The dark rigidity of fundamentalist rural America: a view from the inside. Forsetti’s Justice, AlterNet 06 Feb 2018 at 02:20 ET As the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump is still being sorted out over a year later, a common theme keeps cropping up from all sides: “Democrats failed to understand white, working-class, fly-over […]
BAPAC Midyear Conference Flyer 2018
Reprint of an article posted by The Pen <theteam@activist132.peaceteam.net> Another violent, demented NRA fantasy! Leave it to Donald Trump to parrot the most demented proposal out there to try to finally respond, even in some small way, to the epidemic of gun massacres in America. We all know the problem is too many guns. And […]
Nonviolent Action Workshop There is little doubt that those of us who feel strongly about nonviolence and about social justice are vital parts of the resistance to the future that looms for us in the U.S. Personal inner work should be part of our daily regimen. But training for nonviolent direct action is also […]
Courtesy of DailyKos.com, by Erasmussimo, June 25, 20 A goodly number of progressives rejected Hillary Clinton on the grounds that she wasn’t good enough for them. Their most common claim was that she is just as bad as Mr. Trump. I have a few questions for them: Would Hillary Clinton have pulled out of the Paris […]
(1) Write a simple POSTCARD – Address it to: President (for now) Donald J. Trump The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 On YOUR Postcard, make a simple statement about what YOU feel/think/are going to do about the Agenda of Washington. You want him to PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY – No Privatization, or […]
Bruised in heated town halls in Florida, Tennessee, Georgia and elsewhere, the right wing in Congress now realizes it could pay a steep political price for throwing tens of millions of people off their health care, destabilizing our health care system, and putting people at risk of death. “I’m fighting Congress for my life,” Virginian […]
By Michael R. Becker, Fresno, CA 02/13/2017 On Friday January 20th two Fresno area activists and I participated in Disrupt J20, an effort by a coalition of groups–especially in the DC/Baltimore–area to create disorder in Washington DC and thereby remind the world that January 20th was no ordinary day. January 20th marked the ascension of […]
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