Saturday, August 31, 2013
California Governor Brown endorses comprehensive i...
antiracismdsa: California Governor Brown endorses comprehensive i...: The California Latino Legislative Caucus held informational hearings on current efforts on immigration reform on Aug.27,2...
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Sacramento Friday, August 30 at 5:30pm@ The Federal Building, 5th and I Streets Downtown Sac.https://www.facebook.com/events/501617876579610/
*NO WAR on SYRIA!
*NO WAR BUILT on LIES!
*NO U.S. EMPIRE!
JOIN ANSWER FOR A DEMONSTRATION TOMORROW
Low Wage Workers hold one day strike
Choosing Democracy: Low Wage Workers hold one day strike: Bill Barclay In 1962 I graduated from Raleigh, NC’s, high school for white kids. (African-Americans attended a different high school, alt...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Support Firefighters in California
This
is a good time to thank all of those public workers – the Firefighters ( men
and women) and their support crews who are fighting the fires in the California
mountains. And, we should thank the public who fund the fire fighting efforts
through their tax dollars. This is how government works.
Unfortunately
a minority living in the mountains tend to be anti government and anti
tax. Well- someone needs to
promote a democratic society in opposition to the political project of the Tea
Party and Right Wing Congressmen and elected officials like Mc Clintock.
Update: Sacramento Bee. On Sunday, President Barack Obama called Gov. Jerry Brown and committed federal resources to help the state, according to a statement form the White House.
Update: Sacramento Bee. On Sunday, President Barack Obama called Gov. Jerry Brown and committed federal resources to help the state, according to a statement form the White House.
Following that telephone call, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced today it had authorized federal funds to help fund the firefight. The agency said it would reimburse the state for as much as 75 percent of eligible costs, including expenses for field camps, materials and supplies and mobilization and demobilization efforts.
Monday, August 26, 2013
Friday, August 23, 2013
The Socialists Who Made the March on Washington
antiracismdsa: The Socialists Who Made the March on Washington: The Socialists Who Made the March on Washington Harold Meyerson. Rustin, working both with and for the unchallenged lead...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Join DSA in the March on Washington
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
speech to the SCLC staff, Frogmore, S.C., November 14, 1966
Join us. Washington, D.C. August 24.
We March
to Realize the American
Dream
Democratic socialists Bayard Rustin, Walter Reuther and A.
Philip Randolph (above) helped organize the March on Washington for Jobs and
Freedom 50 years ago.
They knew that ending legal segregation and winning
political rights for African Americans were essential, but not sufficient, to
ensure justice and freedom for all. Without access to good education, to health
care and above all to decent jobs that paid living wages, the vote was not
enough.
Monday, August 19, 2013
Join the March on Washington
Join DSA at the March on Washington
Why We March
DSA is an official partner organization sponsoring the August
24, 2013 March on Washington 50 years after
activists, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., marched on Washington for Jobs and
Freedom. That march, and the years of organizing which preceded it, built
public pressure and helped lead to landmark civil rights legislation and later
the expansion and protection of voting rights.
Friday, August 16, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Monday, August 12, 2013
Fracking in California is bad for us all
by Duane Campbell
Hydraulic fracturing is a
controversial and potentially risky well stimulation treatment to enhance oil
and gas production. California SB
4 ( Pavely) directs the California Division of Oil Gas and Geothermal Resources
(DOGGR) to enact comprehensive hydraulic fracturing regulations, in
consultation with additional regulators, which include advanced public notice
of planned fracking activities and fracking fluid chemical disclosure.
A new form of fracking
(horizontal hydraulic fracturing), using deep L-shaped wells, lets gas drillers
get at large deposits that were previously inaccessible, giving the companies a
new lease on life. Where a short while ago they were facing dwindling gas
reserves and questions about the future of their business, now they see a
hundred-year inventory within their grasp.
Current regulation is
pathetic due to exemptions secured by the gas drilling industry from many major
federal environmental laws, including the Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Air
Act and Clean Water Act. As a result, gas drilling companies can disregard
requirements that other industries have to follow. Among other things, in most
places they do not have to identify the toxic chemicals they use in their operations,
despite the risks those chemicals pose to drinking water.
Sunday, August 11, 2013
This immigration reform is not good enough - PICO ...
antiracismdsa: This immigration reform is not good enough - PICO ...: This immigration reform is not good enough – Pico of California . At a mass meeting and send-off of pilgrims, hosted by...
How the elite rule- Krugman
'To this day, one often hears pundits and
establishment types in general talking as if we had a
clear distinction between the elite, who know How
Things Work, and the great unwashed who need to
be led to elite wisdom. The reality, however, is
nothing like this. It's true that there are crank
doctrines - goldbuggery, the Laffer curve,etc. -
that play a substantial role in popular opinion but
have no traction with the elite. But the elite itself
has spent much of the past five years committed to
economic doctrines - the prevalence of structural
unemployment, the urgency of deficit reduction and
entitlement reform, the destructive effects of
"uncertainty" - that may not be quite as contrary to
the evidence as fears of hyperinflation just around
the corner, but are pretty bad. And the influence of
these doctrines has remained almost unscathed
even though this past year should have driven them
completely out of respectable discussion.'
establishment types in general talking as if we had a
clear distinction between the elite, who know How
Things Work, and the great unwashed who need to
be led to elite wisdom. The reality, however, is
nothing like this. It's true that there are crank
doctrines - goldbuggery, the Laffer curve,etc. -
that play a substantial role in popular opinion but
have no traction with the elite. But the elite itself
has spent much of the past five years committed to
economic doctrines - the prevalence of structural
unemployment, the urgency of deficit reduction and
entitlement reform, the destructive effects of
"uncertainty" - that may not be quite as contrary to
the evidence as fears of hyperinflation just around
the corner, but are pretty bad. And the influence of
these doctrines has remained almost unscathed
even though this past year should have driven them
completely out of respectable discussion.'
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Monday, August 5, 2013
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Friday, August 2, 2013
Californians Oppose Expanded Fracking
by Dan Bacher
A poll released by the
Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) on July 31 reveals that the
majority of Californian residents oppose expanded fracking in the Golden
State.
Fracking (hydraulic fracturing)
employs huge volumes of water, mixed with sand and toxic chemicals, to blast
open rock formations and extract oil and gas. The technique is environmentally
destructive, resulting in pollution to groundwater supplies and streams, as
documented in the documentary films Gasland 1 and 2, directed by Josh
Fox.
"As state legislators
debate stricter regulations on fracking—already under way in California—51
percent oppose increased use of the drilling method used to extract oil and
natural gas (35% favor it, 14% don’t know)," according to PPIC, a
nonpartisan research foundation. "Asked whether they favor or oppose
stricter regulation of fracking, 50 percent say they are in favor. Among those
who favor increased use of fracking, 62 percent also favor stricter
regulation." (http://www.ppic.org/main/pressrelease.asp?i=1378)
The controversial
technique, currently unregulated and unmonitored by California officials, has
been used in hundreds and perhaps thousands of oil and gas wells across the
state, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
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