Question of the Night
How are you bringing the Resistance to your block, your precinct, your congressional district, your neighborhood, your town, and/or your state?
The Three R’s
- Resist: The immediate actions. Protests, town halls, phone calls, etc., as organized by MoveOn, Indivisible, and other groups.
- Rebel: The electoral components. Running for office, campaigning, GOTV efforts, becoming a precinct delegate.
- Revolt: The long-term efforts to change our culture. Writing and enacting new legislation and the “development of organizational and movement infrastructure.” [here.]
My source of The Three R’s was a recent story by first-time Daily Kos author Go Local Go Cooperative titled The three R's: Resist, Rebel, and Revolt.
Computer issues stymied JoanMar tonight, so I stepped into the breach, last minute.
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Members of the Daily Kos group Support the Dream Defenders launched four ongoing projects:
1. We came together to support the Dream Defenders in Florida and their mission, our first project and the origin of our name. The Dream Defendersdefend the Dream of Martin Luther King Jr. by "develop[ing] the next generation of radical leaders to realize and exercise our independent collective power; building alternative systems and organizing to disrupt the structures that oppress our communities." Please donate here.
2. Our Michael Brown Over-Policed Rights Act, crowd-sourced at Daily Kos in the fall of 2014 after the death of Michael Brown. Our bill quickly earned endorsements from the NAACP and the ACLU. The NAACP forwarded our bill to members of Congress, and we distributed it to members of the Congressional Black Caucus and other progressive members of Congress. President Obama signed into a law a small piece of our bill in December 2014. The Department of Justice included parts of our law in their reports on Ferguson, Missouri, in 2015. Our state version of the MBOPRA is currently in committee in the Kansas legislature.
3. Our Freedom of Information Act project. Nineteen Republican governors chose to kill poor people by not expanding Medicaid. Ebola has killed about 9000 people in total in the world; Republican governors kill 23,000 people PER YEAR by refusing federal support for Medicaid, a story ignored by traditional media. Our project forces those governors to out themselves, clapping them in a Catch 22. With the support of readers, we publicize our results through letters to the editor, press releases, and petitions.
4. Our Law Enforcement Documentation Act of 2016.
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