FromMissouri
FromMissouri's JournalThe Struggle to Advocate for Palestinians Has Never Been Easy
By James Zogby
November 16, 2018
Foes of Palestinian human rights have also fallen on a new and more ominous strategy to delegitimize and silence pro-Palestinian voices. The efforts to pass legislation like the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act and the Israel Anti-Boycott Act serve one purpose – that is, to silence critics of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians by criminalizing criticism of Israel.
Both efforts are unconstitutional. The purpose, however, is not to pass good laws. It is to show the power of some pro-Israel organizations to force Congress to jump through a clearly unconstitutional hoop and to intimidate into silence those organizations or individuals who dare to challenge Israel’s behavior toward Palestinians. These proposed bills are nothing more than “old wine in new bottles.”
The good news is that these efforts will fail.
https://www.mediamonitors.net/the-struggle-to-advocate-for-palestinians-has-never-been-easy/
Bernie
You guys are just so over the top anti-Bernie. Back in Missouri, I knew a lot of racists. Hell, I'm not sure you could grow up in Missouri without being racist. But we were educated. We learned. And I left, but it was still there. I moved into inexpensive housing in the inner city Washington DC, and the cheapest rent I could find was with a black guy. I am absolutely certain that before we shook on the tenancy, I hesitated and took his race into consideration. And if you claim he didn't take my race into consideration, you're unable to understand. We were together five or six years, through a move to another place, and we never had a disagreement, we marveled about how well we got along.
I kept in touch with the guys back home I grew up with, back when Missouri was a blue state [I was born in a town whose newspaper was named, "The Daily Democrat-News"] it was the primaries that were most important. After the primary, everybody worked for the candidate. So that's what I grew up understanding. So I'm kind of knocked back by Bernie opposition.
He conceded and the election is over. But he has a huge following and all of his followers must be absorbed into the Democratic party, because, consider the alternative. They are the future of our party, and we must bring them in. And damn it, Bernie is saying the things they, and I, want to hear. He articulates what should be mainstream Democratic positions, and he draws the crowds and does as well as you could expect with his endorsements, and, dammit, he is not irrelevant, and he is not the enemy.
Don't get me wrong, if he runs for president again, I will bring out my swords. <-- Metaphor, it's a metaphor!!]
--but come on, don't trash him. He has progressive ideas and a national following. He is important if only for that.
We lost MO for the Civil Rights Act. LBJ was right.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism
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Matt Taibbe Rolling Stone Bernie interview
Sanders warned against complacency and insisted it would be a “very, very serious mistake” if Democrats did not at least try to pass progressive legislation, so as to call Trump’s populist bluff. Failure to do so, he implied, would mean ceding vital territory to Trump, a man with “no core beliefs.”
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"I think the Washington Post is going to be very surprised at who shows up on the first day of Congress and gets sworn in, because that is going to be the most progressive freshman class in the modern history of the United States. Many of these folks are not just women, not just people of color, who campaigned on Medicare-for-all, raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks, campaigned on making public colleges and universities tuition-free, of undoing Trump’s tax breaks for billionaires. The political establishment notwithstanding, the future belongs to progressives."
"[W]hat the Democrats have got to do. They’ve got to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour, they’ve got to make public colleges tuition-free and they’ve got to lower student debt. All of these proposals are enormously popular. And they’re good public policy."
"I believe it’s terribly important that the Democrats come out of the gate full-steam ahead and start passing really good legislation that puts Trump and the Republicans on the defensive."
my two cents:
The voters have a hard time seeing the difference between the parties, through all the mud and lies. Young people especially challenge us to explain the difference between the parties. They voted for Democrats and turned out in large numbers because we are the only alternative. But if we don't deliver progressive policies, they'll just say, See? No difference.
Both parties are beholden to the plutocrats due to the cost of running for office. Let's try progressive change now.
whoops, forgot the link:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/taibbi-bernie-sanders-interview-753484/
Trump: US troops should treat rocks as 'rifles'
Source: AP via Yahoo
"told the U.S. military mobilizing at the Southwest border that if migrants try to throw rocks at them, the troops should act as though the rocks are "rifles."
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/latest-trump-claims-dems-let-homicidal-immigrant-125144392--politics.html?.tsrc=jtc_news_index
He is deranged. He must be removed from office and committed to an institution that can give him the mental health care he sodesperately needs.
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