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BeckyDem's JournalRepBarbaraLee: It's been 66 years since the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education
https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1306020304041451521
ACLU @ACLU VICTORY: Fulton County, Georgia will increase the number of drop boxes this election.
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1305944424069967872
Noam Chomsky And Robert Pollin Have A Blueprint To Overcome Climate Change
By KATHLEEN CREEDON & KIM JOHNSON • SEP 12, 2020
In the past three months, the U.S. has experienced a spate of extreme weather and experts say there's no doubt that human-induced climate change is to blame.
From wildfires, record-setting heat and widespread drought conditions to turbo-charged hurricanes and flooding, extreme weather events are increasing both in intensity and frequency.
The anxiety-provoking idea of an eventually uninhabitable world is compounded by fear and uncertainty caused by the country's pandemic-related fallout.
Scientists warn time is running out to take significant action -- a daunting task made more so by the ongoing economic crisis.
In their new book "Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal," Noam Chomsky and economist Robert Pollin assert that the transition to a green economy is necessary but will not bring on further economic disaster, as many assume.
That fear is misplaced, they write, and encourages climate denialism. In fact, climate change is an economic threat in and of itself.
https://www.tpr.org/post/noam-chomsky-and-robert-pollin-have-blueprint-overcome-climate-change
ACLU @ACLU If you're voting to:
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Biden/Harris 2020
@RepBarbaraLee: 19 years of endless war and trillions of dollars later, we are not any safer.
https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1305632501642268672Oregon Police Beg Public to Stop Calling In False Reports Blaming Antifa for Wildfires
Robert Mackey
September 10 2020, 10:30 p.m.
False claims that antifascists are starting forest fires have been spread by supporters of President Donald Trump.
Robert Mackey
September 10 2020, 10:30 p.m.
FOUR POLICE DEPARTMENTS in parts of Oregon ravaged by wildfires — propelled by high winds across parched land during hot, dry weather in a changing climate — are pleading with the public to stop calling 911 to pass on unfounded rumors that antifascist political activists have intentionally set the blazes.
The false claims have been spread on social networks by supporters of President Donald Trump, who has spent months pretending that antifascists in the Pacific Northwest dedicated to confronting white supremacists are members of an imaginary army of domestic terrorists called Antifa.
Primed by that fear-mongering, the president’s supporters have fallen hard for internet rumors and hoaxes falsely claiming that antifascist arsonists have been caught in the act.
“Rumors spread just like wildfire and now our 9-1-1 dispatchers and professional staff are being overrun with requests for information and inquiries on an UNTRUE rumor that 6 Antifa members have been arrested for setting fires,” the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office in Roseburg, Oregon wrote on Facebook on Thursday. “THIS IS NOT TRUE! Unfortunately, people are spreading this rumor and it is causing problems.”
https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/oregon-police-beg-public-stop-calling-false-reports-blaming-antifa-wildfires/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
THE MYTH OF THE "BAD" IMMIGRANT
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Immigrant communities are often asked to “get right with the law,” but is the law right in the first place? That’s what our guest Alina Das asks in her new book No Justice in the Shadows. She taps her experience as the daughter of immigrants and as an immigration attorney to ask whether immigrants who violate the law should be detained or deported.
Too often, she argues, our immigration system is used as a tool of discrimination and oppression, rather than as a tool of justice, and the consequences are dire. Our current immigration system is breaking up families, forcing people to face persecution – even death – in their home countries, and it’s all based on a false premise of ensuring public safety and national security.
Das is a professor of clinical law and supervising attorney at NYU School of Law. She is also the Co-Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic.
We’ve got some exciting news here at At Liberty. Starting on September 15th, we’re launching a special 2020 voting series called At the Polls. This will be in addition to our normal At Liberty episodes. Each week, we’re answering a new question about voting rights in the lead up to the presidential election. If you have a question you’d like us to answer, call us and leave a message at 212-549-2558. Or, email podcast@aclu.org. We so look forward to hearing from you. And until next time, stay strong.
https://www.aclu.org/podcast/myth-bad-immigrant-ep-118?initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=soc&utm_medium=soc&initms=200910_podcast_podcast_tw&utm_source=tw&utm_campaign=podcast&utm_content=200910_immigration_podcast&ms_aff=nat&ms_chan=soc&ms=200910_podcast_podcast_tw
Robert Reich: I refuse to tolerate a system that lets billionaires add $792,000,000,000
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1303403482368675846Pass it on, Biden/Harris 2020
Charles M. Blow: Discussing my @nytopinion column on why voters should focus on policy & character
https://twitter.com/CharlesMBlow/status/1303378407263277058
History gives us reason for hope that inequality can be beaten
No one cedes power because of a great powerpoint.
Ben Phillips
6 September 2020
2020 isn’t just the year of the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s also the year when protest has gone viral. Covid-19 has both supercharged our inequalities and shone a sharper light on them, exposing the reality that the status quo cannot hold. It has opened up a moment of opportunity, and young people are showing how we can seize that moment by building up a movement.
It doesn’t seem that long ago that young people were being lectured to ‘stop being so disengaged’ and ‘start getting involved.’ Now they get told ‘no, not like that.’ Discussions in newspapers and news studios, whether about Black Lives Matter, essential workers striking over poor safety and low pay, or young climate justice campaigners, involve ‘friendly advice’ to activists to ‘tone it down’ and ‘be less demanding’ - to be less in the way. Such complaints often include references to history: ‘why can’t they be more like the protestors of yesteryear - you know, the uncontroversial ones?’
For my new book, How to Fight Inequality I investigated the history of social justice organizing and found conclusive evidence that - contrary to the false distinctions made between ‘then’ and ‘now’ - today’s protestors stand absolutely in the tradition of those who have gone before them. The reactions they are facing are also uncannily similar, but history also shows that we have real reasons for hope based on action.
In 1966, for example, a Gallup Opinion poll showed that Martin Luther King was viewed unfavourably by 63 per cent of Americans, but by 2011 that figure had fallen to only four per cent. Often, people read the current consensus view back into history and assume that King was always a mainstream figure, learning the false lesson that change comes from people and movements who don’t offend anyone.
The true lesson of changemakers is that fighting inequality requires us to be disruptive. As King himself said, “frankly I have yet to engage in a direct action movement that was ‘well-timed’ in the view of those who have not suffered unduly; this ‘wait!’ has almost always meant ‘never.’” Icons who today are sanitized as unchallenging terrified the powerful at the time because they refused to be deferential.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/history-gives-us-reason-hope-inequality-can-be-beaten/
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