Saturday, May 25, 2019

DC Venezuelan embassy might be finally safe!



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Rev Jesse Jackson
Rev Jesse Jackson expressing support at the Venezuelan Embassy.
Dear Douglas,
We have huge, exciting news about the Venezuelan Embassy! The governments of Venezuela and Turkey have just agreed to sign aProtecting Power Agreement to sustain the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC under the charge of the Turkish government. But in order for this to happen, the State Department must give its stamp of approval. Add your name now to our petition urging the State Department to approve the Turkish Government to operate as the Protecting Power for the Venezuelan embassy in DC.
We spent 37 days inside the embassy paving the way for an agreement like this and now it looks like it might happen. It is in the United States’ interest to approve this agreement because then the Venezuelan government will approve a similar Protecting Power Agreement for the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela reached between the United States and Switzerland. If both agreements are signed, the US Embassy in Caracas would operate under the Swiss government and the Venezuelan Embassy in DC would operate under the Turkish government. That would mean that critical functions for citizens of both embassies such as renewing visas and issuing passports will remain.
The State Department must accept the Protecting Power Agreement. Add your name to the petition.
It was a long and gruelling process — arrests, physical assaults, having electricity turned off — to protect the embassy, but it looks like our work has paid off. Not only has Venezuela found a government to sign a Protecting Power agreement with them, but it has been over six weeks that Juan Guaidó has not been able to move into the embassy building. Not only has the coup attempt in Venezuela, orchestrated by Trump, Bolton, and Guiado, failed but their concurrent mini-coup attempt at the Venezuelan Embassy in DC failed as well. It’s thanks to all of our hard work that this has been achieved. Now we need one last push: tell the State Department to accept the Protecting Powers agreement!
In celebration of all we have achieved,
Ann, Ariel Carley, Caroline, Jodie, Kelly, Kirsten, Lily, Maya, Mark, Medea, Nancy, Paki, Rose, Ryan, Sarah, Tighe, Ursula, and Zena
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You cannot change a corrupt system by begging those who profit it from it for their money Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders<info@berniesanders.com>
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Our opponents are raising big money at high-dollar fundraisers in the homes of wealthy executives and lobbyists. We don’t do that. Our average donation is $19. So we need your help to close the gap before our next official FEC fundraising deadline comes to a close.

Alfred -
Here is the truth: Big money dominates absolutely everything that goes on in government. In Washington, D.C., you get what you pay for:
The military-industrial complex gets their weapons systems and our children get shipped off to endless wars.
The fossil fuel industry gets to keep pumping and burning oil and the rest of us deal with the consequences of climate change.
The pharmaceutical industry gets to charge whatever they want for life-saving drugs and people are forced to sit at their kitchen tables cutting pills just to survive.
Health care CEOs profit tremendously from a dysfunctional system of care that prioritizes profits over patients while 30 million people lack any health care at all and even more are under-insured.
The gun manufacturers get laws that allow almost anyone to easily buy a firearm without a background check while almost 40,000 people each year are killed with a gun and parents are sending their kids to school with bulletproof backpacks.
Big banks get to make obscene levels of profit with little to no oversight, and millions of Americans lose their homes and life savings because of the greed and recklessness of Wall Street.
The needs and desires of the rich and powerful are almost always well-attended to, and the pain of working families is ignored.
And on and on and on and on it goes.
The truth is, you cannot change a corrupt system that is stacked against the American people if you are begging the people who profit from that system for their money.
Our campaign does things differently than anyone in the history of American politics. This is a campaign funded almost exclusively by the people, young people and working people, giving small amounts of money, mostly responding to emails like this.
But that also means from time to time we have to ask. And today, with our opponents raising huge sums of money at high-dollar fundraising events in people’s homes, I have to ask:
Can you make a contribution before our end of month fundraising deadline as a way of saying you have had ENOUGH of the billionaire class buying elections in this country?
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Today, virtually no piece of legislation can get passed unless it has the okay from corporate America. That is going to change when we are in the White House.
In 2016, we proved that one could run for president without hustling rich people for money. In 2020, we’re going to prove that we can win.
In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders






 
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Student/Farmworker Alliance leaders announce back-to-back #BootTheBraids Truth Tours for summer 2019!

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Building on the momentous campus actions of the CIW’s 4 for Fair Food Tour and last month’s national Day of Action, farmworkers in Immokalee and SFA organizers are hitting the road this summer with the truth about Wendy’s stubborn refusal to open its supply chain to the industry-leading human rights monitoring of the Fair Food Program...
Wonder if the summer Truth Tours are coming soon to a city near you? Check out the full schedule!
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People Over Pentagon RootsAction Team

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U.S. government spending has been moved so heavily to militarism, and away from everything else, that groups and individuals who haven't objected to it before are finally doing so.
A huge coalition is demanding that at least $200 billion be moved out of the Pentagon's budget and into human and environmental needs. We're taking this demand to Congress and to presidential candidates. While we've successfully brought similar demands to city councils and to the U.S. Conference of Mayors, this is a new and bigger opportunity to move it toward reality, with a larger multi-issue coalition advancing this demand.
U.S. military spending across numerous agencies is now at $1.25 trillion per year1, or roughly as much as the rest of the world combined, with much of that rest of the world being U.S. allies and weapons customers.2
Trump's proposed 2020 budget makes militarism 57% of discretionary spending, leaving 43% for everything else.3
Military spending endangers us and generates terrorism.4 Reducing it makes us safer.5
Military spending is immoral6, threatens our environment7, erodes our liberties8, and fuels bigotry9.
Fractions of the $200 billion we are proposing to move could provide free, top-quality education from pre-school through college10, end hunger and starvation on earth11, provide clean drinking water everywhere it’s needed on the planet12, build fast trains between major U.S. cities13, and double non-military U.S. foreign aid.
Defending the immoral funding of the criminal (can you name a recent war that didn't violate the UN Charter?), counterproductive, catastrophic war enterprise as a "jobs program" is obscene, but it's also false. Economists at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have documented that military spending is an economic drain.14

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The fact is that the United States dominates world military spending, pushes allies to spend more, and drives an arms race that it could easily choose to reverse.
Forward this email to everyone you can to help push this movement past a tipping point!
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Footnotes:
1. TomDispatch: Making Sense of the $1.25 Trillion National Security State Budget
2. World BEYOND War: Militarism Mapped
3. National Priorities Project: Trump's FY2020 Budget Request Bloats Militarized Spending—and Slashes Actual Human Needs
4. Consortium News: How the West’s War in Libya Spurred Terrorism in 14 Countries
5. World BEYOND War: War Endangers Us
6. World BEYOND War: War Is Immoral
7. World BEYOND War: War Threatens Our Environment
8. World BEYOND War: War Erodes Our Liberties
9. World BEYOND War: War Promotes Bigotry
10. The Washington Post: Free College: We Can Afford It
11. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: The World Only Needs 30 Billion Dollars a Year to Eradicate the Scourge of Hunger
12. UN Environment Program: Clean Water for a Healthy World
13. The World Bank: Cost of High Speed Rail in China One Third Lower than in Other Countries
14. Political Economy Research Institute: The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending Priorities: 2011 Update

 
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