The Real News’ Jaisal Noor interviews teacher and union activist Noelanie Fuentes Cardona who tells us about Law 85 and how Puerto Rico’s Democratic governor and Betsy DeVos have teamed up to introduce charter schools and online schools to an island still coping with the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Maria. [Read more…]
Abolish ICE: Why We Need to Abolish Immigrations and Customs Enforcement | Video Worth Watching
From the Now This YouTube page:
Sean McElwee, co-founder of Data for Progress, thinks ICE should be abolished.
“ICE, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was created in 2003, as part of post-9/11 legislation that housed immigration enforcement under the Department of Homeland Security,” he explained. “This signaled a shift towards viewing immigrants as the threat to national security.”
After 9/11, immigrants were seen as a terrorist threat, and the policies that followed were created for mass migrant deportation. Trump and Stephen Miller have not only enforced this anti-immigration strategy, but increased it with aggressive, inhumane measures like their zero tolerance policy. ICE has been in the middle of all of this, and have become synonymous with these practices that are tearing families apart and causing long-term residents in the country to self-deport.
“We need to stop deporting people for what is fundamentally the civil violation of being in this country without documentation. We choose as a society what is criminalized and how those laws are enforced,” said McElwee. “We don’t have a militarized police force to prosecute financial crimes because the people who commit those crimes are powerful white men. We have to dismantle not just ICE, but the thousands of small offenses that put people on ICE’s radar. From marijuana possession to turnstile jumping, people enter into ICE’s net through over-criminalization.”
How U.S. Involvement In Central America Led To a Border Crisis | Video Worth Watching
So many of the recent asylum seekers along our southern border are from the Central American nations of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Is this just coincidence? Hardly. For anyone that’s used the term “Banana Republic” without being clear how that term originated (actually, even if you do know how the history of that term), here’s a brief look back at how U.S. involvement In Central America led to our current border crisis. [Read more…]
Robert Reich: We’re Living a Constitutional Crisis | Video Worth Watching
I’ve read quite a few ruminations regarding what will precipitate a constitutional crisis during this administration, but as Robert Reich is here to explain, there’s no need to wait. We are in a constitutional crisis. [Read more…]
Roy Rogers ~ Talking Walls | Video Worth Watching
All this news lately about taped conversations and secret meetings makes me wonder if the walls could talk, what stories would they tell? Well, we may never hear from the Trump Tower walls, but here’s some Talking Walls from slide guitarist Roy Rogers that’ll do just nicely. [Read more…]
Pacuprá – Body Percussion | Video Worth Watching
Time for some industrial strength body percussion. Here’s Grupo Pacuprá, the youth ensemble of the Colombian group Cantoalegre. [Read more…]
The Spy Who Loved the NRA | Video Worth Watching
Full Frontal’s Samantha Bee highlights the peculiar relationship between an alleged Russian spy and the NRA. She also pointedly notes that the NRA, which typically blasts back at the slightest intimation of criticism, has been markedly silent on this issue: no comments since the news broke on July 17th with the indictment of Maria Butina by the Justice Department. Hmmm. [Read more…]
Kaniela Saito Ing’s Progressive Campaign Ad ‘A New Possible’ Is Creating a Stir | Video Worth Watching
The ad agency that produced the massively popular campaign ad for the recent Democratic primary of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—Means of Production—has produced another one, this time for a Democratic primary candidate in Hawai’i.: Kaniela Ing. The new ad echoes many of the themes of the previous one: health care for all, free college, affordable housing, a green jobs program; but also adds an Hawai’in element. Both are upbeat, positive and unapologetically progressive. Although Ing faces much tougher odds, let’s hope the similarities extend to outcomes, as well. [Read more…]
Why Is The Right So Scared Of A Democratic Socialist? | Video Worth Watching
All In’s Chris Hayes speaks with The New York Times’ Michelle Goldberg, The Majority Report’s host, Sam Seder and The Intercept‘s Briahna Gray about “Why Is The Right So Scared Of A Democratic Socialist?” Chris presents some of the right’s coverage of recent primary winner Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and how it weirdly appears threatened by her stand in favor of health care, education and that “every person in this country [should be] paid a living wage to lead a dignified life”. [Read more…]
‘Black Identity Extremists’ Report Is FBI’s COINTELPRO 2.0 | Video Worth Watching
From the NOW THIS YouTube page:
Decades ago, the FBI targeted Black activists who were fighting for equality — now, this sad chapter of history is repeating itself.
A 2017 report identified “black identity extremists” as a threat to law enforcement. Critics say this report is eerily similar to the FBI’s counter intelligence program, a.k.a. COINTELPRO, which was established in the 50’s by J. Edgar Hoover to specifically target African-Americans who were fighting for justice and equality, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and many members of the Black Panther Party.
ICE IS – The Break with Michelle Wolf | Video Worth Watching
ICE IS – a tradition since 2003. Seemed like a good idea at the time. But then who could have predicted the likes of “Kjirstjen Njielsjen” or Donald Trump … You know it’s a problem when, as Alternet reports, ICE agents themselves have written to Secretary Nielsen asking to have ICE reorganized so that they don’t have to be part of it. [Read more…]
Joni Mitchell – The Hissing Of Summer Lawns | Video Worth Watching
The weather has me in full summertime mode lately. Here’s something by Joni Mitchell that’s also in a summertime theme: The Hissing of Summer Lawns. (h/t to AGD) [Read more…]
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