COMING EVENTS + ONLINE OPPORTUNITIES on MANY ISSUES
See the attached document for many events and opportunities. Live links can connect you with more information. BLOG CALENDAR — Mid-April 2021 and beyond
See the attached document for many events and opportunities. Live links can connect you with more information. BLOG CALENDAR — Mid-April 2021 and beyond
It’s Time to Demilitarize Our Democracy. The national security state has come to dominate our ostensibly “civilian” government. See this February 1, 2021, article by Mandy Smithberger and William D. Hartung https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/military-pentagon-democracy/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%2002.01.2021&utm_term=daily It was also posted here on January 29, 2021: Demilitarizing Our Democracy: How the National Security State Has Come to Dominate a “Civilian” Government https://www.juancole.com/2021/01/demilitarizing-democracy-government.html
Please share this powerful resource with your friends, family members, e-mail lists, etc. Time is short! We must immediately demand Congress and others take strong actions now! Basic Information: Like other presidents, Trump took this Oath of Office in January 2017: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Many, many times throughout the past four years, Trump has violated it. The worst violations occurred a few days ago when […]
This information and petition came out on Tues. Jan. 5, 2021: Donald Trump was just caught on tape trying to overturn the result of the 2020 election. We cannot let him get away with it. On Saturday Trump called Georgia’s Secretary of State and, according to an audio recording of the call obtained by the Washington Post, Trump asked him to find enough votes to overturn Biden’s win and hand Georgia to Trump.1 “I just want to find 11,780 votes,” Trump demanded. Congress cannot let Trump get away with this brazen attempt to destroy our democracy. Sign the petition: Tell […]
I signed a petition saying Trump has broken the law. He must be investigated and charged. Please consider signing. See the link after this informative paragraph: Donald Trump was caught on tape trying to rig a presidential election. In the audio, published by The Washington Post, Trump repeatedly pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to declare that Trump had won more votes in the state than Biden. And he urged Georgia officials to ‘find’ enough votes (11,780) to overturn the outcome. Not only is this a blatant and disgusting attack on American democracy, this is ILLEGAL! Enacted and established […]
When Trump goes to his properties (Mar a Lago, etc.) to play golf, the taxpayers pay to fly Air Force One, and the taxpayers PAY TRUMP to house and feed his huge entourage of Secret Service officers, presidential staffers, etc., to stay in his overpriced hotels and eat overpriced meals there. Trump rips off the taxpayers VERY OFTEN for this purpose. The Constitution prohibits this: The “emoluments” clause EXPLICITLY PROHIBITS using presidential power for personal enrichment, but the House Democrats REFUSED to impeach Trump for this blatantly unconstitutional crime. Washington Post confirms that Trump has charged the US a […]
Trump has been provoking his cult members to VIOLENTLY PREVENT A PEACEFUL TRANSITION to President Biden — and to VIOLENTLY REPLACE THE CONSTITUTION WITH MOB RULE by Trump’s domestic terrorists. A violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol this afternoon in a desperate attempt to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. Gunshots have been fired, law enforcement have found at least one explosive device and the National Guard is being deployed right now. The situation on the ground is chaotic and deadly serious. This is a predictable consequence of Donald Trump’s ongoing attempt […]
Big business corrupts BOTH political parties! Big business donated a lot to Trump’s inaugural events and seems ready to donate to Biden’s too. WE MUST STOP THAT CORRUPTION! I encourage you to promptly SIGN THIS PETITION urging Biden’s Inaugural Committee to REJECT corporate donations: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-urge-the-biden-presidential-inaugural-committee-to-reject-corporate-donations?source=20201216NoCorpInaugDon_PA&referrer=group-progress-america&redirect=https://secure.actblue.com/donate/corporations&link_id=0&refcodeEmailReferrer=email_1030961&can_id=1d662460c0abb8939c5044c82927552b&email_referrer=email_1030961&email_subject=sign-now-no-corporate-contributions-for-a-virtual-inauguration
The January 2021 interview on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” TV program will help YOU make progress on the issues YOU care about. Many of our nation’s problems had existed for a very long time. These include racial injustice, economic inequality, environmental problems, a foreign policy that is both cruel and violent, and some dysfunctional aspects of our electoral systems. From 2017 through 2020, Trump made these and other problems even worse. Really, this goes beyond partisanship. Many of our nation’s problems are long-standing and bi-partisan. The American people have values that are better, wiser, more compassionate, and more progressive than either of […]
We need to keep protesting against the cruelty, corruption, injustice and violence that continually assault us. But if we spend most of our time and efforts fighting the bad stuff, the oppressors will continue to have the upper hand because they can keep throwing bad stuff at us and we will always be on the defensive. We need to spend most of our time and efforts taking the initiative to organize for the positive goals that we want instead. We need to be proactive, envision the future we want instead of the current mess, and organize to achieve the positive […]
Weeks after Trump lost, Trump continued to defy reality and claim that he had actually won. Weeks after the election results only about 10% of Republican House members admitted that Biden had won. Many of Trump’s hard-care supporters were still believing him. Some were mobilizing as gangs of armed thugs, threatening domestic terrorism, committing acts of violence, etc. Trump continued provoking them, and huge right-wing media entities were supporting Trump’s coup against electoral truth and the U.S. Constitution. Decades ago Fox News was created to be the propaganda outlet for the Republican Party, but now even Fox News is not […]
We keep seeing various articles documenting various ways in which Trump is cruel, corrupt, incompetent, etc. Recently two reputable national magazines focused entire issues on compiling such articles. They are powerful resources. I recommend them highly. The July-August 2020 issue of Mother Jones focused especially on Trump’s extreme mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic. The front cover says: “PLAGUED: Grift, Greed, Gaslighting: A Special Report on Trump’s COVID Corruption.” Read it here: https://www.motherjones.com/mag/2020/07/toc/ The October-November 2020 issue of The Progressive contains many articles on a wide variety of Trump’s terrible public policies and other actions. It documents his cruelty, corruption, and […]
“How to Deal With the U.S.’s Current Crises” October 2020 Our nation is suffering from several extremely serious problems all at once. The crises are deeply rooted and actually go beyond individual elected officials and political parties. Problems include the COVID-19 pandemic, economic injustices, homelessness, excessive military spending, racial injustices, the criminal justice system, unfairness to immigration, right-wing extremism, the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, and Trumpism. Instead of merely lamenting “ain’t-it-awful,” three guests (Jean Gant Delastrada, Liz Moore, and Glen Gersmehl) provide smart insights into those problems and lift up some positive values that can help us solve them. We […]
The non-profit organization Demos (www.demos.org) works to strengthen democracy. They created a list of ways Biden and Harris can protect voting rights. They list the ways and explain them in the .pdf at this link: https://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/Executive%20Action%20to%20Advance%20Democracy.pdf
Two days ago I posted a list of some things that a variety of good organizations and smart individuals are urging Biden to do as soon as he takes office. Here is that blog post: http://parallaxperspectives.org/good-organizations-urge-biden-to-take-these-good-actions-promptly More organizations are urging additional actions, so I am listing some of them here: Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (www.au.org) wrote: The Biden-Harris administration has the opportunity and the moral obligation to right the wrongs of the Trump administration and build a better future – one that values religious freedom and equality for all. That’s why AU has announced a […]
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