Impeachment Cold Open - SNL

Innocent People Don't Do Things Like This: Trump's Ukraine Cover-Up Spil...

'A Just Society': Ocasio-Cortez Unveils Legislative Package to Tackle American Poverty and Inequality

'A Just Society': Ocasio-Cortez Unveils Legislative Package to Tackle American Poverty and Inequality

Impeach Trump Now !

How Ring Wing Media talks about impeachment.,

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/impeachment-conservatives-republicans.html?

The Need for a Progressive Cooperation

Sanders and Warren: The need for a progressive front

As the Democratic primaries unfolds, clear patterns are emerging in the polls. Joe Biden has held on to a steadily diminishing but still significant lead. Bernie Sanders has held a relatively steady proportion of support. Elizabeth Warren has emerged from the pack to be level or sometimes ahead of Sanders, while all other candidates lag behind. While there is much to be said about how to read these early polls, the most important takeaway is that the two candidates with the most progressive visions and campaigns have together surpassed the party’s centrist standard-bearer.

Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin, wrote an opinion piece in the Guardian this past June arguing that the most important task for progressives during and in the lead up to the Democratic primaries is to build an anti-Biden front. Perhaps anticipating the possibility of a split among progressives between Sanders and Warren supporters, Sunkara noted then that even if Sanders loses, a united anti-Biden front could push the Democratic Party left and improve the odds of defeating Donald Trump. Sunkara had flagged the importance of ousting Trump in an earlier interview: “If push comes to shove and I were in a swing state in 2020, of course, I would vote for anyone in the Democratic field over Trump. I think that’s common sense. It should be hegemonic on the left.”

Grading Candidates on Their Labor Positions

A to F+: Grading the Presidential Candidates on Their Labor Plans 

Steven Greenhouse 
September 23, 2019
New York Magazine

Worker Rights are Shaping up a Key Issue in 2020. Who Has the Best Ideas?

Jerry Brown : California Agenda for Climate Change

On Monday, Jerry Brown, the former governor of California, announced that he’s starting an institute at U.C. Berkeley aimed at tackling the climate crisis with help from what he described as a critical ally: China.

The California-China Climate Institute is intended to help spur partnerships between various state agencies and policymakers in China, as well as researchers at Tsinghua University.

The announcement comes amid a global outcry — led in part by young people — over the broad failure to adequately address climate change.

Tensions between the U.S. and China over trade have continued to bubble, and American universities, including U.C. Berkeley, have taken action against Chinese researchers and businesses over security concerns.

I talked with Mr. Brown about how he sees the institute navigating choppy geopolitical waters, and about why he’s throwing his weight behind this effort. Here’s our conversation, lightly edited and condensed for length:

Jill Cowan: To start, can you tell me about how this initiative came about?

Jerry Brown: Several years ago during the time I was governor, it became very clear that California couldn’t be an island of climate action. Our rules to reduce carbon emissions, to require renewable tech and renewable sources for electricity, our policy on low-carbon fuel, the cap-and-trade program — all these rules really need to be part of a more global undertaking.

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I also saw China adopting some of the same programs and so we started sending people to China and welcoming Chinese policymakers, staffers, technicians here in California.

As part of that, I went over and met with President Xi of China, and he met with me soon after President Trump pulled out of the Paris Agreement. After I left the governorship, following up on the agreement that I really made in China before, we have forged this new joint institute.

The goal is to keep open the channels of communication with China at the state level but also the national government level, to exchange ideas, bring scientists back and forth between the two countries, push for a more ambitious policy.

I’m wondering how you and others involved with this initiative are approaching working with Chinese institutions, given recent tensions. This is obviously a very open partnership with the Chinese government.

Well, look, there is a policy that is shaping up in Washington to decouple from China. I don’t think that’s the future. To me, that’s 19th-century thinking. It leads to war and economic decline.

So I believe collaboration with our eyes open — not being naïve, not being utopian, but having smart people, scientists, policymakers face the terrible prospect of a heating environment.

People are dying in the fires. People in Florida, Bangladesh, even New York City, in Shanghai they’re going to be facing rising sea level, climate disruption, drought, tropical diseases.

This transcends the age-old rivalry that national governments have. And I am one who believes we have to recognize that we have imperfections. We’re not a white knight.

I start, in one sense, with the doctrine of original sin. We were born with our intellect darkened and our wills weakened. That applies to nations.

China does a lot of stuff that I don’t like, that other people don’t like, but the answer is not to pick up your baseball bat and go home. It’s to engage and to frankly discuss.

I want to focus our best efforts on finding ways to rapidly reduce to a net zero the global emission of heat-trapping gases. To say that borders on the preposterous. But it also is absolutely necessary.

I might even say we’re doing the Lord’s work, and we’re not going to be deterred by other issues and problems and antagonisms, however they may arise.

You’ve mentioned transportation is particularly important to California. Are there ideas that the institute will be looking at that might have the fastest turnaround for implementation?

Turning Back on Climate Summit, Trump Hosts 'Religious Freedom' Session at UN

Turning Back on Climate Summit, Trump Hosts 'Religious Freedom' Session at UN

Naomi Klein on the Case for a Green New Deal, Climate Strike

Sandy Hook Promise school shooting PSA

California Fight Over Emission Standards Explained

https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-auto-emissions-standards-fight-with-donald-trump-explained/

2020: Democratic Establishment vs. Democratic Socialists

2020: Democratic Establishment vs. Democratic Socialists

Naomi Klein on the Case for a Green New Deal, Greta Thunberg, & The Rise...

Causes of Migration- Honduras

Choosing Democracy: Causes of Migration- Honduras: Ismael Moreno Coto, SJ “Padre Melo”  will discuss the root causes of mass  migration from Central America, focusing on th...



Ismael Moreno Coto, SJ   “Padre Melo”

will discuss the root causes of mass migration from Central America, focusing on the ongoing human rights crisis in Honduras.





Sponsored by  Sacramento Solidarity with Honduras Coalition

St. Francis of Assisi ,Pathways for Justice
St. Ignatius Parish

Unitarian Universalist SS
Sacramento Area Congregations Together

Racine Dominican Sisters

Date and Time: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 7:00 PM

Location: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
2620 Capitol Ave, Sacramento, CA
Enter on 27th Street for Free Parking

Cultural Presentation TBA, Reception to follow

International Human Rights Award Winner

Director of Radio Progreso and ERIC-SJ
(center for reflection, research, and communications) in Honduras

Free Will Offering

Beto O'Rourke on gun reform: 'We're going to take away your AR-15, your ...

Trump's Campaign to Divide

George Goehl

Trump’s Reelection Strategy: Pit Us Against Each Other

You would think after a white nationalist murdered 22 people and injured dozens more in El Paso, Donald Trump would lay off the hate, even just for a moment. Apparently he’s not capable. Or not willing. Whether it’s immigration raids, cutbacks on legal immigration, or attacking women of color in Congress, Trump is doubling down on division. Clearly the Trump campaign is planning to stir up new levels of anti-immigrant sentiment as a path to re-election. This strategy takes advantage of the fact that many Americans are experiencing economic decline. In large parts of the country, gone is the sense that our children will do better than we did. Instead, people are asking: “Who’s fighting for us?” It’s a valid question. For the last 40 years, leading Democrats have failed to directly name who was responsible for that decline — big corporations hijacking our government, rigging the system, and creating the biggest gap between the rich and everyone else in American history. That vacuum has left space for other side to blame immigration for the end of good jobs with solid benefits and health care. Sadly, that sets off a race to the bottom that benefits the most abusive corporations — and hurts the rest of us. Instead of taking the bait, we should come toward each other. If we unite to take on the real cause of economic decline — a corporate class intent on becoming ridiculously rich at the expense of the rest of us — we have the power to create the change we so desperately need. Then we can begin to bring back good jobs, expand affordable and quality health care, protect our air and water, and so much more.