"A modern-day draft, if marketed carefully and cleverly" Courage to Resist

"A modern-day draft, if marketed carefully and cleverly"

Courage to Resist Jeff Paterson<jeff.paterson@couragetoresist.org>

2/21/2019 4:25 PM

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"A modern-day draft, if marketed carefully and cleverly" Don't expand draft registration to women! End it once and for all!  FOIA request uncovers Selective Service messaging for the  commission tasked with recommending fate of mandatory draft registration.  By Edward Hasbrouck “A modern-day draft, if marketed carefully and cleverly, could foster patriotism via the investment of every family in the nation. A greater involvement of the population to include National (nonmilitary) Service could reach every social demographic within the U.S.” The comments above were included in the recommendations from the Selective Service System made to the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service. This report was sent to the NCMNPS in December 2017, but wasn’t made public until this week, in response to my FOIA requests. There’s some, but only minimal, acknowledgement in the Selective Service System report of opposition to conscription. But dissent is conceptualized as “protest” (complaint) rather than as resistance (direct action) — a political, religious, or moral, rather than a practical, impediment to the draft: “Historically, involuntary induction into the Armed Forces has been controversial, has initiated public dissent and protest…. Low registration compliance rates may reflect elements of society that do not have a incentive to serve, or exposure to the value of National or public service. Although many young men fail to register because they are unaware of the requirement (high school dropouts, immigrants, isolated communities), some populations and communities may be averse to service by religious conviction, moral perspective, or social pressures.” ... The NCMNPS will hold two days of public hearings on the future of the Selective Service System, military conscription, and compulsory national “service”, including whether draft registration should be ended, extended to women, or modified in other ways, at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, on Wednesday and Thursday, April 24th and 25th, 2019. ... I’ve been invited to testify at the hearings, and I hope to see some of you there. The Commission needs to hear from those who will resist and from those who will defend and support resisters in court, in the court of public opinion, and in and out of prison. Read Edward Hasbrouck's compete report couragetoresist.org D O N A T E to Support GI Resistance to Endless War & Empire

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End the Wars against YemeEnd the Wars against Yemen and Venezuela! Veterans For Peace n and Venezuela! Veterans For Peace

End the Wars against Yemen and Venezuela!

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2/21/2019 5:24 PM

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Dear VFP Members and Friends, Wow, lot’s going on in the real world and in the world of Trump.  By declaring a National Emergency to get more funding for his racist wall, President Trump continues to set the agenda for the 24 hour news cycle, which is all Trump, all the Time.  This takes much needed attention away from other important developments. End the U.S./Saudi War on Yemen Last week the House of Representatives voted to cut off all funding for U.S. involvement in the brutal genocidal war against the civilian population of Yemen, where tens of thousands of children are literally starving to death as a result of conscious policies being implemented by Saudi Arabia and the United States.  The U.S. Senate passed a similar bill in December, and now must get together with the House to bring their two bills into alignment (a bunch of pro-Israel crap was added to the House bill in order to sweeten the deal).  President Trump has promised to veto that bill if it gets to his desk, which would actually be his first veto as president.  Whether it becomes law or not, the House and the Senate are finally representing the will of the People, who do not want to be party to the starvation of children as a weapon in a war that has no significance whatsoever for real security in the U.S.  I encourage VFP members to write letters to the editor this week calling for an end to the war on the children of Yemen. No War on Venezuela – All Out for February 23! In the meantime, the United States government’s regime change war against Venezuela continues.  Fortunately, there is at least SOME opposition being mounted in the Congress.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, the courageous Somali American congresswoman from Minnesota, grilled war criminal Elliott Abrams, who has been resurrected to lead the dirty war against Venezuela.  Activists in over 50 cities are planning for internationally coordinated local actions calling for No War on Venezuela. These include a growing number of Veterans For Peace chapters. It is critically important that we end the brutal war in Yemen and that we stop the U.S. from completing its attempted coup in Venezuela. Keep on Waging Peace! All out for February 23! Hands Off Venezuela! Gerry Condon P.S. If your chapter is taking action, please email any pictures or reports topress@veteransforpeace.org

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Meeting this mark would send an unmistakable message about the strength of our movement: Bernie Sanders

Meeting this mark would send an unmistakable message about the strength of our movement:

Bernie Sanders<info@berniesanders.com>

2/21/2019 5:48 PM

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Since Tuesday's announcement, I am proud to report that more than 600,000 people have signed up to join our campaign. Thank you for being one of the first.

Let me be very clear: no single person can address the enormous challenges our country faces. That’s something we can only do together, which is why we are putting together an unprecedented grassroots campaign of one million people.

The powerful special interests that dominate our economic and political life may have unlimited amounts of money for campaign contributions and lobbying, but we have something they don't have. We have people power. That is our strength and that is why, together, we will win the Democratic nomination, the general election and begin the process of transforming our country.

Since you’ve already signed on to show your support, I’d like to ask for your help with reaching another goal.

Right now we’re hoping to reach 300,000 donations made to our campaign since Tuesday morning. Meeting that mark would send an unmistakable message about the strength of our campaign and our ability to take on Donald Trump and the billionaire class of this country. That’s why I am asking you directly:

Can I count on you to make a contribution to our campaign today?

This is a pivotal moment for our country and our democracy, and it means a lot to know we are in this fight together.

In solidarity,

Bernie Sanders

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PART 3: Chapel Hill and the “4 for Fair Food” Tour Coalition of Immokalee Workers

PART 3: Chapel Hill and the “4 for Fair Food” Tour

Coalition of Immokalee Workers<workers@ciw-online.org>

2/22/2019 9:04 AM

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PART 3: Chapel Hill and the “4 for Fair Food” Tour UNC Chapel Hill students to university leadership:  “… [H]ousing Wendy’s on our campus rewards the fast-food chain for evading responsibility and prioritizing profits over human rights…” PLUS: Human rights leader Kerry Kennedy to join farmworkers, students at UNC Chapel Hill march and rally! On the afternoon of March 5th, during the very first stop of the 4 for Fair Food Tour, farmworkers and their families will be marching through the gorgeous campus of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, alongside hundreds of students and community leaders. For the past three years, UNC Chapel Hill students have been organizing tirelessly to call on the country’s first public university to live up to its declared mission of “leading change to improve society” by ending its business relationship with Wendy’s and supporting the award-winning Fair Food Program. Today, we will start with a letter penned by students themselves, making a succinct case for why UNC Chapel Hill needs to step up to the plate in the Boot the Braids Campaign. Just last Friday, UNC Chapel Hill’s Student/Farmworker Alliance chapter composed a powerful missive to UNC’s brand-new interim Chancellor, Kevin Guskiewicz. Here is an excerpt: "… The fact remains that housing Wendy’s on our campus rewards the fast-food chain for evading responsibility and prioritizing profits over human rights. Meanwhile, our own University’s reputation is put at risk by Wendy’s reckless decision to turn a blind eye to abuses in its supply chain. Wendy’s has already faced condemnation for purchasing from farms with forced labor and exploitation – and when the next article comes, which it most certainly will, UNC-CH will also be associated with these horrific conditions. The demand for university campuses to cut their contracts with Wendy’s in solidarity with farmworkers – the Boot the Braids Campaign – is an important part of the multi-dimensional national Wendy’s Boycott. Our goal is not to ensure that we alone can feel superficially content with ourselves by eating fairly-sourced tomatoes, like those from Aramark. Rather, it is imperative that UNC-CH take a leadership role in severing its business relationship with Wendy’s until the fast food company joins the Fair Food Program and takes enforceable measures in support of fundamental human rights, dignity, and justice. These kinds of student-led solidarity efforts have been successful before, as was the case with CIW’s seminal Taco Bell Boycott over a decade ago. And earlier this month, news broke that the University of Michigan has already removed Wendy’s from campus. We, the Student/Farmworker Alliance at UNC-CH, are asking you, Mr. Guskiewicz, to use your power to call for the removal of Wendy’s from campus until the corporation signs onto the Fair Food Program. We are also requesting that you make a public statement in response to this letter, communicating your position on the issue by the first of March. As a well-respected public institution, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to create a more just society and change the way major corporations with whom we do business treat those at every level of their supply chains. It is time for UNC-CH to demonstrate that we are standing on the right side of history: Firmly in support of promoting human rights across the country and the world, and standing in solidarity with those who feed the nation: farmworkers." And, we are very excited to announce that students, community members, and farmworkers will not be alone: Human rights leader and stalwart Fair Food supporter, Kerry Kennedy, the President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, will be joining the action in Chapel Hill on March 5th! Ahead of the march and rally, Kerry penned her own thoughtful letter to Chancellor Guskiewicz, urging him to listen to UNC students: "Following in the footsteps of my father and mother, I have marched alongside farmworkers in search of dignity and respect in America’s fields for decades. Almost exactly 16 years ago, I had the honor presenting the 2003 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. In a gala ceremony on Capitol Hill — including a speech by the late Senator Edward Kennedy and a letter of congratulations from former President Jimmy Carter — Lucas Benitez, Julia Gabriel, and Romeo Ramirez of the CIW were recognized for their courageous work fighting modern-day slavery in the agricultural industry and for their leadership of the national Taco Bell boycott. Only a year later, Taco Bell became the first company to sign a Fair Food Agreement, displaying admirable leadership as the first fast food chain to take this step towards ensuring human rights protections in their supply chain. In the following decade and a half, all other fast food chains followed suit. Except for Wendy’s. Today, I write to express my grave concern that the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is continuing to do business with Wendy’s. As you know, there is a thriving national boycott of Wendy’s due to the corporation’s unconscionable refusal to join the Presidential Medal-winning Fair Food Program (FPP). The FFP is a groundbreaking partnership among farmworkers, farmers, and 14 major food retailers, including McDonald’s, Burger King, and Walmart, and in 2014 was heralded as “the best workplace-monitoring program” in the U.S. on the front page of the New York Times. It has been proven to be the most effective human rights initiative to improve farmworkers’ wages and ensure humane working conditions in the fields. In fact, the FFP has brought these transformative changes to your own state of North Carolina. I urge you to take decisive action in support of the Fair Food Program and farmworkers’ human rights more broadly by ending UNC Chapel Hill’s business relationship with Wendy’s." Ready to pick up some art and join the action yourself? Here are the details! When: March 5th, 2:00 PM Where: 101 Weaver St, Carrboro, NC Contact: Alex Schelle, alex@allianceforfairfood.org Read more about UNC Chapel Hill and the Boot the Braids Campaign over at the CIW website! Coalition of Immokalee Workers (239) 657 8311 | workers@ciw-online.org | www.ciw-online.org Connect with us  ‌  ‌  ‌  ‌

The corporate media underestimated us from the start Bernie 2020

The corporate media underestimated us from the start

Bernie 2020<info@berniesanders.com>

2/22/2019 1:37 PM

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Remember this?

It was April 30, 2015 and Bernie ducked out of the Senate to announce he was running for president. He told the reporters he didn’t have all day out here, and then went back to work…

The corporate media underestimated us from the start, but we knew there was something there immediately when we raised more than $1.5 million in our first 24 hours in 2015.

Then crowds started showing up on our first tour. Like this overflow crowd in Minnesota.

Then more than 10,000 showed up in Madison.

No one underestimated us after that.

But the truth is, taking on this guy…

And these guys…

Is our most important challenge yet.

And this guy can’t do it alone.

He needs you with him. So we have to ask:

Can you make a $3 donation to our campaign today? Beating Donald Trump and ushering in a new era of progressive change in America has never been more important. Ours is the campaign that will get it done. But only if we’re in this together.

Our campaign was never about one person – it’s about a movement of Americans coming together and saying they have had ENOUGH of the billionaire class buying elections in this country. It’s time for a government that works for all of us, and not just the 1 percent.

- Team Bernie

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