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Reggie Jackson: Why some people believe that erasing our history should make sense to me

Reggie Jackson: Why some people believe that erasing our history should make sense to me

Posted by | Oct 22, 2021

“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time. Everyone in this room is in one way or another aware of that. We are in a revolutionary situation, no matter how unpopular that word has become in this country. The society in which we live is desperately menaced, not by Khrushchev, but from within. To any citizen of this country who figures himself as responsible – and particularly those of you who deal with the minds and hearts of young people – must be prepared to “go for broke.” Or to put it another way,...

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Tent Cities: Zillow study shows how Wall Street is causing homelessness while profiting from the harm

Tent Cities: Zillow study shows how Wall Street is causing homelessness while profiting from the harm

Posted by | Oct 21, 2021 |

It seems that everywhere you look in America you see the tragedy of homelessness. Rarely, though, do we hear that Wall Street is helping cause it. Thirty-two percent seems to be the magic threshold, according to new research funded by the real estate listing company Zillow. When neighborhoods hit rent rates in excess of 32 percent of neighborhood income, homelessness explodes. And we are seeing it play out right in front of us in cities across America because a handful of Wall Street billionaires want to make a killing. Housing prices have gone out of control since my dad...

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Republicans are trying to regain control of the government by making sure their opponents can’t vote

Republicans are trying to regain control of the government by making sure their opponents can’t vote

Posted by | Oct 20, 2021 |

Republicans are determined not to let Democrats level the electoral playing field. While Democrats in the House, where legislation can pass with a simple majority vote, have passed voting rights laws, Democrats in the Senate have to deal with the filibuster, which enables senators in the minority to block legislation unless the Democrats can muster 60 votes. Republicans are dead set against voting rights laws. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has called voting reform “a solution in search of a problem,” driven by “coordinated lies about commonsense election laws that various states have passed.” Are the 33 election...

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Black Flag: Trump’s agenda remains an open declaration of war on democracy itself

Black Flag: Trump’s agenda remains an open declaration of war on democracy itself

Posted by | Oct 20, 2021 |

Trump’s agenda is to destroy democracy in America, and the GOP and their billionaire donors are going along with it while much of the media are treating it like politics as usual. It is a two-part plan that involves both corrupting our election processes and fomenting a violent “rebellion” by White Supremacists to shatter our society. Part one is to end free and fair elections in America. The latest bombshell has become the most under-reported and misunderstood story of the week, when Donald Trump threatened the Republican Party. On October 13 I got a fundraising email, he averages around 5...

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Myth of a stolen election: Republicans continue to force a 2020 recount in Wisconsin despite no evidence

Myth of a stolen election: Republicans continue to force a 2020 recount in Wisconsin despite no evidence

Posted by | Oct 13, 2021 |

Republicans in several states are advancing partisan reviews of the 2020 election results, underscoring how deeply the GOP has embraced the myth of a stolen election since 2020. The investigations in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Texas are advancing even after an extensive similar effort in Arizona, championed by Donald Trump and allies, failed to produce evidence of fraud. All three inquiries come as Trump has called out top Republicans in each state and pressured them to review the 2020 race. He is also backing several candidates who have embraced the myth in their races for statewide offices in which they...

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Statewide strike demands Congress ratify path to citizenship for immigrant essential workers

Statewide strike demands Congress ratify path to citizenship for immigrant essential workers

Posted by | Oct 12, 2021 |

Essential workers in Wisconsin held a statewide “Day Without Latinxs and Immigrants” strike on October 11, Indigenous People’s Day. Thousands of supporters marched, sometimes during periods of heavy rain, from Milwaukee’s Latinx-majority southside to the federal courthouse downtown for a closing rally. Others in the growing Latinx and immigrant workforce participated by refusing to work, go to school, or make any purchases the entire day. About 85% of the milk produced in the state of Wisconsin, America’s Dairyland, is harvested by immigrants. The strike initiated a wave of actions in other states, including Washington state, Illinois, and Florida this...

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