Commodifying Coups

This week while turkeys nationwide meet their fate, we get to rectify a myth, because colonization was such a crap shoot, for once, the White Man had to listen to Native folks who knew how to grow food in a climate the colonizers found less than hospitable. It’s the right time to highlight what’s happening to indigenous people world over, and especially in Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, the U.S. and Canada, and Palestine.

In the US and Canada, indigenous people are in the frontlines of our planetary battle targeting climate change, something the coal industry knew about as early as 1966. As the US withdraws from the Paris Climate Accords, we keep warm in our memories the Sioux engaged in the New Indian  Wars at Standing Rock, being water cannoned in below freezing temperatures, so cold icicles formed along the rows of barbed wire the guardians of capital had raised.

And in Central and South America, Indians have been defending the democracy of the Bolivarian Revolution which has reduced poverty, stamped out illiteracy, provided housing, a more robust economy, and medical care for the most disadvantaged of the population, namely the Indian sector. Some call this brand of democracy socialism. 

In Bolivia especially, Evo Morales, the president legitimately elected by the Bolivian people, and forced to flee, represents the first-time elevation of an Indian leader in that nation’s history. This is especially galling to the white elite, as emblemized by puppet Jeanine Añez who referred to Indian culture as “satanic.”

Evo Morales against Mexico City background

“Some do not accept that the Indians govern,” said deposed president, Evo Morales. Bolivian native tribes number 41, of which the Aymara and Quechua are the most numerous. As they risk massacre before police firing squads, who have been given carte blanche by the de facto government of Añez, to fire indiscriminately without risk of prosecution, and members of the press have been shot and tear gassed, blockades have been set up throughout the country in a national strike which calls for the resignation of her US- sanctioned puppet government.

La Paz funeral of masssacre victim passses through police lines

The Bolivarian Revolution, with its emphasis on the Right to Vote, and the leveling out of the steep inequality which dominated the country in the past, has never been in the U.S. interest.  But Bolivian lithium for battery manufacture, and indium for liquid crystal displays needed for computers, smartphones, and TVs are, because Bolivia’s lithium and indium happen to be under their soils, not ours. And ours is the US imperative.

"Satanic:" Jeanine Áñez

Currently, through US imperial machinations, color revolutions have either been attempted or occurred in Venezuela, and Bolivia respectively, and to this list we might add Ecuador, Nicaragua, and now Colombia.

But from the perspective of the US voter, the issue has nothing to do with whether or not we “like” Morales, or whether we “like” Maduro (of Venezuela); it pertains to constant, unrelenting US interference in the legitimate policies and activities of other countries. (what the US-government likes to call “regime change.”)

The US itself does not exactly lag behind harboring its own criminal leaders. It may be time once again to stop exporting coups, and import the coup home to roost.

Sign  Code Pink’s invitation for a UN presence in Bolivia at

http://www.codepink.org/bachelet?recruiter_id=7859 

Sanctions kill, too: Sign to denounce US imposed sanctions at

https://sanctionskill.org/

Don’t get pushed into the oven of climate change: Join XR at the S.F. Opera House, 391 Van Ness in S.F. at 1:30 PM Saturday Nov. 30, and Sunday, Dec. 1 at 1:30 PM at

https://www.facebook.com/events/1133921546813890/?event_time_id=1133921553480556

Join Extinction Rebellion Thanksgiving Hunger Strike and climate emergency rallies at House Speaker Pelosi’s office and home

Wednesday, Nov. 27, 12-1:30 90 7^th st. to deliver demand letter.

Thursday, Nov. 28, 11 AM-3 PM Pelosi mansion: 2640 Bway @Scott ST., S.F.

Demand Congress pass the Climate Equity Act to address environmental racism at: 

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-demand-congress-address-environmental-racism-and-climate-equity?source=2019ClimateEquity_DK&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.actblue.com%2Fdonate%2Fdkclimate2019%3Frefcode%3D20191030ClimateEquitySW&link_id=1&can_id=447ac5b0d7a5124338b20f2bb702d0f8&email_referrer=email_663784&email_subject=sign-the-petition-demand-congress-pass-the-climate-equity-act

Demand Rep. Eliot Engel hold a Defund Occupation of Palestine now at

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/demand-representative-eliot-engle-hold-a-defundoccupation-hearing?link_id=1&can_id=4d8abb95a7895a1648b41bfa1ad2bb3b&source=email-we-need-to-get-louder-fwd-the-first-step-to-defundoccupation&email_referrer=email_669073&email_subject=we-need-to-get-louder-fwd-the-first-step-to-defundoccupation

Remove racist Stephen Miller from office at:

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-stephen-miller-is-a-white-nationalist-he-must-be-removed-from-office?source=2019RemoveMiller_PFAW&referrer=group-pfaw

Block Keystone XL Pipeline at

https://action.foe.org/page/14806/action/1?ea.tracking.id=Email&ea.url.id=331901&forwarded=true

In Bay Area, Join Women in Black Friday Nov. 19, at 11:45 at Powell BART, march to Union Square at

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/14/18828119.php

International

Brazil Federal Supreme Court trules inmates who’ve not exhausted their appeals should not be incarcerated, releasing Lula da Silva, and at least 5,000 more.

International Energy Agency annual report list, although decrying slow progress in transportation and equity, reported solar and offshore wind installation progress.

European Ivestment Bank to end fossil fuel financing within the next two years.

Protesters block Iraq port as general strikes take hold.

Ecuador lawmakers reject president’s proposed economic measures calculated to pay for  IMF $4.2 billon loan..

French yellow vest resisters celebrate first birthday with planned labor strikes.

Now that the UK government holds Assange. Sweden drops bogus sex charges against him.

Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority forces US Army jet to quit Pakistani airspace.

Chile: Human  Rights violations may lead to Piñera’s impeachment.

Youth shut down OAS Secy General Luis Almagro’s talk in Paraguay.

National Layers Guild condems military coup in Bolivia.

Israeli PM Netanyahoo indicted for bribery and fraud.

UN Security Council rebukes US stance on Israel’s illegal West Bank settlements.

31 US organizations denounce violent repression in Bolivia.

Triggered by President Duque’s labor reforms and cuts to pension system, hundreds of thousands people join national strike in Colombia.

In Brazil, lula vows to battle for democracy against Bolsonaro push to destroy progress in Brazil.

Sixty doctors demand immediate medical attention for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Pope calls for world without nuclear weapons claiming they are “an affront crying out to heaven.”

National

Feeding the hungry and slaking their thirst is not a crime: Scott Warren found not guilty of all charges rescuing people in the desert.

Bureau of Land Management temporarily suspends 130 oil and gas leases because it forgot to factors in climate change before leasing them.

Over 120K public comments on Keystone XL submitted to US State Department.

After recanvass, Ky Governor Matt Bevin concedes race to Democrat Andy Beshear.

Hunger strike by Extinction Rebellion continues in Speaker Pelosi D.C. office.

Conservationists intervene against effort to dam Little Colorado River half a mile from the Grand Canyon.

Harvard students walk out of Israel envoy talk.

Shouting “OK boomer,” hundreds of activists delay Harvard-Yale football game in climate protest.

Sanders fastest presidential candidate in history to reach 4 million donations.

Regardless of party affiliation, poll shows 66% of key early state voters support ending production of fossil fuels.

Nearly 100K petitions delivered to PBS backing call for prime time impeachment hearings.

Bernie calls it in Bolivia: “when the military intervenes” a coup pure and simple.

Massive Cricket Valley fracked gas plant shut down by NY protesters.

Tulsi Gabbard criticizes own party for fossilism during Democratic debate.

Atlanta rail line tied to Turkish State shut down in solidarity with Rojava Kurds.

Judge halts all scheduled federal executions, effectively freezing Trump effort to resume death penalty.

Billboards for World Children’s Day call for freedom of detained children in the US.

UN condemns US for world’s highest rate of children in detention.

Veteran Congresswoman Betty McCollum introduces legislation prohibiting US funding to any foreign military that detains children, including Israel.

Top Navy SEAL Rear Admiral Collin Green defies Donald Trump’s pardon of Eddie Gallagher for shooting Iraqi civilians.

Federal court rules that Trump administration was at fault failing to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.

US journalists sue Trump DHS over “coordinated attack” on press freedom.

Citing white nationalist e-mails, over 100 Dem lawmakers sign letter demanding Stephen Miller resign.

Bill transitioning US to 100% clean energy by 2050 introduced in Congress.

BDS campaign targeting Portland Trailblazers partnership with Leupold & Stevens, manufacturers of rifle scopes used by Israeli occupying army wins.

Brookline, Mass. bans natural gas and oil in new home construction.

Court rules against “Secure Communities” dragnet fueled by ICE reliance on massive data collection.

Federal Court blocks Trump’s asylum ban

Shareholders urge 5 major banks to act now on climate.

26 health organizations, led by Physicians for Social responsibility, submit comments to EPA opposing rollback of new source performance standards for oil and natural gas industry.

California

Times Up! Extinction Rebellion occupies Pelosi office, launching global hunger strike for climate action at Thanksgiving.  

22 mayors want PG&E to become customer owner coop.

Gov. Newsome signs bill allowing California cities and towns to establish public banks.

Climate groups applaud Gov. Newsom’s temporary fracking ban.

Lawsuit launched against Trump EPA for failing to enforce smog rules in California.

Cops put GPS tracker on man’s car, charge him with theft for removing it.

IN THEIR OWN VOICES

This week the newsletter highlights the voices of three other women.

 

Emily Amelia:  The Wall 

Yesterday I went to Al Wappia/Quitobaquito springs on Hia C’ed O’ooham land with some friends.  In the lead up to this, we’d been driving through the desert putting out water on trails and my mind wandered between the delight with the plants and humans I was spending time with, and scenes of stories of migrating here. The stories aren’t mine. They were told to me by  people I’ve met and loved, who’ve traveled this desert, and who don’t necessarily tell them publicly. They already bear the brunt of the pain plus the cost of telling their stories is total life-changing displacement and violence. They’re stories of drinking dirty water from abandoned cattle troughs, losing all supplies and companions in the rock splitting windstorm of a low-flying border patrol helicopter, thinking only of their life-threatening thirst [and] their beloveds, miles away…. 

"Twenty wall panels"

Quitobaquito is a clear blue body of water  in the Sonoran Desert. It is a ceremonial site of the Hia C’ed People and gives life to the whole [of] everything around it. Yesterday we saw a baby Sonoran desert tortoise get carried along the source stream current through pupfish territory towards green reeds and its deeper adult swimming hole. My friends and community members’ families lived here and took care of this everything before Quitobaquito Village was [purchased and erased by #organpipenationalmonument. When I visit now because I didn’t value it  fully until it was under threat and because now I finally do, and because it will be irreparably damaged when the wall goes up.

And then, driving home along the bottom half of the long loop through western organ pipe, we came upon these 20 wall panels. I don’t know when they went up—it must have just happened. I stopped breathing. Honestly, it reminded me of times in my life we I’ve heard horrible true news that I knew would change me, but that I couldn’t possibly process at the rate of its unfolding, news about death and violence. We parked the trucks and watched. I had the thoughts, what does it mean if a heart breaking thing is happening and people’s hearts aren’t breaking?

Barbara Brust: It’s cold outside

Consider The Homeless does what it can to keep people alive.
Please consider making  a tax-free contribution (see below). 

We pay, out of our own pockets, about $300 a week in order to serve a hot homemade soup (stew) every Thursday & Sunday night, to over 100 people a night. this is for the ingredients only! It does not include the gasoline, insurance, registration, inspection, etc....for the vehicle and the myriad…other expenses that come up!

In close to 5 years of doing this there has been only 2 nights we
missed. It takes six people working for between 2-6 hours, as  volunteers, to get the van out every time we do a soup run! That is 12 people a week! 48 people a month!  just for the soup run!!!!

We also fill the van with survival supplies: blankets, socks, pants, jackets, etc....And for what? So their belongings can be confiscated by CalTrans?  So the Berkeley Police Department can harass them, to have their tent [torn] down and all property in a 3’ X 3’ footprint [confiscated?] Even though they are not blocking anyone's right of way they get cited if they do not comply and are forced to be sitting unsheltered in the elements until 10 pm when they are allowed to put their tents back up, people [who] are disabled, mentally challenged, medically in need of care and no one helps! people will die!!!

How can we call this a Sanctuary City? A sanctuary for who? Housed [people] only??? What about the poor??? It is winter now!!!  Cold! I bet all of you have the heat on in your comfortable houses... I don't.  I cannot afford to pay PG&E. I am disabled and busy as hell in spite of that trying to help those in a far worse condition than mine!

Stop looking at homelessness as a problem. Cancel that study, How to solve the problem of "Homelessness." Stop wasting funds the City of Berkley has on enforcing cruel and potentially illegal laws on persecuting the un-housed. Shift your paradigm to see it for what it is...a human crisis! Stop focusing on (allegedly) trying to solve the problem of homelessness! We all know what the real agenda is. It is not getting rid of Homelessness, but rather, it is getting rid of the Homeless! The sidewalk ordinance is torture! I will never forget when Jesse [Arreguin, Mayor of Berkeley] said, and I quote: "[the sidewalk ordinance..] is not about people, but about property" I still have a copy of the video from that meeting…. It is about abuse [that] targets the unhoused... It [represents] a waste of [money] and resources to enforce it.

We (at Consider the Homeless!) cannot supply all of our neighbors on the streets with a hot meal twice a week and supply all of them with warm jackets, tents & blankets! Forty pads on the floor of Old City Hall will not protect even 4% of the un-sheltered on our streets when the rains start... and how inhumane is it to just make them leave at 7 am with no place to go?

I have sat here writing this letter while both crying and feeling my blood pressure rise. If this touched you at all, please send a check, made out to Consider The Homeless to PO Box #2771, Berkeley, CA. 94702.  I am even willing to write a receipt for tax purposes for those of you with incomes high enough to use the deduction. If you write BLANKETS in the space at bottom, I can assure you that that is what it will be used for….

 YES, I am angry, I am sure you can see that. I challenge all officials of the City of Berkeley (both elected and assigned) to read this all the way through, all the way! I also ask that you acknowledge receipt of this email and show me the respect of replying.

Val Eisman: Pictures Shout Louder Than Words

Methane escaping from Siberian Arctic Ocean

Demand Congress pass The Green New Deal at

https://www.paction.us/greennewdeal/daily-kos?link_id=11&can_id=655968a96e1bce05c463b2f640bf633c&source=email-william-barr-is-racing-to-deliver-a-report-that-blows-up-the-impeachment-inquiryand-everything-else-2&email_referrer=email_660838___subject_858567&email_subject=rape-survivor-turns-down-judges-offer-of-150000-in-exchange-for-attacker-serving-less-time

Hold ICE accountable for deaths in detention at

https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/petitions/sign-the-petition-asylum-seeker-nebane-abienwi-died-in-ice-custody-we-demand-answers?detail=emailLL&link_id=14&can_id=447ac5b0d7a5124338b20f2bb702d0f8&source=email-cartoon-those-woke-kids-today&email_referrer=email_662230&email_subject=cartoon-those-woke-kids-today

Rodney Reed is Innocent. No Death Penalty, not in Texas, no where. Sign at https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/rodney-reed-is-innocent-free-him-now?clear_id=true&source=email-rodney-reed-update-all-eyes-on-the-us-supreme-court

Keep an innocent man alive. Attend a day of action for Rodney Reed Saturday at

https://www.mobilize.us/actionpac/?page=2&per_page=25&utm_source=frrwebsite / Search website by location proximity, and date.

Donate to Consider the Homeless at PO Box #2771, Berkeley, CA. 94702. Your check is tax-deductible.

European Investment Bank, the world’s largest public bank ditches oil and coal citing ‘Beginning of the end of climate-wrecking fossil-fuel finance.’

Sierra Club takes a brave new turn on population, climate change, and inequality.

‘No More Fossil Lovers!’  Beyond Extreme Energy disrupts hearing for new FERC commissioner.

City and County of Honolulu votes unanimously to support UN Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the Back from the Brink Framework to reduce possibility of nuclear war.

Oakland Representative Barbara Lee signs on to HR-2419, the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Coversion Act of 2019.

In Detroit a new type of agricultural neighborhood emerges.

Equal Citizens wins landmark case against super PACs in Alaska.

Code Pink disrupts Jamie Dimon’s UCLA-sponsored conversation.

China announces vision for future: ‘Give Peace a Chance.’

In Brazil, Lula da Silva freed from prison in victory for movement resisting racist Bolsonaro.

Brazilians march against Bolsonaro and his ties to murder of activist.

‘We don’t want any dictators,’ waving indigenous flag, Bolivians flood La Paz streets to protest right-wing, anti-indigenous group lead by Jeanine Añez who referred to them as ‘satanic.’.

Millions of people take to Santiago’s streets demanding Piñera’s resignation.

Chilean activists sue Piñera over crimes against humanity during protests.

Resisting U.S. pressure, Thailand bans Monsanto.

Students walk out all over the U.S. to demand Supreme Court Defend DACA.

UPS workers elect progressives to lead Philadelphia local.

One thousand take NYC streets and trains in outrage over police attacks on teens.

Alliance to Mobilize our Resistance and allies protest companies invested in Wyatt prison .

South Carolina prisoners appeal to UN for relief from torturous conditions.

Inmates create a Japanese garden inside the Oregon State Penitentiary.

Progressive prosecutor Chesa Boudin, the son of two incarcerated parents, scores major victory in San Francisco DA race.

Democrats win control of major suburban  Philadelphia county first time since Civil War.

Democrats flip GOP seat in St. Louis suburbs.

Democrats win full control of Virginia government, laving way for voting rights expansion.

Citing deep commitment to Medicare for All and Green New Deal, nation’s largest nurses union endorses Bernie Sanders for president.

In ground breaking ruling, U.S. must provide mental health services to separated families.

Julián Castro accompanies refugee to one routine ICE check=ins that can now result in deportation.

Bernie Sanders releases detailed immigration plan, including vow to break up ICE and Customs and Border Patrol.

Judge blocks administration’s onerous health care mandate for immigrants.

Asylum seekers get attorney access before return to Mexico.

Sanders and AOC unveil “Green New Deal for Public Housing.’

US Judge rules suspicionless searches of travelers electronic devices unconstitutional.

Local Mayors back movement for customer-owned PG&E.

   

Mother Nature does a ‘mic drop’ as Venice City Council Chamber floods minutes after members vote down climate crisis.

 

IMPERILED JOURNALISM: THE SORRY STATE OF THE FOURTH ESTATE

Yet another journalist has been chained as the U.S. government attempts to silence his work. On the morning of October 25, a SWAT team surrounded Max Blumenthal’s house, threatened to arrest him, shackled him for 5 hours, and forbade him to contact his lawyers, effectively keeping from outside communication for over 24 hours, and eventually jailed him.

D.C. Venezuelan Embassy under siege

Originally, a warrant had been issued for his arrest in connection with his and other journalists’ coverage of the attempt by the US to take over the Venezuelan Washington embassy, an action strictly proscribed by international law, in connection with its clumsy coup attempt to elevate unknown Juan Guidó to the presidency and to effect “regime change” in Venezuela, a country among other Latin American countries which has embraced the Bolivarian Revolution.

Greyzone jounalist Max Blumenthal

At that time, Blumenthal had covered the actions of the Embassy Protection Collective, and the violent counter-reaction by Venezuelan  goons who harassed the Embassy Protector Collective day and night, and provoked violent and abusive action in the surrounding streets. But that warrant had been rescinded over 5 months ago. Suddenly it was reactivated, and the SWAT team appeared without any prior notification to him. Why?

Kevin Gosztola writing for Shadow Proof raises the interesting point that Blumenthal was arrested literally hours after The Grayzone published an article on USAID paying the salaries of Guaidó’s team as they lobbied the US government.

“I am firmly convinced that this case is part of a wider campaign of political persecution using the legal system to shut down our factual investigative journalism about the coup against Venezuela and the wider policy of economic warfare and regime change waged by the Trump administration,” Blumenthal stated.

Following the persecution of Kiriakou, Sterling, Chelsea Manning., Snowden, and Assange, Blumenthal’s arrest is the latest assault on individuals determined to practice true journalism in contrast to regularly salaried people in the employ of the stenographic media: state organs such as the New York Times, and the Guardian among others, who take dictation directly from governmental sources.

Sacred apes of disinformation

In more recent developments in the US-lapdog UK, which following US interests, is actively supporting the extradition of Assange to a lifetime imprisonment by the US, journalist Craig Murray in a recently published book, In Defense of Julian Assange, describes the recent procedural irregularities in Julian Assange’s recent extradition proceedings before Judge Vanessa Baraitser. I quote in detail because there is no link:

“I was deeply shaken…by Julian’s condition. I was badly shocked by just how much weight my friend has lost, by the speed his hair has receded, and by the appearance of premature and vastly accelerated ageing….But his physical appearance was not as shocking as his mental deterioration. When asked to give his name and date of birth, he struggled visibly over several seconds to recall both….It was a real struggle for him to articulate the words and focus his trend of thought.

Julian Asssange Drugged?

“Until yesterday I had always been skeptical of those [claiming] his treatment amounted to torture. But…Julian exhibited exactly the symptoms of a torture victim…in terms of disorientation, confusion, and the real struggle to asset free will thorough the fog of learned helplessness….

“To see my friend, the most articulate man, the fastest thinker I have ever known, reduced to that shambling and incoherent wreck, was unbearable….

“The charge against Julian is very specific; conspiring with Chelsea Manning to publish the Iraq War logs, the Afghanistan was logs, and the State Department cables….The purpose of yesterday’s hearing was…to detemine the timetable for the extradition proceedings. …

“James Lewis, QC, stated the government…opposed any delay being given for the defense, and strongly opposed any separate consideration of the question of whether the charge was a political offence excluded by the extradition treaty. Baraister stated categorically that the date…could not be changed.

“What happened next was very instructive. There were five representative of the US government present, seated at desks behind the lawyers in court. The prosecution lawyers immediately went into huddle with the US representatives, then went outside the courtroom with them, to decide how to respond on the dates.

In summary, Murray reports, “Baraitser...capped it all by saying that the Feb. hearing will be held, not at the comparatively open and accessible Westminster Magistrates Court where we were, but at Belmarsh Magistrates Court, the grim high security facility used for preliminary legal processing of terrorists, attached to the maximum security prison where Assange is being held (in 23/7 solitary]. There are only six seats for the public even in the largest court at Belmarsh, and the object is plainly to evade public scrutiny and make sure that Baraitser is not exposed in public again to a genuine account of her proceedings, like this one you are reading.”

Overlooking and deliberately ignoring that, according to Stuart Littlewood writing in the Oct. 26 Morning Star, any “political charge” is strictly prohibited in extradition hearings, the UK court plans to proceed full steam ahead.

Despite the US media having fully exploited Assange’s courageous reporting, now he’s behind the eight ball, the media has turned its back, perfectly willing to comply with the “official story,” and hang him out to dry. Do not ever look to any established media for loyalty, let along feelings of solidarity. 

In Edward Snowden’s word, in a world of total surveillance, “the citizen is no longer partner to government, but subject to government.” In Snowden’s over two-hour- long interview by Joe Rogan, there is more than ample evidence of his mental clarity, ability to detail the most complex of issues, and none of the adolescent, smelly sneaker profile evident in the New Yorker’s recent hit piece, yet another example of the media deliberately vilifying true journalism, and readiness to criminalize dissent.

The book jacket copy for In Defense of Julian Assange makes the case that “It is critical now to build support for Assange and prevent his delivery into the hands of the Trump administration. That is the urgent purpose of this book. A wide range of distinguished contributors…here set out the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, the importance of their work, and the dangers for us all in the persecution they face.”

A truism applying to all true journalists, including Max Blumenthal.

If Democracy is to be upheld, a free, ungagged press is the first requisite. A campaign must be mounted at once, a shaming campaign against all our compliant, complaisant, stenographic media. I have approached Medea Benjamin on this issue, and so far await a response.

Petition US AG Wm. Barr to dismiss charges against the anti-nuclear plowshares activists facing 25 years at:

https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/

PGE’s negligence has killed people, destroyed towns,  an d is the caretaker of the Humboldt Bay nuclear site. It’s time for the state of California to take over at:

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/831/330/126/?z00m=32099755&redirectID=2949189483,

Urge Congress to pass the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Energy Conservation Act at:

http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11837&link_id=2&can_id=655968a96e1bce05c463b2f640bf633c&source=email-its-ban-nukes-call-in-day-in-the-us&email_referrer=email_653529&email_subject=its-ban-nukes-call-in-day-in-the-us,

Help Florida fully restore voting eligibility for citizens returning from incarceration at:

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Climate

Youth climate activists sit in, demanding Green New Deal from Canadian parliament. 27 arrested.

15 Canadian Youth sue government for failing to address climate change.

Offshore wind power said to be able to produce more electricity than world uses.

Foreign

Fed up: People take to street in all continents demanding humanized system.

Amid protestor pressure, Lebanese PM Saad Hariri resigns.

After 1 million flood street, Chile’s government announces serious changes.

President Alberto Fernandez of Argentina meets outgoing conservative Pres. Macri in election shifting Argentina’s economy to the Left.

Honduras opposition unites to oust ruling US-backed drug cartel.

Right rejected in Colombia, and Left leads in Uruguay’s second voting round. 

Resistance

After ballpark event, Chicagoans surround #45 event with booing, sound and fury.

Duke students protest Tzipi Livni speech, aware of her history as former minister accused of war crimes.

Free Press supports Facebook employees’ demands to stop spread of deceptive political ads.

Chicago teachers victorious as they reach deal with Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Government

Former NRCC chair and occasional Trump dissenter 19^th House Republican to pass on re-election.

Trump student loan official resigns, says system is ‘broken,’ calls for cancelling all student debt.

Two leading economists point out Medicare for All would give workers biggest take home pay boost in a generation.

Trump administration walks back proposal to restrict protest as united coalition of grassroots groups stops regulations that would have made people pay for right to protest.

Court blocks North Carolina’s GOP House map in victory over the worst gerrymander in modern history.

Federal judge blocks Alabama’s near-total abortion ban.

Las Vegas Sheriff Lombardo pulls out of 287g program, ending collaboration with ICE deportation factory, and vows he’ll no longer detain people on ICE holds.

Nashville Sheriff ends ICE rent-a-bed agreement.

Twitter CEO says twitter to end paid political advertising. Vamos a ver.

D.C. Court of Appeals requires environmental review for implementation of 5G.

Rep. Ro Khanna calls for PG & E to become publicly owned.

Uighur bill marked up by the House Committee.

Democrats vote to formalize #45 impeachment inquiry, paving way for public hearings.

Former Republican congressman wonders how Congress can read an eight-page impeachment resolution in only two days.