Public Banking Institute We need to think outside the mailbox. The USPS provided basic banking services from 1911 until the late 1960s. While banks focused on businesses and affluent customers and redlined people of color, working people often lacked bank accounts. The USPS stepped in to serve as a nondiscriminatory… Continue reading
He should be removed unless he relents. By Steven G. Calabresi Mr. Calabresi is a co-founder of the Federalist Society and a professor at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law. July 30, 2020 (NYTimes.com) I have voted Republican in every presidential election since 1980, including voting for Donald Trump in 2016…. Continue reading
All are invited to attend: MOTHERS ON THE MARCH and the BBNO and OTHERS Demand the San Francisco Police Officers Association be declared a Non Grata Organization and Shut Down! Friday, July 31 & Every Friday 1:00pm – 2:00pm San Francisco Police Officers Association 800 Bryant Street 6th Street & Bryant… Continue reading
By Mike Zonta, OccupySF.net co-editor July 29, 2020 TYT (The Young Turks), a progressive online news outlet has apparently given its email list to the Biden campaign. In response to my attempt to verify whether TYT is coordinating with the Biden campaign, TYT responded: July 29, 2020 Thank you for… Continue reading
“We translate perceptions and experiences of being better off than others materially to being better than others. The mind makes that translation, it seems.” StudiocanalUK CAPITAL IN THE 21ST CENTURY directed by Justin Pemberton and based on the best-selling and one of the most powerful books of our time, written by… Continue reading
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700 Democratic delegates signal they will oppose a platform that fails to renew the party’s commitment to establish a national health care system. By John Nichols July 29, 2020 5:45 AM (thenation.com) N95 mask in the ER at Oakbend Medical Center in Richmond, Texas. (Mark Felix / AFP via Getty Images) The… Continue reading
DONATE22Rep. Joe Kennedy elbow bumps Sen. Edward Markey after their debate at the Western Mass News station on June 1, 2020, Springfield, Mass. Photo: Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Image $20 million has been poured into a race for a solidly blue seat between Sen. Ed Markey and Rep…. Continue reading
Oregon’s governor says local police will guard the courthouse as the president says the pullout will not begin until the city is secure Federal agents attempt to clear protesters gathering at the courthouse in Portland, Oregon. Photograph: Amy Harris/Rex/Shutterstock Chris McGreal in Portland, Oregon Wednesday 29 Jul 2020 19.28 EDT (theguardian.com) The… Continue reading
JULY 27, 2020 (counterpunch.org) by MIKE HASTIE Photo: Mike Hastie. Soon it will be 60 straight nights of demonstrations and ear-shattering protests in Portland, Oregon. There is a continuous drum corps that is beating hypnotic rhythms that gives thousands of Portlanders a reason to be alive. The energy is electrifying, as… Continue reading
