2/9 African Heritage Influence and Resistance in the Diaspora/Herencia Africana su influencia y resistencia en la Diáspora

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2/7/2019 10:29 PM

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While the influence and resistance of African heritage is commemorated
and celebrated in the world, here in euna (united states of north
america) they are recognized in the month of  February as " Black
History Month". encuetro5 continues to honor and celebrate all peoples
of African descent, their friends and comrades!//mientras que la
influencia y resistencia de la herencia africana se conmemora y celebra
en el mundo, aquí en euna (estados unidos de norte américa) se reconocen
en el mes de febrero como el "Mes de la Historia Negra". encuentro5
continúa honrando y celebrando a todos los pueblos de ascendencia
africana, sus amistades y camaradas./

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Join encuentro5 community and friends to commemorate and celebrate
African Heritage Influence and Resistance in the Diaspora in the usna
(united states of north america) *On Saturday, February 9, 2019 7pm* –
*11pm * *9A Hamilton Pl. across from Park St. T station (Green/Red
lines) and next to Orpheum Theater.*/Únete a la comunidad del encuentro5
y amistades para conmemorar y celebrar la herencia Africana, su
influencia y resistencia en**la diáspora en euna (estados unidos de
norte américa) * sábado 9 de febrero del 2019 */*/7pm – 11pm /** 9A
Hamilton Place **a cruzar de estación de tren Park St. (líneas
verde/roja) y alado del teatro Orpheum.*

We will honor our African ancestors by sharing history including
fragments not widely known or spoken about, such as the
*Afr**o**Indigenous* Peoples. The Indigenous Peoples of the Americas had
themselves been enslaved before Africans were kidnapped, transported to
this part of the world and enslaved.And, while both formed and
maintained close collaborative relationships not much is known about
them. Pieces of history like these are not mentioned or included in usna
school textbooks. Join us on this journey as we learn more about the
African heritage influence on usna culture.  Help make this a memorable
evening, share Afrocentric instruments, music, song, dance, poetry,
food, stories, etc.

/Honraremos a //nuestros// an//cestros// africanos compartiendo
historia//incluyendo //fragmentos////que no se conocen o hablan
ampliamente, como los pueblos *afroindigenas*. Los mismos pueblos
indígenas de las Américas habían sido esclavizados antes de que los
africanos fueran secuestrados, transportados a esta parte del mundo y
esclavizados. y, mientras ambos formaban y mantenían relaciones íntimas
y colaborativas, no se sabe mucho sobre ellos. Piezas de //la
historia//como estas no se mencionan ni se incluyen en los libros de
texto en las escuelas de euna (estados unidos de norte america). Únase a
nosotros en este viaje para aprender más sobre la influencia de la
herencia africano en la cultura euna. Ayuda hacer esta noche memorable,
comparte instrumentos, música, canción, baile, poesía, comida e
historias afrocéntricas//, etc//./

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/*For more información/para más información (617) 922-5744*/


*PLEASE CONTACT ME DIRECTLY IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM*

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Fight for a Green New Deal in Seattle Socialist Alternative

Fight for a Green New Deal in Seattle

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2/7/2019 10:32 PM

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Al, Billionaire in Chief Donald Trump’s 2019 State of the Union address was, unsurprisingly, filled with lies, distortions, and fear mongering. But also notable were the glaring omissions, including any plan to address our growing climate crisis. As Bernie Sanders said in his State of the Union response: “How can a president of the United States give a State of the Union speech and not mention climate change when the leading scientists of the world tell us that climate change is real, is caused by human activity, and is already causing devastating harm in the United States and in much of the world? Further, they tell us that we have a very short 12 years in order to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel and into energy efficiency and sustainable energy if we are going to have a planet that is healthy and habitable for our kids and grandchildren.” The last five years have been the warmest on record. We’re seeing an alarming regularity of extreme weather events, from wildfires across Washington State and in California, to a new normal of  “once-in-a-lifetime” storms super-charged by global warming, to the recent polar vortex. With a climate change denier in the White House who has filled his cabinet with fossil fuel interests, we need immediate action to address the climate crisis. The idea of a Green New Deal, which has been called for by environmental activists and strongly supported by democratic socialists Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, is a crucial step in the right direction. Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi struck down calls for a select committee on climate change to propose a Green New Deal, replacing it with a toothless committee, and the Democratic Party leadership backed down from an effort to bar candidates who accept fossil fuel contributions. It will take building powerful movements to win a Green New Deal in Seattle and nationwide. Here in Seattle, we need to lead on the environment and clean energy. We should create our own aggressive targets to make Seattle 100% renewable by 2030. Traffic gridlock in Seattle is the 9th worst of any city in the country —we need to develop a world-class, fully-electric mass transit system, free at point of use, to provide a viable alternative to reliance on car-based transit. This must be financed by taxing the rich, not with regressive tolls on city streets or in the new tunnel. We need a major green public works program which can create thousands of family wage union jobs for Seattle workers through a major expansion of clean energy, free energy conservation retrofitting in homes and apartments, and repair of broken and increasingly unsafe public infrastructure. Let’s fully electrify our working waterfront, for port worker safety and a sustainable environment.   Can you donate $15, $50, or $100 to re-elect Councilmember Kshama Sawant and build the fight for a Green New Deal? Just today, 45,000 students walked out of classes in Belgium to protest climate change, and students across the world, including in the U.S., are building for a major climate strike on March 15. We need elected officials who aren’t bought off by Big Oil, and who use their positions to stand with movements fighting the fossil fuel industry, like Kshama did during the successful struggles to block access of a Shell oil rig to the Seattle Port and to divest Seattle from Dakota Access Pipeline-investor Wells Fargo. We need a new party for working people that will fight to stop climate change. We need to take the big energy corporations into democratic public ownership and re-tool them for clean energy and mass transit. The fossil-fuel reliant capitalist system has failed to address the urgent climate crisis – we need a democratic socialist green economy that bases itself on the needs of people and the planet.   Donate Today Follow Team Kshama on social media: Copyright © 2019 Socialist Alternative, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up for updates from Socialist Alternative. Our mailing address is: Socialist Alternative 639 Union Street Basement Brooklyn, NY 11215 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Tell Congress to Save This Treaty and Put Human Survival Ahead of Nuclear Missile Profits! GRAPHIC: Sign here button Share this action on Facebook Share this action on Twitter Please donate 3 dollars President Trump has declared his intention to withdraw the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), a key nuclear disarmament pact with Russia signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 and approved by the U.S. Senate.

This Treaty Is Worth Keeping

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2/8/2019 9:32 AM

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Tell Congress to Save This Treaty and Put Human Survival Ahead of Nuclear Missile Profits!  Share this action on Facebook  Share this action on Twitter President Trump has declared his intention to withdraw the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), a key nuclear disarmament pact with Russia signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 and approved by the U.S. Senate.  Now is the time for Congress to take action to keep the United States in the treaty. And either house of Congress alone has the power to refuse to fund any weapons prohibited by the treaty. Click here to email your Representative and your two Senators. Nine Senators have just introduced the Prevention of Arms Race Act of 2019 to block any funding for weapons that violate the INF Treaty. Now members of Congress need to hear from us again and again until this bill is made law. Make no mistake, there are those who see more nuclear weapons in the world as wonderful news. Militarists are already talking up the supposed need for more weapons aimed at China as well as Russia. Click here to get all of Congress listening. Congressman Ro Khanna has tweeted: "I am alarmed that President Trump is withdrawing from the INF treaty with Russia. This action plunges us back into a nuclear arms race and endangers our troops, allies, & the world, while wasting taxpayer dollars to prepare for a nuclear war that must never be fought." The INF prohibits the United States and Russia from deploying both nuclear and conventional missiles with ranges between 310 and 3,420 miles. These are among the weapons most likely to lead to miscalculation or misadventure in a crisis. Following ratification of the INF, the United States destroyed almost 1,000 missiles, and the Soviet Union almost 2,000. "But," writes Jon Schwarz at The Intercept, "arms control treaties are never about weapons and numbers alone. They can help enemy nations create virtuous circles, both between them and within themselves. Verification requires constant communication and the establishment of trust; it creates constituencies for peace inside governments and in the general public; this reduces on both sides the power of the paranoid, reactionary wing that exists in every country; this creates space for further progress; and so on." Conversely, withdrawal from arms control treaties can feed vicious cycles of distrust, animosity, and militarization. Click here to stop this disaster in its tracks. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which now shows the Doomsday Clock at two minutes to midnight, points out: "The INF withdrawal is part of a pattern. It is not the first nuclear treaty the U.S. has terminated; at the end of 2001 the United States walked out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty it had signed with the Soviet Union in 1972." Both the United States and Russia currently accuse each other of violating the INF Treaty. Wherever the truth lies, the solution is not to pull out of the treaty, but to redouble diplomatic efforts to resolve the allegations. The United States and Russia control more than 90 percent of the world’s nearly 15,000 nuclear weapons. It is unlikely that any of the other nuclear-armed powers will be willing to engage in negotiations to control or eliminate these extraordinarily dangerous armaments if the United States abandons arms control. A ratified treaty is a part of the “supreme law of the land,” former Senator Russell Feingold has noted — “which should logically mean that it could only be undone by Congress and the President, or at least by a vote of the Senate.” Tell the first branch of government in the U.S. Constitution to step up and do its job. After signing the petition, please use the tools on the next webpage to share it with your friends. This work is only possible with your financial support. Please chip in $3 now.  -- The RootsAction.org Team P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Frances Fox Piven, Lila Garrett, Phil Donahue, Sonali Kolhatkar, and many others. Background: >> Statement from the President Regarding the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty >> Prevention of Arms Race Act of 2019 >> David Cortright, The Nation: “The Peace Movement Won the INF Treaty. We Must Fight to Preserve It.” >> Russell Feingold, NBCnews.com: “Donald Trump can unilaterally withdraw from treaties because Congress abdicated responsibility” >> Zia Mian, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: “The INF Treaty and the crises of arms control” >> Jon Schwarz, The Intercept: “What Trump and John Bolton Don’t Understand About Nuclear War” >> Ira Helfand, CNN.com: “Sheer Luck Has Helped Us Avoid Nuclear War So Far – Now We Need to Take Action” www.RootsAction.org Unsubscribe

TEDMED video featuring CIW’s Gerardo Reyes Chavez and Greg Asbed goes live! Coalition of Immokalee Workers

TEDMED video featuring CIW’s Gerardo Reyes Chavez and Greg Asbed goes live!

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2/8/2019 12:08 PM

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TEDMED video featuring CIW’s Gerardo Reyes Chavez and Greg Asbed goes live! CIW at TEDMED 2018:  “…a new theory of change was born: Rather than fight with farmers over a shrinking slice of the pie, we were going to have to make common cause with consumers to demand an entirely new kind of food – Fair Food…” Just a few short months ago, CIW’s Gerardo Reyes and Greg Asbed sat together on the TEDMED stage and delivered a wide-ranging, 18-minute talk on a movement and a model “with the potential to spark a 21st century human rights revolution.” Since then, TEDMED has been releasing full videos of each talk one by one – and today, we are excited to share that the video of CIW just went live! The video is one of many excellent presentations at last fall’s annual TEDMED conference. CIW’s talk was part of a three-day program of 36 speakers. To refresh, TEDMED is a subset of the widely-recognized world of TED Talks: … the independent health and medicine edition of the world-famous TED conference, dedicated to ‘ideas worth spreading.’ TED Talks have been viewed online over two billion times around the world… Created by TED’s founder, TEDMED convenes and curates extraordinary people and ideas from all disciplines both inside and outside of medicine in pursuit of unexpected connections that accelerate innovation in health and medicine. Their presentation covered the generational poverty and abuse of this country’s farmworkers; the 25-year history of the CIW’s efforts to address that exploitation from its base in Immokalee, Florida; the proven success of the Fair Food Program in ending decades of human rights abuse for tens of thousands of workers in seven states along the East Coast; and the tremendous potential of the broader Worker-driven Social Responsibility model to spread that success to tens of millions of workers toiling today at the bottom of corporate supply chains around the world.  Along with the video, on the TEDMED website, you can find a follow-up interview with CIW to accompany the video! Here are just a few highlights, and you can read the full interview at the TEDMED website. …TM: The FFP model has successfully interrupted deep-rooted patterns of violence and modern-day slavery in the agricultural industry. What do you think makes the program so effective? G&G: The Program’s success is due to two key elements: 1) the participation of workers, from start to finish, in the standards-setting, monitoring, and enforcement process and, 2) its ability to harness the purchasing power of the billion dollar brands as both carrot and stick to encourage growers to participate and to enforce Program’s standards when they are violated. Workers not only know exactly how, when and where abuses take place in the fields, they also happen to be there when the vast majority of abuses take place. That makes them ideally suited to both set the standards for the Program and to be the front-line monitors of their own rights. But no matter how strong a set of standards may be, or even how well monitored, if the power to enforce those standards is missing, then it is all for naught. The purchasing power of the multi-billion dollar brands at the top of the food industry — companies like Whole Foods and McDonald’s — is the power that drives compliance in the Fair Food Program. And the incentive their purchases represent to the growers in the Program is so great that it not only fixes violations when they occur, it brings about the gold standard of enforcement — prevention — making a world without victims, the best possible outcome, possible... Enjoy the video, and please share far and wide with all of your networks! Watch and share CIW's TEDMED video! Coalition of Immokalee Workers (239) 657 8311 | workers@ciw-online.org | www.ciw-online.org Connect with us  ‌  ‌  ‌  ‌

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