Does taunting work? Knock the Vote intends to find out. Here’s a PSA produced for the campaign by the Acronym group. It slams Millennials for just about all of the negative stereotypes out there. Will it motivate its audience to prove the stereotypes wrong by showing up at the polls on November 6th? I guess we’ll find out in 29 days. [Read more…]
Ballots Drop Tuesday: Do You Have a Plan to Vote? | Progressive Activist Calendar October 5 -15, 2018
Traditionally media coverage of elections has focused on the actual election day. It’s time to dump that mindset. If the June primary was any indication (and it was), close to two-thirds of the electorate in San Diego will have already cast their vote before November 6.
Mail-in ballots are headed for the post office this weekend; people will receive them starting on Tuesday (Monday is a holiday). I’m told that most of the early returns from mail-in votes are from people who’d already made up their minds.
I suspect many readers of this publication know who they’re going to vote for in the big name contests. I’m fairly certain many of those same folks don’t know who to vote for in the contest for San Diego Superior Court Office #37. If you were unhappy about Brett Kavanaugh, you might want to know about Gary Kreep. [Read more…]
Trump Administration Sends 1,600 Kids to Texas Tent City as Number of Detained Children Hits Record High | Video Worth Watching
From the Democracy Now! website:
The Trump administration is transferring detained migrant children from shelters across the country to a barren tent city in West Texas. The New York Times reports that hundreds of children are being sent each week from shelters to the tent city, which currently houses 1,600 children. The facility reportedly has no school, and children have only limited access to legal services. The U.S. government is now detaining a record 13,000 migrant children. We speak with Louise Melling, deputy legal director at the ACLU, who says, “We have more children in detention now than ever before.”
Re-Branded NAFTA: Yes to Big Oil, No to Consumer, Health, Safety and Environmental Protections
Environmentalists on Monday slammed President Donald Trump’s replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), with Food & Water Watch executive director Wenonah Hauter warning that it “would enshrine and globalize Trump’s deregulatory zealotry into a trade pact that would outlast the administration and imperil future efforts to protect consumers, workers, and the environment.”
Presented as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), many have noted that Trump’s trade deal, as Bloomberg put it, “looks more like a rebranding than a revolution,” despite Trump’s vows when he was a presidential candidate that he would negotiate a new deal that’s dramatically better for American workers. As experts and campaigners comb through the details of the agreement, environmental activists are homing in on provisions they warn would endanger people and the planet. [Read more…]
A Tale of Two Properties – Carlsbad at a Crossroads
By Socrates Kanetakis
Carlsbad finds itself amidst a commercial rebirth; from the Barrio to Bressi, the sight of new mini-towns, condominiums, clothing stores and eateries is hard to miss. Aside from what these developments mean for traffic, sales taxes and for the daily “wow they are building everywhere” exclamations, they mostly affect two commodities: Land and energy.
Along the narrow stretch of the I5—between Canon and Tamarack—lie two examples of those commodities; the Encina power plant on one side and the vacant south shore of Agua Hedionda on the other. Although these parcels differ in terms of utility, they both face a similar future. One is being decommissioned and the other faces imminent “commission” of some—yet—undecided sort.
Seeing how the city will need both land and energy to accommodate its rising population and blooming commercial establishments, these two properties can and will need to be effectively utilized very soon; It’s all a matter of “how”? [Read more…]
Immigrant Children Carted Off in the Dead of Night to Trump’s Texas Tent Camp
By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams
With detention facilities overflowing due to President Donald Trump’s monstrous immigration policies—which have sent the number of children detained by the U.S. government soaring to a record 12,800—the Trump administration is reportedly carrying out dead-of-night “mass transfers” of children from foster homes and shelters to a crowded Texas tent camp, where they have no schooling and limited access to legal services.
According to the New York Times, more than 1,600 “migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in South Texas.” [Read more…]
The Fearless Revolutionaries Who Made Voting Possible | Video Worth Watching
From the Brave New Films YouTube page:
Do these badass revolutionaries a solid, and register to vote! They shed blood, sweat and tears so that we can shake some trees and vote to make a change. What are you waiting for? For more on how to register, go to www. nationalvoterregistrationday.org, and don’t forget to vote on Nov. 6!
For San Diego County voter registration info (where you can verify your registration status) visit San Diego County Registrar of Voters. [Read more…]
Hell Hath No Fury Like Women the GOP Scorned | Progressive Activist Calendar Sept. 28 – Oct. 8, 2018
Every woman I have contact with in any way, at my home, on the phone, on social or mass media, had a visceral reaction to the Republicans’ misogyny-fest on Capitol Hill this past week, also known as the judicial confirmation process. Tears, fears, rage, and physical reactions are the norm, not the exception.
I’m not about to write about the details of Senate spectacle of a bunch of old men sending a message that women don’t matter. It just makes me incoherently angry. Besides, I’m not so sure words from me are what’s needed right now.
I do believe a line has been crossed. We have an obligation to make this upcoming election a statement. It is already the year of the woman in terms of candidates for elected office. Now we all need to make sure it’s the year that women’s voices driving voter turnout.
I hope I’m right. There are more than two dozen events in this week’s Activist Calendar for your consideration. If you haven’t already volunteered for a campaign or get out the vote effort, now is the time to make a commitment. [Read more…]
When I Think of the Wall
When I think of the wall
I see in my mind,
first of all,
people on my side of the wall,
people who,
when all is thought through,
appraising all of humanity,
live relatively comfortably,
in possession of all kinds of
certificates and degrees
from preschool
to PhDs,
living and/or dreaming
the dream of all dreams,
the American Dream,
that “Keeping Up with the Joneses Dream” [Read more…]
Trump Admin Targets Immigrants Using Food Stamps & Medicaid & Puts Millions of Children at Risk | Video Worth Watching
Amy Goodman and Juan González of Democracy Now! talk with Marielena Hincapié of the National Immigration Law Center about a new proposal by the Trump administration to deny Green Cards to immigrants who participate to even a minor degree in a wide range of public assistance programs. This is the same issue that was recently covered in our recent repost from Common Dreams. [Read more…]
New Immigration Policy: Green Cards Available for the Highest (White) Bidder
“This proposal says work and family don’t matter—only money matters. And at a time when one-fourth of children in America have at least one immigrant parent, it’s a direct attack on children.”
By Julia Conley / Common Dreams
Angering immigrant rights and economic equality advocates alike, the Trump administration has made official its proposal to deny permanent residency, or green cards, to immigrants who have used public assistance programs including nutritional or housing aid.
[Read more…]
National Walk Out / Solidarity: Support Dr. Blasey Ford – Monday Sept 24 10am (Pacific Time)
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford has bravely come forward and shared her story about her sexual assault at the hands of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Even though Dr. Blasey Ford has repeatedly stated her desire to testify and bravely share her story, Senate Republicans are doing everything they can to shame, bully, and force her to testify under their unacceptable, inappropriate conditions.
At 1 p.m. EST Monday, join us for a national walk-out to show our support for Dr. Blasey Ford. All you need to do is wear black and walk out – of your home, your office, your classroom, wherever you are – and post a picture to your social media with the hashtag #BelieveSurvivors. [Read more…]
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