures of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” were far less ambitious than the welfare states built up in Western Europe during the same period.

As historian James T. Patterson wrote of that period: “The Great Society programs were… quintessentially liberal, not radical. Except in the area of race relations--a major exception--they made no serious effort to challenge the power of established groups, including large corporations. In no way did they seriously confront socio-economic inequality or seek to redistribute wealth.”

Today, under conditions of the protracted historical decline of American capitalism, exacerbated by the impact of the 2008 financial crash and the massive transfer of wealth from working people to bail out Wall Street, no section of the American ruling class can or will defend any of the social gains of the 1960s.

The supposed Democratic resistance to Trump’s program in Congress is merely for show. The Trump administration and the Republican Party will get nearly everything they want, while the Democrats wage a phony war and call on the victims of Trump’s attacks to wait until the 2018 elections.

The Democratic Party does not represent the popular opposition to Trump and the Republicans, as congressional Democrats and political charlatans like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren claim. Rather, its function is to serve as a brake on the actual resistance to Trump, from the working class, which will take on an increasingly explosive and politically radical form.

The working class must take the lead in the struggles to defend health care, education, environmental protection, the rights of immigrants and all basic democratic rights. It must answer the capitalist program of social counterrevolution with the working class alternative of social revolution. Workers must build a mass political movement independent of and opposed to the twin parties of big business, fighting on the basis of a socialist program.

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Hes got the best music its the greatest. This should be our new anthem. Face the music enemies of freedom!

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I will tell you all right now...

If another 9/11 happens in the next few months, and those behind it are Muslims who came in after the travel ban was struck down, this country will go full Fascist. No question. Trump will have free rein to do whatever he likes and not a single judge, politician or bureaucrat will have the guts to oppose him.

In fact, if Trump is really fascist, I would expect him to set fire to the Reichstag himself. Any day now it could happen. I'm dead serious. These are dangerous times.


Hes got the best music its the greatest. This should be our new anthem. Face the music enemies of freedom!

Um...what? It's propaganda. There are no enemies of freedom - well actually there are, but it's the people running things.

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Save Lifeline


Hi,

You can't make this stuff up -- in one of his first moves as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai pulled the plug on the Lifeline program that makes high speed internet affordable for low income and rural Americans.[1]

Lifeline offers a small discount on phone service for any US households below 135% of the poverty line. Last year, the FCC expanded it to offer a $9.25/month discount on broadband—wired or wireless, one plan per household—on some already very low-cost plans.

Pai says the FCC's number one priority will be expanding broadband access, but his actions say otherwise -- dismantling net neutrality [2], selling out digital privacy so ISPs can sell our private info without our consent [3], and ending Lifeline.

Ajit Pai is an active Twitter user, and seems sensitive to criticism, especially given that he’s on a mini tour right now, in Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Cleveland and Detroit, giving speeches about—wait for it—the importance of expanding broadband access.

With a big enough outcry, we could reverse this.

Can you reply to Ajit Pai’s tweet about the tour, pointing out the basic hypocrisy in talking about expanding access, while cutting this basic discount?

Here’s the link to his tweet: https://twitter.com/FCC/status/842003542437179393

We’d suggest something like, “If you care about expanding access to broadband, why are you cutting a program that does just that? #Lifeline” —but it’s great if you put it in your own words.

We think using twitter will be the best way to reach Pai. But if you’re not on twitter, or you want to go above and beyond, there is also an open comment period that closes tomorrow, Thursday. File a comment at the FCC’s website here and here. The more pressure we can bring at this exact moment the harder we can make it for Pai to kill Lifeline.

Thanks!

Sincerely,

Holmes Wilson, Fight for the Future


[1] http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/technology/323627-the-fcc-and-ajit-pais-war-on-consumers

[2] https://www.cnet.com/news/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-dismantle-net-neutrality-with-a-smile/

[3] https://www.wired.com/2017/03/fcc-graciously-sets-internet-providers-free-sell-data/


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Signature needed: Stop Trump’s handout to war profiteers


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Tell Democratic leaders: Resist Trump’s handout to war profiteers

Petition to congressional Democratic leaders:

"Oppose Trump’s handout to war profiteers by increasing military spending, and offer a clear alternative to instead invest in American health, prosperity and security while cutting wasteful military spending."

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Dear Chris,

Half of the federal budget already goes to weapons of war and the military-industrial complex – and now, Trump wants to increase spending on war profiteers by a full 10 percent.1

Yet in their statements opposing the Trump budget, neither Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi nor Sen. Chuck Schumer mentioned Trump’s proposal to radically expand military spending.2,3

If Democratic leaders think they can resist Trump’s cuts without mentioning the source of the problem, they are badly wrong. To offer a true alternative to Trump, Democrats must get out from under the thumb of war profiteers and demand a cut to wasteful military spending.

Tell Democratic leaders: Resist Trump’s handout to war profiteers. Click here to sign the petition. (https://act.credoaction.com/sign/trump_war_profiteers?t=4&akid=22166.247355.HxaM_8)

We do not have a spending problem. We have a wasteful military spending problem. Safety net programs like Social Security have their own sources of funding and can be shored up for decades with small fixes and no benefit cuts. The rest of the federal budget, so-called “discretionary” spending, is split between wasteful military spending and domestic priorities.4

Trump’s budget proposed increasing wasteful military spending by 10 percent, or $54 billion. Here’s why this is a horrible idea:

- We will be less safe. More than 120 generals wrote a letter opposing cuts to the State Department and international aid that would make future wars and conflict more likely. As Trump’s own Secretary of Defense James Mattis once argued, “if you don’t fully fund the State Department, then I need to buy more ammunition.”5

- Americans disapprove of it. A recent poll found that 58 percent of Americans oppose the Trump plan to increase wasteful military spending. Democrats afraid of their own shadows must realize that redirecting some military spending to higher priorities is a political winner.6

- Helps war profiteers, not everyday Americans. Some military families need food stamps to survive. American children face crowded, crumbling schools. Our infrastructure is falling apart. Meanwhile, under the influence of war profiteer lobbyists, Congress repeatedly funds weapon systems that even the military says it does not want.7,8


Trump and his Republican backers are not serious about reducing wasteful spending, they are simply declaring war on the poor as an excuse to pass massive tax breaks for their wealthy campaign donors and corporate pals.

Tell Democratic leaders: Resist Trump’s handout to war profiteers. Click here to sign the petition. (https://act.credoaction.com/sign/trump_war_profiteers?t=5&akid=22166.247355.HxaM_8)

The United States spends more on the military than the next seven countries combined, while priorities that make America safer and more prosperous – like education, health, transportation, housing, veterans’ benefits, diplomacy and dozens of others – must compete for the remaining scraps.9

Redirecting war-profiteer handouts to investments that make us safer and more prosperous long term is both common sense and has popular support. Democrats cannot offer a true alternative to Trump if they refuse to talk about wasteful military spending. It’s up to us to drive that point home before it is too late.

Tell Democratic leaders: Resist Trump’s handout to war profiteers. Click below to sign the petition:

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Thank you for speaking out,

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Alex Morash and Craig Harrington, “Economists And Experts Hammer Trump's Plan To Increase Military Spending At Expense Of Nearly Everything Else,” Media Matters, Feb. 28, 2017.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, “Pelosi Statement on Trump 2018 Budget Blueprint,” Feb. 27, 2017.
Naomi Jugada, “Schumer: Trump budget would benefit wealthy over middle class,” The Hill, Feb. 27, 2017.
Charles Osterndorf, “Bernie Sanders is right—America spends too much money on its military,” The Daily Dot, Aug. 26, 2015.
Morash and Harrington, “Economists And Experts Hammer Trump's Plan To Increase Military Spending At Expense Of Nearly Everything Else.”
Curt Mills, “Poll: Americans Oppose Defense Budget Increases,” U.S. News & World Report, March 8, 2017.
Krissy Clark, “Military families turn to food stamps,” Marketplace, May 25, 2015.
William Hartung, “Why Can't We Rein In This Ridiculous Military Spending?” Mother Jones, Oct. 30, 2016.
Morash and Harrington, “Economists And Experts Hammer Trump's Plan To Increase Military Spending At Expense Of Nearly Everything Else.”

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Don't Make America Homeless


Dear Chris,

There is a lot to hate about the insanely cruel budget that Trump came out with today. But perhaps some of the cruelest cuts are those that will put hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk of eviction or homelessness.

Trump has spent a lot of time arguing how important it is to take care of our nation's veterans. Yet, Trump's budget completely eliminates the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, a group whose goals include ending veteran homelessness.

The cuts don't stop there. The Trump Budget proposes slashing funding at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by 13 percent. The National Low Income Housing Coalition estimates that these cuts will put more than 200,000 seniors, families, and people with disabilities at immediate risk of evictions and homelessness.

At a time when safe, affordable housing is already so hard to come by, and when the country loses more than 10,000 units of public housing each and every year, the last thing we need to be doing is cutting HUD's already slim budget. Instead, Trump is proposing cuts that will plunge thousands of Americans into homelessness.

This cannot stand. Tell Congress to reject the Trump Budget. (http://petitions.moveon.org/s/N6RyoV%20)

Sincerely,
Alexis Goldstein

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Equal justice for...those who can afford it


Dear Chris,

In America, we promise that everyone is equal under the law. But that's only true if there are programs to help those who can't otherwise afford legal counsel. Trump's new budget threatens to put justice out of reach for millions.

To ensure that all Americans have equal protection under the law, in 1974 Congress created a legal aid program to ensure that all Americans have access to civil legal assistance when they need it. But the Trump Budget takes aim at legal aid, by eliminating funding for a program that provides legal services to 1.9 million people each year.

The program Trump wants to eliminate funds lawyers who represent homeowners facing illegal foreclosures, help secure housing for veterans, protect seniors from scams, stop illegal harassment by debt collectors, deliver legal services to rural areas, protect victims of domestic abuse, and help disaster survivors.

We can’t let Trump deny justice to Americans who can’t afford legal assistance. Tell Trump and Congress: don’t put justice out of reach. (http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/dont-let-trump-put-justice?mailing_id=37184&source=s.icn.em.cr&r_by=1831516)

Thanks for everything you do.

Sincerely,
Gynnie Robnett, Americans for Financial Reform


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Bombing North Korea is not an option. Back realistic diplomacy


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By Kim DeFranco

Minneapolis, MN - On March 19, about 20 people gathered at Wabun Park to join the Kids Against Trump rally and march through Minnehaha Falls Park.

Audrey, 8, organized the kids’ rally with her friends from Windom Elementary School. She and many children were upset after the election of Donald Trump in November and wanted to do something. Other kids from Windom and Southside Family Schools joined with parents and friends to voice their frustration. They started off their march chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go!”

People at the park heard the protesters chanting, “Ain’t no power like the power of the kids because the power of the kids don’t stop.” The march winded around the park to the falls, “From Palestine to Mexico, all walls have to go!” Many people at the park gave thumbs up and smiles to the march which was led by kids.

The march went back to the gathering spot and the kids continued the rally. Leila, 12, from Southside Family School said, “Today the rally might be small but everything starts small. We just gotta continue to do this all because Trump doesn’t deserve to be in office. He has done horrible things and he is racist, xenophobic and sexist.”

Cedar, 10, also from Southside Family School, rapped, “U.S. is doing too much war, as time ticks on we are fighting more and more. And the weapons have upgraded from bows to guns and now we are fighting with nuclear ones. The only power to stop this is the power of all, otherwise the country will fall.”

Andrea, 7, also from Windom School, stated “You have to treat others as equals. Building walls between America and Mexico is a bad idea. I feel the walls divide. Walls can even divide family members from each other. We have to talk to the government to stop this from happening.”

The rally ended with chant of “Not my president” and snacks and playtime at the park. Kids Against Trump will keep organizing in their schools and together.

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March 2017: Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. April in Somalia

Fathers crawling through rubble to find their loved ones, families told to go back in their homes (to save themselves from insurgents) only to be targetted for incineration, or children living through drought and famine only to be murdered by US bombs.

Yes, Obama's program of covert drone wars and kill-list is being continued. Yes, Bush's wars of aggression are being continued. Yes, the U.S. empire has always been savage. All of that is reason enough to be outraged and take action. That understanding informs what we are now seeing, a dramatic escalation if not a departure from business as usual. Seemingly rules of engagement shifted with more of the world deemed 'areas of hostilities,' no vetting of targets/strike zones and total disregard for the increasing number of lives lossed in their masacres.

According to Airwars, in March alone over 1,000 civilians were killed by U.S. airstrikes. Since Trump has taken office there has been a surge in the murder of civilians in Iraq, Syria and Yemen by U.S. airstrike. As reported in the New York Times, while there are many factors, all likeliness points to the Trump/Pence regime's relaxing of rules of engagement.

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In a recent article on Yemen, “Securing Our Nation” by Slaughtering Children (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ORI6sdjlPL4r0W8iwwbNTzseVOS8VEZX), Revcom.us reports: "On a national scale, 10,000 civilians have been killed in the U.S.-fueled civil war, mostly through massive Saudi bombing raids that have devastated crowded markets, hospitals, mosques and funerals. And the Saudi blockade of fuel and other essential material going into Yemen has caused a famine - almost three quarters of Yemen’s 24 million people are now either 'food insecure' or facing outright starvation.

But as criminal as past U.S. violence in Yemen has been, the al Ghayil raid seems to mark a pivot to a whole other level of carnage, foretold by Trump’s pledge to “exterminate” U.S. foes in the Middle East, and fueled by his regime’s open hostility to the Muslim world."

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“A politico-economic system in which there is: total executive branch control of both the legislative and administrative powers of government; no independent judiciary; no Constitution that embodies the rule of law standing above the people who run the government; no inherent personal rights or liberties; a single national ideology that first demonizes and then criminalizes all political, religious, and ideological opposition to it; the massive and regular use of hate, fear, racial and religious prejudice, the Big Lie technique, mob psychology, mob actions and ultimately individual and collective violence to achieve political and economic ends; a capitalist/corporate economy; with the ruling economic class’ domination of economic, fiscal, and regulatory policy.”

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Millions of people abhor this, and there is righteous resistance. But, whether or not we can stop the dire threat that the Trump/Pence regime poses to humanity means recognizing and acting on the understanding that history has shown that fascism must be stopped before it becomes too late.

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One of the high school teachers emailed us after to say, "Thanks for visiting our seminar. I was impacted by the soldier, but also by the attention paid to him by a group of students for whom war is background noise." A teacher at another one of the high schools also wrote, saying, "The visit was a massive success; students in all classes have been telling me that they no longer want to join the army AND they would love for you and Lyle to visit again."

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The Energy Department's international climate office just told staff to stop using the phrases "climate change," "emissions reduction," and "Paris agreement." It's absolutely insane!

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Trump seems to think that if you don't say certain words -- climate, emissions, agreement -- they aren't real. But climate change is very real, as will be the consequences of ignoring it: skyrocketing child mortality rates, rising sea levels and shrinking food supplies.

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Breaking news! Steve Bannon has been removed from the National Security Council!

Make no mistake, this is a massive victory, and it was possible because of you. When we first demanded that Donald Trump remove Steve Bannon, his white nationalist, political right hand, from the center of America’s national security decision-making, the Washington consensus said we were crazy. They said that the President would never back down and that Bannon’s hold on power was absolute.

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Donald Trump’s move to place Steve Bannon on the National Security Council was unprecedented, and it was dangerous. Bannon is an extremist, white nationalist whose very presence on the NSC politicized our nation’s security and made our country less safe.

Tens of thousands of Win Without War members joined with hundreds of thousands of others to raise our voices and demand that Steve Bannon be removed from the NSC, and that’s just what happened today. This is a victory that makes our country safer, but it’s just the beginning.

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We know that we can’t stop here. Steve Bannon’s seat on the NSC may be gone, but he still sits at the right hand of the President and his dangerous and extremist views still have no place in the White House. Anyone who would give a megaphone to white nationalists and hatemongers should not be making decisions about the future of our country.

The very fact that Donald Trump put someone as woefully unqualified and extreme as Steve Bannon on the NSC in the first place, also shows the challenge ahead. Let’s be clear. Donald Trump is putting his own personal politics and the extreme ideology of his advisers above America’s security. That’s still the case today and that’s why we need to fight even harder tomorrow.

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Our environmental and human needs are desperate and urgent. We need to transform our economy, our politics, our policies and our priorities to reflect that reality. That means reversing the flow of our tax dollars, away from war and militarism, and towards funding human and environmental needs, and demanding support for that reversal from all our political leaders at the local, state and national levels.

We and the movements we are part of face multiple crises. Military and climate wars are destroying lives and environments, threatening the planet and creating enormous flows of desperate refugees. Violent racism, Islamophobia, misogyny, homophobia and other hatreds are rising, encouraged by the most powerful voices in Washington DC.

President Trump plans to strip $54 billion from human and environmental spending so as to increase already massive spending on the military. The plan raises Pentagon spending to well over 60 cents of every discretionary dollar in the U.S. budget -- even as Trump himself admits that enormous military spending has left the Middle East "far worse than it was 16, 17 years ago." The wars have not made any of us safer.

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Washington's militarized foreign policy comes home as domestic law enforcement agencies acquire military equipment and training from the Pentagon and from military allies abroad. Impoverished communities of color see and face the power of this equipment regularly, in the ongoing domestic wars on drugs and immigrants. This military-grade equipment is distributed and used by many of the same private companies that profit from mass incarceration and mass deportation.

Using just a fraction of the proposed military budget, the U.S. could provide free, top-quality, culturally competent and equitable education from pre-school through college and ensure affordable comprehensive healthcare for all. We could provide wrap-around services for survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence; replace mass incarceration with mass employment, assure clean energy and water for all residents and link our cities by new fast trains. We could double non-military U.S. foreign aid, wipe out hunger worldwide. The list of possibilities is long.

Instead, the Trump administration plans to take much of their $54 billion gift for the Pentagon from the budgets of the Environmental Protection Agency (even threatening to shut down its already under-funded environmental justice office), the Department of Health and Human Services (slashing family planning and anti-violence-against-women programs), from the State Department (thus privileging war over diplomacy), and foreign aid (so that the wealthiest country in human history turns its back on the world's most desperate).

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Among those most desperate are the 24 million refugees who have been forced out of their homes and countries, more than at any time since World War II. Instead of cruel Muslim bans and cuts to the already meager number of refugees allowed into the U.S., we should be welcoming far more. Alleviating the refugee crisis also means working to end, rather than escalate, the wars that create refugees, and supporting human rights defenders in their home communities. That means more diplomacy and foreign aid, not more military spending.

With its hundreds of billions of un-audited dollars, the military remains the greatest consumer of petroleum in the United States, and one of the world's worst polluters. The U.S. needs new green, sustainable jobs across our economy targeted to people facing the highest rates of unemployment and low wages. Military spending results in an economic drain. Clean energy production creates 50% more jobs than the same investment in military spending.

The U.S. military also serves as a security force protecting the extraction and transport of fossil fuels domestically and from the Middle East and other parts of the world. U.S. military force thus enables the continued assault on the planet and some of its most impoverished inhabitants by ensuring the supply of cheap fossil fuels, all while subsidizing some of the largest corporations in the world.

A December 2014 Gallup poll showed people in 65 nations considered the United States far and away the largest threat to peace in the world. If the United States was known for providing clean drinking water, schools, medicine, and solar panels to others, instead of attacking and invading other countries, we would be far more secure and face far less global hostility.

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Sign if you agree: No White supremacists on the National Security Council


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The white-supremacist-in-chief is losing his power.


Last week, Trump caved to a combination of in-fighting and public pressure and ousted white supremacist Steve Bannon from his position on the National Security Council (NSC).1

But while Trump is trying to publicly distance himself from Bannon,2 Bannon is reportedly still sitting in sensitive meetings and still has security clearance. This is not normal. CREDO activists and our allies have been waging a resistance campaign against Trump and his crony administration for months – and we are making progress. We have forced the administration to remove Bannon from the NSC, and now we need to turn up the heat of our public pressure campaign and get this white supremacist out of the White House for good.

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Tensions between Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Bannon have been high since the beginning, and Kushner was one of the main players pushing to get Bannon off the NSC. Initial reports tried to paint a picture of a smooth lateral transition,3 but reports came out later that Bannon was so upset that he went so far as threatening to “quit” after his embarrassing demotion.4

A desperate, dysfunctional and divided White House has been flailing around in Trump’s first 100 days in complete disarray. Ninety percent of staffing roles considered “critical to leadership” remain unfilled,5 and the staff that is there is overrun with internal strife. and conflict among competing power camps.

Bannon has been involved in many of Trump’s attempts to deliver on his horrible campaign promises. He was one of the masterminds behind the failed attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act,6 the twice-declared-unconstitutional Muslim ban7 and the ridiculous and infeasible anti-immigrant border wall that would cost American taxpayers over 21 billion dollars8. Despite his prominent role in the White House, Trump threw him under the bus earlier this week when the New York Post asked him if he still had confidence in him.9

Trump is clearly doubting himself. Now is exactly the moment when progressives need to show our strength and turn up the pressure to get Bannon out of the White House.

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Bannon is an anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic, white supremacist, domestic abuser and conspiracy theorist. He believes in the dangerous lie that the United States is at war with Islam and that America should be the center of a new movement of right-wing populism centering on white nationalism.10 He also believes that the apocalypse is coming and a new world order is upon us.11 It is ludicrous that he has ever had any role in the White House. Now is our chance to get him out for good.

Tell the Trump administration: Remove white supremacist Steve Bannon from the White House. Click the link below to sign the petition.

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References:
1. Yochi Dreazen, “Trump just took Steve Bannon off the NSC. That's a very good thing.” Vox, April 5, 2017.
2. Sam Levine, “Trump Declines To Publicly Declare His Support For Steve Bannon,” The Huffington Post, April 11, 2017.
3. Andrew Prokop, “The knives are out for Steve Bannon — as they should be,” Vox, April 6, 2017.
4. Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush, “Trump Removes Stephen Bannon From National Security Council Post,” The New York Times, April 5, 2017.
5. Julie Hirschfeld Davis, “The Latest Test for the White House? Pulling Off Its Easter Egg Roll,” The New York Times, April 11, 2017.
6. Robert Pear, Thomas Kaplan and Maggie Haberman, “In Major Defeat for Trump, Push to Repeal Health Law Fails,” The New York Times, March 24, 2017.
7. Marjorie Cohn, “Trump’s Unconstitutional Muslim Ban,” The Huffington Post, Feb. 4, 2017.
8. Rafael Carranza, “Border wall would cost $21.6B, nearly double Trump's estimate,” USA Today, Feb. 10, 2017.
9. Levine, “Trump Declines To Publicly Declare His Support For Steve Bannon.”
10. Jalal Baig, “Steve Bannon’s war with Islam: Trump may not even understand his adviser’s apocalyptic vision,” Salon, Feb. 5, 2017.
11. Paul Blumenthal and JM Rieger, “Steve Bannon Believes The Apocalypse Is Coming And War Is Inevitable,” The Huffington Post, Feb. 8, 2017.

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100 Disruptions: The ESPN of politics


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CNN has become the ESPN of politics.

Under its current President Jeff Zucker the network has become known for on-air screaming matches and for hiring a small army of Trump supporters — who spread lies and misinformation while on CNN’s payroll.

Zucker has a background in entertainment television. He sees his pro-Trump pundits as characters in a drama — but this drama has consequences in the real world, and Trump directly benefits from this type of coverage.

The circus of misinformation on CNN has played a significant role in mainstreaming Trump’s misinformation about immigrants, communities of color and Muslims. Normalizing the Trump agenda is causing harm to the most vulnerable people in our society — like 23 year old Juan Manuel Montes, who was deported by the Trump administration even though he is protected by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

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Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos reverses Obama-era decision on student loan debt

By Kayla Costa and Genevieve Leigh

21 April 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos signed an order last Tuesday halting plans made under the Obama administration regarding the national student loan servicing and debt collection system.

In a memo to James Runcie of the Federal Student Aid Office, DeVos formally withdrew three Obama-era memos calling for the federal government to select a single vendor to build a new system for servicing its student loans.

Currently the Federal government has $800 million in contracts with nine different loan servicing companies to carry out the tasks of sending bills, collecting payments, and dealing with borrower issues for the more than $1 trillion of student loans. Under this setup the federal government has directly profited from the student loan crisis to the tune of about $10 billion per year.

The Obama-era plans to consolidate the vendor contracts into one did not represent a genuine effort to address the student loan collection scandals or reform the exploitative loan system more generally. The memos were the product of a damage control campaign following a series of lawsuits and scandals involving the Department of Education and the explosion of the student debt crisis following the 2008 financial crisis.

Public education as a whole came under brutal attack as part of the Obama administration’s effort to shift the burden of the financial crisis onto the backs of the working class. Major cuts were made to spending on education and consequently public universities compensated for the loss by increasing tuition nationally by 33 percent over the course of the first six years of the Obama administration. These costs, paired with the rising costs of living and stagnating wages, resulted in a sharp spike in student debt.

As the situation was seized upon by the loan companies with the backing of the Department of Education, the government agency became the target of growing anger for employing and protecting the predatory student loan collection agencies.

The token measures offered under by the Obama administration, and only after enormous pressure, did nothing to curb the loan collectors’ scandalous behavior. While consolidation of the loan agencies may appear to have been a progressive step, it is doubtful that this move would have made any positive difference at all to students. This is supported by the negotiating process leading up to the plan’s implementation.

Bidding for the single vendor contract to service student loans, which would have been the largest federal contract outside of the military, started about a year ago. The largest student loan servicer in the country, Navient, quickly emerged as the frontrunner.

Navient oversees roughly $300 billion in student loans for more than 12 million borrowers, 6 million of whom are under contract with the Department of Education. In total, the Delaware-based corporation, formed out of the split of student loan servicer Sallie Mae in 2014, accounts for nearly one-fourth of all student loan borrowers.

Navient is among the most notorious student loan agencies. The company paid $97 million in a settlement in 2014 alone for illegally maximizing late fees on the student loans of military personnel. Over 60,000 loans were affected by the violation of the 6 percent interest rate cap which is afforded to active duty service members. It was this company which the Obama administration was prepared to task with overseeing great “reforms.”

Any attempt to paint the Obama administration as an ally of students or good for education falls flat in the face of the facts. However, this is not to say there is anything positive about DeVos’ reversal.

Last week’s withdrawal of the Obama-era reforms indicates a further shift to the right by the new Trump administration. DeVos’s actions, in line with the Trump administration’s moves on foreign policy, immigration, and environmental protections, mark an escalation based on the framework established by the Obama administration.

DeVos has repeatedly expressed plans for the Department of Education to slash federal funding and regulations—as weak as they were to begin with—shifting the weight of public services into the hands of state officials and ultimately private investors.

The recent order claimed that the previous plans lacked “proper management cohesion,” in addition to being too costly. Without laying out a new policy agenda, DeVos stated that an effort was underway to “acquire new federal student loan capabilities that will provide borrowers with the tools necessary to efficiently repay their debt.”

DeVos, a billionaire from Michigan, is a well-known ideological opponent of public education. She and her family have donated millions of dollars to politicians and lobbying groups that support the funneling of tax dollars to private and religious schools through voucher programs and removing oversight of education spending through the establishment of charter schools.

Her inner circle is filled with some of the most right-wing conservative figures in the US. There is no question as to her intentions as head of the Department of Education: to destroy public education in the service of private interests.

Opposition to DeVos and the attack on education will not come from the Democratic Party despite the theatrical campaign they waged during her senate confirmation. Behind their nominal defense of “struggling families” from “unnecessary financial burden,” as leading Senators have put it, lies the Democratic Party’s own legacy of attacking public education and promoting charter schools, extending back decades. The Democrats’ complicity in the corporate-driven school “reform” is well documented in cities like Chicago and Detroit.

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Trump’s First 100 Days: Undercutting wages and protections for working people


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Some of these actions by President Donald Trump have been high profile, but others have gone virtually unnoticed.

We are nearly at the 100 day mark of Donald Trump’s presidency and EPI’s Perkins Project is acting as the watchdog of Trump, Congress and the courts―shining a spotlight on the issues that impact working people.

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Donald Trump has sided with Wall Street over working people when he instructed the Department of Labor to reconsider the “fiduciary rule,” which would have stopped unscrupulous financial “advisers” from fleecing retirement savers out of billions of dollars.

Donald Trump has signaled that he will sign a resolution letting employers hide fatal injuries that happen on their watch. Once he does, employers can fail to maintain―or falsify―their injury and illness logs, making them less likely to suffer the consequences when workers are injured or killed.

Donald Trump is siding with dishonest and unsafe private contractors over responsible contractors and working people. On March 27, President Trump killed the Obama-era Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule, which would have required that companies vying for lucrative government contracts disclose workplace violations including failure to pay workers.

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Earlier this year, the Economic Policy Institute launched the Perkins Project on Worker Rights and Wages―lead by former Obama Department of Labor Chief Economist Heidi Shierholz.

The Perkins Project is a policy response team tracking the wage and employment policies coming out of the White House, Congress, and the courts. This watchdog unit of economists and lawyers keeps an especially close eye on the federal agencies that establish and defend workers’ rights, wages, and working conditions, including the Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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Add Your Name: Tell Betsy DeVos to Fire Navient


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Dear friends and supporters,

Tuesday, April 25th marks five years since America’s total student debt topped $1 Trillion. In the last five years, that balance has grown by more than $400 Billion, making student loan debt the second highest source of consumer debt in the country.

Central to the problem of the student debt crisis has been loan servicing failures by companies with no incentive to help borrowers. Coupled with a complete lack of oversight from the Department of Education, America now faces a system that allows corporations to rake in billions of dollars in profits off the backs of student loan borrowers.1

Will you help us address this unfortunate anniversary by taking action now?

Tell the Department of Education to Fire Navient! Take Action Today.

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Navient, the country’s largest student loan servicer, is facing multiple lawsuits brought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).2 In recent court filings, Navient stated that “there is no expectation that the servicer will act in the interest of the consumer.”3 Truer words have never been spoken, as the company has been accused of shameful business practices, including: misapplying payments, steering borrowers away from lower monthly payments, failure to communicate vital deadlines and destroying the credit scores of veterans.4 This is why we need you to put the pressure on Betsy DeVos to Fire Navient.

In addition to demanding that the Department of Education Fire Navient, this petition also demands that the Department review all of its contracts with student loan servicing companies in order to weed out the bad actors.

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Student Debt Crisis believes in strong consumer protections that protect student loan borrowers from unaccountable servicing companies. It’s time that the Department of Education stops doing business with unscrupulous student loan servicers that harass borrowers, tack on unfair fees and penalties, and engage in other practices that make borrowers' lives that much more difficult. Do you share the same belief?

We urge you to demand Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Fire Navient for its deceptive, fraudulent and illegal practices. Sign the petition: Tell the Department of Education to #FireNavient! (http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NITbIM%2FlmyucK8v6ojhs6rsM%2FMXlJt1r)

Thank you, as always, for your continued support.

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Natalia Abrams - Executive Director Student Debt Crisis
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1. "CFPB Concerned About Widespread Servicing Failures Reported by Student Loan Borrowers," Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, September 29th, 2015
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-concerned-about-widespread-servicing-failures-reported-by-student-loan-borrowers/

2. "Student loan servicer Navient hit with three government lawsuits in one day," The Washington Post, January 8th, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/01/18/student-loan-servicer-navient-hit-with-three-government-lawsuits-in-one-day/?utm_term=.7cea399d59c9

3. "Navient Says Don't Expect it to Help Student Loan Borrowers," NBC News, April 6th, 2017
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/navient-says-don-t-expect-it-help-student-loan-borrowers-n743491

4. "The Accusations Against Navient," The New York Times, April 9th, 2017
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War is not entertainment


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“I am guided by the beauty of our weapons.”

That is the Leonard Cohen quote that MSNBC’s Brian Williams used last week to wax poetic about Donald Trump’s decision to illegally drop dozens of Tomahawk missiles on Syria.1 He described the “beautiful pictures of fearsome armaments” that were emerging of the strike with reverence and awe, demonstrating the horrifying and dangerous attitude that traditional corporate media outlets too-often take when reporting on war.2

War is not beautiful. Military action should be taken as a last resort and recognized for the sacrifice and loss that comes with it. It is a problem when the people and institutions tasked with keeping the general public informed of our actions in the world hide behind flowery language and lies to keep from having to report on the reality of war.

Media outlets have a huge amount of power and dictate the information, ideas and perspectives that the majority of Americans have access to. When they sensationalize and praise military actions taken by a man with no strategy and no foreign policy experience, they are normalizing whim-based bomb dropping. With the power to reach and inform millions of Americans every day we have to hold the media accountable for providing balanced, accurate information on the consequences of Trump’s warmongering.

Tell traditional corporate mediate outlets: Stop treating war as entertainment. Report on military action responsibly. Click here to sign the petition.

Williams was not the only news anchor and reporter to shower praise on Donald Trump for dropping Tomahawk missiles and the “mother-of-all-bombs” on Syria and Afghanistan, respectively. MSNBC’s Kristen Welker said the strike was an example of Trump “turning the page” on the “rocky” beginning of his presidency.3 CNN’s Fareed Zakaria said “I think Donald Trump became president of the United States last night [by ordering the Syrian missile strikes].”4 Mark Landler from The New York Times published an article after the Syria strike that painted a picture of an emotionally raw Trump deciding to launch missiles out of concern for the Syrian people after seeing images of Assad’s brutal chemical attack. “It was an emotional act by a man suddenly aware that the world’s problems were now his,” he wrote.5

Dropping bombs and ordering missile strikes does not make one presidential. As iconic news anchor Dan Rather said:

“It's easy to drop bombs and easy to put missiles off. What comes after that, dealing with what comes in the wake of that, is much more difficult.”6

It is wildly irresponsible for traditional corporate media outlets to treat illegal acts of war as personal interest stories. By centering Trump’s image and feelings, the media is ignoring the need for balanced and comprehensive coverage of war acts and what they mean for our country, our soldiers and the rest of the world.

For too long, the media has worked to maintain national consensus7 over encouraging national debate and has prioritized the “theatre of war.” They have prioritized getting good ratings over challenging presidential administrations and holding them accountable when they engage our nation in international conflict. We saw it in the run-up to and throughout the Iraq War8 and we’re seeing it again now. But with a so called president as reckless as Trump, things can’t be business-as-usual.

Tell traditional corporate media outlets: Stop treating war as entertainment. Report on military action responsibly. Click here to sign the petition.

Traditional corporate media outlets like MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times and others cannot keep treating war as entertainment. When they focus on sensationalism and the emotional experience of the president, they do a disservice to their viewers and to the country.

Major media platforms rely on advertising, which requires them to maintain large audiences. By showing MSNBC, CNN and The New York Times that the public wants honest, sober reporting on Trump’s illegal acts of war, we can build pressure on them to stop treating war as entertainment and provide the fact-based reporting and analysis the American people deserve.

Tell traditional corporate media outlets: Stop treating war as entertainment. Report on military action responsibly. Click the link below to sign the petition.

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Thank you for your activism,

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References:
1. Lee Moran, “Brian Williams Gets Heat For Using Leonard Cohen Lyric To Describe U.S. Airstrikes,” The Huffington Post, April 7, 2017.
2. Ibid. 3. Jared Holt, “Media Praise Trump For Ordering Missile Attack On Syrian Airbase,” Media Matters for America, April 7, 2017.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. “Dan Rather Condemns Media Calling Trump "Presidential" For "Dropping Bombs" And "Having Missile Strikes",” Media Matters for America, April 16, 2017.
7. Gary Kamiya, “Iraq: Why the media failed,” Salon, April 10, 2007.
8. Ibid.

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For Earth Day: Stop Trump's Oil Drilling Agenda

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Chris,

For Earth Day, Donald Trump is trying to open up 95 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico to new oil drilling. He's also planning on overturning efforts by President Obama to protect the Arctic and the Atlantic.

Tell Trump you reject his oil drilling agenda. Add your name to my petition today! (http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/Ax1w7/zSVT/t8hl)

It's been exactly seven years since I watched BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling disaster threaten the Gulf coast and its communities. I watched the oil wash into the nation's most productive fishing grounds, and spoke with fisherfolk who didn't know how they would provide for their families.

I also saw one of the largest oil companies on the planet screw up every step of the way as they tried to clean up and contain their pollution. Sick workers, toxic cleanup chemicals, oiled turtles and dead sperm whales, government agencies incapable and unwilling to hold BP accountable to their own clean up plan. It was a disgrace.

Offshore drilling is a dirty and dangerous business, and we should not allow it to threaten any more of our sensitive coastlines.

Sign my Earth Day petition and tell the Trump administration it's time for clean energy. Leave offshore oil in the ground, and out of our precious bays and oceans. (http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/Ax1w7/zSVT/t8hl)

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They’re back with another healthcare bill


Chris,

A month ago, Republicans tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) with a healthcare bill that stripped 24 million Americans of their coverage, slashed Medicaid and basic medical treatment, and taxed many employer-based health plans—all to give a tax cut to the rich. In response, you made calls, sent letters and showed up at your elected officials’ offices and town halls to say no. And it worked—the GOP’s American Health Care Act didn’t even make it to the floor for a vote.

We need your activism again. As members of Congress come back from their recess this week, President Trump and Republican leaders have found a new—an even crueler—way to gut our healthcare coverage.

Click here to send your representatives a message: We still oppose this bad bill. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/-AA/ni0YAA/t.26q/zhCqCCFwTnSfWJ3ShM6KwA/h0/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBewM-2BBXwXmVcDr-2FHe7DI-2FHNnaXqg-2FJAVXPgbGX7hdoWAQkoGTgVFd-2BqZrft1S9hnSn06fL3lRJfLLIuUXrkP7a100PDQ6qOJeL-2FOvrKrNHrtStw0yy7jRGkbyMfhxkle45FdHrBAiDmimxibjYQ qpa2Wcnhg16MewCon9J7zvOKYAkwLRcys-2FdOaK8-2BxrQywp9UJS5VZMn9wq9-2BuUH2-2BOBaDJ5F24r9lJltd7HU4wzoTRm89d5ItQH6tz8wYoH3K6FB1 d8Y6jucRbaL4SUtj7cB3k77rcmYPN4V40w2qpgJbvw6I0H0SgL b-2B5deobx7w-2BSP3FNL2qrSEIh1JexhTWugLEDiGSWAcFDyRbRFp5tTybPT0f saZjatWFshqBe4Ucw-3D-3D)

They’ve already admitted that their American Health Care Act was really just an excuse for a $600 billion tax break for corporations and the very wealthy.

Their new plan would turn on its head every promise Trump and the GOP have made not to penalize the sick. It would let states deny coverage for pre-existing conditions and let insurance companies charge more to the 52 million currently protected under Obamacare.

We can’t let this happen. Write your representatives right now. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/-AA/ni0YAA/t.26q/zhCqCCFwTnSfWJ3ShM6KwA/h1/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBewM-2BBXwXmVcDr-2FHe7DI-2FHNnaXqg-2FJAVXPgbGX7hdoWAQkoGTgVFd-2BqZrft1S9hnSn06fL3lRJfLLIuUXrkP7a2P3UhaA-2BpJwd5LQe6iQJx9DmnfY2EMWdZLLEIs8aC8LUpzKK2uBRHpYe rUsuzqUf7o-2BnLPVlwPB-2BnPehfSgHt2vbbwFLHokRrx2Nu8nbalKwV2XBxLfZrLGu2i0T mdDnIskYHKaCGSXqSPJk643-2FIX0s1clwXpClYz-2BRWtvTilehkwkTXyLMGDJryDqC0keOIesvXb3HXgx2Ea9IUd8 u5VeOYNxWhUTPTxafzUEWWoiDPA98vy830NVzGoOGoBInU-2Bpy-2B-2FQ2OFIm1HUtVf8qlh-2BR57IpJQoS6NGPZ-2BMDleHg-3D-3D)

As a separate strategy to attack Obamacare, the GOP is also discussing ending the subsidies that allow lower-income Americans to buy healthcare coverage. Ending the subsidies would, quite simply, sabotage current health insurance by throwing state insurance markets into chaos.

Instead of improving coverage and lowering costs, the GOP seems intent on putting millions at risk for the sake of tax cuts for the rich.

That is not what Americans want. Make your voice heard by writing your elected officials today.

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100 Disruptions: Shutting down dissent


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Chris,

The Trump administration is moving fast to undercut our rights and shut down dissent — sometimes it’s hard to keep track of it all.

Take the FCC, for example. Since Trump appointed him chairman of the agency, Ajit Pai has used his authority to eviscerate internet privacy and make it harder for poor folks and people of color to get online. He has also repeatedly threatened to destroy Net Neutrality.

Chairman Pai is giving media monopolies free reign to harm our communities by putting profits ahead of the public interest, and we must hold him accountable for every bad decision.

Today’s action is to read and share this Gizmodo article, “Everything Ajit Pai Has F&$#@* Up in the Last Three Months.” (http://act.freepress.net/go/16793?t=1&akid=6325.9036884.I9S0sj)

Thanks for all that you do,

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Analysis


Experts say it’s 50/50 the government will shut down next week

By Amber Phillips April 21

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Congress has until midnight on April 28 to pass a spending bill to keep the government open through September or face a government shutdown. And budget experts we spoke to think it could go either way. Congress has its usual red lines that make a deal that will please a majority of both chambers nearly impossible. But this time, the wild card on whether there will be a shutdown is President Trump.

To better understand why, let's run down three scenarios for how this next week could play out:


The Crisis Averted Scenario

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It's entirely possible that Congress returns on Monday from its two-week break and comes up with a spending plan that not everyone likes, but that enough people in both parties can live with to form a majority in both chambers.

Maybe it funds Planned Parenthood like Democrats want, but it also cuts domestic spending like Republicans want.

Congress passes it in time, President Trump willingly signs it, and a government shutdown is averted.


The Crisis Scenario, version 1

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Congress comes back to town Monday, comes up with a spending bill that both Democrats and hard-right Republicans in the House Freedom Caucus loathe (it increases domestic spending too much and defense not enough, it doesn't do enough for Obamacare or it cuts Obamacare too much, and on and on and on). Congress can't pass something in time, and the government shuts down.

(Or they pass a bill extending government funding — and the shutdown threat — by another week.)


The Crisis Scenario, version 2

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Normally we'd stop there. But it's also entirely possible that Congress comes back Monday, comes up with a spending bill that can pass both chambers, and then President Trump says he won't support it because it doesn't have enough of his priorities (funding for his U.S.-Mexico border wall being top of the list). We're back to version 1 of The Crisis Scenario, since Democrats refuse to fund the wall, and conservative Republicans are wary of how much it will cost.

A majority of Congress won't support the bill, and the government is shut down.

The dynamics in the first two scenarios aren't new: Torn between increasingly stubborn, polarized parties, Congress has faced a shutdown threat at least once or twice a year for the past couple of years. It's managed to hobble along, either by passing short-term spending bills that fund the government at current levels for a few months, or by finding a bipartisan compromise everyone can live with for a year.

Congress toes shutdown deadline yet again Play Video2:09

With less than a week to pass a new spending bill, negotiations between the White House, Republicans and Democrats are ramping up to avoid a government shutdown on April 29. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
It's the third scenario — what President Trump wants — that's a totally new dynamic. And the unpredictability of what Trump wants is throwing many of our budget experts' predictions from “probably no shutdown this time” to “anything could happen.”

We are in volatile times for the Trump administration. The day of the budget deadline, April 29, marks his first 100 days. And as the president tacitly acknowledged in a tweet Friday, he really hasn't had a win yet. This budget could be his first last chance to score a win.

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That could help explain why, in an interview Thursday with the Associated Press, Trump's budget director, Mick Mulvaney, raised eyebrows in Washington when he said: “We want wall funding. We want agents. Those are our priorities,” Mulvaney said. “We know there are a lot of people on the Hill, especially in the Democratic Party, who don't like the wall, but they lost the election. And the president should, I think, at least have the opportunity to fund one of his highest priorities in the first funding bill under his administration.”

The president certainly has every right to try to get his priorities into a spending bill. It's just not clear that what he wants is something that can pass a majority of Congress.

“It's going to come down to what Trump wants,” said nonpartisan budget expert Stan Collender. “And it's not clear that he knows what he wants.”

Maya MacGuineas with the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said she thinks Republicans so badly want to avoid a shutdown on their watch that neither Trump nor the House Freedom Caucus will take a stand that risks one — especially after they failed to repeal Obamacare just a few weeks ago.

“Anybody could cause enough problems to create a shutdown,” she said, “and the chances of hurting them are high enough that cooler heads will prevail.”

But Trump's definition of what constitutes a political victory on the budget battle might be totally different from what Congress is used to, said Steve Bell, a former Senate GOP budget expert now with the Bipartisan Policy Center. Trump doesn't see himself as a creature of Washington, and so he might think he has much less to lose by what happens in Washington.

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“I don't think he fears a government shutdown as much as Republican leadership does, because he can point to Congress and say: 'See? That's what's wrong. Congress is what's wrong,'" Bell said.

Collender agrees that for all of Congress's unpredictability around budget time, Trump is the most unpredictable player right now.

“The big question is: What will Trump accept as a win?” Collender said. “And there's just no way to know. Is shutting down the government a win for him? It's possible.”

And that's why, for now, the sum of our experts' shutdown predictions for next week is: Maybe not, but also maybe.

Graphics by Darla Cameron. Icons by Shashank Singh and Chelsea Carlson for the Noun Project.

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CREDO action


Tell Congress: No tax legislation until Trump releases all tax returns


Petition to Congress:

"Do not consider any legislation pertaining to taxes until Donald Trump releases full copies of all undisclosed tax returns. Congress cannot consider changing the tax code while Trump hides potential conflicts of interest from legislators and the public."

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Dear Chris,

Tell Congress: No tax legislation until Trump releases all tax returns
On April 15, over 100,000 protesters took to the streets in dozens of cities to demand Donald Trump finally stop the excuses and release his tax returns. The show of force got under Trump’s skin, forcing him to reroute his motorcade and prompting a Twitter tirade against the protesters – including CREDO members.1

We cannot let this energy fade away. In the coming weeks, Congress is preparing to take up right-wing tax cut plans under the guise of “tax reform.”2 We need to make it clear that no tax legislation should get a second of consideration until Trump releases his tax returns.

Tell Congress: No tax legislation until Trump releases all tax returns. Click here to sign the petition. (https://act.credoaction.com/sign/trump_tax_legislation?t=4&akid=22806.247355.9FPnAK)

CREDO was a proud supporter of the Tax Day Marches, and CREDO members showed up in force. The people out in the streets know that Trump’s taxes cut the core of so many of the problems with his discredited regime. We have not forgotten Trump admitting in one of the 2016 presidential debates that he dodges taxes, declaring that not paying taxes “makes him smart.”3

Refusing to release the returns reflects an obsession with secrecy and open contempt for democratic norms – after all, every modern president has released their taxes. Trump’s taxes could also reveal his conflicts of interest, ties to foreign interests, potential corruption, history of making money by scamming hardworking Americans and dodging taxes. Given the enormity of potential conflict of interests, Trump owes it to the American people to be as transparent as possible and release any and all of his tax returns.4

Now, Trump is bragging that “we’re going to surprise you” with the speed of tax cut plans.5 Republicans are plotting nothing less than a massive handout to tax-dodging corporations and Wall Street hedge fund billionaires in the name of “overhauling” taxes.

There is no way the public can judge Trump’s tax plans when we don’t know how the so-called president and his businesses stand to personally benefit – and there is no justification for considering tax legislation until every single one of his returns is public.

Tell Congress: No tax legislation until Trump releases all tax returns. Click here to sign the petition. (https://act.credoaction.com/sign/trump_tax_legislation?t=5&akid=22806.247355.9FPnAK)

Every modern president has released his tax returns even while going through the automatic yearly audits required for the president and vice president. Trump’s excuses that he couldn’t release returns while under an audit were always hogwash, but are even more outrageous now that he is in office.6

Americans need to get the truth about Trump’s business dealings, his claims of extreme wealth, how he truly makes his money, what tax loopholes he is using to dodge taxes and the tax rate he actually pays. As Congress starts considering massive tax cuts for corporations and Wall Street billionaires, the American people deserve to know how much Trump stands to personally profit from Republican tax plans.

Tell Congress: No tax legislation until Trump releases all tax returns. Click below to sign the petition

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Emma Stefansky, “Trump’s Tweets Give Tax Day Marchers At Least Part of What They Wanted,” Vanity Fair, April 16, 2017.
William James and Richard Cowan, “House Speaker Ryan sees long battle over tax reform,” Reuters, April 19, 2017.
Siobhan Fenton, “Presidential debate: Donald Trump claims not paying tax 'makes him smart' as pressure grows to release tax returns,” The Independent, Sept. 27, 2016.
Richard Painter and Norman Eisen, “No Trump taxes, no tax reform,” USA Today Network, April 18, 2017.
Jacob Pramuk, “Trump: 'We're going to surprise you' with speed of tax reform,” CNBC, April 18, 2017.
Stefansky, “Trump’s Tweets Give Tax Day Marchers At Least Part of What They Wanted.”


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National monuments on trial


President Trump signals intent to axe national monuments.


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Night photography of Bears Ears National Monument (Marc Toso)


Dear Chris,

Grand Staircase-Escalante, Grand Canyon-Parashant, Giant Sequoia, Canyon of the Ancients, Hanford Reach, Ironwood Forest, Santa Rosa-San Jacinto Mountains, Vermillion Cliffs, Carrizo Plain, Sonoran Desert, Upper Missouri River Breaks, Papahānaumokuākea, Marianas Trench, Rose Atoll, Pacific Remote Islands, Rio Grande del Norte, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, San Gabriel Mountains, Berryessa Snow Mountain, Basin and Range, Mojave Trails, Sand to Snow, Northeast Canyons and Seamounts, Bears Ears, Gold Butte.

These national monuments were designated by three presidents between 1996 and 2017. Today, President Trump directed the Department of Interior to review all of them. (http://action.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=qJUxozf0xtsK0rEHe-6xiw)

He is putting our national monuments on trial so he can put them on the chopping block.

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Trump tax cuts: A bonanza for corporations and the wealthy

By Patrick Martin

27 April 2017

The Trump administration is proposing the largest tax cut for the wealthy in American history. The plan outlined on Wednesday would transfer trillions of dollars from future tax collections into the pockets of the super-rich. Its purpose is twofold: to enrich the financial aristocracy and force the destruction of programs such as Social Security and Medicare by depriving the federal government of the revenue needed to fund them.

Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and Gary Cohn, chairman of Trump’s National Economic Council, issued a one-page statement of principles at a White House press conference Wednesday afternoon, where they gave only a few highlights and took a handful of questions, which they largely avoided answering.

The entire exercise seemed rushed. Press accounts suggest that the tax plan was thrown together in haste in response to mounting criticism from Wall Street, particularly in the wake of the abortive attempt to repeal Obamacare, that the administration was failing to live up to its commitments to carry out a major transfer of wealth from working people to the multi-millionaires.

That said, the press conference Wednesday did give a glimpse of the naked personal greed that is a major driving force of American capitalist politics. Mnuchin and Cohn could scarcely control their excitement over what Cohn called a “once in a generation opportunity” to transform the tax code. The two former Goldman Sachs bankers, each worth more than half a billion dollars, spelled out the main features of a plan that will add to their own immense wealth.

Among the main measures that will benefit those in the highest income brackets are:

* Abolishing the estate tax, so that the wealthy can pass on their fortunes intact

* Abolishing the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), established in response to widespread tax evasion by the wealthy

* Cutting the tax rate for business profits taken as personal income (so-called “pass-through” income) from 39.6 percent to 15 percent

* Cutting the top income tax rate from 39.6 percent to 35 percent

* Ending the capital gains tax surcharge of 3.8 percent for Obamacare

Many of these measures will benefit President Trump personally, particularly the abolition of the AMT. According to Trump’s leaked 2005 partial tax return, he paid $38 million in income tax that year, rather than $5 million, because of the AMT. He also takes much of his real estate investment income in the form of “pass throughs,” for which the rate would be cut by more than half.

Abolishing the estate tax, which currently applies only to fortunes of $5 million or more, would allow Trump to pass on his billions to his five children without them paying a penny. The same applies to Cohn (net worth $610 million) and Mnuchin (net worth $500 million).

The tax bonanza for corporate America is even greater than that for wealthy individuals. The biggest single proposed cut is the reduction in the corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent, at an estimated cost of $2.4 trillion over the next ten years. In 2018 alone this action would cut the tax bill for corporations from $340 billion to $125 billion, a direct injection of $215 billion onto their bottom line. The bulk of those funds would be returned to wealthy shareholders via stock buybacks and dividends.

Added to that is the proposed change in the taxation of US-based global corporations through the establishment of a “territorial” tax system, in which only income earned by the corporation within the United States would be subject to corporate income tax. Given the ability of corporations to manipulate the flow of income, there will be a renewed incentive to record income in overseas tax havens rather than in the US, and thus escape taxation altogether.

This would be coupled with a one-time incentive for corporations to repatriate profits being held in offshore accounts. The rate at which these profits are taxed could be set as low as 5 percent, a huge boondoggle for a handful of corporations, including Apple and General Electric, which are holding trillions of dollars overseas.

The business tax cuts are expected to win support from many congressional Democrats, who will verbally oppose the reduction to a 15 percent rate for corporate income, but trumpet a cut to 18 or 20 percent as an acceptable “compromise” forced on Trump by their supposedly determined resistance.

The Obama administration had previously proposed a reduction in the corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent, and 25 percent for manufacturers—a windfall of “only” $100 billion a year—while Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer is the co-author of a bipartisan plan to “incentivize” the repatriation of overseas profits through a tax holiday for the corporations involved.

Ahead of Wednesday’s announcement, Schumer struck a pose of opposition, declaring on the Senate floor, “That’s not tax reform… That’s just a tax giveaway to the very, very wealthy that will explode the deficit.”

The last phrase is the key. Opposition from Democrats, and some Republicans, will focus on the fiscal impact of the tax cuts. To the extent that tax cuts are enacted—and they are virtually certain to pass in some form—there will be bipartisan demands that the cost of the handout to the wealthy be “paid for” through cuts in spending. These cuts will not be made in the gargantuan Pentagon budget, which will be increased, but rather in so-called entitlements such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the most expensive domestic social programs.

This perspective was spelled out by the Washington Post in an editorial published on the eve of the tax plan’s release, bemoaning the effect of the tax cuts on the federal deficit without mentioning the issue of economic inequality and the plundering of the country for the benefit of the super-rich. The editorial concluded, “For eight years, Republicans mercilessly attacked President Barack Obama for doing too little to cut federal deficits. Will they really turn around now and approve a budget-busting tax cut?”

The tax plan outlined Wednesday includes a number of provisions that will affect middle-income taxpayers, both positively and negatively. The net result cannot be seriously calculated because so many details remain undetermined.

Cohn said the White House is proposing to double the standard income tax deduction to $24,000 for a married couple. This would be offset by the elimination of the tax deduction for employer-paid health insurance and for payment of state and local taxes.

Lower income workers would gain nothing from the increased standard deduction, since they generally pay little or nothing in income taxes and are far more affected by payroll taxes for Medicare and Social Security, which would be unchanged under the Trump plan.

Cohn and Mnuchin described the tax plan outlined Wednesday as an “opening bid,” preparatory to lengthy negotiations between the White House and Congress. There are two possible legislative tracks—a bipartisan deal, which would require the support of at least eight Senate Democrats to overcome any filibuster, or passage under a procedure known as “reconciliation,” which requires only a simple majority but limits the duration of the tax cuts to a ten-year period.

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Why is Twitter amplifying the tweets of hate groups?1 Twitter’s promoted tweets and trends have recently featured harmful content by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a designated hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.2

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FAIR isn’t just any hate group. It’s one of the worst of many bad ones founded by the white supremacist John Tanton.3 And through groups like FAIR, anti-immigrant white supremacists legitimize violence against our communities. FAIR is also one of the primary architects and cheerleaders of policies that have torn millions of immigrants away from their families and communities through deportation, imprisonment, and even death. In fact, Donald Trump has hired their former Executive Director, Julie Kirchner, to be an advisor to Customs and Border Protection.

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FAIR has also received $1.2 million from the Pioneer Fund, a eugenicist organization with Nazi ties founded to pursue “race betterment” by promoting the genetics of American whites.4 It’s one thing to try and balance free speech and hate speech, it’s entirely another to take money and promote the views of a hate group like FAIR, that exists entirely to harm and reduce the amount of immigrants in this country.

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2. "Two former staffers from anti-immigrant hate groups join Trump administration." Daily Kos. April 12, 2017
3. "John Tanton's private papers expose more than 20 years of hate." Southern Poverty Law Center. November 30, 2008.
4. "Kris Kobach: Lawyer for America's Nativist Movement." Southern Poverty Law Center. November 18, 2016.


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How the Government is Turning Protesters into Felons


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Esquire reports on the legal situation of hundreds of people arrested during protests at the Trump Inauguration, now facing felony riot charges and 10 years in prison simply for having been in proximity to a few other people who were breaking windows.

"Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, PCJF Executive Director, noted that arrests 'simply based on proximity or shared political views at a march' set a troubling precedent for all protests, not just anarchist marches. She explained that 'it means at any demonstration,' if a participant or a provocateur commits an illegal act, then 'the entire demonstration can be subject to indiscriminate force and large groups of people can be suddenly arrested without notice or opportunity to disperse, and face life-altering charges.'" Read more here (http://www.justiceonline.org/how_the_government_is_turning_protesters_into_felo ns?e=84aab3269399c192a83de08f64886f1e&utm_source=justiceonline&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr28newsletter&n=11).

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The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the National Press Photographers Association have filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of the Garcia v Bloomberg mass arrest litigation. The Reporters Committee brief highlights the “alarming rise in journalists being arrested while covering political protests and demonstrations in public places.” Noting the "vital role" that the press has "informing the citizenry about the political messages expressed at mass public demonstrations and in monitoring the conduct of law enforcement," the brief states, “There can be no greater chill on the exercise of the freedom of the press than the threat of arrest for doing nothing more than reporting a story.”

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While much coverage has been given to the growing and often volatile opposition on campus to speaking engagement invitations to well-known racist and sexist media celebrities, institutional suppression of progressive speech routinely goes without much media notice. The PCJF represents the internationally renowned political artist Rigo23 regarding one such recent case involving American University in Washington, D.C. After initially, and admirably, exhibiting Rigo23's statue of longtime political prisoner Leonard Peltier, AU immediately capitulated to the the FBI Agent's Association's demand that the statue be removed, in the process publicly decapitating the statue and extinguishing free expression. Artistic and cultural institutions worldwide have weighed in, condemning the University's actions.

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Re: Trump's worst nomination yet


Chris--I just wanted to make sure you saw the email that I sent the other day. The response so far has been amazing, but we have so much work to do.

Dear Chris,

BREAKING: Donald Trump just named radical anti-choice activist Charmaine Yoest to a top position in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).1

As head of Americans United for Life (AUL), Yoest supported requiring invasive forced ultrasounds, shutting down abortion clinics, defunding Planned Parenthood, and more.2

She literally brags that she is "public enemy #1" of the abortion rights movement.

NARAL Pro-Choice America will fight Charmaine Yoest and her radical anti-choice agenda every step of the way. Will you chip in $15?

Yes, I'll chip in $15 to defend choice and stand up to Trump's radical anti-abortion HHS appointment. (https://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/go/2461?amount=15&t=1&akid=2561.462514.uXHfxo)

Don't just take our word for it. Here's what The New York Times Magazine says about her3:

Yoest's end goal isn't to make abortion safer. She wants to make the procedure illegal. She leaves no room for exceptions in the case of rape or incest ... She believes that embryos have legal rights and opposes birth control.
And as assistant secretary of public affairs at HHS, Yoest will have the chance to turn the federal government into an anti-choice propaganda machine.

With anti-choice politicians in charge of the majority of state legislatures, and with abortion clinic harassment on the rise, Yoest's appointment is incredibly dangerous.

We're gearing up to stop Charmaine Yoest and her radical agenda. Will you chip in $15?

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Thank you for helping to make reproductive freedom real for all women.


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1. Trump names anti-abortion leader Yoest to top HHS post, Politico, April 28, 2017

2. Wham, Bam, Sonogram! Meet the Ladies Setting the New Pro-Life Agenda, Mother Jones, September/October 2012

3. Charmaine Yoest’s Cheerful War on Abortion, The New York Times Magazine, November 2, 2012


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The Regulatory Accountability Act (RAA) could cripple the process for issuing and enforcing rules to ensure we have clean air and water, safe food and consumer products, fair wages and safe workplaces and many other key protections. It already takes many years for a new public protection to navigate the regulatory process. Now this bill would add more than 80 burdensome and time-consuming hurdles to that process — paralyzing agencies that already are struggling to operate under tight budgets. Just as scary, the RAA establishes a default requirement that agencies adopt rules that are the least costly to industry - irrespective of the public benefits. This act would override the Clean Air Act, the Mine Safety and Health Act, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act and dozens of other laws that make protecting the public and workers the highest priority.

Then there is the Midnight Rules Relief Act which would expand a rarely used law called the Congressional Review Act that allows a new Congress to strike down regulatory protections established in the last six months under the previous president. Instead of erasing these protections one at a time, as a current law requires, Midnight Rules would let Congress to wipe out dozens – perhaps even hundreds – of regulatory protections at a time. The Trump Administration has already used the Congressional Review Act more than any administration in history. Can you imagine if they could have free rein to delete hundreds of protections at once?!

Finally, the REINS Act would require big-ticket public protections — those that provide the most health, safety, environmental and economic benefits — to be approved by both chambers of Congress before taking effect. This is nothing more than a back-door way to gut enforcement of existing legislation and future safeguards that threaten big-money interests. It would allow Congress to block vital public protections simply by doing nothing.

All three of the bills that would wipe out public protections would leave tens of millions of Americans vulnerable to workplace and environmental disasters and more. All three bills have already passed in the House of Representatives. But we can still stop them in the Senate. Click here to send your Senators an e-mail today! (http://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed9943/14552b18/4507c2d5/2b74862c/1540168946/VEsD/)

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PETITION: Cancel DeVos' commencement speech


DeVos' policies will harm future generations of students--especially those who attend historically black colleges and univiersities. Tell Bethune-Cookman University President Edison O. Jackson to cancel Betsy DeVos' controversial commencement address. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4AA/ni0YAA/t.270/xJCCs3riRD6H4z249DrPmA/h0/4l8Ol8m2-2BHsF4OMTE2w9hKJGxOtJk6cf7gI8Jwc4oKATZFbXUA21-2F22HJnJYeY60xtlz12QAhfUDEiYFxrrEMbzGYA05j7fjGZ3ZV 4bHFu8-2BCXh1iIjDsjPf51CgionphZ2yGuSQGxzNzJj8HE-2FSbxoRExq64ygIzG7ImSoDjOxe1jT2ujX-2BA0zBP5PKY8LZF9u1vB23Ebl4ZGmx3HRlGZs2XlNErwoWPh09 8-2B4Mzr596l5jPmZ7DAJPk-2BvKitBlpcnr7SCbVNzsklzShvRH4fiqw9XV-2FsZdYWZ-2BC4d-2BwkL4K3VVD6SheEewBV8rGourJMj1xmro04WdDsM7r2cOAnqn Uc9IyU-2BedDloMsMKYzs-3D)

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Chris Kaihatsu,

My alma mater, Bethune-Cookman, a historically black university in Florida, has invited U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to deliver this year’s commencement speech and receive an honorary degree. But the policies DeVos pushes would have terrible consequences for future generations of Bethune-Cookman students—and for historically black colleges and universities themselves.

Sign my petition with AFT and Color Of Change to ask Bethune-Cookman President Edison O. Jackson to cancel DeVos' controversial commencement speech. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4AA/ni0YAA/t.270/xJCCs3riRD6H4z249DrPmA/h2/4l8Ol8m2-2BHsF4OMTE2w9hKJGxOtJk6cf7gI8Jwc4oKATZFbXUA21-2F22HJnJYeY60xtlz12QAhfUDEiYFxrrEMbzGYA05j7fjGZ3ZV 4bHFu8-2BCXh1iIjDsjPf51CgionphZ2yGuSQGxzNzJj8HE-2FSb2l-2FCzg-2BU8Ca-2BHSuuw0tbnYp2PkpA4D7-2FtD3bQ96qkcG2XW8BQzch9ibOLv4JxzkBvNRxdAMHrRUlrN-2FM9eBQagoJsD0jJonzhMRdXBTJAR5gTYVa3bAkDR5ZYKvM9gJ oE1yUMIf-2BE6hGolAzzn7svvATYICwSuILLgaENfbWG3cWgboPwXMa6qv8 NAhWeALxC5hu0eW9UwJYER4u0Rdpv8-3D)

Bethune-Cookman has historically served students from challenged backgrounds, with the lion’s share of these students coming from public schools throughout America. But DeVos is no fan of public education, calling our public schools a “dead end,” and using millions of dollars of her family fortune to promote private school vouchers; unregulated, for-profit charter schools; and other policies that defund, destabilize and privatize the public schools our communities rely on.
DeVos’ ideology and advocacy are especially harmful to students of color—the very students Bethune-Cookman and other HBCUs were created to serve. And the recent budget proposed by President Trump and DeVos would slash billions of dollars in federal funding for programs that help students of color reach, attend and graduate from college.

Graduates of Bethune-Cookman’s school of education understand the value and importance of public education, and overwhelmingly return to teach in public schools—a path I took myself after graduation.

Sign our petition with Color Of Change and ask Bethune-Cookman to cancel DeVos' commencement speech. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4AA/ni0YAA/t.270/xJCCs3riRD6H4z249DrPmA/h3/4l8Ol8m2-2BHsF4OMTE2w9hKJGxOtJk6cf7gI8Jwc4oKATZFbXUA21-2F22HJnJYeY60xtlz12QAhfUDEiYFxrrEMbzGYA05j7fjGZ3ZV 4bHFu8-2BCXh1iIjDsjPf51CgionphZ2yGuSQGxzNzJj8HE-2FSbzGwmJsR7Zj92-2BxAf4iN0yPcwG820NkLL-2BRrM6PA3BAIuUct-2FLMkD8O5GcHSLkZulw41-2Fq-2Bebh82hvXqqLFkDlGnsMJ9qa6asuUYi6M6oO8OEhh96TlCiKN ahWI4qZxrh7aTQL8kkuiZ3LIkFDXlk-2FnnKOYAkQ0ypMscs9c58ejrDPYmtFC56OgFw18CDyFHP7lobd vDQk6Soztq917i0v0-3D)

And it’s not just DeVos’ antipathy to public education that raises concerns about this invitation but also her seeming indifference to the history and role of HBCUs in the first place.

Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune founded Bethune-Cookman to provide African-American students with the opportunity to receive the highest level of academic quality at a time when black students were refused entrance into colleges and universities across America.

But on Feb. 28 of this year, DeVos released the following statement after meeting with presidents and chancellors of HBCUs at the White House: “HBCUs are real pioneers when it comes to school choice. They are living proof that when more options are provided to students, they are afforded greater access and greater quality. Their success has shown that more options help students flourish.”

At best, this is an outrageous assertion that black students had opportunities to study where they chose; at worst, this is a failed attempt to use HBCUs to push an educational reform movement that continues to disenfranchise children throughout this country, especially in her home state of Michigan and specifically in Detroit.

The students graduating this year and their families deserve to celebrate their achievement without controversy—and future generations deserve the opportunity to attend high-quality public schools and reach for their dreams at institutions like Bethune-Cookman. Inviting Betsy DeVos creates an unnecessary and unwelcome distraction for students who have worked hard to earn a degree, and elevating DeVos and her radical ideas threatens the future of public education and the vision and mission of Bethune-Cookman and all HBCUs nationwide.

Please join me in asking university President Edison O. Jackson to reconsider and rescind DeVos’ invitation. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4AA/ni0YAA/t.270/xJCCs3riRD6H4z249DrPmA/h4/4l8Ol8m2-2BHsF4OMTE2w9hKJGxOtJk6cf7gI8Jwc4oKATZFbXUA21-2F22HJnJYeY60xtlz12QAhfUDEiYFxrrEMbzGYA05j7fjGZ3ZV 4bHFu8-2BCXh1iIjDsjPf51CgionphZ2yGuSQGxzNzJj8HE-2FSbwZ1n7OyRBiPug-2FAdcsxfmtyBU69CYUL6B7bhQl03gebyB2vgRYL-2Fl07aFloUpu3z85doVmZZx-2BXXzqrH1uvcqQMKaYGxoK8Ikme9CEzIicgVp65nIuQNaa01M6 RTS2A0izD4UKFzcrIVKD4Yx2Dn1-2B2ixq1F2FWp9OW7-2BVJzY7UpUxwitHIw0AMfop5-2BX-2BySmCc-2FEzatRrf1a8HUo5P2Zk-3D)

In unity,
Fedrick Ingram
Florida Education Association Vice President
AFT Vice President

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For the sake of playing Devil's advocate, it's worth noting that rape & incest are roughly 1-2% of abortion cases. It is, as it always has been, a comparison between the mother and the fetus/embryo, largely in who has the better claim in a right to life.

Obviously if the mother's life is in danger via the pregnancy, she's in the right for an abortion, but I personally can't find the morality in using abortion as a form of birth control.

[Full Metal Bolshevik]

For the sake of playing Devil's advocate, it's worth noting that rape & incest are roughly 1-2% of abortion cases. It is, as it always has been, a comparison between the mother and the fetus/embryo, largely in who has the better claim in a right to life.

Obviously if the mother's life is in danger via the pregnancy, she's in the right for an abortion, but I personally can't find the morality in using abortion as a form of birth control.If she's pregnant and doesn't want the baby, even if she was totally irresponsible and should've known better, what do you really purpose? arrest her for doing the abortion? what does that accomplish? Not even provide facilities for abortion? And then she'd either do it in worse conditions putting her life at risk or have a baby she doesn't want and might be worse for herself and the baby. Making something illegal does not solve anything, only hides.

[hugh jeff mongus]

Donald Trump isn't a fascist but he sure seems to revel in play acting one.

By the way that video is probably the worst thing I've seen in my entire life.



Fascists might call for those things, but so do any number of rightwing populist movements. Call me when he has an actual paramilitary group and coherent, hyper-centralized political movement.
I think you are wrong my comrade. All rightwing populist are by definition fascist.

[Jimmie Higgins]

I think you are wrong my comrade. All rightwing populist are by definition fascist.

What's that definition in this case, then?




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Surviving sexual assault is a pre-existing condition?!


Dear Chris,

Yesterday, the House passed Trumpcare, and if the Senate follows suit, surviving sexual assault and domestic violence will now be a pre-existing condition.1

You read that right. That means corporate insurance companies are free to discriminate against survivors and impose premium "surcharges" totaling thousands and thousands of dollars on a survivor's monthly bill. It's despicable.

But it ain't over yet. This unpopular bill will be a close vote in the Senate--not a single Democrat is for it and we need to persuade only three Republicans to oppose it. Mass protest has stopped this bill before and we can do it again. Can you sign the emergency petition?

Tell the Senate: "Surviving violence against women is NOT a pre-existing condition. Defeat Trumpcare."
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Repealing the Affordable Care Act puts millions of women's lives at risk, and now survivors of sexual violence will be targeted specifically. Urgent treatment will cost more and cover less. Whether it's emergency contraception, rape kits, or STI testing, rape survivors have urgent medical needs and faced high out-of-pocket costs until the Affordable Care Act. Trumpcare will drive up out-of-pocket costs for millions of survivors.2

In addition to this immediate care, survivors of rape or partner violence dealing with anxiety or depression may also seek mental health care. But under Trumpcare, states will no longer be required to cover the care survivors need.3

For the sake of survivors of violence, women, and really everyone, we must defeat Trumpcare. Working together, UltraViolet members raised our voices and nearly defeated this bill in the House. Now, if we raise the alarm to our friends and family, and make our voices heard in the Senate, we can protect and strengthen the ACA.

Sign the petition to defeat Trumpcare. (https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/aca_repeal_survivors/?t=2&akid=4528.852651.y5j8qe)

--Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Adam, Holly, Kathy, Onyi, Susan, Anathea, Audine, Shannon, Emma, PaKou, Pilar, Natalie, Melody, and Pam, the UltraViolet team



Sources:

1. The American Health Care Act: the Obamacare repeal bill the House just passed, explained, Vox, May 4, 2017

2. Under the GOP's health plan, sexual assault could be considered a pre-existing condition, Mic, May 3, 2017

In Trump’s America, Rape Is a Preexisting Condition, New York Magazine, May 4, 2017

3. Ibid


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House Republicans pass Trumpcare Version 2 (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=926e39c2f7&e=d323598fe4)

By Masao Suzuki

San José, CA - On Wednesday, May 3, House Republicans passed Trumpcare Version 2 with only two votes to spare. President Trump lobbied heavily to get the amended American Health Care Act (AHCA) through the House of Representatives. To win over the ultra-right wing so-called Freedom Caucus, House leader Paul Ryan added amendments that would allow states to opt out of the minimum requirements for health insurance introduced by Obamacare.

The Affordable Care Act or ACA, popularly known as Obamacare, mandates a number of benefits that health insurance has to cover. Under Trumpcare Version 2, states could opt out, allowing for-profit health insurance companies to offer insurance without emergency room or hospital coverage, maternity care, mental health and drug abuse, prescription drugs, and lab tests. This opens the door for millions of people to be underinsured - having health insurance but leaving gaps that can drive people into bankruptcy or not getting the health care that they need.

In particular, Trumpcare Version 2 allows states to let insurance companies charge higher prices for people with pre-existing conditions. Almost 60 million adults have pre-existing health conditions, and 2 million of them could lose their health insurance. This would be in addition to the 24 million who will lose coverage from Trumpcare mainly from cuts in Medicaid and loss of employer health benefits (under the ACA, larger companies are required to offer health insurance to their workers, this is not the case under Trumpcare).

While Trump and House Republicans bragged about the extra $8 billion dollars added to help pay for insurance for people with pre-existing conditions who would be put into ‘high-risk pools.’ This money, along with the $15 billion already in the bill, is only enough to cover a bit more than 100,000 people, a tiny fraction of the more than 2 million people who buy their own health insurance that have pre-existing conditions. If Texas or Florida, two states that have already opted out of the Medicaid expansion under the ACA, were to allow higher charges for preexisting conditions, the total money available nationwide would only cover half the people who need help in just one state.

Why are President Trump and the House Republicans so intent on taking health insurance from 26 million Americans? Many mainstream groups such as the AARP, the American Medical Association, and the American Hospital Association all opposed Trumpcare. But Trumpcare is being pushed by the president and House Republicans because it would end the taxes on high-income individuals that help to pay for Obamacare, saving the rich billions of dollars. In addition, the cut in health spending would pave the way for Trump and the House Republicans’ tax plan, which would cut taxes on the rich by billions more.

The bill now moves to the Senate where it is expected to encounter stiff resistance.

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

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Betsy DeVos’ nightmare: Tuition-free college


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"Pass the College for All Act, which would eliminate tuition and fees at public four-year colleges and universities for those making less than $125,000 per year and make community college fee and tuition-free for all."

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Dear Chris,

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Sen. Bernie Sanders’ new bill is Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump’s worst nightmare.

In just a few months, DeVos has already blocked Obama-era programs to help students deal with crushing education debt, and Trump’s budget called for slashing funding for lower-income students to go to college. In contrast, Sen. Sanders and champions like Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Keith Ellison are showing what progressive populism looks like.1

Sen. Sanders’ College for All Act would scrap tuition and fees at public colleges and universities for families making less than $125,000 a year, helping make college more affordable for countless Americans.2 Every signature in support of this bill helps show that progressives have popular solutions to America’s most pressing problems.

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If Betsy DeVos has her way, you will have to be a Trump kid to afford college. In the short few months since Republicans rammed through her nomination, she has already trashed Obama-era rules protecting students from unscrupulous for-profit colleges, limits on what lenders can charge students struggling to repay loans and plans to streamline how the government manages education debt. It’s no surprise, since she answers to a man who had to pay $25 million to settle charges that he defrauded students of Trump University.3,4

In contrast, Sen. Sanders’ new College for All bill would help make college affordable. It would:5

Make public universities and colleges tuition- and fee-free for families making less than $125,000 per year, offer free community college with no tuition and fees for all, and eliminate or reduce fees and tuitions at schools that serve historically underrepresented minorities.

Use existing aid to combat the cost of college, so low-income students could use Pell Grants for books instead of university fees, states and tribes have incentives and funding to reduce costs, and work-study programs would triple in size.
Slash interest rates by offering students the lowest interest rates possible and finally allowing them to refinance student loans at today’s low rates.

Today, education debt – also known as student debt, even though parents and grandparents are often on the hook to pay it back – is a trillion-dollar scheme to redistribute wealth away from poor and working-class people. Sen. Sanders and other progressive champions are fighting back by taxing Wall Street and stopping government from profiting off of student loans in order to finance tuition-free college for millions of young people.

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Student debt has followed the same track as broader economic inequality. As the worst of the 1 percent – like DeVos and Trump – have hoarded most of our economic gains, wages and family incomes have stagnated. Public university education has been slashed to pay for tax handouts for the richest few. Without cheap, quality public education to hold down prices, tuition at all colleges has skyrocketed – in fact, college in the U.S. has gotten 12 times more expensive in one generation.6

Every dollar spent on education is an investment in America’s future, and a nation as powerful as ours can always afford wise investments – we have only lacked the political will. That’s now changing, and we need to stand alongside the progressive champions pushing for a true alternative to Trump’s top-down class war.

Stand with Sen. Sanders: Make college free. Click below to sign the petition:

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Thank you for speaking out,

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George Zornick, “ Bernie Sanders Just Introduced His Free College Tuition Plan,” The Nation, April 3, 2017.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Stacy Cowley and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, “DeVos Halts Obama-Era Plan to Revamp Student Loan Management,” The New York Times, April 14, 2017.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, “The College For All Act,” accessed April 14, 2017.
Katie Rose Quandt, "College Has Gotten 12 Times More Expensive in One Generation," Mother Jones, Sep. 3, 2014.


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Hedge funds are driving Puerto Rico's debt


Chris Kaihatsu,

Predatory hedge funds are forcing school closures, cutting pay for teachers, and hurting kids and communities in Puerto Rico. We can’t let them get away with it.

It’s a dire situation. In the last few years, more than 200 schools have been closed, teachers’ real wages have been slashed and an oversight board appointed by Congress is threatening much deeper cuts—all to meet the demands of Wall Street hedge funds that own Puerto Rico’s debt.

Will you join us to stand with Puerto Rico’s teachers and children and tellthe board to stop putting hedge fund profits ahead of children? (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/2wA/ni0YAA/t.277/yR5BnDLdT160Vfi8fmlNZw/h1/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBewM-2BBXwXmVcDr-2FHe7DI-2FHPIlkG6-2FkY190hm081fXDpSowG6SQDpxZNYtA7HQm7xLyTkZHA3RkEaW hVMrszC8zfYL-2BCtA0tUyzPhgPcaFJ5AzVKEYhAYdOHWEXBoDhS41WhQclx7m9 QeGubZTJb5TFUyz7tKZz6qVsKwSRWDcr-2BM4mYKMo20odIgJaNeHB3F8dathTaZOjGL5K5NiSjRcZ4ab-2FHbhfHVj34vvpyYBy1mCGZd-2FUmRs8mq-2FrpT5T2MKurPePxYySw3w-2FgDM-2BgeoAAIE-2FaY1ahXxO91PKuSwXbTheTcHaDUvlBE2zOXXn3teNPKjo6g92 P6lGFUEoiaynSMPrVPM2uh83knvoevJDwxd5i6C7f-2F-2FiMy3yyyiIyegFbn0SiTPhyeOqfp6lHt0tEwRUc4PHIfZAd22 Y1ad3cD)

If we don’t come together to stop the cuts, the board could close 148 more schools, cut 40 days from the school year, leave children without support services they need and cut teacher pay by 10 percent. We can’t allow an unelected board to side with hedge fund profiteers at the expense of children and teachers.

We’ve challenged the board’s members to visit a school and sit down with teachers and the school community so they can hear firsthand how these cuts harm children and families.Hedge fund greed is driving Puerto Rico’s debt crisis.

They’ve demanded harmful cut after harmful cut, all so that they can turn a profit.

We’re tired of putting profits before students. We can’t allow Wall Street to come in and strip opportunity away from these children.

The board faces a question: Will it support the children of Puerto Rico or a small group of billionaire hedge funds that are hoping to turn a profit?

Join us to stand up for Puerto Rican children and in solidarity with the Puerto Rico Teachers Association.

Send a message to the members of the oversight board right now and demand that they stop these cuts. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/2wA/ni0YAA/t.277/yR5BnDLdT160Vfi8fmlNZw/h3/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBewM-2BBXwXmVcDr-2FHe7DI-2FHPIlkG6-2FkY190hm081fXDpSowG6SQDpxZNYtA7HQm7xLyTkZHA3RkEaW hVMrszC8zfYL-2BCtA0tUyzPhgPcaFJ5AzVKEYhAYdOHWEXBoDhS41SeOo6nw2n mbqPZoVEH0CULxxaUUh8eG8c0SK3lseo8gs-2FXkthjirBOSsfplNGQ1dVRMHwGHIL60xcgQ5kcA8keisKld27 5F86Sf-2FIsHBS2r9WIzPMGdrl6mbCIkzao2Uc6zvFAhBZtDD57g7tfiJ FET8POuf17flGMynBA-2BWP0nKLBCNPjJLij2l3NXBitYTKCIj98bIaCdgke6QUGA-2Ff14Qj87LrXFXXxmNNMCk36h2lExKU0U9-2BxZ01klNpnerZcFrt-2BJGHHjpmYFJqxO3dyA-2FHDpt01KotMibkGciGvs)

In unity,
Randi Weingarten
AFT President


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Sign the petition: No right-wing hate at NBC


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Don't let Megyn Kelly leverage her NBC platform to promote right-wing hate (https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Kelly_NBC?t=1&akid=23015.247355.aesavo)

The petition to NBC executives reads:

“Ensure NBC employees like Megyn Kelly are not using the network’s platform to promote right-wing hate.”

Add your name:

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Dear Chris,

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Anti-LGBTQ hate. Racist white nationalism. Anti-Muslim bigotry. This is the extremism that right-wing cable television personality Megyn Kelly regularly invited on to her primetime Fox News show, "The Kelly File."

Kelly is a conservative ideologue who spent years at Fox News passing dangerous right-wing extremism off as “fair and balanced” news. Now she is headed to NBC, where she will host two shows and contribute to NBC’s breaking and political news programming.1

NBC had troubling ties to Trump during the presidential campaign. It offered the racist, fascist sexual predator high profile national platforms that put the network’s integrity into question.2 Now, even though the massive resistance to Trump is fueling record ratings for MSNBC’s prime-time shows, network executives have been steering the direction of its programming to the hard right.3 We need to speak out now to let NBC’s executives know that they must not enable Kelly to use her new position to promote the same right-wing extremism she brought to Fox.

Tell NBC executives: Ensure NBC’s employees are not using the network’s platform to promote right-wing hate. Click here to sign the petition. (https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Kelly_NBC?t=4&akid=23015.247355.aesavo)

Fox News’ bigoted, xenophobic and misogynistic reporting helped lay the groundwork for Donald Trump’s rise to power, and Kelly was one of its flagship personalities. Because she had moments where she seemed to stray from the Fox party line – Trump launched a sexist attack on her after she asked him a question about his misogyny during a presidential debate – media coverage sometimes painted her as a moderate. But it is important to remember that her reporting mainstreamed racism, xenophobia and anti-LGBTQ bigotry for years.

A look at the guests she brought on to her show speaks volumes about the extremism she amplified on her platform. They included:

Anti-LGBTQ extremist Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, a group designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC);

Virulent xenophobe and racist Ann Coulter, whom the SPLC has referred to as “a white nationalist in the mainstream;” and
Brigitte Gabriel, founder of Act for America, a group that spreads ”hate speech demonizing Muslims,” according to the SPLC.4

Kelly’s own on-air views were similarly hateful. She minimized the impact of racism on communities of color, challenged the notion that police brutality disproportionately impacts communities of color, defended Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, promoted anti-transgender bigotry, and amplified and legitimized the recent right-wing smear attack against Planned Parenthood.5,6 NBC cannot let her spread the same kind of hate.”

Tell NBC executives: Ensure NBC’s employees are not using the network’s platform to promote right-wing hate. Click here to sign the petition. (https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Kelly_NBC?t=5&akid=23015.247355.aesavo)

Comcast/NBCUniversal is already under intense scrutiny for its ties to Trump. Through "Celebrity Apprentice," it has a contractual arrangement with Trump, which creates a conflict of interest that undermines the credibility of NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC. A little over a year ago, NBC came under criticism for inviting Trump to host "Saturday Night Live," a decision that not only legitimized Trump’s hate, but provided him with a free national platform to bolster and sanitize his image. NBC News failed to report first on the Access Hollywood tapes that showed Trump bragging about grabbing women’s genitals though they were in the network’s possession for four days before The Washington Post broke the story.7

Now more than ever, we need media outlets to challenge Trump and the right-wing hate he promotes, but it seems that NBC is moving in the opposite direction. In addition to the presence of Kelly in the NBC lineup, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack is trying to move MSNBC away from its left-leaning roots.8 He has brought in George Will and Greta Van Susteren from Fox and Nicolle Wallace, who was a spokesperson for President George W. Bush and John McCain’s presidential campaign. Lack is also in talks with Trump supporter and conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.9,10,11

NBC celebrated Kelly’s hire with a press release that completely white-washed her right-wing career at Fox.12 Before Kelly’s shows start in June, we have to demand that NBC’s leaders do better and refuse to let her use her show to promote hate. Click the link below to sign the petition:

https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Kelly_NBC?t=7&akid=23015.247355.aesavo

Thanks for everything you do.

Heidi Hess, Senior Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets (http://act.credoaction.com/go/109?t=8&akid=23015.247355.aesavo)

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References:

Lisa Marie Segarra, "Megyn Kelly had her first day at NBC," Fortune, May 1, 2017.
Katie Sullivan, "NBC News is struggling to report on its own Trump problem," Media Matters, Dec. 12, 2016.
Ryan Grim, "With Trump in the White House, MSNBC is resisting the resistance," The Huffington Post, May 1, 2017.
Zachary Pleat & Cristina López G., "Will Megyn Kelly bring the hate group leaders And extremists who frequented her Fox show to NBC?," Media Matters for America, Jan. 6, 2017.
Jessica Torres, "GOP debate moderator Megyn Kelly has long history of offensive, out-of-touch comments about minorities," Media Matters for America, Aug. 4, 2015.
Rachel Larris, "Megyn Kelly defends anti-Planned Parenthood smear videos with blatant falsehoods," Media Matters for America, Dec. 1, 2015.
Bill Carter, "NBC caught in dilemma over its own Donald Trump, Billy Bush tape," CNN Money, Oct. 10, 2016.
Grim, "With Trump in the White House, MSNBC is resisting the resistance."
Hadas Gold, “George Will joins MSNBC, “ POLITICO, May 8, 2017.
John Whitehouse, "NBC is building a Trump normalization machine," Media Matters for America, Jan. 4, 2017.
Yashar Ali, "Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt in talks for MSNBC show, sources say," New York Magazine, April 28, 2017.
NBC News, "Megyn Kelly Joins NBC News," Jan. 3, 2017


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Holding Trump and Congress accountable


Chris,

President Donald Trump and Congress think their anti-worker agenda is flying under the radar. But thanks to EPI’s Perkins Project (http://epi.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9&id=0d008b8fa7&e=73ae589068)―lead by former Obama Department of Labor Chief Economist Heidi Shierholz―EPI is your watchdog unit monitoring, analyzing, and publicizing any attempts to dismantle the laws and regulations that protect worker rights and wages.

To date, congressional Republicans and the president have blocked 14 Obama-era rules that would have provided important protections ensuring the health and safety of consumers, working people, and the general public.

The five labor-related rules that were blocked would have made it harder for companies to get federal contracts if they violated labor laws, made it easier to track workplace injuries, helped people save for retirement, and made it easier for people to collect unemployment insurance.

And, just as President Trump and Congress are blocking critical rules that would have protected working people, EPI has published a new report which finds that 2.4 million low-wage workers are losing at least $8 billion annually due to wage theft.

Click here to read EPI’s new report on wage theft. (http://epi.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9&id=3cdd6f0934&e=73ae589068)

And click here to keep up to date on EPI’s Perkins Project Policy Watch, which tracks actions by the Trump administration, Congress, and federal agencies that affect working people. (http://epi.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ec2361f981a14ee1d45cccaa9&id=e9307f5e17&e=73ae589068)

The blocked Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule required companies applying for federal contracts to disclose violations of federal labor laws and executive orders addressing wage and hour, safety and health, collective bargaining, family medical leave, and civil rights protections. By blocking this rule, Republicans have ensured that businesses that violate basic labor and employment laws will continue to be rewarded with taxpayer dollars.

The blocked Workplace Injury and Illness recordkeeping rule clarified an employer’s obligation to maintain accurate records of workplace injuries and illnesses. By blocking the rule, Republicans have made it impossible for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to keep accurate records identifying unsafe, potentially life-threatening working conditions. As a result, workers will go to work every day in less safe conditions.

Two blocked rules would have assisted state and local governments that develop individual retirement account (IRA) programs for private-sector workers. By blocking these rules, Republicans have blocked two paths for retirement savings for the roughly 55 million private-sector wage and salary workers who do not have access to a retirement savings plan through their employers.

The blocked rule clarifying when jobless workers applying for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits may be subjected to drug testing would have ensured that jobless workers were not subjected to unnecessary hurdles when accessing UI benefits. Letting states conduct arguably unconstitutional drug testing of UI applicants only benefits employers seeking to reduce their financial responsibility for UI benefits.

For all of Donald Trump’s bluster about helping the working class, the actual policies he’s advanced have hurt workers’ rights and pay, and firmly put him on the side of Wall Street and big business, not working people and honest employers.

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Together we’re shining a spotlight on what really goes on in Washington and how those actions impact the health and financial security of working people.

Thank you,

Liz Rose
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Resistance marks Trump’s first 100 days (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=274ddc609a&e=d323598fe4)

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Jacksonville, FL - Millions of people flocked to Washington D.C. for billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump's inauguration – but not in support of the new president. Instead, working people from across the U.S. marched against Trump's anti-worker, racist and misogynistic agenda. Crowd analysts believe more than three times as many people converged on the U.S. capitol to protest Trump than to support him. A day later, on Jan. 21, an estimated 5 million women and men took part in a Women's March nationwide, making it the largest single day of protest in U.S. history by some counts.

Trump's narrow victory in the 2016 presidential election took almost everyone by surprise. But in the days that followed Nov. 8, something even more breathtaking happened. Millions of people took to the streets to march against Trump. Young people, inspired by the promise of the Bernie Sanders campaign and angered by its betrayal by corporate Democrats like Clinton, vowed to fight for a better world.

Trump's attacks are brutal, vicious and in some ways, unprecedented in modern times. But the people of the U.S. are in motion, and the earthquake of millions of working people rising to resist has the power to shake the rule of Wall Street to its core.

Shutting down Trump's Muslim travel ban

The people delivered a thunderous loss to Trump and his 1% agenda right off the bat. Backed by white supremacist adviser Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News, Trump immediately moved to fulfill his campaign promise to ban the entrance of refugees and immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries. By executive order, Trump attempted to block all refugees from Syria, Somalia, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Yemen and Iran – all countries under attack by the U.S., whether by drone strikes (Yemen, Somalia), military threats (Iran, Sudan, Libya) or outright war (Iraq, Syria).

Hundreds of thousands of people across the country flocked to airports to oppose the ban. In Chicago and New York City, a crowd of thousands shut down airports and forced U.S. federal judges to rule Trump's executive order unconstitutional. Since that time, Trump issued another order almost identical to the first, which was also deemed unconstitutional and was halted following massive nationwide protests.

Immigration and deportation

Trump's campaign began with a vicious racist attack on Chicanos, Latinos and Mexicanos, who he called “rapists,” “drug dealers” and “criminals” in his first campaign speech. Since taking office, Trump has effectively declared war on immigrants, continuing and expanding the brutal deportation practices of former President Barack Obama. From California to Washington to Vermont, police and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have targeted immigrant rights leaders and migrant workers with workplace raids mass deportations. These criminals sent by the Trump administration are literally ripping apart, often with brutal force, families who are guilty of no crimes.

Undocumented students covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy enacted under the Obama administration have also become the targets of ICE raids. In cities like Los Angeles and Phoenix, activists have mobilized mass movements to defend undocumented families and resist Trump's attacks.

Apocalypse now: Trump's foreign policy

More than 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the U.S. “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world,” and Trump has lived up to this horrific title. Even before becoming president, Trump appointed as Secretary of Defense retired Marine General James “Mad Dog” Mattis, who was removed by former president Obama from Central Command for his overly aggressive actions towards the Islamic Republic of Iran. Mattis was responsible for the deaths of 1500 Iraqis and 95 U.S. soldiers in the 2004 siege of Fallujah in Iraq. He infamously cleared the criminals responsible for the 2007 Haditha massacre, in which U.S. soldiers slaughtered 24 unarmed Iraqi women, men and children.

If Trump's intentions to carry on the U.S. policy of war and occupation weren't clear enough, he removed all doubt on April 6. Using the same old “weapons of mass destruction” lies from the George W. Bush era as justification, Trump fired tomahawk missiles on the Syrian Arab Republic, leaving dozens of civilians dead and raising the likelihood of world war. As the U.S. enters its 16th year of war and occupation in Afghanistan, Trump unleashed even more brutality on April 14, dropping the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal on the central Asian country, with civilian death toll estimates in the hundreds.

The long-term policy of the U.S. continues to be preparations for war with the People's Republic of China. While there's nothing new about U.S. aggression in Asia, Trump has ramped up economic and military threats against socialist countries like China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). The threat of war with the DPRK has reached a fever pitch, with Trump ordering the largest joint military exercises with south Korean and Japanese forces since the 1950s and directly threatening all-out war in the Korean peninsula.

The cabinet from hell

Before taking office, Trump made his anti-worker, racist and misogynistic agenda known through his cabinet appointments. To head the Justice Department, Trump selected former Senator Jeff Sessions, who infamously spoke favorably of the Ku Klux Klan and promises free reign to police to commit violence, including murder, against Black people. Black organizations and activists, including Reverend William Barber of the North Carolina NAACP, staged sit-ins in Sessions' office and disrupted his hearing in the senate.

Trump's cabinet contains a host of corporate 1% villains that make Darth Vader, Hannibal Lecter, and Freddy Kruger look like angels. Scott Pruitt, Trump's head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), repeatedly sued the EPA on behalf of major energy corporations and denies the reality of climate change. Dr. Ben Carson, the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, outspokenly opposes public housing for poor people, particularly working-class African Americans.

Most disgraceful of all, Trump chose fellow anti-union billionaire Betsy DeVos to head the Department of Education. DeVos, whose family made their fortune ripping off poor and working people through Amway pyramid schemes, supports destroying the public education system to make way for private charter schools. Teachers unions, parent groups and students across the country mobilized by the millions to stop DeVos' approval in the Senate, forcing Vice President Mike Pence to cast a tie-breaking vote for the first time in U.S. history.

While the Senate narrowly approved DeVos, labor unions and women's groups mobilized and defeated Trump's pick for Labor Secretary, Andy Pudzer, former CEO of CKE Restaurants and outspoken opponent of workers’ rights. Like Trump and Bannon, Pudzer's documented history of violence against women and wage theft forced him to withdraw his nomination.

Trump-led employer offensive against labor

From repealing regulations protecting workers from wage theft and safety hazards on March 27 to his vocal support for national ‘right-to-work’ legislation, Trump has signaled to Wall Street and corporate America his intention to bust unions and roll back workers’ rights. Trump's policies in office reveal how hollow his appeals to some workers during the election really were. The campaign is over - and so is Trump's rhetoric of “taking on big banks,” evidenced by his appointment of Goldman Sachs banker Steve Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary. Trump's recently approved Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch, built his career ruling against workers and labor unions like the Teamsters, making him the most anti-union justice on the court today.

When Republicans in Congress tried to strip tens of millions of working people of their health insurance, mass resistance from coal miners in eastern Kentucky to low-wage fast food workers stopped them dead in their tracks. Trump's so-called American Health Care Act failed miserably in Congress, and there are the beginnings of a movement demanding a Medicare-For-All, single-payer health care system.

Unions should mobilize a broad working class movement and revive the strike weapon to stop this new Trump-led employer offensive against labor.

The 'Alt-Right', fascists and government repression

Trump's victory in November 2016 emboldened far-right, white supremacist and fascist forces around the country. Some of these scum have re-branded themselves the 'Alternative Right', or 'Alt-Right' for short, dressing in suits and ties while raising Nazi salutes and chants. Vigilantes and armed right-wing militias have targeted Black, Muslim and Latino people with racist violence. They regularly burn Muslim mosques and Jewish synagogues across the country and physically attack progressive activists – often with the support of the police.

In Jacksonville, Florida on April 7, racist Trump supporters and police from the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office attacked anti-war and labor activists. They beat and arrested five activists, including Connell Crooms, a deaf African American Teamster, who was beaten unconscious by police. Similar right-wing and police violence happened in New York against activists protesting Trump's attack on Syria.

Building the resistance

The people's struggle in the U.S. entered a new era on Jan. 20. Trump's presidency is a threat to the working class at home and abroad, in no uncertain terms, and we must defeat it. Workers in the U.S. have their health care, their unions, their wages, their rights and their lives under attack by the same 1% class of billionaires that wage war on Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. That class – the monopoly capitalists – has their political representatives: Donald Trump and his administration.

Workers of all nationalities – white, Black, Chicano, and all others – have nothing in common with Trump or the class he represents. When Democrat politicians like Hillary Clinton claim to lead the 'resistance' to Trump and tell us to vote them into office to solve our problems, we know the truth: They represent that same 1% billionaire class as Trump. We don't need to look any further than the 'bipartisan unity' between corporate Democrats and Republicans on bombing Syria to see that.

Instead of relying on 1% politicians and their parties, working class and oppressed people need to build and lead a mass movement to stop Trump and his agenda in all its forms. And we need to fight for a better world free of war, poverty, racist discrimination, and oppression.

As we build that resistance to Trump, we must remember the words of the Black Panther Party: “Seize the time.”

The fire rises.

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2,000 companies have now ditched Breitbart (A.K.A. Trump News).


Dear Chris,

We just hit a major milestone: 2,000 companies have now ditched Breitbart (A.K.A. Trump News)!

And here's more good news in case you missed it: because of your pressure, phone calls and tweets, we got e-commerce giant Shopify and online comment platform Disqus to adopt hate speech policies, too! The policies aren't perfect -- but they are progress and proof that pressure from you works.

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Amazon's annual shareholder meeting just 3 days away, and with our amazing coalition partners, we’re planning a major petition delivery outside the event. This is a critical moment to winning this campaign -- and so we're pulling out all the stops to make the event big.

Amazon is already contemplating ditching Breitbart: thanks to your pressure and pressure from Amazon employees, Amazon is looking into solutions that could block Amazon ads from showing up on sites like Breitbart in the future. So a bit more pressure at this critical moment could finally force Amazon's hand.

Can you share this campaign on Facebook to help us reach 1 million signatures before the AGM and push Amazon over the edge?

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Dear Friends,

Amazon's AGM is days away, and we're so close to getting Amazon to stop advertising with ultra right-wing Breitbart News. We're trying to reach 1 million signatures so we can deliver a message Amazon can't ignore in front of its investors and shareholders. Will you join me and sign the petition? https://actions.sumofus.org/a/amazon-stop-investing-in-hate/?no_akid=1

Thank you.


This campaign being led by our fearless partners, The Sleeping Giants and you is so inspiring -- and it's working. A report from Fox News said our campaign is hurting Breitbart’s bottom line, and Breitbart is facing holdups in its plans to expand into country after country.

Chris: you are one of the reasons why. All of this incredible momentum in this campaign is because of you, and there’s so much more to come.

Thanks for all you’ve done on this campaign so far, and for all you do.

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In days, over 200 corporations including BMW, T-Mobile and Kelloggs have pulled ads from "Trump News", AKA Breitbart News.

Right now, pressure is building on Amazon to stop investing in hate, and a massive global outcry can force it to act now.

Tell Amazon: stop investing in hate.

SIGN THE PETITION (https://act.sumofus.org/go/351180?t=11&akid=30423.859590.I9Tkz0)


Chris,

Breitbart News, the extreme far right news website that helped elect Donald Trump, is trying to fast-track a global expansion starting with France and Germany in time for key elections in early 2017.

But Breitbart can only go ahead with its global expansion if it has the money to do so.

Here's where we come in: people power has already forced 200 corporations including BMW, Deutsche Telekom (that owns T-Mobile) and Kelloggs to drop Breitbart — and now, we are going to force Amazon to follow suit.

Amazon is receiving loads of online pressure already -- and if we add our voices from across the planet now, we can make sure it can't ignore us anymore.

Tell Amazon: stop investing in hate. Pull your advertising from Breitbart now. (https://act.sumofus.org/go/351180?t=12&akid=30423.859590.I9Tkz0)

Breitbart spits the most hateful stuff you’ve ever heard — everything from attacks on LGBTQ+ folks to claiming that contraception makes women "sluts”.

Breitbart's hatred and vitriol may even directly violate Amazon's own principles around acceptable advertising. Amazon's own policy states: it will not tolerate "[c]ontent that is threatening, abusive, harassing, hateful, or that incites violence or intolerance, or that advocates or discriminates against a protected group, whether based on race, color, national origin, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age or other category."

A powerful grassroots campaign is gaining traction through social media pushing companies to pull advertising from Breitbart. And it’s working. Already over 200 corporations have pulled out of Breitbart, and the list is growing by the day. Together, we can add Amazon to that list.

SumOfUs members are fighting hatred and discrimination worldwide. With massive public pressure, we’re going to force corporations to take responsibility for how they advertise, and will keep up our fight to stop Breitbart’s global expansion.

Let's come together to make Amazon stop advertising with Breitbart, and show the world that people power trumps hate.

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President Trump's privatization agenda


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We should all be able to turn on our taps and know the water is safe and clean. But some communities are facing real risks from their water. For example, Pittsburgh is facing a lead contamination crisis after a management contract with private water corporation Veolia.

And President Trump’s soon-to-be released infrastructure plan is likely going to open the door even wider for corporations to take control of our public water systems.

Corporate Accountability International is growing the movement to keep our water systems in public hands and out of the greedy, dangerous reaches of giant private water corporations.

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In 2012, Veolia -- one of the largest water corporations in the world -- began managing Pittsburgh’s water system.

The corporation put its profits over the needs of an entire city. Under Veolia’s management, the corrosion control method was switched, without the needed approval. Now, Pittsburgh’s lead levels have exceeded federal limits for the first time on record.

Pittsburgh isn’t alone. Cities and towns around the country whose water systems are taken over by private water corporations face sky-high water rates, labor abuses, and infrastructure neglect that can lead to crises like widespread water main breaks.

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Cruel. Punitive. Immoral.


Chris:

Cruel. Punitive. Immoral. That's what we think about President Trump's budget proposal.

It's just as bad as we expected — an indisputable, ideological attack on women's health and economic security. I've attached my latest press statement below so you can see for yourself.

Rest assured, at the National Partnership, we will stand strong and fight back. And we're counting on you to stand by our side every step of the way.

Together, we’re in this for the long haul.

Debra Ness Sincerely,
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

‘Punitive, Cruel’ Trump Budget Proposal Would ‘Shred Safety Net and Defund Planned Parenthood, Causing Deep, Lasting Harm’ to Women and Families

Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families

WASHINGTON, D.C. — May 23, 2017 — "Our highest priority as a nation should be to give all families a real chance at quality, affordable health care and real economic security. The budget the Trump administration released today seems designed to do exactly the opposite. It would help the rich get richer while leaving everyone else to fend for themselves. The administration’s punitive, cruel spending priorities would deny health care, food and other essential supports to struggling households with children, most of which are headed by women.

This budget abandons the traditional role of government, to support people who cannot care for themselves, and it undermines our values as a nation. It would shred the safety net, withholding supports that vulnerable women and families need.

For the first time in history, the Trump budget would bar Planned Parenthood from participating in any U.S. Department of Health and Human Services program. The Trump budget proposal’s defund provision is even worse than the disastrous Republican plan in Congress. In addition to defunding Planned Parenthood health centers from the Medicaid program, denying millions access to essential health care, these health centers would be excluded from a range of programs including Zika and cancer prevention and from Title X, the nation’s family planning program. That is an outrageous attack on women’s health.

Also alarming is the budget proposal’s premise that the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion will be repealed. We are appalled, as well, by its recommendations to cap and cut funding for Medicaid, resulting in a $610 billion cut to the program over 10 years, which would effectively deny health care to millions of people.

The Trump budget also proposes to strip billions of badly needed dollars from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and to slash disability payments to individuals who are unable to work.

Whether they are applied to SNAP, TANF, Medicaid or other programs, harsh, inflexible work requirements harm vulnerable women and their families. And limiting benefits from essential programs to people who are authorized to work in the United States is truly despicable; it would effectively deny food, shelter and an economic lifeline to immigrants who face hard times, increasing hunger and homelessness in our communities.

We are not fooled by the paid family leave provision in the Trump budget proposal. It is a sham that would further strain already-fragile unemployment insurance programs while exacerbating state-based disparities, rather than setting an affordable, consistent national baseline. By covering only parents caring for new children, it would exclude approximately 75 percent of working people who need family or medical leave — people who need paid time to address their own serious health issues, working people who need time to care for seriously ill or injured family members, and military families struggling with a service member’s deployment or injury. America urgently needs the Family And Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act — not poorly designed, inadequate substitutes that would do little more than offer lip service without real relief and the potential to do more harm than good.

President Trump has absolutely no mandate to impose this agenda on our country. Every member of Congress must reject this mean-spirited budget proposal, which would have a devastating impact on the nation and would especially harm the country’s lowest income people and all those who fall on hard times — including tens of millions of women."


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Trump’s Betrayal Budget Cuts Social Security


Chris,

Donald Trump says that his newly released 2018 budget does not cut Social Security. Don’t believe it.

Throughout the campaign Trump claimed that he was the only Republican candidate who would protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Yet, his new budget includes $1.7 trillion in cuts to critical programs including Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Medicaid.

If he hadn’t noticed, the first two words in SSDI are Social Security.

Trump is trying to spin this and claim that he’s still protecting Social Security and Medicare. But we’re not fooled!

Sign the petition demanding Congress reject Donald Trump’s budget, which includes one broken promise after another. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4QA/ni0YAA/t.27k/9vS7wFG1QniyQyTAZaAyoA/h0/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3CeDcWs6nYSZEAMYCGsKpqd1C-2B8HpGHlITjicvx6t83xLtG0fqWv-2F7YfOSbVn0mCZyuJZkZMk3XdkUe4L-2FKIdlczTuiMTiqmMVGzMePF6Q6kqGpgeiVWpPCyhqqkfkro3E jatb-2BG-2FGqH0pl-2BXqD3LM-2FZ11trDt3zObbklNnOv47ONRMtcyHGT5VCKw3p05-2FOGb6h4JfFlMiKl6zOJiIBaxJYTAxoGOwNBcSL9pKUWvzWWkx 0A8AZiuVSxHqE2IfjW4NtbNoL2o3lAFGl3gyHdsYnX4apdCgyZ TU1WcEE-2BJCeA-3D-3D)

Let’s be very clear: Cuts to Social Security Disability Insurance are cuts to Social Security. SSDI is insurance that workers earn with every paycheck, providing critical financial support for disabled workers and their families.

The average monthly SSDI benefit for a disabled worker is just $1,171.52―or about $14,000 a year. Trump and Republicans believe that by targeting disabled workers and low-income families―some of the most economically vulnerable members of our society―he’ll be able to successfully divide the American people and get away with breaking his campaign promise.

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NAFTA reset must protect access to lifesaving medicines


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The Trump administration has formally notified Congress it will be renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). NAFTA has made it easier for corporations to attack laws and regulations enacted to protect our environment, workers' rights, and public health.

In particular, NAFTA strengthened the government-granted monopoly power of patent-protected brand-name pharmaceutical companies, at the expense of the public interest in ensuring lifesaving medicines are available to those who need them.

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Here are some key reforms we want USTR Robert Lighthizer to advocate in the NAFTA renegotiation:

- Eliminate the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system, which allows corporations to sue governments to overturn public interest laws and regulations before a tribunal of corporate lawyers. These lawyers can order taxpayers to pay corporations unlimited sums of money, including for the purported loss of expected future profits.

- Include strong and enforceable labor and environmental standards.

- Eliminate rules that drive up the cost of life-saving medicines by giving pharmaceutical companies extended monopolies on drug patents.

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FCC won’t do anything about fake comments


Hey, this is outrageous. Someone has been flooding the FCC with completely fake comments against net neutrality -- using real people’s names and addresses without their permission. [1]

The news about the fake comments has been widely reported -- but incredibly Verizon-lawyer turned FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says that he has no plans to stop the flood of fake comments, and will consider them as if they were real. [2]

This FCC is clearly owned and operated by the giant cable companies that it is supposed to be protecting us from.

We need to overwhelm them with a massive influx of REAL comments from real people, demanding that they preserve net neutrality and online free speech, before the fast approaching deadline. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5AA/ni0YAA/t.27k/ASckqaVySfmly5GP-g0kLw/h0/N4TP83PuCSy3b099M34ab-2FLVFx3mNsrHgzgEwky-2BNXt9dHCUmo6LKV7p3oE1QCuTdAyRSssT8tQZ4ItzW4NDGVIF cCA4gueeG-2BrvaITDg6CyxiOhLB6tT1bFs3Hfjmc5yeac0pUYDdDslpE0DN Tg1xcD2W2oPyfc8WBz0ZTV5386K6ZwB8eZfNbhM-2Fetroq8DuN9EKp9d1A1qvXkn7xb5vlqOMn8iWhamizkmAPSw-2FekknsnAgRr3-2FVFev10SfoZfTKTCZ-2FuEydI8MG23yRJz4Txu4dyA1Dk5-2FY4JB0OD4fnt0-2BJpXTErLJjruGtKJhWX4RZqSX7QopYM4VkOrp37U5uufV8-2FyrS1GODlNWiQ2Q-3D)

More than two million comments have already been submitted to the FCC, and if you remove the comments that appear to be fake, more than 97% of the remaining comments support keeping the Title II based net neutrality protections that we have now.

Team Cable and their astroturf groups are trying to paint these rules as “oppressive government regulation,” but that’s just not the case. [3] People from across the political spectrum support these rules precisely because they’re so simple and clear:

• No blocking (no censorship)

• No throttling (no slowing down apps or sites)

• No paid prioritization (no charging extra fees to reach an audience)


Net neutrality makes the Internet awesome. We can’t let the FCC take it away. Sign here! (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5AA/ni0YAA/t.27k/ASckqaVySfmly5GP-g0kLw/h1/N4TP83PuCSy3b099M34ab-2FLVFx3mNsrHgzgEwky-2BNXu-2BENBzh98GFoTD2BerzzaDYlQFV8TcX4n0gBVfEYXbdEbKSWbE MZVWlbW8WArZB7ch8zU87wxA-2BvJ34HxhzdyAt8O4Zz5ZYXcSEKFRIA3H0h5jlc3R05VyP-2FJH8L7HtNO1uN1ZVVxDrqbITbnTo4INnwmXNrP-2FUqPJh5QOmor8-2BsrIm-2FJGnZHsQS4uHhu99CF8Jd4d7UyK02o5MbfC9Ie7r5BWlCcUGW Rzj7UIHHjKE1UAqLmk2NNl4F67uC-2FfDlYPpXslOJNNafcqhVxVNGbPpzBpPdjD-2Fxnwso7j6EaNuIdM5aavRxMh2VGa2ub-2Bxwk-3D)

We have just weeks left before the FCC’s final vote. We need to sound the alarm right now.

For the Internet,

-Evan at Fight for the Future

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/10/15610744/anti-net-neutrality-fake-comments-identities

[2] http://www.vocativ.com/431065/fcc-ajit-pai-net-neutrality-bots/

[3] https://consumerist.com/2017/05/12/even-the-cable-lobbys-questionable-survey-shows-most-americans-want-net-neutrality/





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A Budget to Starve America


Dear Chris,

The Trump Administration has no shortage of cruel policy ideas to hurt Americans. But their budget, released today, is an all-out WAR on the poor.

Trump's budget has a proposal to cut Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP (also know as food stamps) by $191 billion over 10 years. That's a quarter of the entire program!

If that wasn't bad enough, the budget also works to dis-incentivize stores from even *accepting* SNAP, by proposing new fees that would charge retailers a fee for participating in SNAP. This is a dangerous idea which will lead to fewer stores accepting SNAP, making it even harder for Americans who've fallen on tough times to get food.

This cannot stand. Join me and tell Congress: Help Americans in need, instead of condemning them to starvation. (http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-trumps-starvation?mailing_id=37849&source=s.icn.em.cr&amp%3Br_by=11152531&r_by=1831516)

Will you sign this petition? Click here: http://bit.ly/WaronThePoor


Thanks so much,
Alexis Goldstein


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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/05/24/budg-m24.html


Trump’s scorched-earth budget: $1.7 trillion in cuts to vital social programs

By Kate Randall

24 May 2017

On Tuesday, the White House unveiled a $4.1 trillion fiscal 2018 budget that proposes to take the ax to social programs that protect the health and welfare of millions of American workers.

The budget amounts to a scorched-earth attack on all aspects of social life. It would claw back social gains made by workers over the past century and slash funds to programs that raised millions out of poverty, particularly since the 1960s.

The proposal is not simply the brainchild of the fascistic-minded billionaire who occupies the White House or the criminal oligarchy he represents. It is the culmination of decades of attacks on social conditions and programs by both big-business parties.

While the Democrats have aimed their fire at the president from the right, pursuing their campaign, along with the “liberal” media, to escalate the US military confrontation with Russia, the Trump administration is forging full steam ahead to advance its ultra-reactionary domestic agenda.

After feigning outrage at the budget’s proposed cuts and tax breaks for the wealthy, the Democrats will eventually fall into line and work with the president to come up with a dirty compromise. The end result will be a budget that makes the most sweeping attacks on core social programs in US history.

The budget, titled “A New Foundation for American Greatness,” is a 52-page declaration of war against the working class. The document spells out $3.6 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years.

It takes as its jumping-off point an attack on Medicaid that would eviscerate the health insurance program for the poor. It then moves on to gut food stamps, welfare and Social Security disability benefits.

An assault on immigrant rights and a parallel buildup of forces to police the border is next on the agenda. The military would receive a 10 percent boost in funding, including many projects already planned by the Obama administration.

Federal workers’ jobs and benefits are targeted. The proposed budget also includes hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to scientific research, environmental protection and the arts. No area of social life is to be left unscathed.

Social programs

Medicaid: The centerpiece of the budget is an $800 billion cut over the next decade to Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor and disabled, jointly administered by the federal government and the states, which presently covers more than 74 million Americans.

Taking its cue from the House Republicans’ American Health Care Act (AHCA) passed May 4, the Trump budget would put an end to Medicaid as a guaranteed benefit based on need, replacing it with per capita funding or block grants to the states.

As part of its effort to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, the AHCA would also end the expansion of Medicaid benefits to those with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty line, resulting in 10 million beneficiaries being booted off the rolls.

The budget proposal notes: “States will have more flexibility to control costs and design individual, State-based solutions to provide better care to Medicaid beneficiaries.” These are code words for the states to institute work requirements, introduce or raise premiums and co-pays, cut benefits or throw enrollees off the program altogether.

Food stamps: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known as food stamps, would be slashed by $193 billion over a decade, a 25 percent reduction. The budget calls for “a series of reforms to SNAP that close eligibility loopholes, target benefits to the neediest households, and require able-bodied adults to work.” The program currently serves 44 million people.

Social Security: The president who vowed not to touch Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security is also proposing an attack on Social Security’s Supplemental Security Income program, which provides cash benefits to the poor and disabled.

The proposal bemoans the fact that people with disabilities currently have low rates of labor force participation. The budget aims to save $72 billion over 10 years, undoubtedly resulting in large numbers people with disabilities being struck from the rolls with no social safety net.

Welfare: Welfare benefits, known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) since the Clinton administration’s “reform” of welfare in the 1990s, will be slashed by a staggering $272 billion over a decade, again by reducing federal funds and shifting responsibility to the states, which will institute work requirements and other restrictions to reduce benefits and remove people from the rolls.

Federal workers: The budget would cut $63 billion by increasing federal employees’ payments to their defined benefit Federal Employee Retirement System, as well as eliminating cost-of-living adjustments for existing and future retirees. There are also plans to privatize the air traffic control system, saving $70 billion.

Immigrant rights: The budget proposes to implement a “merit based” immigration system, reducing the number of immigrants with lower levels of education. The proposal notes that in 2012, “76 percent of households headed by an immigrant without a high school education used at least one major welfare program, compared to 26 percent for households headed by an immigrant with at least a bachelor’s degree.”

In an effort to keep out less educated immigrants portrayed as a drag on social spending dollars, the budget includes $44.1 billion for the Department of Homeland Security and $17.7 billion for the Department of Justice for “law enforcement, public safety and immigration enforcement programs and activities.”

The president’s plan calls for hiring 500 new Border Patrol Agents and 1,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement law enforcement personnel in 2018. The budget proposes an additional $1.5 billion above 2017 levels for “expanded detention, transportation and removal of illegal immigrants.”

The budget also calls for investing $2.6 billion to plan, design and construct a physical wall along the Mexican-US border to keep out immigrants fleeing poverty and violence in Latin America, a cost that the president claimed during his campaign would be paid by Mexico.

Science and the environment: Massive cuts in spending on scientific research, medical research and disease prevention are in the 2018 budget request, including but not limited to:

• National Cancer Institute: $1 billion cut

• National Heart, Lung and Blood Institution: $575 million cut

• National Institute of Allergy and infectious Diseases: $838 million cut

• National Institutes of Health: budget cut from $31.8 billion to $26 billion

• National Science Foundation: $776 million cut.

Spending on the Arts: The Trump budget proposes to eliminate federal funding for the following:

• The Corporation for Public Broadcasting

• The Institute of Museum and Library Services

• National Endowment for the Arts (begin shutting down in 2018)

• National Endowment for the Humanities (begin shutting down in 2018).

Military: The budget includes $639 billion of discretionary budget authority for the Department of Defense, a $52 billion increase above the 2017 continuing resolution level. The proposal stresses that this spending is to be “fully offset by targeted reductions elsewhere”—i.e., through the draconian social spending cuts detailed above.

Tax cuts: The budget outlines a number of tax breaks, which will overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy. These include repealing the 3.8 percent Obamacare surcharge on capital gains and dividends and abolishing the estate tax (the “death tax,” according to Republican jargon).

The president’s proposal also points to the “anticipated economic gains that will result from the President’s fiscal, economic, and regulatory policies,” including tax cuts, which it claims will reduce the deficit by $5.6 trillion over a decade compared to the current fiscal path.

The budget assumes that economic growth will reach 3 percent by 2021 to help balance the budget by 2021. This rosy prediction is belied by numerous sources, including the Congressional Budget Office, which projects 1.9 percent annual growth, and the Federal Reserve, which projects a 1.8 percent growth rate.

Taken together, the spending cuts proposed in Trump’s “American Greatness” budget proposal constitute the wish list of a ruling oligarchy, which is dispensing with the idea that a civilized society has a responsibility to provide its citizens with basic social necessities.

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Trump's budget: Unprecedented attacks on Planned Parenthood (urgent action)


President Trump just doubled down on the efforts in Congress to "defund" Planned Parenthood. We have to stop them. People's lives are at stake.

Send a message to the House and Senate: Stop the attacks on Planned Parenthood. (http://www.ppaction.org/site/R?i=6ONV72e2B1yvP-50Hp0JAw)

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Planned Parenthood



Chris, this is unprecedented.

President Trump just doubled down on blocking women from accessing care at Planned Parenthood — calling on Congress to bar Planned Parenthood from participating in ANY health care program, including Medicaid, HIV programs, Zika prevention programs, and our nation's only birth control program.

The House of Representatives already voted to "defund" Planned Parenthood as a part of the ACA repeal bill — the worst bill for women's health in a generation. The Senate is about to vote on that same bill in the coming weeks. Now, with Trump singling out Planned Parenthood this week and calling on Congress to block women from care, this is the most dangerous moment we have ever been in. If opponents of women's health are successful in "defunding" Planned Parenthood, millions of people will be cut off from basic health care.

This is the first time a president has ever singled out a health care provider in the federal budget like this. It reinforces the most troubling trend we've seen this year: politicians going to every length possible to come after Planned Parenthood and hack away access to care.

Before Congress goes on break again next week, they need to hear from us — loud and clear — again:

Make sure lawmakers feel the outrage and anger they've provoked by their relentless attacks on our care. Send a message now. (http://www.ppaction.org/site/R?i=sR90SpRpuIC7mogbYtbRHQ)

The threat to our health care is real and imminent. Just today, the Congressional Budget Office revealed that the latest version of Paul Ryan's health care bill — the one the House already passed — will cut 23 million people off from health insurance, in addition to blocking care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

It's hard to imagine a recent time when access to health care and reproductive rights were under greater threat — or when the voices of those willing to protect them were more necessary. Please, add your name against these shameful and persistent attacks. (http://www.ppaction.org/site/R?i=h0LyB2YQJYTJGdUaynhqqw)

With anti-reproductive health lawmakers like Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Paul Ryan, and Mitch McConnell pulling out every stop to restrict access to reproductive rights — no matter whose health care they take away, no matter whose lives they ruin, no matter who may end up dead from lack of access to care — we need to be louder and more persistent than ever before.

Send your representatives in Congress a message before they leave town. They need to remember that you're outraged, fired up, and won't back down. (http://www.ppaction.org/site/R?i=FsNs5V0koRt0ltydNLrbiA)

Thanks for sticking with us every step of the way.


Sincerely,



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BREAKING: CBO confirms that Trumpcare is an attack on seniors


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Chris,

Paul Ryan and House Republicans passed Trumpcare without holding a single hearing and without waiting for an updated CBO score, which would have allowed the American people to understand the true damage they’re inflicting. But now we know.

The first report from the Congressional Budget Office nearly killed Trumpcare in the house when it estimated that more than 20 million Americans would lose health insurance in the next decade, and premiums would rise 120-125 percent for adults nearing Medicare age. But amendments were made, and Speaker Ryan got Trumpcare out of the house by one vote.

If passed by the Senate, the CBO now estimates that the revised Trumpcare would still cause 23 million people to lose health insurance in the next decade, and premiums would rise substantially for older adults just below Medicare eligibility age.

Eight Republican Senators have already stated their reservations about voting for Trumpcare. If they all vote no, this bill will fail in the Senate. Send them a message now! (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/1AA/ni0YAA/t.27l/n4hCeDyASUKMJDbnlIJ2XQ/h0/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3CpaM3qVMQ0RmW9CvbVhFEUaiJGKIBNVYfWg2 E-2BJP9I1k1VSWOGinX-2Bg-2Bkku6Bwy3eNa-2BMfW8i75Yas8JD4XKv-2FdBvZP2ggoS0Uj4V5GMEaOaVk2gk2HBgU7coXtk63H4oHXNLQ tTqmwDbopSpxCuXfnoeOCoZQpok75iWMHfbPPzk7pzfTZi9q6k kCGbPcZlzax09OGdVnrF2CudPG2gxsKHSsIovGJQMzRpD-2BXHuY23lur5RMspDHBTfV0Mo96nzX4enjCM0h6Lm72bwrpZMe AgB2Za1gAfsyyCp6ouKM3OpZ4Kb1T0fcHhE0pRkFHeWEkf4h3V ducg0uW1k2hekgjIx9WLeuCET7RIH1pZuJJHOSEAuWGfgoCY0Z C-2Fkk1I-2F4cjuIYfnG3SskYaFo1TfL)

Sens. Rob Portman (OH), Shelley Moore Capito (WV), Cory Gardner (CO), and Lisa Murkowski (AK) sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell signaling their reservations about Trumpcare. And Sens. Lamar Alexander (TN), Bill Cassidy (LA), Susan Collins (ME), and Dean Heller (NV) have also voiced their skepticism.

We need just three Republicans to join Democrats in opposing Trumpcare and we can stop this in the Senate!

Send a message to the Senate: Vote NO on Trumpcare! (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/1AA/ni0YAA/t.27l/n4hCeDyASUKMJDbnlIJ2XQ/h1/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3CpaM3qVMQ0RmW9CvbVhFEUaiJGKIBNVYfWg2 E-2BJP9I1iYe-2FhbcqBEs4oYtrhPqdgJxO32E-2F67-2FjgYXrfebjdbsYNKS0V0kxBf4PbNyejnIhPHiijcNzhbE1sO0 si-2FlxTTD-2FMswUxb7Zlz74kC9r3fdOQRwbOA8ZG3p5RkL43QQMLrGUVNmQ dkRIqzz7-2B0MWwoa-2BgzsZRMzJ0EzFSA2sxtAvJ2SSucEPfDHWdQ-2Faj3BBOzuXtWE5Z9xvDA2J2m-2FxpJJZUSfSMTtOmkdM-2FzRnE9uPXaoq9hw-2Fkc9S89lHXpFICAiwBSfs-2FokI7wvuZpcDDUgzSJihiabWesQBexmM6uU6XrysaKoj4kIrz-2F-2Fer4NiOg-2BodEjhY0z9iqPmjsAhRBlrX4ZOPZKr9sggSOtqo5N)

The CBO says that if Trumpcare passes, 14 million Americans would lose their coverage next year―a number that would climb to 23 million by 2026. All so that Paul Ryan and Donald Trump can raid billions from Medicare and Medicaid to give huge tax breaks to the rich. That is insane. This bill undermines the very concept of insurance, by making health care least affordable for those who need it most.

The CBO's last report said that this premium increase in people without insurance would be “disproportionately larger among older people with lower income; in particular people between 50 and 64 years old.” There is nothing in this bill to change that. This is just another step in the GOP's long war on seniors.

We need just three Republican Senators to stop Trumpcare in its tracks. Add your voice! (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/1AA/ni0YAA/t.27l/n4hCeDyASUKMJDbnlIJ2XQ/h2/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3CpaM3qVMQ0RmW9CvbVhFEUaiJGKIBNVYfWg2 E-2BJP9I1o2b8yX3eRvc70SC-2F2EuxD2VWONJRSopFQCTYXWYAVx4-2FJznCtRiz0XK9dys5dktBIvrtEEzSsM9Vm8sJ9V46BTpq-2FE3OFanjyVT4eCKX6wKzP3CHoVANQ80uyfxMFr4zGTenLV6T-2Fa47U4D2rjQewoVOXkB6b31nLwxGtehcoQSVBqrmZ-2BMo19La1UNtR3M9C-2FfoM448QRvOVst4uVdtfrW-2FcDu-2Fz9Ir7okT23fuYY62WRXEa91esTy9EORjAftCaN-2FL17Ft5lV7yQgErf8IAnxLhBUXsh9m3i3ZCV-2BtTJw73GE-2FPVQZk2-2FyMORaSeCqdoLQ5PPIz8lSj5KvZ8yzHFl7RSftgj9VIS2wlBm qJTX)

Thank you for standing with us,

Michael Phelan
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Mike Pence chaired the Trump transition team. Michael Flynn, a volatile retired general and tireless campaigner for the Trump/Pence ticket, was appointed National Security Advisor despite media reports and private warnings to both Pence and the transition team that Flynn had accepted big payments to lobby for Turkish interests in the U.S.

Well after he was forced to resign three weeks into the job, Flynn belatedly registered as a foreign agent on behalf of Turkey. Yet Pence stunningly declared to Fox News: "Hearing that story today was the first I’d heard of it."

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Pence became Trump’s running-mate weeks after Trump had attacked the fairness of a federal judge because he was "Mexican." The judge -- a U.S. citizen whose parents were Mexican immigrants -- was actually born and raised in Indiana, where Pence was the sitting governor. It took goading by Indiana Democrats before Pence weighed in, merely calling the comments "inappropriate."

Last fall, when Trump unleashed a bizarre 5 a.m. twitter storm against a former Miss Universe (calling her "disgusting" and urging people to check out her alleged "sex tape"), Pence couldn't muster any criticism of Trump but did complain about news media focusing too much on Trump’s tweeting.

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Pence is every bit as bad as Trump...and maybe worse, because he's not stupid like Trump. In any case, it's pretty obvious by now that Trump's no populist - not even a right-wing populist. I don't see how anyone can support him at this point unless you're both a billionaire and a racist.

I am so sick of Trump. Whereas I used to read tons of media articles, both left-wing and right-wing (to see what people are up to), I find myself avoiding it all because just reading about him and what he's trying to pull makes me very, very nauseous.

As for being a fascist, he's certainly evil enough - but fortunately for us he's nowhere charismatic enough. And he inspires virtually zero loyalty except for white trash trailer park America. He can't even keep the people around him from selling him out to the press at every turn. So if he's a fascist, he would have to be the least effective and most incompetent fascist in the history of the civilized world and that is not hyperbole.

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Pence is every bit as bad as Trump...and maybe worse, because he's not stupid like Trump. In any case, it's pretty obvious by now that Trump's no populist - not even a right-wing populist. I don't see how anyone can support him at this point unless you're both a billionaire and a racist.

I am so sick of Trump. Whereas I used to read tons of media articles, both left-wing and right-wing (to see what people are up to), I find myself avoiding it all because just reading about him and what he's trying to pull makes me very, very nauseous.

As for being a fascist, he's certainly evil enough - but fortunately for us he's nowhere charismatic enough. And he inspires virtually zero loyalty except for white trash trailer park America. He can't even keep the people around him from selling him out to the press at every turn. So if he's a fascist, he would have to be the least effective and most incompetent fascist in the history of the civilized world and that is not hyperbole.


So who's going to pay for that plaque to be made -- ? (grin)

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The RAA forces all agencies to adopt “the most cost-effective” regulations for corporations, not the regulations that “maximize net benefits” to the public. Maximizing benefits to the public has been the gold standard in cost-benefit analysis for decades in both Republican and Democratic administrations. Without strong and effective regulatory safeguards that maximize benefits for the American public, the public will pay the price.

2 - The RAA takes an already inefficient rulemaking process and makes it much worse.

It currently takes agencies an entire presidential term (on average) to produce and finalize the regulations that provide the greatest benefits to Americans. The RAA would drown agency regulators with 53 new requirements before putting new rules in place. Given that agency budgets are being targeted for defunding, this will make regulatory delay even worse.

3 - The RAA rigs the regulatory process (even more) in favor of corporate special interests.

The numerous steps that the RAA adds to the rulemaking process means the special interest voices that already dominate the rulemaking process will have even more opportunities to exert power. The RAA does nothing to ensure agencies hear from everyday Americans like YOU, who are supposed to benefit from regulatory safeguards.

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Donald Trump just unveiled a budget proposal that would hammer public education and steal health care from millions, including children.1

But he has no problem spending taxpayer dollars on regular golfing trips to properties he owns and profits from.2

Progressive Rep. Ted Lieu is out to change that with a new bill that deserves our immediate support: The Stop Waste And Misuse by the President (SWAMP) Act of 2017.

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Trump is on pace to spend more on his personal trips in just one year than President Obama spent in all eight years combined. Every trip to Mar-a-Lago costs $3.7 million. That astonishing amount does not even include the cost of air travel and overtime for local law enforcement. Trump has also spent more than $20 million in taxpayer dollars on trips to Trump Tower in New York.3

On top of it all, he forces the Secret Service to pay tens of thousands of dollars to rent golf carts while he plays. And he is doing all this after spending years demonizing President Obama for daring to golf a handful of times.4

Rep. Lieu’s bill would require Trump to reimburse taxpayers for every cent spent on travel to properties he owns.5 No more racking up huge costs while cutting Meals on Wheels. No more lining his own pockets while kicking children off health care. No more expensive hypocrisy while people experiencing homelessness lose a lifeline. We need to put a giant spotlight on Trump’s outrageous behavior by getting behind this bill in a big way.

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Trump’s budget would cut Social Security, end Medicaid as we know it, slash $11 billion from public education, and axe everything from Pell Grants for low-income students to food stamps, medical research, student loans, fossil fuel emissions reduction, and programs that offer a lifeline to those experiencing illness, homelessness, poverty, or disability.6

But spending millions golfing every weekend and lining his own pockets in the process? Trump is fine with that.

Tell Congress: Make Trump pay for his golf trips. Click the link below to sign the petition.

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References:

Julie Hirschfeld Davis, “Trump’s Budget Cuts Deeply Into Medicaid and Anti-Poverty Efforts,” The New York Times, May 22, 2017.
Sebastian Murdock, “SWAMP Act Would Make Donald Trump Pay For His Own Visits To Mar-A-Lago,” HuffPost, May 20, 2017.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Hirschfeld Davis, “Trump’s Budget Cuts Deeply Into Medicaid and Anti-Poverty Efforts.”

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8 Counter-Protesters Charged in Clash at State Capitol Pro-Trump Rally (http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/05/26/pro-trump-rally-anti-protester-charges/) | 26 May 2017 | Counter-protesters are accused of causing a violent disruption at a lawful rally in support of President Donald Trump at the State Capitol. The rally was on March 4. On Friday, almost three months later, the Ramsey County Attorney and the St. Paul city attorney announced eight people have been charged with a crime. The Ramsey County attorney charged two people with felonies in connection with using tear gas and rioting.

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Dear Chris,

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After President Obama won in 2008, FOX News did not hire dozens of progressive, female, Black and Brown, young TV personalities in order to speak to the Obama coalition.

So why on earth is MSNBC pushing out Black and Brown voices and filling its network with hard-line extreme conservatives?1

NBC had troubling ties to Trump during the presidential campaign and gave the racist sexual predator a national platform.2 Now MSNBC, too, is tilting to the right. We need to let NBC executives know that there will be a sharp backlash if MSNBC becomes another platform for right-wing hate.

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The man in charge of MSNBC has made it clear that he wants to make the network whiter and more conservative – even though the ratings of progressive shows are skyrocketing. He is, in the words of reporter Ryan Grim, “resisting the resistance.”3

Andrew Lack, the chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, aims to make them more “centrist,” by which he means bringing in conservative voices. Just look at the recent hires:4,5,6

• Nicole Wallace, a former spokesperson for President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain, will get her own show.

• George Will, the conservative columnist, climate denier and campus rape apologist, signed a lucrative contributor contract.

• Hugh Hewitt, the right-wing talk radio host who recently defended Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, will get his own show.

• Megyn Kelly and Greta Van Susteren, both conservative former FOX News hosts, have been given daytime TV shows.


In the process, Lack has pushed out Black and Brown talent including Melissa Harris Perry, Alex Wagner, Touré Neblett, Dorian Warren, Michael Eric Dyson, Adam Howard, Jamil Smith, Jose Diaz-Balart and Tamron Hall. In fact, Lack has a history of replacing Black on-air personalities wherever he goes.7 America needs voices like these now more than ever, and we need to make it clear to Lack that we are paying attention and there will be consequences.

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The utterly absurd part of all of this is that the ratings of progressive shows are skyrocketing. With Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and Lawrence O’Donnell in the lead, MSNBC is beating FOX News in the ratings for the first time. And it has nothing to do with Lack – his hand-picked shows are tanking while progressives soar, a fact that, according to reports, “makes him furious.”8

It has not yet changed his strategy – he kicked Joy Reid and Al Sharpton to weekends and replaced them with beltway hacks, and Nicole Wallace is replacing Maddow protege Steve Kornacki.9 But the clear evidence of powerhouse ratings for progressives combined with sharp public pressure could make Lack reconsider his conservative approach, so we must speak out.

Tell NBC executives: Stop the white conservative hiring spree at MSNBC. Click below to sign the petition:

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References:

Ryan Grim, “With Trump In The White House, MSNBC Is Resisting The Resistance,” HuffPost, May 1, 2017.
Katie Sullivan, "NBC News Is Struggling To Report On Its Own Trump Problem," Media Matters, Dec. 12, 2016.
Grim, “With Trump In The White House, MSNBC Is Resisting The Resistance.”
Ibid.
Media Matters for America, “George F. Will,” retrieved May 25, 2017.
Media Matters for America, “Hugh Hewitt,” retrieved May 25, 2017.
Grim, “With Trump In The White House, MSNBC Is Resisting The Resistance.”
Ibid.
Ibid.


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We’ve just read a leaked copy of a new federal rule that would put birth control coverage in jeopardy for hundreds of thousands of people. And it’s horrendous.

Take Action Now to Defend Birth Control Coverage

According to news reports, the Trump Administration is planning at any moment to issue a rule that would allow bosses and insurance companies to use their religious or moral beliefs to block their employees’ access to birth control coverage. We will not let this attack on women’s health stand—and we are preparing right now to sue the administration to stop it. But in the meantime, before the rule is finalized, we must make sure all of the agencies involved in this rule hear from us immediately.

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Send an urgent message letting administration officials know you oppose this rule.

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Let’s be clear: their attack on no-cost birth control is an attack on women’s health and economic security. Birth control lets us plan our lives, deciding if and when to have children. And thanks to the health care law, more than 55 million women have health coverage for birth control without out-of-pocket costs like co-pays, saving women money—$1.4 billion saved on the pill alone in 2013.

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NWLC will fight tooth and nail to stop this affront to women—including by taking the Trump Administration to court. And we’re going to need you alongside us every step of the way to let Trump and his cronies know that they picked the wrong fight.

Thank you for taking action in this critical moment to protect affordable birth control coverage for everyone—no matter where they live, work, or go to school.

Sincerely,
Gretchen Borchelt
Vice President for Reproductive Rights and Health
National Women's Law Center

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Chris,

Since Donald Trump’s inauguration, the national media has provided critical reporting on the very real threat that Donald Trump and his administration pose to the future of our democracy. But they have continued a troubling trend of misreporting very real economic implications that the GOP policy agenda poses to working people and older Americans.

Just look at this headline from the New York Times: “Budget Slashes Programs for Poor, While Largely Sparing Older People.”

By slashing Medicaid in both his 2018 budget and Trumpcare, Donald Trump is not only throwing 23 million people off of their healthcare, he’s also making it impossible for older Americans to afford long term nursing home care. And now he’s proposing cutting up to $64 billion from Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), while claiming that this does not break his promise to protect Social Security.

This isn’t a new development with Trump. The media has long favored discussions of Social Security and Medicare that treat them as problems, not solutions.

The truth is that candidate Donald Trump claimed to be the only Republican candidate who would protect Social Security and Medicaid. And in his first budget proposal, he proposes devastating cuts in order to give a massive tax cut to millionaires, billionaires and large corporations.

And while the media has rightly held his feet to the fire as he deviates from consensus positions on international issues and civil rights, Trump has been given too much credit when he parrots the same talking points Paul Ryan has used for years.

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Donald Trump’s Budget Director spent his career in Congress attempting to devastate our earned benefits. And the media has been too credulous as they have claimed that cuts to Social Security Disability Insurance somehow aren’t cuts to Social Security.

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Thank you,

Michael Phelan
Social Security Works


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Breaking: Trump likely to pull out of Paris agreement


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Chris,

Alarming news out of Washington:

President Trump is leaning toward completely withdrawing America from the Paris Climate Agreement.

If true, it means Trump is close to making one of the most foolish and reckless decisions of any president in history.

But if this decision is not yet official, there's still time for one last-ditch effort to sway the White House to avert this catastrophe-in-the-making.

Here are three things to do right now:

1. Send an email to President Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis (http://www.nrdconline.org/site/R?i=hndC4GYBNNSXk7pPW2WBBw) imploring them not to make the dangerous and ill-advised decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement.

2. Spread the word on social media. Help whip up a firestorm of outrage to remind Trump that the American people are not with him on withdrawal from Paris and his destructive embrace of fossil fuels.

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And if you are in the Washington, D.C., area tomorrow, June 1, please turn out for a 5 p.m. rally at the White House to protest Trump's decision. [url="http://www.nrdconline.org/site/R?i=_zz_2Yl9pS_edRRVO9fvhA) And stay tuned for details on possible rallies in other cities around the U.S.

If Trump completely withdraws from the Paris agreement, he would be ignoring advice from his Secretary of State, Secretary of Energy, the Pope, Ivanka Trump, the CEOs of major companies like Apple, Google, General Mills and even ExxonMobil and Chevron, our foreign allies and so many others.

Instead he'd be siding with hard-liners like Steve Bannon, EPA chief Scott Pruitt and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — all of whom are pushing to abandon the Paris accord.

We cannot let this group prevail.

Our climate experts in Washington are following developments very closely and we'll keep you posted as soon as we hear more about Trump's decision.

Stay tuned.

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Tell Trump: Hands off our birth control!


TAKE ACTION: Tell Trump to take his hands OFF of women's rights and leave the ACA's contraception benefit as it is. (http://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/sign/170601_trump-bc/?t=5&akid=2682.462514.ljlWm4)

Chris,

Yesterday, a leaked copy of Trump’s plan to gut the Affordable Care Act's birth control coverage policy surfaced. Much like most breaking news in the Trump-era, this caused me to slam my fists on my desk in frustration—and chances are, you'll agree with me once you hear why.

The Trump administration is riddled with birth control opponents who are ready to cut off access to birth control coverage and other preventative services that serve 55 million women.1 Since the ACA passed 7 years ago, more women have been using insurance through their employer. And once the rule takes effect, employers could stop providing coverage immediately with no interference from Congress.

To top it off, there was no request for public comments about this federal rule like every president before him has held. It's clear that this administration's legitimacy shrinks by the day.

Since Trump refused to hear the input from the American people, we’re going to tell him how we really feel about him and his cronies cutting off birth control coverage. Tell Trump that ignoring the wishes of the American people is unacceptable and that you're ready for this fight. (http://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/sign/170601_trump-bc/?t=6&akid=2682.462514.ljlWm4) Leave a message for him and we'll deliver it for you.

Chris, the ACA's birth control coverage benefit was the single greatest advancement in reproductive healthcare in a generation, giving millions more control over our own futures. Not a single person in this administration is willing to protect this critical healthcare—not Pence, HHS Secretary Tom Price, and especially not Ivanka. It's in our best interest to fight for ourselves and hold all of them accountable.

Demand that Trump keeps his (tiny) hands off of our birth control. Leave a comment and we'll send your message loud and clear. (http://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/sign/170601_trump-bc/?t=7&akid=2682.462514.ljlWm4)

Thanks for all you do for reproductive freedom.


Sasha Bruce
Senior Vice President, NARAL Pro-Choice America

Sources:

The Affordable Care Act's birth control benefit is working for women, National Women's Law Center, accessed June 1, 2017.


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Minneapolis protest demands 'Trump out now' (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=96eecb4dfa&e=d323598fe4)

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Minneapolis, MN - About 100 people gathered at the Minneapolis federal building, June 1, to demand “Trump out now.” Organized by the Resist from Day One Coalition, speakers from the environmental, labor, student and immigrant rights movements blasted Trump’s policies.

Bill Adamski, a member of MN350.org, condemned Trump for the U.S. pullout from the Paris Agreement, which is in place to curb climate change.

The Trump and Republican budget proposal, which was released last week, also came up for scorn. Welfare Rights Committee speaker Linden Gawboy said, “Trump’s plan cuts billions of dollars from the poorest of the poor, the sick and the disabled. Trump’s budget is just plain evil. Trump and his cronies are assholes. Trump must go.”

Meredith Aby-Keirstead, of the Twin Cities-based Anti-War Committee told the crowd, “Last weekend a white supremacist was harassing two African American women – one of whom was wearing a hijab – with racist and religious insults in Portland, Oregon and when allies challenged him he stabbed three people and two of them died. Hate crimes like these are increasing across the country as a direct result of the president’s anti-Muslim rhetoric which paints our Muslim neighbors as ‘terrorists.’ His rhetoric has also inspired actions like the national day of action against Muslims called ‘March Against Sharia’ on June 10. Racists are inspired to voice their bigotry because it is echoed back to them from the White House. We need to protest on June 10 and to continue to challenge the racist Muslim ban and other policies that attack Muslims.”

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

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Important: NPE issues a position statement on charter schools


Dear Chris,

Diane Ravitch, did far more than criticize the Democrats in her recently published article entitled Don’t Like Betsy DeVos? Blame the Democrats (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4QA/ni0YAA/t.27v/zxsfz49VQzmgu6Dsq89ncA/h0/7n9gQ0cFAVFkCKYwDhq9GE6sAG53ySRWc3S-2BFWxjk3WjuTjvzSVyShYo9GlyZfsdVCK9ZF37J56XfyXzsed-2FXoaqzKPCJ9rjiZWtJq3dM7Bf6bsNHqRKCWdt5R22e-2BYliZEBlFQ2ObDMyYku-2FoFDVaQatXTp-2Bx-2B-2BndSybNpOGKzRUV1AB7jfcsh4B2HLNyg1IS6DpNl6c3h5VuhZ d70y1td6uJv8sf3xutQPNBHw412sGtUM8znn7LtaMnPIgFYk13-2BYa85uvAU1nDl0rq6ZjFNKzBysgmFlxlG7OoeFr02-2BUJBs52ESJ981B4MznpcW3atFvartiz81ySHZv1XiCQOcEuXM zBUuK-2BmcbnV8W6Mx4q4TsYN0wPGwpdysyfDYB-2FnduIJDRyck4FC5bHIFbpwMYqL9BZKlNzxw6S-2BSn6PXEzeVJT5Zthnxh0oZeyHCXQThTMz7dNWktchfrlwOoA-3D-3D). She reminds us that privatization did not begin with vouchers and Betsy DeVos. Charter schools, supported by both parties, have played a central role in the process of school privatization.

The bottom line is the rhetoric that charter schools are public schools just does not hold up. Either you believe that taxpayer-funded schools should be nested in democracy, or you believe that private boards should run schools pretty much the way the want with taxpayers footing the bill.

And so it seemed important to us at NPE that we issue a strong and decisive position statement on Charter Schools. Our statement draws a bright line between what is truly a public school and what is not. It explains the problems created by charters, and also proposes a course forward.

The NPE Position Statement on Charter Schools (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4QA/ni0YAA/t.27v/zxsfz49VQzmgu6Dsq89ncA/h1/XnEq2QcyhMEkAeLZCCZSL9Vsk7OzzuWRMNTi3dubbA5PYPx4B5 eQdYOkltdM0-2F4QbJxcaS2cAByvzkgr-2FdLoitDGq6nUdfDCFt-2Fj66M7V-2BCqTRD1YwSZkroF4w5PTUUMB8pMx-2BrIQ6GAck19NmdIKZ9TqisGVI0JoS4vKt2iFKrirxe2qVDAo2 or-2B7xHjmayKfqHo83SElBkTj9qwS6JcXtVAZrP7kbjnGQ1-2BE-2FgUoyAzyM-2BGb8YtpO4a2W1Wv-2F2-2Bz53LKMigVbo8P5bVIQw5p06PTmPBUXTwCMVvAi9I-2FhjOdsZaVUMoW-2Bv6Bwrs493cPnbKBb7rf-2FEbo1NmZqrOWRXP-2BD1J9QWBPLz6f8JZpN4Lk8IaY295e6op3DtZV-2BiRBsOG8eWwC3GwSWARszW5tAiapE8tZg9XEZMITxBJnT9CC2 1fnB3S0va5V4P0UIe67aLxlbjSxfJ7v6Dau2iCIg9hU4fcmKW9 ZTgLGWCrdXSLeMzdbU9n8x49vRAi0HsK81s6L5bUGNBQ5TkOmL 6vA-3D-3D) can be found in its entirety here (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4QA/ni0YAA/t.27v/zxsfz49VQzmgu6Dsq89ncA/h2/XnEq2QcyhMEkAeLZCCZSL9Vsk7OzzuWRMNTi3dubbA5PYPx4B5 eQdYOkltdM0-2F4QbJxcaS2cAByvzkgr-2FdLoitDGq6nUdfDCFt-2Fj66M7V-2BCqTRD1YwSZkroF4w5PTUUMB8pMx-2BrIQ6GAck19NmdIKWWlq0TdLDzYM9HrTF1OZHpbDBJTzIHkZD wP30QSOVuEUnK-2FkfCrOUoaMY-2B6vIEULhYONJ-2BF-2BMhKNChUrU-2BEtBT4IVxaqa6oEF7a1p91oqv4uln59jxkF-2FUASoa-2BZEfQHCwb4vuy5obRzvJ21FeFq4WLGauBN441DkPsbTvlVxy5 C57VxNBUoIo7fSgd1R6NEIfKBe1K4AfqqsSRXC5e7O4OBTrjQA j098fgcwtEKkO81oexBYRXzFeYGzBvb5DZdIi3d5bWPu7WhMm0 HcdgZtNGIP4eHg-2BaGldo4Fuco3zqvYIVnIHJgqJi-2FtAqxXvoQVw5gi0KDJcjZuIxZsFUpvRN71quVniraWh6J2xVy AwmmtcslnOXNybw8NpUvIuXKw-3D-3D).

You can also read it below. Please take the time to read it. Advocate for the 16 changes that we list at the end. And please share it on social media. Thank you for your continued support of NPE and public schools. You can post this position statement using this link

https://networkforpubliceducation.org/2017/05/network-public-education-issues-position-statement-charter-schools/
NPE Statement on Charter Schools

The Network for Public Education believes that public education is the pillar of our democracy. We believe in the common school envisioned by Horace Mann. A common school is a public institution, which nurtures and teaches all who live within its boundaries, regardless of race, ethnicity, creed, sexual preference or learning ability. All may enroll--regardless of when they seek to enter the school or where they were educated before.

We believe that taxpayers bear the responsibility for funding those schools and that funding should be ample and equitable to address the needs of the served community. We also believe that taxpayers have the right to examine how schools use tax dollars to educate children.

Most importantly, we believe that such schools should be accountable to the community they serve, and that community residents have the right and responsibility to elect those who govern the school. Citizens also have the right to insist that schooling be done in a manner that best serves the needs of all children.

By definition, a charter school is not a public school. Charter schools are formed when a private organization contracts with a government authorizer to open and run a school. Charters are managed by private boards, often with no connection to the community they serve. The boards of many leading charter chains are populated by billionaires who often live far away from the schools they govern.

Through lotteries, recruitment and restrictive entrance policies, charters do not serve all children. The public cannot review income and expenditures in detail. Many are for profit entities or non-profits that farm out management to for-profit corporations that operate behind a wall of secrecy. This results in scandal, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer funds. The news is replete with stories of self-dealing, conflicts of interest, and theft occurring in charter schools [1].

We have learned during the 25 years in which charters have been in existence that the overall academic performance of students in charter schools is no better, and often worse, than the performance of students in public schools. And yet charter schools are seen as the remedy when public schools are closed based on unfair letter-based grading schemes.

By means of school closures and failed takeover practices like the Achievement School District, disadvantaged communities lose their public schools to charter schools. Not only do such communities lose the school, but they also lose their voice in school governance.

There is little that is innovative or new that charter schools offer. Because of their “freedom” from regulations, allegedly to promote innovation, scandals involving the finances and governance of charter schools occur on a weekly basis. Charter schools can and have closed at will, leaving families stranded. Profiteers with no educational expertise have seized the opportunity to open charter schools and use those schools for self-enrichment. States with weak charter laws encourage nepotism, profiteering by politicians, and worse.

For all of the reasons above and more, the Network for Public Education regard charter schools as a failed experiment that our organization cannot support. If the strength of charter schools is the freedom to innovate, then that same freedom can be offered to public schools by the district of the state.

At the same time, we recognize that many families have come to depend on charter schools and that many charter school teachers are dedicated professionals who serve their students well. It is also true that some charter schools are successful. We do not, therefore, call for the immediate closure of all charter schools, but rather we advocate for their eventual absorption into the public school system. We look forward to the day when charter schools are governed not by private boards, but by those elected by the community, at the district, city or county level.

Until that time, we support all legislation and regulation that will make charters better learning environments for students and more accountable to the taxpayers who fund them. Such legislation would include the following:

· An immediate moratorium on the creation of new charter schools, including no replication or expansion of existing charter schools

· The transformation of for-profit charters to non-profit charters

· The transformation of for-profit management organizations to non-profit management organizations

· All due process rights for charter students that are afforded public school students, in all matters of discipline

· Required certification of all school teaching and administrative staff

· Complete transparency in all expenditures and income

· Requirements that student bodies reflect the demographics of the served community

· Open meetings of the board of directors, posted at least 2 weeks prior on the charter’s website

· Annual audits available to the public

· Requirements to following bidding laws and regulations

· Requirements that all properties owned by the charter school become the property of the local public school if the charter closes

· Requirements that all charter facilities meet building codes

· Requirements that charters offer free or reduced priced lunch programs for students

· Full compensation from the state for all expenditures incurred when a student leaves the public school to attend a charter

· Authorization, oversight and renewal of charters transferred to the local district in which they are located

· A rejection of all ALEC legislation regarding charter schools that advocates for less transparency, less accountability, and the removal of requirements for teacher certification.

Until charter schools become true public schools, the Network for Public Education will continue to consider them to be private schools that take public funding.


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PRISM, Upstream, shut ‘em down!


Tell Congress to stop the NSA's mass surveillance of Americans.

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Chris Kaihatsu,

The NSA recently announced they're only going to low-key spy on you now.1 Feel better? Me neither.

SIGN THE PETITION: Tell Congress to stop the NSA from snooping on Americans' personal communications. (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tell-congress-end-mass-surveillance-americans-under-section-702/?source=702message1&t=3&akid=5836.610737.xRP438)

Section 702 – that big, scary, Frankenstein law that lets the NSA listen in and read our phone calls, emails and text messages – has two major programs, PRISM and Upstream.

PRISM allows the NSA to collect, without a warrant, user communications from companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook, while Upstream allows it to scan all information traveling through internet backbone in real time. And both of these programs will expire at the end of the year unless Congress acts to keep them alive.

The NSA says they’re shutting down one small part of Upstream. Don't get your hopes up: they're not stopping mass surveillance. Instead they are trying to spin a kinder, gentler side of intrusive, warrantless government surveillance of our private data so PRISM and Upstream can get reauthorized this year. Our message to Congress is simple: fix Section 702 or end it.

SIGN THE PETITION: Tell Congress to stop the NSA's mass surveillance of Americans under Section 702. (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tell-congress-end-mass-surveillance-americans-under-section-702/?source=702message1&t=4&akid=5836.610737.xRP438)

Since 2008, when Section 702 became law, federal courts found that the NSA has repeatedly intercepted American citizens’ phone calls, emails, and text messages2 – all of it under the guise of “looking for terrorist communications,” and all of it without a warrant. Even more troubling is that intelligence agencies knowingly search through these massive databases for American information – the kind protected by the Fourth Amendment.

PRISM and Upstream are gross and unnecessary intrusions into our lives, and they violate our civil liberties.

All Congress has to do to stop this is nothing. Let the law expire. Unless it gets fundamentally reformed, they should do just that.

SIGN THE PETITION: Tell Congress to shut down the NSA's mass surveillance of Americans under Section 702. (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tell-congress-end-mass-surveillance-americans-under-section-702/?source=702message1&t=5&akid=5836.610737.xRP438)

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The Daily Beast, "NSA Halts Controversial Surveillance Tactic of Collecting American Emails About Foreign Targets" April 28, 2017
The Intercept, "NSA Backs Down on Major Surveillance Program That Captured Americans'Communication Without a Warrant" April 28, 2017

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Could this be the End of the ADA?


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Congress: Don't Destroy the Americans with Disabilities Act

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Chris,

"Let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down!" That's what President Bush Senior proclaimed when he signed the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law in front of throngs of clapping onlookers. He was right. The way disabled American's had been excluded from the mainstream life was, indeed, a shame. But with the stroke of a pen, he ensured that no one could be discriminated against for their disability without facing the consequences.

But Republicans in Congress, and their special interest friends are currently working to defang this history making bill. (http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AXJsG/zS8n/t8hl)

Apart from prohibiting employers from discriminating against employees or applicants with disabilities entirely, the ADA allows disabled Americans access to legal remedies if an institution, public or private, isn't complying with the law.

But businesses don't like the fact that they have to pay for their negligence and they are doing everything they can to convince Congress to virtually kill the bill. (http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AXJsG/zS8n/t8hl)

As we speak Congress is working to pass the ADA Education and Reform Act of 2017, a bill that would make it harder for for people who have been excluded by an institution, to get redress. Does that sound like a good idea to you?

This law could pass if we don't fight back. Sign and tell Congress that to protect, not destroy the ADA. (http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AXJsG/zS8n/t8hl)

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Republicans make federal default a possibility (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=7c194e8c5d&e=d323598fe4)

By Masao Suzuki

San José, CA - On May 24, Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury and former Wall Street investment banker for Goldman Sachs, urged Congress to raise the federal debt limit before they go on break July 28. The U.S. Treasury first bumped up against the maximum that the U.S. government can borrow back in March, and has been continuing to borrow by using accounting measures.

These tricks were thought to put off the debt limit crunch until the fall, but a drop in tax payments by the wealthy has brought the deadline forward. Ironically, it is Trump and the Republicans in Congress who are proposing big tax cuts for the rich that are leading the rich to hold off paying their taxes.

While Mnuchin has called for a ‘clean’ increase in the debt limit - that is one without attached conditions such as cutting funding for Planned Parenthood - Trump himself has not taken a clear position. Trump’s head of the Office of Management and Budget, Mick Mulvaney, who is a former member of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, has refused to commit to a clean increase that could attract Democratic support.

The House Freedom Caucus and other republicans in congress have used the debt limit in the past to try to force spending cuts on social programs. They repeated this position this year, hoping to blackmail the government into spending cuts to avoid a default on debt payments.

As a congressman, Mulvaney even suggested that it would not be that bad if the U.S. did not raise the debt limit and defaulted on some of his debt payments. Trump himself, who has declared bankruptcy for his businesses many times, also suggested during his campaign for president that default would not be that bad and that he could negotiate lower payments from government bond owners.

On June 2, Mulvaney said that the government would faces “difficulties” if the debt limit were not increased but swore that there would be no default on debt payments. Unfortunately, this could only be done if the government put off paying its other obligations, of which Social Security and Medicare are among the biggest.

In response, Democrat and House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi did not commit to a clean increase, pointing out that increasing the debt limit could enable the Republicans to give huge tax cuts for the rich that would increase the deficit. In fact, the federal government debt has historically had three causes: First, shrunken tax revenues and increased safety-net spending because of a financial crisis, for example, after the depressions in 1929-1933 and then again from 2008-2009; second, increases in military spending and expensive wars in the 1980s under Reagan, and then again in the 2000s under President George W. Bush; and third, the big tax cuts for the rich in the 1980s and 2000s.

While many in Congress, including both Republicans and Democrats, have talked about cutting Social Security and Medicare to help reign in the federal debt, in fact Medicare has paid for itself and Social Security has run up almost $3 trillion in surplus over the last 30 years. The biggest danger to working people is not that the federal government would default on its debt and cause financial chaos throughout the capitalist world, but that a ‘bipartisan’ plan would trade off raising the debt limit (which Wall Street wants), with cutting Social Security and/or Medicare (which Wall Street also wants).

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http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/336374-trump-unveils-plan-to-separate-air-traffic-control-from-government


https://news.google.com/


Trump unveils plan to separate air traffic control from government

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President Trump announced plans on Monday to separate air traffic control from the federal government as part of a broader push to modernize the country’s infrastructure.

The White House had already signaled support for the controversial idea, which would hand over the nation’s air navigation system to a nonprofit or nongovernmental agency.

But Trump signed formal legislative principles outlining the spin-off plan this week, putting some muscle behind the effort, which has previously failed to gain traction on Capitol Hill.



Trump unveiled the proposal in the White House’s East Room alongside a number of airline executives, Vice President Pence, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) — a chief congressional supporter of the plan.

“For too many years our country has tolerated delays at the airport, long wait times on the tarmac, and a slowing of commerce and travel that costs billion and billions of dollars,” Trump said.

“Today we're proposing to take American air travel into the future, finally. We will launch this air travel revolution by modernizing the outdated system of air traffic control. It’s about time.”

Trump’s proposal would transfer the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) air traffic control operations to an independent outside agency over three years “at no charge,” removing 30,000 FAA employees from the federal payroll. The FAA would still maintain safety oversight, however.

The administration billed the proposal as a way to speed up long-stalled modernization efforts at the FAA, which still uses paper strips to track flights instead of a precision-based GPS system. It also would remove operations from the political uncertainty of the annual appropriations process in Congress, officials said.

Trump called the current technology system “horrible” and “antiquated,” and blasted the Obama administration for its slow progress on the Next Generation Air Transportation System.

“The previous administration spent over $7 billion to upgrade the system and totally failed,” he said. “Honestly, they didn’t know what they hell they were doing.”

The proposal comes as the White House launches a string of high-profile events this week aimed at ramping up support for Trump’s infrastructure initiative.

Officials told reporters they decided to kick the campaign off with air traffic control reform because Shuster already had a comprehensive package put together, saying it seemed like “naturally low-hanging fruit.”

The spin-off model fits in with the major theme underlying Trump’s broad infrastructure initiative: that the federal government doesn’t have all the necessary resources to maintain the country’s vast infrastructure and should seek more help from the private sector.

Although the White House plans to move air traffic control reform separately from a $1 trillion infrastructure package, officials said it’s up to Congress how to tackle both initiatives.

The plan would maintain safety, improve route efficiency and reduce delays, because a corporation would deliver cheaper and faster results than the government, White House officials said.

Many other developed nations around the world have set up a similar outside agency, which would raise money through user fees instead of taxes, have the authority to borrow funds and access capital, and be governed by a board of directors appointed by users of the system.

The corporation’s board would consist of 13 members: Two would represent the airlines, two would represent unions, one would represent general aviation, one would represent airports and two would represent the government as a whole. Then those members, along with the board's CEO, would select four independent members.

The board makeup represents a major difference from a similar spin-off proposal backed by Shuster, which stalled in the House last year.

The change is designed to win more support from rural communities and general aviation users who were concerned Shuster’s plan would give commercials airlines outsized control over the national airspace.

The administration vowed that rural communities and general aviation users would have their voices represented in the new model, but Trump’s principles did not indicate whether they would be exempt from the new entity’s user fees.

The principles also emphasize that the new entity “should honor existing labor agreements,” with current FAA employees allowed to keep their federal retirement and healthcare benefits — an issue that is crucial to winning the support of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.

White House officials told reporters that Trump’s leadership on the issue “unifies the nature of the politics” in Congress and could help erode opposition to the plan on Capitol Hill.

But the idea is still likely to face fierce opposition from Democrats, GOP tax-writers and appropriators, who worry about handing over the power to collect fees to a nongovernmental agency.

They are also concerned about giving away the country’s navigation system to a corporation for free and removing operations from congressional oversight, leaving lawmakers little way to hold the new entity accountable.

“Our nation’s airspace is the safest in the world, in no small part because of the exemplary work of our Air Traffic Controllers and aviation safety professionals at the FAA,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a statement.

“Trump’s ideas for privatizing Air Traffic Control — which recycle a tired Republican plan that both sides of the aisle have rejected — would hand control of one of our nation’s most important public assets to special interests and the big airlines. Selling off our Air Traffic Control system threatens passenger safety, undermines the FAA’s ongoing modernization, jeopardizes access to rural airports and adds to the deficit.”
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This Trump nominee is alarming


Chris,

The Trump administration has shown it's not afraid to twist every branch of government to attack our rights. Their latest attempt to bend our democracy? Nominating anti-choice John Bush to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.

You fought alongside us against Neil Gorsuch's confirmation to the Supreme Court. Now we must work to stand strong and united against another destructive judicial nominee. We need strong, independent judges on our federal courts, not ones who will push their ultra-conservative agenda.

Sign on to demand fair, unbiased judges who will stand up to Trump and anti-choice extremism. (http://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/sign/170605-antichoice-federal-judges/?t=5&akid=2700.462514.VIwUhS)

Here's a quick look at Bush's stances:

• Bush equated abortion with slavery as one of the "greatest tragedies in our country" in his shady, anonymous blog. 1

• He worked with right-wing group Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, which has a long history of pushing anti-choice policies and championing anti-choice organizations like Susan B. Anthony List.

• He applauded Mike Huckabee for saying that he "strongly disagree with the idea of same-sex marriage."

• He characterized grants to combat violence against women as wasteful.


His nomination should alarm anyone who cares about progressive values. The 6th Circuit hears cases from states where reproductive rights and LGBTQ rights are currently under attack—states like Tennessee, whose governor last month signed into law an unconstitutional abortion ban that prohibits access to abortion after 20 weeks.2

Let's be clear here: Trump and Pence are stacking our courts with anti-choice cronies who prop up racist and anti-LGBTQ ideologies in blog posts. This is NOT normal. And it's wholly unacceptable.

Next week the Senate Judiciary committee will begin reviewing Bush's record. We need to send a reminder to this illegitimate administration: we are watching. We will fight back against any judicial nominee that poses a threat to Roe v. Wade and our rights. Add your name to demand judicial nominees that will protect the rights of everyday Americans. (http://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/sign/170605-antichoice-federal-judges/?t=6&akid=2700.462514.VIwUhS)

Thanks for all you do to fight back.


Mitchell Stille
National Campaigns Director, NARAL Pro-Choice America

Sources:

We have to keep this bizarre, unfit Trump nominee off our federal court, NARAL Medium, June 5, 2017.
Gov. Bill Haslam signs strick late-term abortion ban, The Tennessean, May 12, 2017.


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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/06/tfaa-j06.html


Trump unveils plan to privatize air traffic control system

By Patrick Martin

6 June 2017

President Trump and top administration and congressional officials announced the proposed privatization of the US air traffic control system Monday, in the first major event of what the White House has billed as “infrastructure week.”

As the plan to dismantle the Federal Aviation Administration makes clear, the measures to be unveiled during the remainder of the week will have nothing to do with either rebuilding the decayed public infrastructure of the United States or creating jobs.

Instead, the driving force of the administration’s policies in this sphere, as in every other, is the desire to create immense profits for favored corporations and billionaires. In the case of air traffic control, the beneficiaries will be the airline monopolies, as well as whatever corporation acquires the FAA for the asking price of zero.

The name FAA will remain inside the government, as a shrunken agency charged with promoting air travel safety but deprived of any regulatory authority—little more than a propaganda adjunct to the present National Transportation Safety Board.

The actual operations of the FAA will be spun off as a private “nonprofit” corporation which will inevitably come under the control of the airlines or some other giant corporate entity. Some 30,000 federal workers, including all 14,000 air traffic controllers who are vital to the day-to-day functioning of commercial and private aviation, will become employees of the new company.

Trump was typically vague about the details of the plan, only praising it effusively as great and fantastic. In contradiction to his usual “America First” rhetoric, however, Trump pointed to foreign examples as supposedly successful models, including Canada, Australia and several European countries, all of which have privatized air traffic control in various ways.

The nonprofit entity will acquire not only the workers but also the assets of the FAA, including the $7 billion NextGen modernization program implemented over several administrations to transition the FAA from ground-based radar monitoring to satellite-based monitoring similar to GPS.

While Trump condemned the modernization program as money wasted, the transition is to take effect by 2020. In effect, this long-term plan will be turned over to private operation just in time for the new efficiencies to be translated into profit opportunities, either for the airlines or the corporate sponsor of the new “nonprofit” entity.

A critical component of the privatization deal is the support of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA), the union formed to replace the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) after the Reagan administration smashed the 1981 air traffic controllers strike.

Reagan broke the PATCO strike using a plan drafted under his predecessor, Democrat Jimmy Carter, who had pushed through deregulation of the airlines, the brainchild of the leading liberal Democrat in the US Senate, Edward Kennedy. Former aides to Kennedy devised the strikebreaking plan, using military controllers, that was later put into practice by the Reagan administration.

None of this would have been possible without the backing of the AFL-CIO, which regarded the smashing of the PATCO strike and the destruction of PATCO as a necessary step in suppressing working class opposition to the ultra-right program of the Reagan administration. PATCO became the template for a decade-long effort to strangle strikes and crush militancy within the union rank-and-file, which led ultimately to the transformation of the unions into organizations completely committed to the defense of corporate profit, with the union officials serving as an industrial police force, a second line of management.

NATCA has long played that role, opposing any industrial action by air traffic controllers, and collaborating with FAA officials, whether appointed by Republicans or Democrats, so long as the union’s “right” to collect dues from a captive work force was retained.

In the privatization deal, there is even a sweetener for the union officials: two of the 13 spots on the board of directors of the new nonprofit company are reserved for them. They will be joined by two representatives of the airlines, one from general aviation, one from airport authorities, and two from the federal government. These eight, along with the CEO, will select four more “independent” members.

The makeup of the board is the main difference between the Trump plan and one introduced last year by Bill Shuster, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The changes were in response to complaints by general aviation (small plane owners, invariably wealthy) and elected officials in rural areas that the board would be dominated by the major airlines.

The White House plan declares that the new entity “should honor existing labor agreements,” and provides that current employees would keep their federal retirement and healthcare benefits, further nods to the NATCA union. New hires would be able to join the union but would not be guaranteed the same benefits and conditions—in effect, an open door to a two-tier system like that imposed on the auto industry by the Obama administration.

There continues to be opposition from rural and small-town interests, since the new private entity would make decisions about awarding routes, which are likely to favor the concerns of commercial airlines anxious to dump unprofitable low-volume routes.

The plan also displays the utter cynicism of the Trump White House, in which officials lie without shame or even any serious attempt to keep the lies straight. Thus Trump, at the official unveiling Monday, declared that the NextGen system was a disaster, in which the Obama administration spent “$7 billion dollars trying to upgrade the system and totally failed, they didn’t know what the hell they were doing.”

At a press briefing two days earlier, Gary Cohn, director of Trump’s National Economic Council, praised NextGen and said privatization would be based on it: “We will be speeding up the implementation of NextGen air traffic control, going from a land-based radar system to a much more accurate and precise GPS-based system. We’re really moving into the modern decade of technology and aircraft control.”

It remains to be seen whether the legislation to privatize the FAA can be rammed through in the limited time available, since the current FAA authorization expires September 30, along with the Fiscal Year 2017 budget. The plan faces nominal opposition from Democrats, especially in the Senate, but the real danger comes from small-town and rural interests with influence in the Republican Party.

Two influential general aviation groups, the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, opposed the Trump plan, with the NBAA denouncing the overhaul as “really about the airlines’ push to gain more control over our air traffic control system, so that they can run it for their own benefit, and is a sideshow to a serious and constructive discussion about building on the progress currently underway on NextGen.”

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Fwd: Operation Rescue Wants to Do WHAT?


Friends, I'll be quick:

It's Attorney General Jeff Sessions' job to protect abortion providers from terrorism.

Just days ago anti-choice leaders demanded Sessions investigate Planned Parenthood on the basis of deceptive, highly edited sting videos that were cited by an anti-abortion terrorist in Colorado Springs.

What's more, extremist anti-abortion group Operation Rescue made an offer to help the Department of Justice, and Jeff Sessions hasn't said no yet.

It's time for Jeff Sessions to take a stand. Sign our petition now demanding Jeff Sessions say "NO" to Troy Newman and Operation Rescue's unbelievable offer to "assist" the Department of Justice. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/1gA/ni0YAA/t.27z/y1eGCVxUTTq1x4Or--7Xzw/h0/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3CIuYddSHKKt2YfNHkAgOK-2BBWzTYMJMRg2KPQp-2BgjEZne0BZJ2piTOv-2B8GWNGMLim15wuybm3bMXoh2uUgGcMZfEBP9aDlvaxRFWkak-2BBXhnu8-2F3ZNG-2FUpqdMpNrk5OH6cLUMbkn8f53PQmK9rU2lfyFcM5sRcg-2FjkZ6furPMkd2N6OA0MFH3WEy7qY2Xhv0w7-2FweVUijeWuHFojLSyS02l-2FAEiOiTL4B2inTeSlFaQ9ol0SbnIQmCGSCkvVf-2BF-2FwMo8JipNxmHtLnaKVVi0WDT8u9uOrhKQ-2FjWRKXNSgVQsAuRvtmepY9epUoydrkFYVtjLTsoD9Dc0osjNq 3sv8-2BWEqwMBjuWloVBBij-2FVx4nCg-3D-3D)

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Dear Chris,

Operation Rescue has offered to "assist" the Department of Justice.

Operation Rescue is led by Troy Newman. Troy Newman has advocated for the murder of abortion providers. Now, Operation Rescue and Troy Newman have congratulated Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his confirmation and offered to assist him with research and documentation.

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During his confirmation hearing, Sessions was given an opportunity to reject his endorsement by Operation Rescue. He didn't.

We can't believe we have to protest this sh*t, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't. Tell Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reject any partnership between Operation Rescue and the Department of Justice.

As the integrity of democracy continues to be challenged by the Trump administration, we the people must dig in for the long haul. Resist!

Erin, Pamela, Jessica, and the Reproaction team

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Sweeping abortion ban just enacted in Texas


Dear Chris,

Breaking: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott just signed into law a dangerous omnibus anti-abortion bill that effectively bans a common method of abortion and requires burial or cremation of fetal tissue.

What’s more, he called a special session of the legislature to ask lawmakers to pass even more abortion restrictions, as well as harmful and discriminatory legislation that targets transgender people.

This blatant ideological attack is so outrageous it’s almost beyond words.

And Texas is not alone — politicians in states across the country are continuing to erode our rights and take us backward.

Chris, there isn’t a moment to lose. Help fight back for women’s health by donating $5, $50, $100 or more to the National Partnership. Right now. (http://go.nationalpartnership.org/site/R?i=is5qW94B8GDrxv2VJgYe1A)

In Texas and dozens of states across the country, women seeking abortion care are subjected to harmful laws designed to shame, punish and pressure their decisions.

And more than 400 new abortion restrictions have been introduced in state legislatures this year alone — many of them are based on lies about abortion, abortion providers and/or women seeking abortion care … and sometimes all three combined.

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott just signed a bill that would make it a criminal offense—punishable by jail time—to provide certain types of abortions.

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Dear Chris,

Candles, birthday cake, presents, friends and family. That’s what every parent hopes for their child’s birthday. Instead of festivities, Tomás spent his eighth birthday behind bars—for the second year in a row.

The reason why? Because Tomás and his mom were jailed in the only place in the country where you can hold a child who has never committed a violent crime for over 600 days: Berks Country, PA. Tomás and his mom, Natalia, are amongst at least 60 other moms, dads, and children who were locked up after seeking safety here, though they fled from violence in their home countries.

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We all share a responsibility to help people who have lost everything, and to give them a chance to rebuild their lives safely the same way all of us would need to if we were in this horrible situation.

That’s why Amnesty International is fighting to ensure that people who fled to the US seeking safety have a fair shot at it.

A fair shot never happened for Tomás, whose real name we’re withholding for his safety. After hundreds of days behind bars—where he suffered PTSD and his weight shrank to just 40 pounds—he and his mother were deported without ever having a chance to fully make their case for asylum. They face extreme danger, perhaps even death. We can’t let that happen again.

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Tell governors and mayors to “dump Trump”


Chris,

It’s “infrastructure week” in Trump-land. But what Trump is proposing isn’t money for infrastructure. It’s more delays and misery on traffic-clogged roads and crowded mass transit systems. And a massive tax giveaway to Wall Street investors.

First, get this. Trump made a totally empty promise in his recently proposed federal budget—stating he would spend $200 billion to rebuild our infrastructure. But elsewhere in that budget he detailed $206 billion in CUTS to federal infrastructure funding―including slashing $96 billion from the Highway Trust Fund alone.[1] So, his supposed $200 billion investment is actually a $6 billion cut. Trump math.

Second, the $200 billion Trump says he wants the federal government to spend is supposed to leverage another $800 billion in private-sector “equity financing.” That’s how Trump plans to keep his campaign promise to spend $1 trillion on an infrastructure plan.

And where’s that equity financing supposed to come from—Trump’s developer friends on Wall Street. You know what that means. Big profits for Wall Street financiers paid for by you and me.

This financing model guarantees fat cats a big return on investment because they would be heavily subsidized by taxpayers. And many of our roads, bridges and other vital public facilities would be privatized. Meaning taxpayers and infrastructure users would pay tolls and fees to use what should be public goods. Once again, Trump math.

Trump is trying to sell his plan to the American people through photo-ops across the country. Today he’ll be in Cincinnati. Tomorrow he’ll parade governors and mayors into Washington to help him sell his bogus plan.

Tell the governors and mayors standing with Trump that we’re not buying his phony infrastructure plan. Instead of selling off public assets to Wall Street investors at taxpayers’ expense, we need a major investment in infrastructure that creates millions of good-paying jobs and is paid for by making the rich and big corporations pay their fair share. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27z/L2sPMNtHQNuE5V3uHt_aOw/h0/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3AsX5ci-2BFzIKGCDeNW2-2FGzsGGREVMM0GeAjiXNJ-2BTtZDgwXVUC8RlXwXDOQJocvIl0g9ma3PxDKMvDLvX2h7k-2BjZZCgmnmRheWB3Mtft6jIoo0oUc3FPV4uQsSwhapPv32ZfqD eHnvbptU3K21ULXhWX-2Fvsu6IoNXT1KrLth6eAL8YK2EXKR1IACT2qybjdJ9FeFW4w2r mZ8qPYD14kez23IAFIBRygtAz0-2BF4vgomrZbRurK-2FYukCtxI9WNVz0GGFVlrP4sJz4zifnPNYhjkjdvVjWW9AED1G K20VFu0lVjDBuyKm7cZnAqQTUC4VFwc95vRE6THOykzNMlD00-2F3ew)

And Trump’s latest infrastructure scheme is to privatize our nation’s air traffic control system. The president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists calls this “a risky and unnecessary step.”[2] Experts say privatizing air traffic control would provide big airline companies with too much control, potentially driving up ticket costs and posing national security risks.

In the end, Trump’s plan will result in few new infrastructure projects being built. It just subsidizes projects that will be built anyway. Nor will it benefit small towns, rural areas and high-poverty urban centers.

Since Trump’s model focuses on ensuring hefty profits for investors, not meeting actual community needs, his plan will result in more toll roads in wealthy areas, not the replacement of toxic water pipes in Flint, Michigan, or building out Internet access to rural America.

Tell the governors and mayors standing with Trump that if they want infrastructure and jobs, they should dump Trump and forget about Wall Street. And instead support a federal investment in infrastructure that will be paid for by the wealthy and big corporations. Sign the petition today! (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27z/L2sPMNtHQNuE5V3uHt_aOw/h1/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3AsX5ci-2BFzIKGCDeNW2-2FGzsGGREVMM0GeAjiXNJ-2BTtZDgwXVUC8RlXwXDOQJocvIl0g9ma3PxDKMvDLvX2h7k-2BjZZCgmnmRheWB3Mtft6jIorJEzdBUpaJNDosgBhtI2XfhVKl IABLbAitxqYWVrECwfvhU5ZXF634FLs83ejH-2FqmWeypBHYQ6YA3sOikm6CNbanJe8y5FatOpyt5nj6B2H51i3 J3haIyi0UDTQYgOAiyV5s5TDYdnadrFyF6J1xFVZ0VqWinVTcb hu4pUOsO5sJTwyYcjg3wdvgBUhIshxAkjQMUBRkX4x67-2BHYXPoSDk2qmE9h61-2FRETiy41oFDDT)

According to America’s civil engineers, we’re in need of a $2 trillion investment to bring our national infrastructure up to snuff.[3]

We can pay for most of that $2 trillion by closing two huge offshore corporate tax loopholes. First, we can raise about $1 trillion over 10 years by ending the loophole that lets U.S. corporations dodge paying taxes on their offshore profits until they bring them back to America. Like the rest of us do, big corporations should pay their taxes on their earnings every year.

Second, big corporations should pay the $750 billion in taxes they owe right now on their $2.6 trillion in profits stashed offshore. We pay all the taxes we owe on Tax Day. We don’t get a discount. Neither should they.

That’s how we afford a real infrastructure program. Not through tax giveaways to Wall Street investors.

Thanks,

Frank Clemente
Executive Director
Americans for Tax Fairness

[1] The Washington Post, “Senate Democrats: Trump would cut more in infrastructure spending than he proposes to add,” May 23, 2017.
[2] “PASS Joins the Call for Congress to Reject President Trump’s FY 2018 Budget,” May 24, 2017.
[3] American Society of Civil Engineers, “2017 Infrastructure Report Card,” June 2017.


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Trump’s big talk on infrastructure not backed up by his plan


Chris,

Donald Trump ran on the promise of a $1 trillion infrastructure program―seemingly diverging from other members of his party. After all, it’s progressives and Democrats who traditionally call for investments in infrastructure.

A $1 trillion plan would be welcome indeed. According to EPI research, each $1 billion investment in infrastructure has the potential to support more than 18,000 jobs―and these jobs are disproportionately well-paying. And $1 trillion would go a long way (if not all the way) to closing the deferred maintenance deficit we’ve allowed to develop through decades of underinvestment.

Unfortunately, when you actually look at Trump’s infrastructure plan, it quickly becomes apparent that it’s not a serious plan, and won’t lead to significant investments in our country’s future.

Even the headlines of the Trump infrastructure plan only call for $200 billion of actual federal funding, “leveraging the private sector” to pay for the rest. What that “leverage” means is that state taxpayers and infrastructure users will be on the hook for the other $800 billion in the form of taxes, toll roads or other privatized projects whose profits pad the pockets of private entities—not local or state budgets.

But Trump’s proposed $200 billion investment isn’t even real! Because his 2018 budget attempts to cut $139 billion from investments to “surface transportation infrastructure.” So, Donald Trump’s $200 billion investment is really a $61 billion investment, at best.

Trump just whittled a $1 trillion investment down to $61 billion. Most of us don’t appreciate receiving just 6 percent of what’s been promised. So we shouldn’t be too happy about this retreat on infrastructure.

At EPI, we’re focusing on facts, not rhetoric, and demanding an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy few.

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If we want to create good-paying jobs that rebuild our country, Trump’s infrastructure plan fails every test―privatizing roads, airports and public facilities, in order to pad the pockets of Wall Street investors while making no commitment of public funds at all to insure needed investments happen.

Improvements in infrastructure would, if done right, help workers and the economy. EPI recommends proposals that will benefit the public like the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s infrastructure proposal―rather than President Trump’s use of lofty rhetoric while turning around and cutting actual infrastructure funding.

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Republicans in the U.S. House — joined by more than two dozen spineless farm-state Democrats — recently passed the "Poison Our Waters Act," a bill that would allow for the unregulated spraying of toxic pesticides directly into waterways.

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According to Beyond Pesticides, the Poison Our Waters Act would:

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• Allow spraying of toxic chemicals into waterways without local and state oversight,

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• Not reduce claimed burdens to farmers, since there are currently no burdens."2


If signed into law, this bill will be a massive boon to the chemical industry, as unregulated pesticide spraying could spiral further out of control. As Donald Trump and Scott Pruitt continue to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency and roll back commonsense regulations in order to line the pockets of their fossil fuel donors, the Republican-controlled Congress is chipping away at critical regulations that protect Americans' health to benefit rich pesticide and chemical manufacturers.

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References

Mark Hand, "House votes to undo pesticide protections for nation’s waterways," ThinkProgress, May 25, 2017.
Beyond Pesticides, "U.S. House of Representatives Votes to Rollback Waterway Protections," May 26, 2017.
Michael Biesecker, "House approves bill seeking to upend EPA pesticide rule," Associated Press, May 24, 2017.


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Petition: 196 Congress members are suing Trump.


Chris Kaihatsu,

This is big news! 196 congressional Democrats filed a lawsuit to hold Trump accountable to the Constitution.

Your Congressperson, Rep. Gutiérrez, joined the suit. In the Senate, Sen. Durbin joined the suit and Sen. Duckworth joined.

Sign the petition: Tell your members of Congress to join the court case to stop Trump from violating the Constitution – or thank them if they already have. (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/sign-tell-your-members-congress-join-lawsuit-hold-trump-accountable/?t=1&akid=5871.610737.il9sfa)

This is history in the making. Never before has so many Congress members filed a lawsuit against a sitting president.1 And with good reason – we’ve never had a president who has taken foreign money in the form of profits from their business enterprise.

The Constitution specifically bans public officials – including the president – from accepting payments or gifts from foreign governments without consent from Congress.

Trump still owns hotels all across the world, and his business empire presents a golden opportunity for foreign governments to funnel money directly into Trump’s pockets. This isn’t nitpicky legalese; the Emoluments Clause is a core anti-corruption measure written into the Constitution to protect the president and other officials from being unduly influenced by foreign countries.

Trump, being influenced by a foreign power, where have we heard that before?

Sign the petition: Tell your members of Congress to join the court case to stop Trump from violating the Constitution – or thank them if they already have. (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/sign-tell-your-members-congress-join-lawsuit-hold-trump-accountable/?t=2&akid=5871.610737.il9sfa)

Even former President Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm. By not divesting himself from his business empire, and letting foreign governments grease his palms with payments to the Trump Organization, Donald Trump is violating the Constitution. Now Democrats are holding him accountable.

We elect people to Congress to represent us and uphold the Constitution. Tell your Congress members to get on board and join the lawsuit to hold Trump accountable, if they haven’t already. (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/sign-tell-your-members-congress-join-lawsuit-hold-trump-accountable/?t=3&akid=5871.610737.il9sfa)

Thanks,
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Constitutional Accountability Center "Trump and the Foreign Emoluments Clause" June 14, 2017

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Action Alert: Who's snooping around your secrets? Let's take a Closer Look.


American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee


Action Alert: Who’s snooping around your secrets?

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Washington, D.C. | www.adc.org | June 14, 2017 – The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) calls on you to ask your representatives to take a closer look at the Section 702 Surveillance Tool. On Tuesday of last week, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) introduced a bill (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3a4V%2BJl1fuuZhDPL9h1Pv9bJruKbrdbI) on the Senate floor to make Section 702 as well as other parts of Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) permanent.

Our representatives should not haphazardly rush through bills and make permanent decisions without careful review.

Under the law, the US government is authorized to collect massive amounts of data without a warrant. Each year, over 250 million internet communications are collected under the authority of Section 702. Nearly 100,000 foreign nationals are monitored under Section 702, including their communications with American citizens. The data is often stored for several years, and the government can also use this information to investigate American citizens.

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Why ADC Stands with You and Supports Review of the 702 Surveillance Tool:

• The arms of Section 702 of FISA are far reaching and allow the government to collect massive amounts of data without a warrant.

• In order to stop abuses of Section 702 and the rest of Title VII, it must be changed.

• We want to take a closer look: Who does Section 702 target and who is subjected to the invasive data collection?

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Demand Your Right to Travel to Cuba


Just Foreign Policy


Dear Chris,

Tell Trump & Congress not to mess with our right to travel.

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On June 16, President Trump is expected to announce a rollback of some policies adopted by President Obama to increase U.S. engagement with Cuba. However, even some of Trump's advisers who want to escalate confrontation with Cuba say they are worried that Trump might change his mind at the last minute. [1]

Polls show that the majority of Americans support greater engagement with Cuba. A Florida International University poll showed that the majority of Cuban Americans in Miami also favor greater engagement with Cuba. [2]

Tell Trump and Congress to oppose any new restrictions on the right of Americans to travel to Cuba by signing our petition at MoveOn (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jt9%2BsikUl1bH84NuOMTGCYbMXT2NqaSJ).

Thanks for all you do to help make U.S. foreign policy more just,

Robert Naiman, Avram Reisman, and Sarah Burns
Just Foreign Policy

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References:
1. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article155961849.html
2. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article101749052.html

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Save the Grand Canyon from Trump


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Trump may do something far worse to the Grand Canyon than build a Trump Tower in it.

According to The Guardian, powerful mining interests and allied officials in Arizona and Utah are urging a receptive Trump administration to lift the Obama-era ban on mining uranium in the area around the Grand Canyon -- a serious threat to the groundwater and anyone who drinks it.

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The mining industries are pushing hard to remove protections from national lands. We need to expand them. The Grand Canyon is an important case.

Past mining operations contaminated the groundwater that many rely on, including the Havasupai people who've lived in the area for generations.

For years, RootsAction.org has campaigned against mining and other dangerous development in the Grand Canyon area.

Let's continue to win in our efforts to protect this national treasure.

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Background:
> The Guardian: Grand Canyon at risk as Arizona officials ask Trump to end uranium mining ban
> Common Dreams: Grand Canyon Pillagers Hope to Harness Trump's Disdain for Natural World
> Grand Canyon Trust: Grand Canyon Uranium Decisions Loom Large in 2017

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The most significant feature of both the Senate and House plans is their effective dismantlement of Medicaid as a guaranteed benefit—a milestone in the ruling class drive to destroy what remains of the social reforms of the 20th century.

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