Andrea Germanos at Common Dreams writes—#Earth2Trump: Campaign Kicking Off to Galvanize Resistance
Under the banner of #Earth2Trump, a campaign to resist the upcoming administration’s “dangerous agenda” is gearing up to take its message nationwide.
The “resistance roadshow,” spearheaded by the conservation organization Center for Biological Diversity, kicks off Jan. 2, 2017 in Oakland, Calif. and Seattle, and will bring speakers and musicians to 13 other cities before ending on Jan. 20—inauguration day—in Washington, D.C. It’s aimed at “rallying and empowering defenders of civil rights and the environment” to galvanize a network of resistance.
The call-to-action states: “We must stand and oppose every Trump policy that hurts wildlife; poisons our air and water; destroys our climate; promotes racism, misogyny or homophobia; and marginalizes entire segments of our society.”
The call to resist such attacks are well-founded, given that, among other things, Donald Trump has made clear that reproductive rights are threatened, filled his cabinet with climate science deniers, undertaken what appears to be a climate “witch hunt” at the Energy Department, put forth an anti-worker, fast-food executive for labor secretary, called for a U.S.-Mexico border wall, called for a Muslim database, and made sexist comments.
“When we all speak together with a single voice of resistance, our power grows—and so do our chances of defeating the Trump administration,” said Taylor McKinnon, an organizer with the Center.
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At on this date in 2002—Blix to US, UK: pony up evidence:
Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix challenges the US and UK to reveal evidence that Iraq has WMD.
"If the UK and the US are convinced and they say they have evidence, well then one would expect that they would be able to tell us where is this stuff," he told BBC radio.
Ain't gonna happen. I don't believe they have any evidence. Otherwise, what better way to rally world support than to prove once and for all to everyone that Iraq was lying? Give the inspectors the name of just ONE facility suspected of having WMD, have the inspectors swoop in, find the evidence, and reveal it to the world. Bush's invasion would get A LOT easier at that point.
But Blix gets nothing, while Bush and Blair rant on about Hussein's lies. This was tiresome from day one, and it hasn't gotten any better since.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin joins in the Electoral College wrap-up, and pondering the path forward for Dems, and Obamacare. Every time conservatives thought Hillary would win, emoluments were a disqualifying problem. Trumpsters will even steal Christmas trees.
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