Grassroots activists ride in the trunk

Grassroots Democrat activists can supply energy and credibility to their party, but they ride in the trunk, not in the front seat. There are no transmission belts between their policy wishes and what elected Democrats actually do. Elected Democrats take their orders from wealthy funders, not their party’s leftish activists. This is one of the things that the Green Party gets right.

https://blackagendareport.com/what-would-authentic-21st-century-us-left-look

War on the Poor

Remember this when a capitalist like Andrew Yang proposes an austerity-level "universal basic income" in order to "encourage people to work."

When millionaires start telling poor people they need to get back to work, consider the source.

https://blackagendareport.com/can-wretched-rule-socialism-state-and-future-humanity

I Am Against Capitalism

Sedinam 2020 on Facebook

Don't Fall for the Bullshit

Don’t fall for the bullshit. The Trump administration’s blocked citizenship question on the census is unavoidably racist. If ICE and the rest of the immigration and detention apparatus really targeted every visa overstay in this country, you’d see a shitload of white Europeans getting deported every day.

The fact that you don’t should tell you what’s actually going on.

Andrew Yang's UBI Proposal

At the debate, Andrew Yang talked up his UBI proposal with a value added tax as a way to pay for it. What he tried to avoid is the hard truth of WHY libertarians like Yang actually want it: it’ll lower his tax bill by eviscerating the existing, already inadequate social safety net.

Sales taxes like VAT disproportionately burden working class and poorer people because they don’t have the disposable income that capitalists like Yang have. Eliminate the tax burden of funding existing public assistance, unemployment, and other components of the social safety net and millionaire capitalists like Yang are due for a nice, fat tax break.

Yang likes to present himself as a “Valley entrepreneur,” but he’s actually a venture capitalist, and like all capitalists he seeks to have his investment income taxed as cap gains, and not income - because it means he’ll pay far, far less as a percentage of income, than the majority of people earning taxed wages.

Yang’s UBI is not progressive. It’s a tax cut for the already wealthy capitalist class, pure and simple.

If only...

There is, actually: compostable plastics from corn. https://bonniebio.us/

It's clear...

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2019/06/27/summer-camp/

5:27

5 minutes and 27 seconds. That’s how much was spent on climate during the 2016 presidential debates.

Last night's Democratic Debate was not much of an improvement. The climate is not a "single-issue" topic — and it should be at the forefront of the conversation. bit.ly/2IukWxY

[embed width="500"]https://www.facebook.com/greenpeaceusa/posts/10157662243424684?sfnsw=cl[/embed]

When they say...

When they say, "that's not how things work in the real world," we say, "not yet."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L67glQCZfY

Corporations Are Killing Our Planet

Corporations are killing our planet.

Greenpeace:

I urge you to collaborate and work with Greenpeace to phase out single-use plastic packaging and invest in alternatives to ensure that plastic from your company's products are never found in our oceans, waterways, or coasts ever again.

https://engage.us.greenpeace.org/onlineactions/gShqMDRqnEKzVTuFzHNMIQ2

[caption id="attachment_4825" align="alignnone" width="1199"] A Greenpeace diver holds a banner reading "Coca-Cola is this yours?" and a
Coca-Cola bottle found adrift in the garbage patch.
The crew of the Greenpeace ship MY Arctic Sunrise voyage into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch document plastics and other marine debris. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a soupy mix of plastics and microplastics, now twice the size of Texas, in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean.[/caption]

40% of Homeless Kids

I am no longer accepting...

Even the low bar...

But Wednesday night’s debate did not clear even the low bar that Perez set. Over the course of two hours, approximately seven minutes were devoted to the top existential threat facing humanity. And only four of the ten candidates on stage were asked directly about how they intend to rapidly reduce carbon emissions over the next 11 years—something that must be done to preserve a livable planet for future generations.

https://newrepublic.com/article/154334/first-democratic-debate-failed-planet

We're an hour in...

We're an hour into tonight's #DemDebate and there's been no direct question on #climatechange.

That's despite the DNC pledging to make it a top issue in the debates after refusing to host a full debate on the issue.

https://twitter.com/AbbySmithDC/status/1144062602290638848?fbclid=IwAR3tKl0WHdHWWjpXcGkU0ljB8ltP_6JRHW9S4fNJaKFlhPFcU_M3cfBylVU

Dear DNC

Dear @DNC,

We're 1 hour into the #DemDebate and there have been ZERO climate qs.

You told us things would be different than 2016.

You told us the climate crisis was a priority for you.

Enough with your lame excuses. Enough hiding behind locked doors.

Host a #ClimateDebate.

https://twitter.com/sunrisemvmt/status/1144062452012933126?fbclid=IwAR3mgFCdAHE77AKIbtQS24W9jIjzfzHQSoxkGtTlJu8L5E9mHonq-N7r-3o

While you were worried

https://twitter.com/ahzoov/status/944937929071382531?fbclid=IwAR0Oqbwb_dhGnKJc163GohUhYbiqXaZJv5Ge7HKUK8aABzAOGElxJ8wsFPE

Why Yes

Yes, why tax the trillion dollar military industrial complex if you could instead tax those who refuse to die for the military industrial complex.
https://twitter.com/AmirAminiMD/status/1143550386038542336

Beto O'Rourke plans "war tax" on families without military members
http://hill.cm/Qx7SvkH

Hey Beto...

Hey Beto O'Rourke: quick tip. Answering partially in decent Spanish isn't actually a substitute for having no concrete policy proposals for what to do to dismantle decades of Clinton-Bush-Obama-Trump racist immigration policy.

Almost everyone tuning into the debate, along with most Hispanic Americans, understands English. It was just Beto being Beto, useless pandering by a mediocre candidate desperate to stand out from the crowd.
– Washington Examiner

NJ Schools to teach LGBT History

From USA Today:

New Jersey to require schools to teach LGBT history

WOODLAND, N.J. – New Jersey has become the second state in the nation after California to adopt a law that requires schools to teach about LGBT history in a move hailed by civil rights groups as a step toward inclusion and fairness.

Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat who promised to promote equality for gay and transgender people during his campaign, signed the bill Thursday. Among those celebrating the news was Jaime Bruesehoff of Vernon, whose 12-year-old transgender child, Rebekah, spoke in support of the bill in Trenton in December.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2019/02/01/nj-schools-teach-lgbt-history-new-law/2749212002/

From Qasim Rashid

From Qasim Rashid (if you can, please donate to his campaign):

I'm getting a LOT of attention today because I'm the first American Muslim in VA history (along with Ghazala Hashmi) to win the Democratic nomination for VA State Senate, and people want to know what I think and what my plan is for the general election.

So as I have your attention—let me say this important message:

The Sudanese people are being murdered & raped & the world must act NOW to stop it.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/11/sudan-troops-protesters-attack-sit-in-rape-khartoum-doctors-report

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/rashidforva

https://www.facebook.com/QasimRashidVA/

Nothing Is Going to Get Done on Climate Change

This is the world we live in, and those in power know this world very well. What is between climate change and meaningful human action is simply white American lives. As long as they are not directly threatened, we can continue business as usual.

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/08/08/30459308/the-fact-is-nothing-is-going-to-done-about-climate-change-until-it-kills-lots-of-white-people

We're Not Mad At Clinton

War on Women

Women are counting on us to be brave in the face of these recent unconstitutional attacks on abortion rights. We must be unwavering in our resolve to be a powerful voice for the right to choose.

Establishment politicians have launched nothing less than an all-out #WarOnWomen. Once again, women’s health rights are being taken away by legislators writing oppressive laws that are setting the clock backward and endangering women’s freedom to make their own health care decisions.

Feminism is one of the Green Party's ten key values and women’s rights will be a front-and-center issue in 2020.

The Green Party is committed to fielding hundreds of candidates to be a strong voice for women during the 2020 election cycle.

Please stand with the Green Party National Women's Caucus and Green Party candidates as we work together to stand up to this war on women’s rights

Donate: https://www.gp.org/fbdonate