Friday, July 19, 2019

Can you split a $2.70 contribution between Ilhan Omar’s re-election campaign and our campaign for president? Send a message that we will fight back against Trump’s racism: BernieSanders.com

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To  alfred johnson  
Ilhan Omar was taunted with racist chants at a Trump rally last night. Bernie wants to do all we can to keep her in Congress — you can read his note below.

Split a contribution between our campaigns now to send an unmistakable message against Trump’s racism.

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Alfred -
Last night, I was at dinner with Ilhan Omar, her daughter, and some other members of Congress when we heard the news that thousands of people at a Donald Trump rally were chanting "send her back."
To my surprise, Ilhan was pretty unfazed. Sadly, as she told me, she has been dealing with this kind of hatred and racism for a long time.
And she knows, as we do, that Trump is a demagogue doing what he does best: dividing and conquering through hate.
No. Trump won't talk about trying to throw 32 million Americans off their health care. He won't talk about his massive tax breaks for billionaires. He won't talk about his budget which called for huge cuts to Medicaid and Medicare. And he certainly won't talk about how climate change is destroying the planet.
But he will try to divide the country up based on the color of our skin, our religion, where we were born or our sexual orientation.
Brothers and sisters: Now is the time, more than at any other moment in our lifetimes, to say NO to racism, NO to divisiveness, NO to the hatred that Trump is trying to foment.
Ilhan Omar is a leader with strength and courage. She won’t back down to Trump’s racism and hate, and neither will we. So today, I want to ask you to do something important that will help ensure her voice is with us in Congress for a long time to come:
Can you split a contribution between Ilhan Omar’s re-election campaign and our campaign for president? Send a message that we will fight back against Trump’s racism.
Bernie at dinner with Ilhan Omar
(Ilhan and me at dinner last night shortly after the news came through about the Trump rally)
Ilhan and I have worked together on a number of important issues since she was elected – most recently our effort to cancel all student debt in this country.
She is a critical voice in our fight for justice in America, and I am excited to work with her and other progressives when we are in the White House.
Split a contribution between her campaign and ours today:
Thank you for reading, and for supporting our campaigns.
In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders






The Centennial Of Pete Seeger’s Birthday (1919-2014)- *For The Folkies From Muskogee And Elsewhere- The Bob Feldman Music Blog On "My Space"- In Honor Of Woody Guthrie's 98th Birthday

Click on the headline to link to the Bob Feldman Music Blog( for lack of a better name) entry above on My Space.

Markin comment:

This is great stuff for any music aficionado, especially of folk, social protest, and roots music. I am going to be "stealing" entries off of this site periodically but you should be checking it out yourselves. Kudos, Bob Feldman.

Take 1 minute to complete this LIVE poll: Bernie 2020 10:52 AM To alfred johnson Quick reply allReplyForwardDelete Big news: Bernie will debate on Tuesday, July 30 He will be joined by Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, and Beto O'Rourke. Which issue do you want to see Bernie talk about the most in the debate? These have been the top issues so far. Medicare for All Climate Crisis Money in Politics Income Inequality Foreign Policy Immigration Another Issue

CNN: Add a progressive journalist for Democratic debates RootsAction Education Fund

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CNN is hosting the next Democratic presidential debates on July 30 and 31, but the AT&T Warner-owned network has announced no plans to include a progressive journalist on the panel of questioners. This contrasts with CNN’s Republican debates of 2015-16 in which unabashed conservatives were included to question candidates and thus influence the substance and tenor of the debate.

Click here to tell CNN that this double-standard is unacceptable.

In all four GOP presidential debates last cycle, right-wing Salem Radio host Hugh Hewitt was part of CNN’s panel. His questions strayed far from those asked by mainstream “objective” journalists – for example, pushing candidates on whether they’d “nominate conservative justices” committed to “religious liberty” as “an absolute litmus test.” Or when Hewitt goaded candidates to not “stay neutral” between Israel and Palestinians. Or when he bizarrely pushed a candidate to be as “ruthless as Churchill” in ordering air strikes that would kill “thousands of innocent children and civilians.”

Please urge CNN to quickly add a strong progressive to its debate panel.

An unapologetic progressive journalist would widen the debate by asking questions of Democratic candidates that CNN journalists will likely not ask – questions reflecting the concerns of Democratic voters and activists. Four years ago, CNN’s first GOP debate offered three panelists: CNN anchor Jake Tapper, CNN correspondent Dana Bash, and rightwinger Hewitt. In its March 2016 GOP debate, CNN offered four panelists: two CNN journalists (Tapper and Bash) and two conservatives: Hewitt and Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times.

But for its upcoming Democratic debates this month, CNN is proposing a narrow panel of three of its own journalists: Tapper, Bash, and anchor Don Lemon.

Click here to sign a petition urging CNN to broaden its Democratic debate panel, and end the double-standard by which rightwingers question Republican candidates but leftwingers are not invited to question Democrats.

As the media watch group FAIR recently suggested to CNN: “Any number of progressive media outlets could provide qualified journalists” – including Democracy Now!, The Nation, and The Intercept. Such journalists would be more sober than Hugh Hewitt, and would offer a needed complement to Tapper, Bash and Lemon.

Sign now to let CNN know that broadening the panel of questioners would serve its viewers and democracy.

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we can only make it through if we organize together Our Revolution (Important) As we saw at Donald Trump's hate rally, authoritarianism is here in the United States.

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As we saw at Donald Trump's hate rally, authoritarianism is here in the United States. The big donors and corporations who control our political system will not save us. The only way to stop our country from falling further down the rabbit hole of racism and depravity is to organize.

That's why the political revolution that Bernie has championed is so essential — and why we need to step up right now.

Our movement is a threat to the establishment. Unlike the candidates performing uninspired cover versions of Bernie's 2016 campaign platform, we are doing the actual grassroots organizing work to advance a progressive agenda and transform our country.

Pitch in $27 or whatever you can afford to help on-the-ground activists all over the country fight the rising tide of hatred, while continuing to advance our political revolution.

Despite a years-long propaganda campaign in the corporate media, our movement's ideas — like getting big money out of politics, ensuring that health care is a human right, and debt-free college — are wildly popular among both Democratic voters and persuadable independents.

That's why Our Revolution groups are organizing around the country to continue advancing these ideas — from Oregon to Massachusetts and in states where Bernie’s campaign is not yet on the ground — and working to elect progressive candidates up and down the ballot.

We know that grassroots organizing is the only way to defeat Trump and the corporate class. With hate on the rise, our mission is more critical now than ever. That's why we need your help.

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Interfaith Prayer Vigil: Standing Together on July 28 Steve Kellerman

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From: Janine Carreiro-Young <janine@mcan.us>
Date: Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 8:38 AM
Subject: Interfaith Prayer Vigil: Standing Together on July 28
To: Steve Kellerman < stevekellerman41@gmail.com


 
   
 


Dear Steve,

Join us in ten days for MCAN’s monthly vigil which will be co-hosted by Parish of the Epiphany, Winchester and The Congregational Church of Needham.

INTERFAITH PRAYER VIGIL
Sunday, July 28, 2019
2:00 - 3:00 pm

ICE Detention Center - South Bay Correctional Facility
20 Bradston Street, Boston, MA 02118

If you are with a faith institution or organization that is interested in supporting the next vigil in August, please sign up here.

We would also like to share a rich opportunity at the end of next month to literally put faith into action during the Solidarity Pilgrimage for Immigrant Justice organized by our affiliate on the North Shore, Essex County Community Organization
 

In partnership, 
Janine

Janine Carreiro-Young, Co-Director
MCAN
 
 
 
 
 
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