Billionaires Vs. Teachers in Los Angeles

Choosing Democracy: Billionaires Vs. Teachers in Los Angeles: The Los Angeles teachers' strike isn't all about wages. At its core, the strike is a fight against a hostile takeover of public sc...

It’s Time for Federal Workers to Get Sick

It’s Time for Federal Workers to Get Sick: A sickout by unpaid federal employees could bring the impasse—and their status as hostages to the president’s whim—to an end.

How to Win a Teachers Strike

Choosing Democracy: How to Win a Teachers Strike: You need a movement to win a strike. https://www.rethinkingschools.org/articles/you-need-rank-and-file-to-win-how-arizona-teachers-bu...

Federal Workers Hit The Street To Protest Shutdown

2013.  Time for response now !

White Citizen Kills Davis Police Officer

Kevin Douglas Limbaugh

DAVIS 

The gunman who shot and killed Davis Police Officer Natalie Corona Thursday night has been identified as Kevin Douglas Limbaugh, a 48-year-old, White male, U.S. citizen who was ordered last fall to surrender a semiautomatic rifle after he was convicted in a battery case.

Yolo County Superior Court records show Limbaugh was charged in September with battery with serious bodily injury, a incident that a source said stemmed from him punching a co-worker at Cache Creek Casino in the face after a dispute.

The case was resolved as a misdemeanor conviction, and California Department of Justice records show he agreed to surrender a black .223-caliber Bushmaster AR-15 rifle in November. Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article224372145.html#storylink=cpy

Davis police Officer Natalie Corona died as the result of a chilling, resolute ambush by Kevin Limbaugh, a terrorist on a bicycle who rode up to an accident scene she was investigating Thursday night, then opened fire with a hail of bullets from a semiautomatic handgun, police said.

As  the  officer stood talking to one of the motorists, the gunman glided up on a bicycle, stopping in the shadows on a sidewalk, then walked toward the 22-year-old Mexican American rookie police officer and began firing.

“The suspect basically just opened up firing, shot her once and she went down to the ground, and he ended up shooting her multiple times,” Pytel said at a news conference Friday night at police headquarters. “At that point, he unloaded a magazine, reloaded and started shooting in another direction.”

Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article224336545.html#storylink=cpy

( Identification of the ethnicity and citizenship of the shooter was added to parallel reporting on the recent killings of Officer Singh )

Trump claims there is a crisis at the border _ Reality?

Trump claims there is a crisis at the border.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/11/us/politics/trump-border-crisis-reality.html?

Trump Wants to Use California Disaster Funds to Build Wall

Trump Wants To Build Wall With Disaster Recovery Funds

Border wall funds could be diverted from a pool meant for Puerto Rico, Texas and other areas hit by disasters. CNN: “The Trump administration is actively examining using billions of dollars in unspent Defense Department disaster recovery and military construction funds for the construction of a border wall in the event the President declares a national emergency, according to a US official.

Congress appropriated $14 billion in supplemental funds to repair infrastructure in areas of the country hardest hit by disasters including hurricanes, like Hurricane Maria which slammed Puerto Rico in 2017 and resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people. In anticipation of a national emergency declaration, the official tells CNN that the Pentagon was asked to provide lists of unspent funds including those earmarked for civil works projects that are part of disaster recovery in Puerto Rico, Texas, California, Florida, and elsewhere. The official said the funds were only recently received. There is more than $13 billion not yet physically spent on the infrastructure repair projects, but that have been promised to these communities. For instance, more than $2 billion planned for projects in Puerto Rico has not yet been spent. More than $4.5 billion for projects in Texas, including those related to 2017’s Hurricane Harvey, has also not been spent. Trump was briefed Thursday on a proposal to use $5 billion for portions of the wall based on priorities identified by the Department of Homeland Security, the official said. Under a current proposal, a 30-foot high steel slat wall — the so-called bollard wall — would be put up across 315 miles of federal lands over 18 months. As the government shutdown continues with no deal between the White House and congressional Democrats in sight, President Trump inched closer to declaring a national emergency to approval to begin construction of the border wall.”

The Courage to Change | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Who is this new Democrat ?  A DSA member.

Governor Newsom

Governor Newsom and the Return of Laboratories of Democracy. This week, a number of states are swearing in new Democratic administrations. California, of course, was Democratic before November’s election, but it’s more so now, with Gavin Newsom taking the oath yesterday to succeed Jerry Brown as governor, and with the share of Democrats in each house of the legislature rising from just under two-thirds to a hegemonic-and-then-some three-quarters.

Newsom’s inaugural address held few surprises, save that when his two-year-old son toddled over and embraced him mid-speech. But the health insurance policies Newsom laid out in his speech and subsequent executive orders provide a good model for how a state can set a template for a policy shift on the federal level, should the Democrats capture the White House and the Senate in 2020.

A New Day for Mexican Workers

A New Day for Mexican Workers: The Lopez Obrador administration is changing the law so that workers can actually choose a union and vote on their contracts.

Trump Misleads on National TV

antiracismdsa: Trump Misleads on National TV: WASHINGTON — President Trump doubled down on one of the biggest gambles of his presidency on Tuesday night with a televised appeal to pr...

: Why the Los Angeles Teachers Strike Matters

Choosing Democracy: Why the Los Angeles Teachers Strike Matters: The  January 10 strike date  announced by the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) has heightened tensions in an already contentious...

Trump’s Emergency Powers Are 'Ripe for Abuse'

See https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/with-a-national-emergency-could-trump-use-the-military-to-build-the-wall?

Trump Administration Lies About "Terrorists" 

By Matt Shuham

January 7, 2019 5:22 pm

For months, the Trump administration has sought to portray the southern border as a potential source of terrorism by falsely conflating statistics about so-called “known or suspected terrorists” who had been prevented from traveling to the United States with migrants and refugees seeking asylum on the southern border.

On Monday, NBC News clarified the matter: In the first half of fiscal year 2018, according to Customs and Border Protection data obtained by the network, CBP agents encountered just six immigrants on the southern border whose names matched the Terrorist Screening Database — which itself is of dubious accuracy.

Others stopped at the border whose names matched the list were U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents, NBC News reported. The report didn’t say whether the individuals were stopped while attempting to enter the United States legally or illegally

On Tuesday, October 23, Vice President Mike Pence offered a pristine example of the Trump administration’s disinformation campaign.

“In the last fiscal year,” he said in an interview, “we apprehended more than 10 terrorists or suspected terrorists per day at our southern border, from countries that are referred to in the lexicon as ‘other than Mexico.’ That means, ‘from the Middle East region.’”

But that was wrong. 

Why are People Talking About Socialism? - with Paul Jay

Why are People Talking About Socialism? - with Paul Jay: From Donald Trump, Karl Rove, and Fox News to an invigorated progressive movement and many newly elected members of Congress, many are saying that socialism will be the issue in the 2020 elections - a viewer mailbag segment with Dharna Noor and Paul Jay

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