What Is- and Is Not in the Infrasture bill ?

  David Dayen,  American Prospect.  july 29,202

Joe Biden got exactly what he wanted on Wednesday: a bipartisan deal on infrastructure that he could analogize as akin to the transcontinental railroad and the interstate highway system, and something that "signals to the world that our democracy can function, deliver, and do big things," as he put it in his press statement. The motion to open debate on the bill passed the Senate by a 67-32 count on Wednesday evening, with 17 Republicans joining all Democrats. Is the president exaggerating? Folks, come on, this is Joe Biden we’re talking about. Taken by itself, the bipartisan bill is a nice starting point for public-sector reinvestment. It comes out to an extra $110 billion per year for the next five on a variety of projects, offset by a batch of almost comical revenue ideas, which are fortunately more half-baked than actively harmful (though there’s a bit of that too). It won’t change the world and, importantly, it’s unlikely to reverse a drastic trajectory on climate. But we can say that the legislation would likely return the United States to something closer to an industrialized nation in its built environment. I say "likely" because several senators indicated they were only agreeing to open debate and not yet to support final passage. More important, the bipartisan bill was never supposed to be taken by itself; in fact, numerous House Democrats will not allow it to go forward without that additional budget reconciliation bill for investments in health care, climate, child care, education, and more, currently slated at $3.5 trillion. That makes Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s (D-AZ) statement about the reconciliation package much more important than anything else. Let’s go over the bipartisan bill, or as I’ve been calling it, Portman-Sinema. The original framework came out on June 24, and the agreement a month later honestly not different enough to have wasted a month. I did a little comparison of the topline spending in the two bills, and only two things went away: a $20 billion "infrastructure financing authority" and about $9 billion in transit spending. (The second half of this bill, the surface transportation reauthorization, has been mostly unremarked upon, despite the transit elements being the main sticking point through the weekend.) Read all of our infrastructure coverage here Click to Support The American Prospect The financing authority, also called a national infrastructure bank, ran up against objection from the municipal bond industry, who roared against anyone else being able to finance public-works projects except their rather punitive selves. The transit funding was a Republican objection, and Democrats relented. The White House fact sheet claims that the surface transportation piece has a "larger share" devoted to transit than normal, so Democrats may have gotten their overall 80/20 split on older funding sources. (See here for details).

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'They're Not Going To F**King Succeed': Top Generals Feared Trump Would Attempt a Coup After Election, According to New Book

For the first time in modern US history the nation's top military officer, whose role is to advise the president, was preparing for a showdown with the commander in chief because he feared a coup attempt after Trump lost the November election.

July 15, 2021 Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb, Marshall Co

 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/theyre-not-going-to-fking-succeed-top-generals-feared-trump-would-attempt-a-coup-after-election

 

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Moral Mondays - Poor People's Campaign

  

July 12, 2021

 

In a press release on Monday, the Poor People’s Campaign outlined its plans for a “season of nonviolent direct action” over the next month as the Senate GOP’s obstruction—and Democrats’ refusal to take the steps necessary to break it—threatens to derail much of President Joe Biden’s policy agenda:

·         July 12, a massive national call-in to every senator, to shut down the switchboards if necessary.

·         July 19, the anniversary of the Women’s Convention at Seneca Falls, nonviolent moral direct action in D.C. led by women from all over the country.

·         July 26, in all Senate offices, regardless of party, people in at least 45 states, will engage in nonviolent moral direct action.

·         August 2, nonviolent moral direct action focused on the U.S. Senate and led by a mass number of clergy and religious leaders with poor and low-wage workers.

To read more visit: https://www.nationofchange.org/2021/07/06/poor-peoples-campaign-announces-season-of-nonviolent-direct-action-targeting-us-senate/?fbclid=IwAR3DZlCVUC3zNiXdSWkpbWg8CRo3XzVrYMVVJ-o0F2S98mF_JyLkIygO79Q

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is launching a Season of Nonviolent Moral Direct Action

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, joined by dozens of partners, our 40+ state coordinating committees, and thousands of faith leaders, has announced a Season of Nonviolent Moral Direct-ActionJuly 12 - August 8. 

 

We demand: 

1. End the Filibuster!
2. Pass all provisions of the For the People Act
3. Fully restore the 1965 Voting Rights Act
4. Raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hr. 

Join us at 1pm ET/ 11am PT on Monday, July 12 for a press conference live from Washington, D.C. to announce this season of action directly followed with a massive online call-in action.  

 

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/which-side-are-you-on?source=direct_link&&link_id=1&can_id=0d08d38bc967ee68358fec3f39825741&email_referrer=email_1229134&email_subject=launching-a-season-of-nonviolent-moral-direct-action

 

Join us for the Sacramento Poor People’s Campaign’s Meeting Monday, July 19, 2021, from 6:30-8:30PM.  Please RSVP for the July 19 monthly meeting at:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sacramento-poor-peoples-campaign-sac-ppc-monthly-meeting-tickets-162903162745.

Democracy or Fascism ?

 

A new phase of America's endless civil war was launched six months ago. We don't yet know how or when it will end   By Chauncey Devega Salon.com   JULY 9, 2021 - Six months have passed since the historic and horrible events of Jan. 6, 2021. What have we learned since then?   More than 550 members of Donald Trump's attack force have been arrested, including nearly 40 charged with conspiracy. The ringleaders, including Donald Trump and his inner circle, who instigated, funded and organized the attack on the Capitol have not been punished. Given the Department of Justice's timid approach to investigating and prosecuting the Trump regime's many obvious crimes, it is unlikely they ever will be.   Trump and his Republican Party's plot to overthrow the government by nullifying the results of the 2020 presidential election were far more extensive — and far more likely to succeed — than was previously known.   Public opinion polls show that a growing number of Americans simply want to "move on" from the events of Jan. 6. Predictably, this is especially true of Republicans.   There will be no bipartisan committee to investigate what happened that day. The Republican Party has obstructed such investigations because of its obvious guilt and complicity. Instead, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will convene a select committee, which will presumably have less power and authority than a proper commission.   Those who want to move on have deluded themselves into the fantastic belief that climbing into the memory well will magically keep them safe. In reality, the memory well is a type of purgatory or prison.   In keeping with how fascism spreads in a failing democracy, Trump and his propagandists are now elevating rightwing terrorists into "heroes" and "political prisoners" who should be freed from prison immediately. But the most important fact remains unchanged: The events of Jan. 6 were a trial run, and proof of concept. If the Republican Party loses a presidential election in the future, we will in all probability see a second coup — and it will likely be successful.   These last six months have also been a time of public events, commemorations and other important dates that signal to an American story of violence, freedom won in blood, racism and white supremacy, destruction and creation, freedom dreams and authoritarian nightmares — with the color line intersecting it all.   Specifically, in that time we have seen the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa whiteonblack race massacre, the oneyear anniversary of the police murder of George Floyd and the nationwide protests that followed, the first Juneteenth to be a national holiday, and the first Memorial Day and Fourth of July since the Capitol attack.     On this, James Baldwin wrote in 1963 that "American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."   In total, America's unresolved history and its accompanying need for a moral reckoning gave birth to the befouled creature that is Trumpism and American neofascism — and continues to give it life. In the maelstrom of this half year there was an important moment that received little attention, but that explains much about the events of Jan. 6, the motivations of the attackers and coup plotters, and the likelihood that such political violence will happen again.    On June 29, the House of Representatives voted to remove Confederate statues on display in the Capitol. All Democrats voted in support of the bill. Most Republicans voted against it. It will now go to the Senate where the Republicans will almost certainly kill it with the filibuster.   Of course, those who defend displaying Confederate statues in the home of American democracy, and in public places more generally, will summon up intellectually dishonest claims about how such objects represent "history" and "heritage," perhaps even a "noble cause." They may also offer nonsense claims that the treasonous cause of the Confederacy was about "states' rights" instead of about protecting the vile institution of white on black chattel slavery.   The Confederacy was dedicated to white supremacy, racial authoritarianism and a particular kind of "white freedom" in which the human rights of Black and brown people were not to be respected. Today's Republican Party — in which the Southern slaveocracy and Jim Crow South have been reborn — largely shares the same values and beliefs, albeit presented in a different (and less honest) form.   When Trump's followers launched their lethal attack on the Capitol, some waved Confederate flags, which are symbols of white supremacy and hatred. The Trump attack force wore and displayed other white supremacist symbols and regalia. Many carried crosses to symbolize their commitment to the fascist "Christian identity" movement. It is no coincidence that open white supremacists including Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members and other rightwing paramilitary groups played such a prominent role on Jan. 6.   Trump's attack force was not just attacking the rule of law and the Constitution, but also the idea of multiracial democracy itself. Those who have been arrested have repeatedly told law enforcement that they were acting out of "patriotism". The traitors in the old Confederacy used similar language.   Because it can no longer win free and fair elections, the Jim Crow Republican Party is trying to keep Black and brown people from voting. To that end, in nearly all states Republicans have proposed antidemocracy laws that disproportionately target Black and brown people and other members of the Democratic Party's base. This new Jim Crow apartheid is explicitly designed to subvert the people's will and to rig elections so that Republicans — the world's largest white supremacist political organization — literally cannot lose. As in the old Confederacy, the ultimate goal is to create a type of white "Christian" plutocracy and racial authoritarian state.   The Republican Party and the larger white right's moral panic about "critical race theory" (which in practice means any substantive and truthful discussions of racial and social inequality) is an attempt to literally whitewash American history in the service of white supremacist fantasies. The Confederacy and its loyalists did much the same thing. That project continues in the present.  ...Read More

 

Afghan Corruption

 The U.S. military is withdrawing from Afghanistan after twenty years of war. The U.S. spent some  $ 2.26 trillion dollars propping up the regimes. There is great sadness and danger in the present situation. 

One issue being ignored by our press is that the failure of the Afghan government to establish a viable state was caused in major part by the looting of the country by the Afghan elite along with the  US based  merchants of military arms sales.   They stole over half of all the $ 2.26 trillion to build their lives in Qatar, Doha, Abu Dhabi,  and similar areas. See the research in , Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security by Sarah Chayes. (2015).  Bribes, bribery, and capitalism ruined the state. Now, it is collapsing.  The refugees will suffer, women will suffer, the poor will suffer. And, to a large extent, the suffering was created by corruption.

Now, what should the U.S. do? 

The case is similar in Honduras and Guatemala, the refugees are coming to our borders.

There Are No Mass Migrations Without U.S. Meddling and Militarism

Despite its pledges to aid Central America, the Biden administration continues to deny the United States’ role in destabilizing the region.

BY AZADEH SHAHSHAHANI AND RHONDA RAMIRO

 

https://inthesetimes.com/article/there-are-no-mass-migrations-without-u-s-meddling-and-militarism?

 

 

Free the Vote

 

“Free the vote!” Rev. Barber and more than 20 others arrested in DC
Busloads of people from 10 states showed up in Washington DC to demand voting rights yesterday—the day after all 50 Senate Republicans voted against a motion to begin debate on Senate Bill 1 (S1), aka the For the People Act. Our Moral March on Manchin & McConnell generated national attention and resulted in the arrest of more than 20 people, including Rev. Barber and Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Just two days after our Mass Assembly (recapped below), a boisterous crowd gathered in front of the US Supreme Court and marched to the Hart Senate office building to demand meetings with Senators McConnell and Manchin, two key opponents of S1. When Manchin and McConnell refused to meet with members of the PPC, clergy and community members linked arms and marched into the street, stopping traffic. Capitol Police started making arrests.

"We've come here today to say there are some things that are non-negotiable," said Rev. Barber, who was released later that afternoon. "We don't need an insurrection, we just need a nonviolent, moral mobilization and direct action."

The PPC released a video clip of highlights from the action, which you can view here. And getting arrested didn't stop the Rev. from appearing that evening on Cuomo Prime Time, where he gave his own recap and emphasized the fusion power behind the action.

Rep. Barbara Lee and the PPC ring in Child Credit Tax Awareness Day
On Monday, the PPC participated in a press conference held by Bay Area Congresswoman Barbara Lee at the Spanish Speaking Unity Council in Oakland. The goal: to raise awareness of the CTC and help impacted families secure their credits. Many families with children who are eligible for the newly expanded Child Tax Credit—a provision of the American Rescue Plan that provides $3,000 for children ages 6-17 and $3,600 for children under 6—still aren’t aware of it or don’t know how to apply. 

“Poverty is a policy choice, and we can choose to end it,” Congresswoman Lee said in advance of the press conference. (Rep. Lee is also a co-author of the Third Reconstruction resolution.) “This historic tax credit is one step towards dismantling poverty in America and ensuring the basic needs of all children are met.”

Sharon Lungo, a single mother of a kindergartener; Annie Banks, mother of a toddler; Jane Welford, grandmother of two; and CA PPC quad chair Nell Myhand appeared on behalf of the PPC. You can read their testimony on the importance of the CTC here. Representatives of the Unity Council and Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom Center also took part in the event.

Monthly benefit payments begin July 15. Info on the CTC, who’s eligible and how to apply can be found at getcovidresources.org.

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Moral Monday: Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers Mass Assembly
The Poor People’s Campaign returned to its roots on Monday, holding its 2021 Mass Assembly on a blazing-hot afternoon in Raleigh, North Carolina—the state where Moral Mondays began. Speakers across the country, both in-person and via Zoom, addressed the full range of interlocking injustices targeted by our campaign, and live musicians energized the crowd with songs and chants. You can watch the whole thing here. (Photos above and below by Steve Pavey.)

A prominent theme was the urgent need to protect voting rights. PPC co-chair Rev. Liz Theoharis evoked the actions that launched this incarnation of the PPC, reminding us that “North Carolina was ground zero for voting rights… Those attacks, those anti-democratic attacks are being spread throughout the country.” Benny Ivey of Strong Arms of JXN asked why he is still unable to vote, more than a decade after he was released from prison. And Armenta Eaton, member of Concerned Women for Justice and daughter of voting-rights legend "Mother" Rosanell Eaton, assured us that “victory is not given to the swift, nor to the strong, but those who endure to the end.”

President Biden, who had joined us at the 2020 Mass Assembly, delivered pre-recorded remarks: “I don’t think we’ve ever been together at a time of such opportunity to deliver dignity for our nation’s poor and low-wage workers,” he said. “To make ending poverty not just an aspiration—but a theory of change.”

On Monday, June 21, 2021, at 2:30pm PT California Poor People's Campaign will gather online with poor people, low-wage workers, moral and faith leaders, and advocates from across the country for the National Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers' Assembly to raise a chorus of voices demanding a moral revolution that puts the suffering of the 140 million+ poor and low-income people in the U.S. at the center of every policy debate. RSVP TODAY!

One year after the largest ever online gathering of poor and low-income people in this nation’s history, the Poor People’s Campaign will launch our organizing drive towards a massive and generationally-transformative in-person Moral March on Washington on June 18, 2022, where we will flood the streets of DC and create a national stage for the voices and leadership of people directly impacted by poverty, racism and their interlocking injustices

The event comes one month after the introduction of a congressional resolution for a Third Reconstruction: Fully Addressing Poverty and Low-Wages from the Bottom Up. Emerging from the pain and organizing power of the 140 million people living in poverty or with low wages in this nation, the congressional resolution reflects an omnibus vision for a fundamental restructuring of society that lifts from the bottom. This newest congressional effort comes as a response to years of movement-building to create the collective resolve necessary to implement real and transformational legislative action.

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Use our sample posts, graphics and other resources below to help amplify the 3rd Reconstruction Resolution and our June 21st National Poor People's and Low-Wage Workers Assembly with your networks! Get the toolkit here!

 

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The Long Fillibuster Fight Has Begun

Ezra Levin, Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director, Indivisible 

June 7, 2021 

This democracy fight is coming to a head now, which means things are getting ugly. Manchin doesn’t want to move forward without GOP support, but he also doesn’t want to be squeezed, so he wrote his op-ed trying to head off a showdown...

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If you had the misfortune of being online this weekend, you might have seen Senator Manchin’s op-ed explaining his opposition to the For the People Act (here). The piece is riddled with historical falsehoods and bizarre, antiquated political analysis. We won’t spend a lot of time on that (Rep. Mondaire Jones has a good thread on it here if you’re interested). But worth noting upfront: despite the intransigence of Senate Republicans, the For the People Act has overwhelming bipartisan support in West Virginia and across the country, including overwhelming majorities amongst Democrats, Independents, and Republicans. I’m here to give you my best take on what this means, what comes next, and what is to be done. Here’s the short version: This democracy fight is coming to a head now, which means things are getting ugly. Manchin doesn’t want to move forward without GOP support, but he also doesn’t want to be squeezed, so he wrote his op-ed trying to head off a showdown where he comes off as the bad guy. Don’t get me wrong, his opposition in this moment is bad, but it’s not game over. We need to stop treating him with kid gloves, but most of all, we need top-level leadership from President Biden and Majority Leader Schumer, and we need grassroots-level leadership from all of you (click here to find out what you can do). One way or another, the showdown is coming soon. First, why did Manchin write this op-ed now? To understand Manchin’s actions, you have to view them in the context of recent events. We’re in the pre-negotiation phase of the democracy reform fight. What you’re seeing is posturing ahead of the showdown. Just last week, Majority Leader Schumer announced plans to start forcing the GOP to actually filibuster bills. Their first filibuster was of the bipartisan Jan 6th commission. Schumer plans to bring up the Paycheck Fairness Act this week, and the For the People Act the week of June 21st. The point of scheduling these votes is not because anybody believes they’d actually pass on the first try. Of course, they won’t pass — McConnell will filibuster them. Instead, the point of scheduling these votes is to force McConnell to filibuster — to demonstrate to Manchin and any other hold-out Senate Democrats that the other side will simply sink everything. Prove that Senate Republicans are just obstructionists, the logic goes, and then that will help unify the Senate Democrats to act. But Manchin would prefer not to force that question. As misguided as it is, Manchin believes that to protect voting rights, we should have to get the consent of the party that is attacking voting rights. He wrote this op-ed to try and take the wind out of the sails of those setting up that showdown. If folks throw in the towel on the For the People Act, Manchin can go back to talking to Republican senators about roads and bridges. So what comes next? All attention has been on Manchin, and to a lesser extent, Senator Sinema, but the real main character in this play is Schumer. As Majority Leader, he controls the Senate calendar. He can’t make the pieces move, but it’s his job to set up the play. Manchin just threw a wrench in the gears, and so now he has to adapt. The risk this week: The big risk we’re facing this week is that Manchin’s announcement derails Schumer’s plan to bring popular bills for a vote. That would look like Schumer canceling the planned vote, pointing to Sinema’s opposition to filibuster reform and Manchin’s op-ed, and saying, “Look, we tried, but we just don’t have the votes.” Another plausible version of this would be Schumer announcing that he is still fully committed to the For the People Act, but he is delaying the vote to some future unspecified date. Delay is death for this legislation. This will be a crucial test of Schumer’s leadership: will he allow his plan to be derailed, or will he hold firm? Remember, Schumer has sworn up and down that “Failure is not an option” because he wants everybody to know how much he cares about this. Now’s the time to see if he backs up these words with action. What victory will look like: If Schumer sticks to his guns, the first vote on the For the People Act will come the week of June 21st. As expected, McConnell will filibuster it. But then the fight goes on. Possibly Schumer forces McConnell to keep filibustering on the Senate floor for days or longer. When the Senate returns from the 4th of July recess, he brings up the bill again and forces McConnell to filibuster it again. He grinds senate business down to a halt, refusing action on anything until there is a vote on the For the People Act. All the while, during the days and weeks of the fight, senators offer amendments, the President uses the full power of his bully pulpit to focus national attention on the issue, and masses of grassroots advocates show up in communities across the country to demand Congress act to save the democracy. If we win democracy-saving reforms this year, that’s what victory will look like. What needs to happen If we’re going to achieve that victory in the coming weeks, three things need to happen: Isolate Manchin. If Manchin’s got 10 GOP votes for democracy, great — show us. If he doesn’t, he needs to stop enabling McConnell. Indivisible’s position is this: Democracy is on the line, and he needs to put up or shut up. Historically, a senator who’s stroking his chin and making lofty pronouncements about bipartisanship can expect a warm response from much of Washington and his constituents. It’s really important that that not be Manchin’s experience with this op-ed. Manchin is doing what southern segregationist senators did for decades: using the filibuster to block voting rights legislation. Simple as that. No media figure, no Democratic politician, and certainly no grassroots advocate should give him any reinforcement. If you’re from West Virginia, you should be calling Manchin (duh!), but if you’re from anywhere else in the country, you should be demanding your senators speak out right now to reiterate that the path forward depends on For the People, not hazy ideas about compromising with a party of insurrectionists. We can be honest that Manchin doesn’t care that much about pressure from his left — but there’s a big difference between getting pushed by the lefties and feeling the full weight of the entire party, congressional leadership, and the President pushing for a resolution here. And that brings us to… Leadership from the top. Manchin is not the king of the universe — he’s a single senator working within a complex political system. And in that system, hard legislation never gets done unless key political leaders prioritize it. Since Manchin’s op-ed, we’ve seen no statement at all from President Biden or Majority Leader Schumer. Radio silence is not what you want to hear from your leaders at moments of national crisis. We need Schumer to publicly, loudly, forcefully recommit to getting democracy reform done before August recess. And we need President Biden using his full moral authority and bully pulpit power to drive the national conversation and urgency around the threats to our democracy. Leadership from the grassroots. This is Indivisible’s whole theory of change: elected officials don’t do what their constituents want unless those constituents make them do it. This is why we showed up to save the Affordable Care Act. It’s why we demanded our Democratic House impeach Trump. And it’s why we have to show up creatively, forcefully, and in big numbers to encourage this Democratic trifecta to finally act. This is precisely why we are launching the Deadline for Democracy nationwide actions this Friday. We’ll have more details then — but suffice it to say this is the largest cross-movement coalition we’ve been part of since the fight to save Obamacare. You can sign up and start recruiting folks here to get details when it launches. So, where does that leave us? Let’s review: We are headed for a series of GOP-led filibusters this month Manchin’s terrible op-ed was intended to take the wind out of our sails The only realistic pathway to victory on democracy reform is a drawn-out legislative fight Victory depends on the full commitment of Biden and Schumer, and historic grassroots engagement If this were easy, it would have been done already. If this were pre-ordained, we wouldn’t have to make it happen. If this were a lost cause, I wouldn’t be writing you this email. It’s not easy, it’s not pre-ordained, it’s not lost. That’s what makes what we do right now so important. We’re living through historic times, so I’ll turn to some history to close us out. In 1964, it took overcoming a 54-day filibuster to pass the Civil Rights Act in the Senate. The next year it took more than a month after the Voting Rights Act started full senate debate to get past the threat of a filibuster. The Jim Crow filibuster, then as now, did not go down without a long, drawn-out fight. The For the People Act has not even been scheduled for a full senate vote yet. There’s been no debate. There’s been no filibuster. This is all pre-negotiation posturing — Manchin’s effort to defuse the situation so he can continue playacting the role of a statesman. But Manchin doesn’t get to decide what happens next — we do. Click here to pledge to take action. The real fight has not yet begun, but it’s coming, and we’re bringing it.

Moral Monday : The Third Reconstruction

 

On Moral Monday, June 7, states will participate in coordinated and simultaneous press conferences outside over 50 local offices of members of the US House of Representatives to push lawmakers to embrace an agenda for a Third Reconstruction. State leaders will also announce plans to mobilize for the June 21, 2021 National Poor People's Assembly and launch to the Mass Moral March on Washington in June 2022. 

Join Us 

Sacramento/Roseville area schedule:   

June 7 at 10:30AM- Sacramento, CA- Doris Matsui’s congressional office, Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse, 501 I Street, Suite 12-600, Sacramento, CA 95814.  Contact Faye Wilson Kennedy at: Fayek@springmail.com | 916 812-7429.
June 7 at 1:00PM Placer County-Roseville, CA: Tom McClintock’s congressional office, 2200A Douglas Blvd., Suite 240, Roseville, CA. Contact: Scott Warren at:  ScottW.usa@att.net | 916 960-3209.
June 7 at 3:00PM -Sacramento, CA -Ami Bera’s congressional office, 8950 Cal Center Dr #100, Sacramento, CA 95826 Contact: Mario Galvan at: mario@zsc.org|  916 224-4400.

 

Masks Required!!!

For more info please contact:

Faye Wilson Kennedy, Co-Chair, California Poor People’s Campaign

Fayek@springmail.com

 

Homeless Master Plan

CONTACT THE MAYOR & YOUR CITY COUNCILMEMBER AND TELL THEM YOU SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY HOMELESS MASTER PLAN

 

Sacramento Services Not Sweeps Coalition (SNS) COMMUNITY HOMELESS MASTER PLAN 5/18/2021 Presentation to Sacramento City Council

Presented by Bob Erlenbusch, SRCEH; Faye Wilson Kennedy, Poor People’s Campaign; Shelly Hubertus, Waking the Village and Angela Drake, UC Davis

 

 

For a copy of the full PowerPoint presentation please contact: Bob Erlenbusch at: bob@srceh.org or Faye Wilson Kennedy at: fayek@springmail.com.  

 

LINK to Sacramento City Council:

http://www.cityofsacramento.org/Mayor-Council

 

Thank You!!

 

 

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'It's the Filibuster or Democracy,' Say Progressives After GOP Tanks January 6 Commission

'It's the Filibuster or Democracy,' Say Progressives After GOP Tanks January 6 Commission

Bipartisan Illusions Dashed Again

As expected, Senate Republicans used the power of the filibuster to block consideration of the bill to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. The vote was 54-35 in favor, with six Republicans joining Democrats in support. In the real world, that’s a healthy majority. But in the U.S. Senate, it’s not enough to overcome a filibuster. And if Republican senators, who were menaced right along with Democrats by the invasion, won’t display some bipartisanship on this one, we can forget bipartisan support for voting rights or infrastructure spending. The Republican offer to spend almost a trillion dollars on infrastructure, ostensibly meeting Biden more than halfway, is bogus. Most of this is money diverted from funds previously appropriated, such as relief for the states and unemployment compensation. This latest Republican blockage comes on the heels of a high-profile speech by former House Speaker Paul Ryan, warning, "If the conservative cause depends on the populist appeal of one personality, or on second-rate imitations, then we’re not going anywhere." He added that voters would "not be impressed by the sight of yes-men and flatterers flocking to Mar-a-Lago."