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Choosing Democracy: Join the March

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What Is Being Taught About U.S. History ?

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/17/us/teaching-critical-race-theory.html

Choosing Democracy: Join the March for Farm Worker Justice

Choosing Democracy: Join the March for Farm Worker Justice:   Our August 3 to 26   peregrinacion   has followed the same route as our historic 1966 Cesar Chavez-led march.   Our goal is to convince Go...

antiracismdsa: Why We March – Again

antiracismdsa: Why We March – Again:   Gov. Newsom’s choice: Back California farm workers or help the rich. Why is this so hard?   Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/a...

Choosing Democracy: 'Five-Alarm Crisis': US Has Shortage of 300K Teach...

Choosing Democracy: 'Five-Alarm Crisis': US Has Shortage of 300K Teach...:   'Five-Alarm Crisis': US Has Shortage of 300K Teachers, School Staff To stay in their profession, said a union leader, educators ne...

Inflation Reduction Act

 

Sanders Seeks to Amend the Bill

 

Bernie Sanders Seeks To Beef Up the Democrats' Big Bill Brett Wilkins  August 5, 2022 Common Dreams "Adding dental, vision, and hearing benefits to Medicare is supported by 84% of the American people," said an aide to Sen. Sanders, who plans to propose including the expansion in Democrats' reconciliation package. , photogism licensed under CC BY 2.0   U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will offer an amendment to the Democrats' revived reconciliation bill that would affirmatively answer activists' demands to expand Medicare benefits, the senator's office told Common Dreams on Friday. "Today, in the wealthiest country in the world, it is shameful that so many of our seniors must go without the dentures, eyeglasses, and hearing aids that they need." Sanders' office said the Vermont independent will seek a roll call vote on including the overwhelmingly popular proposal to extend dental, hearing, and vision coverage to all Medicare beneficiaries, provisions that were previously stripped from Democrats' once-ambitious $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. Now with key Democrats breathing fresh life into the recently moribund bill they nearly killed—albeit in favor of a dramatically shrunken package—Sanders is again pushing for the Medicare expansion he has long championed. "Today, in the wealthiest country in the world, it is shameful that so many of our seniors must go without the dentures, eyeglasses, and hearing aids that they need," the senator's office explained.

Supreme Court

 

if you’re outraged by the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent rulings on abortion, gun safety, and more – you’re not alone.The frustrating truth is: this Court is making drastic decisions that’ll impact millions of us even though FIVE of the nine justices were appointed by a president who lost the popular vote.

This is the broken Electoral College in action – and it should set off alarm bells for everyone who cares about democracy. Sign the Petition: Stop letting candidates who lose the popular vote win the presidency, putting the legitimacy of the Supreme Court and our democracy at risk >> The justices of the Supreme Court are among the nine most influential people in this country. But right now, a majority of them were appointed by either George W. Bush or Donald Trump – who, in 2000 and 2016 respectively, failed to get more votes from the American people than their opponent. That’s right: the Court’s dramatic shift to the far right is partially due to the current Electoral College system – an antiquated and unjust way of electing the president that gives some voters more of a voice than others.

Delayed Relief Plan for low Income

 

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'Bad News': Biden Administration Delays Relief Plan for Low-Income Borrowers

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/22/bad-news-biden-administration-delays-relief-plan-low-income-borrowers

The McEntee Moment

The McEntee Moment: For a few years in the mid-1990s, AFSCME President Gerry McEntee (1935-2022) repositioned American labor and restored some of its clout.

Microchip Companies Don't Need Taxpayer Billions

Where Markets Don’t Go, Here’s How the State Can Step In

Where Markets Don’t Go, Here’s How the State Can Step In: Today on TAP: California Gov. Newsom announces that the state will make and distribute insulin at cost.

Recession at Internet Speed

Recession at Internet Speed: The Fed’s rapid tightening is making everyone price in recession. That’s bad for reversing the fragilities in our economy.

More on the economy. 

https://inthesetimes.com/article/federal-reserve-inflation-powell-biden-economy

: Poor People's Campaign- March on Washington

antiracismdsa: Poor People's Campaign- March on Washington:   ‘We Won’t Be Silent or Unseen Anymore’: Poor People’s Campaign To Lead DC Assembly Jessica Corbett  June 17, 2022 Common Dreams Bishop Wil...

Insurrectionists Experience Consequences As Jan. 6th Hearings Begin | Th...

AOC on the Jan. 6 Coup

In the days and weeks after the January 6 attack, right-wingers tried to downplay what happened. They said it was small. They accused us of lying by saying the attack was “only” at the Capitol dome.

The footage and evidence from the January 6th committee hearing in Congress this week proves that no – they were everywhere. The screams were everywhere.

This is what American terrorism looks like.

Here’s just a few of the revelations from the hearing and other crucial facts. 

• The committee will provide proof that Rep. Scott Perry and multiple other Republican members of Congress sought presidential pardons for their rolesin attempting to overturn the 2020 election and their actions on January 6. It means they consciously knew and believed that their actions were criminal and proceeded to support an attempted coup of the U.S.
  
  
• The committee released not previously publicly seen video footage from police body cameras, Capitol hallway and office footage, as well as police radio communication, that shows just how coordinated and dangerous the events were. Meanwhile, Republicans like Lauren Boebert were tweeting Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s location as this was all happening.
  
  
• Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife was involved in January 6th. She attended the rally and relentlessly urged the President’s Chief to overturn the US election. Justice Thomas later refused to recuse himself from rulings related to the matter.¹
  
  
• 21 Republicans voted against granting the Congressional Gold Medal to Capitol police officers who tried to defend the Capitol on January 6.² 

The facts unveiled are extremely serious and could potentially lead to charges from the Department of Justice. This committee is bipartisan – both Republican and Democratic members were part of the investigation that uncovered these facts – and yesterday was just day one.

Republicans are walking away from this. Trying to pretend it didn’t happen. It’s our responsibility to remember. The next hearings will take place on Monday and Wednesday at 10:00 AM ET. To watch the hearings, visit the Jan 6 Committee YouTube channel here.

Lastly, the choice we are facing this November is not between two political parties. It’s a choice to save our democracy or to turn it over to the rioters that stormed the Capitol. If you’re able to chip in to help us go toe-to-toe with right-wing Republicans who are still trying to spread lies about what happened, you can do so here.

We’ll keep you posted as the hearings continue. 

With resolve, 

Team AOC 

  

Choosing Democracy: Teachers- End Gun Violence

Choosing Democracy: Teachers- End Gun Violence:   View as Webpage Educator, We wore orange to honor lives lost and changed because of gun violence. We’ve sent more than 45,000 messages to ...

Poor People's Campaign

 

Are you ready for June 18? The Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls is this month! People from all across the country are coming together to mount a challenge to the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation, the denial of healthcare and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. Sign up and let us know you're coming.   Here are some ways to prepare yourself and others for this transformational event…   Attend our welcome session Tuesday June 7, 3:30pm | RSVP (live online) Thursday June 9, 6pm | RSVP (recording and Q&A) Final preparations are being put in place for a California delegation, which includes 40 people impacted by poverty and dozens of moral witnesses, advocates/allies and faith leaders. This “Welcome to June 18” session will be focused on both in-person and virtual participation, and we will hear about the events leading up to and planned for the Mass Assembly. Several campaign organizers will be offering testimony about why they are "going BACK to Washington," having participated in one or more direct actions in D.C. in 2021.   There will be a breakout session for people planning to participate virtually, including how to host or join a watch party. This meeting will be closed-captioned.

Choosing Democracy: Uvalde Cops Failed _ Children Died

Choosing Democracy: Uvalde Cops Failed _ Children Died: Uvalde Cops Failed. Parents prevented from rescuing kids. To the layman, it might seem strange to read an   Associated Press story   about h...

School Shootings

 

California Might Pass Its Own Personal Build Back Better

California Might Pass Its Own Personal Build Back Better: The Golden State is set to spend its capital gains haul on massive public investments in climate.

May 14

 

May Day 2022

 

Our Blog of the Week takes you back to nationwide demonstrations for an eight-hour work week in 1886 and juxtaposes those demonstrations with what has, and hasn’t changed, for workers today. Much has changed since the first May Day, but building worker power and combating racism and xenophobia remain just as important. May 1 is International Workers’ Day, a day workers around the world mark as Labor Day with marches, demonstrations, and renewed calls for workers’ rights. “May Day” got its start in 1886, when U.S. workers rallied in support of ongoing campaigns for an eight-hour day, setting May 1 as a deadline to begin mass strikes if employers failed to adopt shorter hours. In 1886 Chicago, where tens of thousands joined May Day actions and thousands went on strike, subsequent police shootings of striking workers escalated into the well-known Haymarket Tragedy. Months of state-sanctioned, anti-immigrant repression of labor organizing followed. Police raids of union halls and arrests of organizers culminated in a sham trial, eight guilty verdicts, and public hanging of four prominent immigrant, working-class movement leaders (a fifth died by suicide prior to the execution date). The trial and executions were followed closely by workers across the country and around the world. In memory of the Haymarket Martyrs, labor and socialist organizations declared May Day International Workers’ Day, now an official public holiday in many countries.

The Ukraine War: Dilemma for the U.S. Left

 The Ukraine War: Dilemma for the U.S. Left

APRIL 8, 2022 BY DAVID M. KOTZ. DEMOCRATIC LEFT. 

 

 

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was unjustified, and the U.S. Left must condemn it. At the same time, the Left should not buy into the distortions and half-truths in the portrayal of the conflict now being aggressively promoted by the U.S.  government and mass media. Neither should the Left consider looking favorably on Vladimire Putin’s Russia as a purportedly anti-imperialist force in the world, despite Russia’s past opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq and intervention in Libya.  Some background on the rise of Putin’s regime is helpful for working out a left-wing policy regarding the disastrous invasion of Ukraine. 

Origins of the Putin Regime 

 

https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/the-ukraine-war-dilemma-for-the-u-s-left/

Well informed observers. 

What Russia Has Done in Ukraine _ Photos

Choosing Democracy: What Russia Has Done in Ukraine _ Photos:   https://www.aol.com/photojournalist-describes-russia-left-behind-090001497.html Photojournalist Carol Guzy, a four-time Pulitzer Prize win...

The Reality Check: AT THE END OF THIS HATED WAR, WE NEED TRUTH

The Reality Check: AT THE END OF THIS HATED WAR, WE NEED TRUTH: AT THE END OF THIS HATED WAR, WE NEED TRUTH By David Bacon Foreign Policy in Focus | August 30, 2021 https://fpif.org/at-the-end-of-this-hat...

Cesar Chavez and California Framworkers

Choosing Democracy: Cesar Chavez and California Framworkers: Chavez and author Campbell ,1972.  Let us be clear.  Chavez was religious, but he was not a saint. Neither were the growers, their  Teamster...

Choosing Democracy: SCTA On Strike in Sacramento

Choosing Democracy: SCTA On Strike in Sacramento:   BY PETER LUCAS The Sacramento school district is pleading poverty in the face of demands for more student support and a pay raise to keep ...

School Administrators Lose Confidence in Aguilar

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article259662635.html 

Every Day in SCUSD

 

Our Neo-Guernica Moment

Our Neo-Guernica Moment: Today on TAP: And how we should respond

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Russians Against the War on Ukraine

We, Russian scientists and scientific journalists, declare a strong protest against the military operations launched by the armed forces of our country on the territory of Ukraine.  This fatal step leads to huge human losses and undermines the foundations of the existing system of international security. The responsibility for unleashing a new war in Europe lies entirely with Russia.  There are no reasonable justifications for this war. Attempts to use the situation in the Donbass as a pretext for launching a military operation do not inspire any confidence.  It is clear that Ukraine does not pose a threat to the security of our country.  The war against her is unfair and frankly senseless.  Ukraine has been and remains a country close to us. Many of us have relatives, friends and scientific colleagues living in Ukraine.  Our fathers.  grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought together against Nazism.  Unleashing a war for the sake of the geopolitical ambitions of the leadership of the Russian Federation, driven by dubious historiosophical fantasies, is a cynical betrayal of their memory.  We respect Ukrainian statehood, which rests on really working democratic institutions.  We treat the European choice of our neighbours with understanding.  We are convinced that all problems in relations between our countries can be resolved peacefully.  Having unleashed the war, Russia doomed itself to international isolation, to the position of a pariah country. This means that we, scientists, will no longer be able to normally do our job: after all, conducting scientific research is unthinkable without full cooperation with colleagues from other countries.  The isolation of Russia from the world means further cultural and technological degradation of our country in the complete absence of positive prospects.  War with Ukraine is a step to nowhere.  It is bitter for us to realize that our country, which made a decisive contribution to the victory of Nazism, has now become the instigator of a new war on the European continent.  We demand an immediate halt to all military operations directed against Ukraine.  We demand respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Ukrainian state.  We demand peace for our countries, Signatures continue to come, we add as much strength as possible (now there are more than 370 of them): .  

Alexander Anikin, linguist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  

Yuri Apresyan, linguist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  

Bondar Alexander Evgenievich, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences 

Viktor Vasiliev, mathematician, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  

Alexander Moldovan, philologist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  

Sergei Nikolaev, philologist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  

Valery Rubakov, physicist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences 

Roald Sagdeev, physicist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  

Alexander Sobolev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry.  IN AND.  

Vernadsky, RAS.  

Sergey Stishov, physicist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences 

Svetlana Tolstaya, philologist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  

Efim Khazanov, physicist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  

Alexander Chaplik, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  

Mikhail Gelfand.  Bioinformatician, Member of the European Academy, Dr.  biop.  Sciences.  

and 8 and a half pages more of signatures.....

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Mother Russia

We Stand With Ukraine

 

Critical Race Theory: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

antiracismdsa: Voting in Texas

antiracismdsa: Voting in Texas:   The Texas primary election is just 15 days away and we have a massive opportunity to elect two progressive champions to Congress: Jessica ...

On What Just Happened to Medicare for All in California

 On What Just Happened to Medicare for All in California—and the Organizing We Need to Win

Why hasn't the overwhelming popularity of Medicare for All—85% of Democrats, 66% of independents and 52% (!) of GOP support it—translated into legislative majorities?

Michael Lighty

February 8, 2022 

 

 

 

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/08/what-just-happened-medicare-all-california-and-organizing-we-need-win

Choosing Democracy: Which Schools Should be Closed ?

Choosing Democracy: Which Schools Should be Closed ?:     Statement on the Impact  of COVID-19 on SCUSD Students  January 20, 2022   The Sacramento City Community Priorities Coalition (CPC) is v...

MARTIN Luther King Jr. - Radical,

Choosing Democracy: What It takes to be back in school

Choosing Democracy: What It takes to be back in school: What it takes to be back in school—and stay back by Randi Weingarten  President, American Federation of Teachers  Small things sometimes hav...

The Folly of School Openings as a Zero-Sum Game

The Folly of School Openings as a Zero-Sum Game: We need to address the needs of students—and parents, and teachers. One size does not fit all, and race complicates the challenge.

Choosing Democracy: Sacramento City Unified Should Close Some Schools

Choosing Democracy: Sacramento City Unified Should Close Some Schools:     In  Sacramento City Unified school after school classes are being merged together without a certified teacher in charge.  The current go...

Republicans - Kevin Mc Carthy

 

Jan 6, 2022, Event

https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/434560/?force_banner=true&share_context=event_details&share_medium=copy_link

 

Where Do We Go From Here?

Choosing Democracy: Where Do We Go From Here?:   WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?  DSA, North Star, and the Crisis https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/where-do-we-go-from-here-dsa-north-star-and-t...