Jeff Sessions addresses POA on CA immigration policies: 12:38 Province of Feds 13:28 CA wants open borders 14:42 CA, we have a problem; mayor of Oakland; flout the law, validate illegality 16:00 ICE failed to make 800 arrests (bec of State interference); Mayor Libby Schaff, here’s my message… 17:45 CA… Continue reading
by Joseph Lawler | Mar 6, 2018 (washingtonexaminer.com) At the 2016 Princeton Community Democratic Organization annual picnic, a pair of activists approached Phil Murphy with an unconventional idea: A public bank for New Jersey. Murphy, a longtime banker with Goldman Sachs, heard the activists out. Then, when he announced his platform for his gubernatorial… Continue reading
SFGATE.com March 6, 2018 After struggling in court for the last year to strip federal funds from California and sanctuary cities like San Francisco for refusing to aid federal immigration agents, the Trump administration filed suit Tuesday accusing the state of unconstitutionally interfering with immigration enforcement. Three state laws enacted… Continue reading
First they came for the homeless added 5 new photos. March 6, 2018 Today, the mayor came to visit. These photos are from Here/There. He spent about a half hour talking to the homeless, and listening to their ideas. We took the opportunity to introduce the mayor to Ani, the 82 year… Continue reading
From The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self By Alice Miller Nationalism, racism, and fascism are in fact nothing other than ideological guises of the flight from the painful, unconscious memories of endured contempt into the dangerous, destructive disrespect for human life, glorified as a political… Continue reading
“This is a big idea and it’s an expensive idea,” said Chris Hughes, a co-chair of the Economic Security Project, “but I do think that it is in line with the scale of the problem, which is also immense.”CreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times The Facebook co-founder’s rise was… Continue reading
March 2, 2018 (johnlaurits.com) Alongside the classic jingles and fuzzwords like “freedom” and “hardworking Americans,” US politicians love the term “middle class,” which is smart politics in a nation where about 60% believes they are middle class. The middle of a group, however, is defined (in statistics, at least) as a section with… Continue reading
February 28, 2018 by Common Dreams “I’m a Dalton High School student. Please don’t tell me a damn thing about arming teachers. Please don’t tell me that I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about.” by Julia Conley, staff writer Students were evacuated from Dalton High School in Dalton, Georgia on… Continue reading
Native Americans and their allies demonstrate outside Wells Fargo on Saturday in San Francisco over the commercial bank’s backing of the Keystone XL pipeline. (Courtesy Anesti Vega/Indigenous Rising Media) By Robyn Purchia on February 28, 2018 (sfexaminer.com) Montgomery Street echoed with the Lakota cry, “Mni Wiconi!” — “Water is life” — on… Continue reading
