We need a powerful movement that will leverage our grassroots power into lasting, structural change. It's the only way forward. Our Revolution Larry Cohen We need a powerful movement that will leverage our grassroots power into lasting, structural change. It's the only way forward. Our Revolution Larry Cohen

We need a powerful movement that will leverage our grassroots power into lasting, structural change. It's the only way forward.

Our Revolution Larry Cohen<info@ourrevolution.com>

7/24/2019 1:58 PM

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Authoritarianism is here in America. It's taken form in an endlessly corrupt president who is willing to use hate speech to distract from his crimes and from the policies designed to enrich the elite and weaken our democracy.

That's why our mission at Our Revolution is so essential.

Donate $27 or whatever you can afford to help us ensure America lives up to our nation’s unfulfilled, founding promise and reflects the will of the people.

Our Revolution has three intertwined goals: organizing and mobilizing around issues, electing candidates that support those issues, and building county and state democratic parties that support those issues as well as fixing voting rights and eliminating party corporate influence.

To achieve all this we must build progressive groups across America strong enough to organize and fight back against those who “seek to use our government as a mere extension of their own affairs,” as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said (he was the Bernie of his time).

We must challenge big money in politics by taking on corporate-backed candidates in both parties — up and down the ballot. And finally, we must take on corporate power inside the Democratic Party.

In just a few short years, we’ve already made a difference.

During the 2016 primary, Bernie was ridiculed for daring to challenge the power of corporate money in politics. Fast forward to 2019, when Democrats took back the House, and the For the People Act was supported unanimously by House Democrats — as their first order of business.

We can’t stop now. The stakes are incredibly high. We’ve got to build on our successes and elevate our Political Revolution to the next phase. And, we need your help.

At Our Revolution, we know that our corrupt system runs far deeper than Donald Trump. That’s why we’re committed to building the kind of mass movement necessary to create lasting, structural change. Rush a donation of whatever you can by clicking here:

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Our Revolution and our allies are winning the policy war of ideas inside the Democratic Party (even though Joe Biden hasn’t got the message yet). Now we need to translate that win into power that makes our government work for the people -- instead of wealthy donors.

During the first six months of 2019, we mobilized a powerful grassroots movement. We helped convince 117 House Democrats to support Medicare for All. We took on the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbies. We organized workers to fight plant closures by General Motors and other massive corporations. We fought to stop the DCCC Blacklist — and other Democratic Party policies designed to favor establishment politicians over progressive challengers. We helped win elections up and down the ballot — from the LA School Board to the Philadelphia City Council.

Chip in here to help us continue to build the Political Revolution necessary to restore democracy in the United States of America:https://go.ourrevolution.com/StopAuthoritarianism

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Debate watch party hosts needed Bernie 2020 7/24/2019 6:39 PM

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7/24/2019 6:39 PM

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Alfred -

There’s less than one week until Bernie takes the stage for the second Democratic debate on Tuesday night!

Debate watch parties are critical for connecting Bernie supporters in your community and helping more people hear our campaign’s message. Hundreds of Bernie supporters have already scheduled their parties at their homes or other venues with TV or internet. But we’re hoping to have even more. That’s why we’re asking you.

Will you host a debate watch party Tuesday evening and make the second debate a huge night for Bernie?

YES, I’LL HOST A DEBATE WATCH PARTY!

Thanks for being a part of this.

In solidarity,

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"A new politics is rising, and it holds out the promise of a new America. This is an exciting time and there is much to be said of the remarkable women who have brought this new politics to Washington DC. But it is important to remember where the next politics first began to be recognized. It was in Seattle, in 2013, with the election of Kshama Sawant to the city council. She ran and won as a proud socialist, and in office she has boldly advanced the cause of economic and social and racial justice. Kshama Sawant has been, and remains, a North Star figure — shining out from Seattle to the whole of the United States." — John Nichols, Journalist and Author Kshama Sawant was first elected to the Seattle City Council in 2013 with over 90,000 votes, running as a proud member of Socialist Alternative back before “Bernie” and “AOC” were household names. Kshama used her 2013 election campaign to advocate strongly for the $15 minimum wage when no prominent elected officials were talking about it despite ongoing fast-food worker strikes. Kshama’s election victory, and the united movement of labor, workers, and socialists made Seattle the first major city to win the $15 minimum wage. The $15 movement in Seattle overcame fierce opposition from the corporate establishment, but after the victory in Seattle, $15 legislation spread like wildfire across the country. Kshama’s 2013 election was also the first big breakthrough for socialists at the ballot box, giving confidence to other left activists that they could defeat corporate power and the political establishment; this was reinforced through Sawant’s re-election in 2015. But to win gains for workers, young people and the oppressed, elections are not enough. Political office must be used by socialists to build movements and increase working-class consciousness to change society, and Kshama Sawant and Socialist Alternative in Seattle have been a shining example of how this can be done. As theorist, activist, and author Noam Chomsky put it: “I am very pleased to endorse Kshama Sawant’s campaign for City Council in Seattle. Her accomplishments and plans are a model for what the country badly needs.”  Please donate today to re-elect Kshama Sawant and defend a seat of struggle for working people.   Countless victories, many previously thought to be impossible, have been won in Seattle over the past five years. Working-class activists have gained confidence, a voice in City Hall, and an invaluable organizing resource with Kshama in office. Landmark renters’ rights laws, the establishment of Indigenous People’s Day, blocking the building of a monumental police bunker – these are only a handful of examples. Right now, Kshama’s re-election campaign is fighting for rent control and taxing big business to fund a major expansion of quality social housing. If we can win universal rent control in Seattle – just like with the $15 movement – this could open the floodgates for struggles and legislation in cities across the country where working people face a deep housing crisis. Big business interests know this too. They have seen how effective our socialist City Council seat has been. That’s why a record-breaking flood of corporate cash has been pouring into the Seattle City Council elections. Corporate PACs have already amassed over $1 million with a #1 priority of “anybody but Kshama Sawant” for Seattle’s District 3 seat. PAC donors include some of the country’s most notorious corporations like Amazon and Comcast, as well as big for-profit developers like Vulcan, which is determined to stop our movement for rent control. Kshama Sawant is not for sale. Our campaign is funded entirely by grassroots donations from working people. We’re proud to have nearly twice as many donors from District 3 as any other campaign. At the same time, we’re proud that people across the country have been inspired by our struggles like 15 Now, the Tax Amazon movement, and our fight for rent control. More and more self-identified socialists are being elected to office and running campaigns across the country. This has sparked debate on the left about a key question: How can socialists effectively use elected office under a capitalist system? Some argue we should lower our socialist profile only run on Democratic Party ballot lines. But Kshama’s victories are an example of the possibilities for popularizing socialist ideas, running independent campaigns, and building movements to win victories. Keeping this seat of struggle for ordinary people in Seattle can be a beacon for the left nationally in the debate about how to win far-reaching victories for the working class, to take bold action on the climate crisis, and to change society. We need to cancel out the recent $80,000 PAC donation from Vulcan by the rapidly approaching primary election on August 6, to stop big business from buying this election. Please donate $15, $50, or $100 today to this trendsetting campaign. Donate today Follow Kshama Sawant's Campaign on Social Media Copyright © 2019 Socialist Alternative, All rights reserved. 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Please come to a forum to hear a Venezuela Update Economic Justice Coordinator John Ratliff 4:21 PM

Please come to a forum to hear a Venezuela Update

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Forum -- Venezuela Update!

Sunday July 28 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
First Parish Church, 3 Church Street, Cambridge

The Trump administration continues its threats on Venezuela! In the last few days, the administration announced that $40 million of international aid previously destined for Honduras and Guatamala would be shifted and given to the U.S. supported, self proclaimed President Guaido to enable Guaido to pay salaries and offer expense reimbursement for his cronies. Guaido has announced his phony Venezuela government was going to re-enter the Inter-American Treaty of Mutual Assistance, a military alliance anchored by the U.S.  There is concern that this move might be an effort to create a vehicle for requesting a  U.S. invasion.

Join Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese discussing current events in Venezuela as well as their experiences in the the Embassy Protection Collective.

They are two of the leaders of the Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective and recently returned from a delegation to Venezuela. They will relate what happened in the DC Embassy and update us on current developments in Venezuela.

Margaret Flowers is a Pediatrician, advocate for single payer health care and justice.  Co-director Popular Resistance, co-host “Clearing the FOG” and former candidate for US Senate.

Kevin Zeese is a Lawyer, advocate & activist organizer with PopularResistance.org, Co-directs ItsOurEconomy.US , Radio Show, ClearingTheFogRadio.org

Building on their experience as members of the collective charged by the Venezuelan governent to protect the country's embassy from the clutches of the U.S. based opposition,  Margaret and Kevin will discuss the next steps for Venizuela Solidarity.

Sponsored by Venezuela Solidarity Committee, Co-sponsored by Mass Peace Action (MAPA), United for Justice with Peace (UJP), Green-Rainbow Party, Smedley Butler Brigade, Veterans for Peace, and Boston Mayday Coalition, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES).

In Solidarity

John Ratliff

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On The 60th Anniversary Defend The Gains Of The Cuban Revolution- *On The Anniversary Of The July 26th Movement-The Legend Of Ernesto “Che” Guevara- The Heroic Guerrilla Face

In Honor of Anniversary Of The July 26^th Movement

From The Pen Of Frank Jackman (2015)

Every leftist, hell, everybody who stands on the democratic principle that each nation has the right to self-determination should cautiously rejoice at the “defrosting” of the long-time diplomatic relations between the American imperial behemoth and the island of Cuba (and the freedom of the remaining Cuban Five in the bargain). Every leftist militant should understand that each non-capitalist like Cuba going back to the establishment of the now defunct Soviet Union has had the right (maybe until we win our socialist future the duty) to make whatever advantageous agreements they can with the capitalist world. That despite whatever disagreements we have with the political regimes ruling those non-capitalist states. That is a question for us to work out not the imperialists.

For those who have defended the Cuban Revolution since its victory in 1959 under whatever political rationale (pro-socialist, right to self-determination, or some other hands off policy) watching on black and white television the rebels entering Havana this day which commemorates the heroic if unsuccessful efforts at Moncada we should affirm our continued defense of the Cuban revolution. Oh yes, and tell the American government to give back Guantanamo while we are at it.   

Click on the title to link to the "Che-Lives" Web site (that also has links to other Che-related material).

DVD Review

This year is the 57th Anniversary of the July 26th Movement, the 51st Anniversary of the Cuban revolution and the 43rd anniversary of the death of Ernesto, “Che”, Guevara. Defend The Cuban Revolution

Che, starring Eduardo Noriega, 2006

On more than one occasion I have mentioned that “Che” Guevara, as icon and legend, despite his left Stalinist politics (at best) and the political gulf that separated him from those who fought, and fight, under the banner of Leon Trotsky and the Fourth International, was, and is, a justifiably appealing revolutionary militant for the world’s youth to consider. A number of films have come out over the years that portray one or another aspect of the “Che” personality. Here the central thrust of the film is the creation of “Che” as a revolutionary cadre in the guerrilla warfare movement that dominated much of the radical political action of the 1960s, in the wake of the success and survival of the Cuban revolution in the face of American Yankee imperialism.

This little film, really a docu-drama since there is an abundance of black and white newsreel film footage to set the story line throughout most of the 1950s, goes, up close and personal, into the transformation of the Argentine free spirit and free- booter. In short, from the pre-“Che” of the “Motorcycle Chronicles” period into a commandant of the Second Front in the Fidel and Raul Castro-led rural insurgence against the hated dictator (except in Miami) Batista.

In that sense it almost does not work. Eduardo Noriega is “Che” in his mannerisms, his good and manly looks, and in his earnestness (no pun intended) to free the Americas of the Yankee beast. However, the film is saved when “Che” gets to show more aspects of his personality when he is being interviewed by an American women reporter in the post-victory period. And also by his determination to end up where he started, as a guerrilla fighter extraordinaire fighting against the world’s injustices. And an enemy's bullet.

That, my friends, today is refreshingly appealing. That said though, as I have repeatedly pointed out on other occasions, Che deserved a better fate that to be caught out in the bush in Bolivia. And here is where the irony (and the political differences) between us comes in. What the hell was he doing in the Bolivian bush, of all places in Bolivia when they was a working class (mainly miners) who had a history of extreme militancy and readiness to do class battles against the state (and have done so since then). “Che”, mainly deserves his status as icon, as a personal exemplar, but a whole generation of militants in Latin America and elsewhere got torn up based on that wrong strategic assumption. That is the real lesson of the film, any worthwhile film on Che.