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Bernie Sanders: US would never recover from ‘stain’ of deporting ‘Dreamers’

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that the United States would never recover from the “stain” of deporting young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, who are often called “Dreamers.”
During a Sunday show interview, Sanders said their deportations would be “one of the ugliest stains” in American history.
“If we allow Trump to get away with what he did, and that is repeal the executive order on DACA, and if these 800,000 people, young people, are subjected to deportation, this will be one of the ugliest stains in the history of the United States,” Sanders told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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Should the U.S. deport the immigrants, Sanders said the country will “never recover.”
“Young people who know no other country than this country, who came here at 2 or 3 years of age, to now be subjected to deportation would be a stain that this country would never recover from,” Sanders said.

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*Women’s March: After First Year of Trump’s Anti-Woman Agenda, Marches Mobilize Voters
*Class war in the American west: the rich landowners blocking access to public lands
*Trump Administration Turns ICE Into Tool for Political Repression
*The DNC promised $10M to rebuild state parties. It has not delivered
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Happy Monday friends! It was a long weekend of action in which I managed to make it to several different women’s march events on Saturday and then spent yesterday afternoon with various North Texas candidates at the 360 Dems Candidates Convention. I’ve learned its hard to both ‘cover’ and ‘do/be involved in’ at the same time but did manage to get some pics & such which I’ll try and get added to the thread.

Bernie Sanders on new Trump immigration ad: ‘It is really sad’

Sen. Bernie Sanders denounced a web ad recently put out by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, which called Democrats “complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants.”
“It is really unbelievable and so sad for our country that we have a President of the United States that says such nonsense and such outrageous statements,” the Vermont Independent, who caucuses with Democrats, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning.
The ad was released hours into the government shutdown. The largest point of contention between political parties that led to the government shutdown was immigration policy — including the funding for a proposed border wall and the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has protected undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children from deportation.
“They need a path toward citizenship,” Sanders said, referring to the beneficiaries of DACA, known as Dreamers. “Then you see a President put something like that on the air, trying to divide us up, trying to foment hatred. It is really sad.”

Sanders Slams Trump’s Anti-Immigration Ad, Backs Border Wall Talks to Protect Dreamers

In CNN interview, senator called potential mass deporation of DACA recipients a “stain” from which the U.S. would never recover

Bernie Sanders On Government Shutdown (Audio @ Link)

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST:
And now we return to our main story, the government shutdown. Bernie Sanders is the independent senator from Vermont, and he joins us now. Good morning, sir.
BERNIE SANDERS: Good morning.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: You want Republicans to make a deal on DACA, people who are brought to this country illegally as children. But how much of a deal are you willing to make on legal immigration?
SANDERS: Well, I believe that we need comprehensive immigration reform that has to include 800,000 DREAMers, young people who are brought into this country as infants, but it has to go beyond that. But what this shutdown is about is most certainly not just the DREAMers. We are into almost four months of the fiscal year, and Republicans have not yet given us a budget, an annual budget. And this is not the way you run a $4 trillion entity which is called the United States government. Just the other day, the United States Armed Forces, the Pentagon, the secretary of defense said it is impossible for him to do his job. It is responsible. It is wasteful. It is dangerous for the Pentagon if they don’t have an…
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Sure. We…
SANDERS: …Annual budget. We have got to give it to them.

https://youtu.be/JsdrNmTYm-8

‘Billionaire Boom’: While World’s Richest 1% Took 82% of All New Wealth in 2017, Bottom Half Got Zero, Zilch, Nada

Call it the ‘Year of the Billionaire.’
In 2017, a new billionaire was created every two days and while 82 percent of all wealth created went to the top 1 percent of the world’s richest while zero percent—absolutely nothing—went to the poorest half of the global population.
That troubling information is included in Oxfam’s latest report on global inequality—titled Reward Work, Not Wealth (pdf)—released Monday. In addition to the above, the report details how skyrocketing wealth growth among the already rich coupled with stagnant wages and persistent poverty among the lowest economic rungs of society means that just 42 individuals now hold as much wealth as the 3.7 billion poorest people on the planet.
“The billionaire boom is not a sign of a thriving economy but a symptom of a failing economic system,” Winnie Byanyima, Oxfam’s executive director of Oxfam International. “The people who make our clothes, assemble our phones and grow our food are being exploited to ensure a steady supply of cheap goods, and swell the profits of corporations and billionaire investors.”

When Economic Growth Indicates Failure

Nothing can be duller than listening to an economist or other policy expert pontificate endlessly on such metrics as gross domestic product, stock market prices, employment, and consumer confidence. Most of all they talk about GDP: Rising GDP is good; falling GDP is bad. But as a measure of economic activity, GDP is what it says it is: a gross number. It doesn’t measure how money and wealth circulates through a system, what use it is put to, how the rewards of its use are distributed. It just counts how much comes out of the spigot at the end of the pipe. This completely avoids taking into account what may be the most important indicator of economic health: equality.
Epidemiological studies demonstrate that equality is essential to a host of physical, mental, and social health outcomes. Societies that are more equal have lower rates of infant mortality, homicide, imprisonment, teenage motherhood, and other indicators of economic dysfunction. People in those countries also have higher life expectancies, levels of literacy, math proficiency, social trust, social mobility, and other positive signs of a healthy society.
This research suggests that for most countries economic performance on equality is far more important to the well-being of their citizens than GDP growth. Indeed, in our currently overstressed world, in which humans are consuming at a rate 1.7 times what Earth can sustain, our real need is for less consumption and more equity. For the well-being of most everyone—including the rich—equality is more important than growth.

Exceptional Indifference: An International Perspective on U.S. Poverty

The visible levels of poverty and of inequality in the United States are not unique to this country, but sometimes it takes an international perspective to bring America’s limited responses to poverty into relief

US shutdown: White House phone message blames Democrats

Donald Trump is not taking your calls to the White House at the moment
Members of the public phoning the White House during the US government shutdown are being played a recorded message blaming congressional Democrats for the fact that their call cannot be taken.
People calling the White House telephone comment line 202-456-1111 received the following recorded message:
Thank you for calling the White House. Unfortunately, we cannot answer your call today, because congressional Democrats are holding government funding, including funding for our troops and other national security priorities, hostage to an unrelated immigration debate. Due to this obstruction, the government is shut down. In the meantime, you can leave a comment for the president at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact. We look forward to taking your calls as soon as the government reopens.

WOMEN’S MARCH 2018 CALLS ON WHITE WOMEN TO GIVE BLACK WOMEN A SEAT AT THE TABLE

Black women are the next powerhouse force in American politics—and the Women’s March wants to help them be front and center in 2018 and beyond.
Speakers at this year’s “Power to the Polls” event on Sunday in Las Vegas gave special attention to women of color and black women especially, whose contributions to the feminist movement they said have been ignored and pushed to the side for too long.
“This march is being led by women of color,” Nina Turner, the president of Our Revolution, a Democratic political action organization, told a roaring crowd. “But…let me put a special message out to black women: Don’t let anyone make you feel marginalized. If you feel you aren’t getting the respect you deserve, do what [Congresswoman] Shirley Chisholm did—don’t just bring your own seat, kick down the door.”
Women’s March co-chair Carmen Perez put out a similar call to action, focusing on white women’s responsibility to create space for people of color within the movement and in the political arena.
“If you don’t see your community at the table, make sure to pull up a chair,” Perez said. “And if you’re white, scootch your chair over a little. Make room for us.”

Women’s marches organizers hope to keep building momentum

Thousands of people poured into a football stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday, the anniversary of women’s marches around the world, to cap off a weekend of global demonstrations that participants hope will continue building momentum for equality, justice and an end to sexual harassment.
“This is a birthday party for a movement that has only begun to flex its power to change this democracy,” Anna Galland, the executive director of the progressive group moveon.org, told the boisterous crowd.
Following marches that drew huge crowds across the U.S. on Saturday, one year after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, protesters gathered Sunday on multiple continents, including in London, Paris, Sydney, Madrid and Buenos Aires.
The events culminated with the Las Vegas rally, which launched an effort to register 1 million voters and target swing states such as Nevada in the U.S. midterm elections later this year, which could shift control of Congress. Organizers said they are planning future events in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas.

Women’s March: After First Year of Trump’s Anti-Woman Agenda, Marches Mobilize Voters

The second annual Women’s March generated widespread enthusiasm on Saturday and Sunday, after a year in which sexual harassment and assault dominated many headlines along with President Donald Trump’s policies, many of which threatened women’s rights. Rallies, marches, and anniversary events drew an estimated one-to-two million men, women, and children in cities across the country and around the world.

‘Our revolution’: Women march in Seneca Falls, advocate for equality

Angela Purcell-Bolha believes the women’s march event in Seneca Falls last year perfectly matched the feminist ideals and themes of inclusiveness she had raised her daughter, Mikayla Purcell-Bolha, with.
Angela and Mikayla, 18, both from Auburn, came back for another march in Seneca Falls Saturday, almost a year after the first event. While Mikayla has hope for the nation, she feels there have been cultural shifts over the last year that she feels are negative, and so she wanted to get involved.
“I think it’s really important to not let certain things go without consequence and without reaction,” Mikayla said.
The march, as with last years’ march, was held in solidarity with similar rallies all over the world. An estimated 10,000 people converged on Seneca Falls for the event last year. Seneca Fall has long been associated with women’s rights advocacy, as it was the site of the first women’s rights convention in 1848.

One year after inauguration, marchers find hope through unity in Columbia

Women’s march in Greenville: ‘Not only are we here but the sun is shining’

This weekend, they marched. In November, they vote

Voices From the Women’s March

#WomensMarch2018 #Dallas pic.twitter.com/a7NOBtYwEK
— TheProgressiveWing (@ProgressiveWing) January 21, 2018

Todays march was special. I participated in everything right with our country. The ability to gather, protest, or praise is a fundamental right and one I will defend to the end. pic.twitter.com/UzX8eSt22r
— Todd Allen (@ToddAllenTX) January 20, 2018

Shoutout to every single volunteer, thanks to your hard work we were represented in #Sacramento, #LakeTahoe, and #Fresno! Thank you to the @CALatinaDems,@DoloresHuerta, @actarticulated & @AFGENational. Get your Tee herehttps://t.co/DDJ9LzciQ3 #Roza2018
#TimesUp#OurHouseOurRules pic.twitter.com/Afm9QPR5oT
— Roza Calderón (@rozacalderon) January 21, 2018

As Washington Inflames Tensions in Syria, Turkey Launches Airstrikes Against U.S.-Backed Kurdish Forces

Trump critics this weekend tied the administration’s decision to continue U.S. military presence in Syria to Turkey’s aggressive bombing of U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in the country’s northern region.
Dozens of Turkish jets bombed more than 100 targets on Saturday as members of the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army crossed into the Kurdish-controlled area of Afrin and fought militias there. At least eight people were killed.
The fighting came days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the U.S., Turkey’s NATO ally, of “insisting on forming a terror army on our borders” in response to the Trump administration’s plan to arm and train 30,000 Kurdish forces.
“Our mission is to strangle it before it’s even born,” Erdogan warned last week.

The Immigration Debate We Must Not Lose byJames Zogby

“As I look at the Republicans who are leading the charge against immigration, I see descendants of Germans, Irish, Italians, and Jews—all of whom were once reviled, locked out, and victims of bigotry.”

Trump Administration Turns ICE Into Tool for Political Repression

The Trump administration has emboldened ICE, opening up immigration rights activists to any efforts by ICE to remove the very people who are successfully campaigning against their abuses of power

A doctor. A Michigander. With a wife, two kids, and a permanent green card. Moved here from Poland when he was five. He doesn't even speak Polish. How does this man make America anything but better? What are we doing? https://t.co/2zuOmrHfKg
— Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (@AbdulElSayed) January 22, 2018

I read about this one this morning. 🙁

I hope he gets a decent lawyer who argues that he should have been informed back when he was 17 that by pleading guilty to those two misdemeanor charges, to get his record cleared when he turned 18, he would still be considered to have a record by ICE (and therefore might have fought harder at the time instead of pleading guilty).

And, since he was NOT informed apparently, his lawyer should be able to have this case thrown out.

It’s crazy that ICE has more stringent criteria than the courts! Are border agents above ‘the law’?

Class war in the American west: the rich landowners blocking access to public lands

Private landowners present a rising threat to the millions of acres set aside for public use by blocking access to public lands

Women Aren’t Just Marching Against Trump—They’re Running Against Trumpism By John Nichols

As women take the lead in flipping Republican statehouse seats to the Democrats, candidates like Maine’s Diane Russell are eyeing governorships.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Reflects On The #MeToo Movement: ‘It’s About Time’

When Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg began her legal crusade, women were treated differently than men by law. By the time she first put on judicial robes she had already worked a judicial revolution.
Today the issues are both the same and different. At front and center is the question of sexual harassment.
At the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Ginsburg had this to say about the #MeToo movement: “It’s about time. For so long women were silent, thinking there was nothing you could do about it, but now the law is on the side of women, or men, who encounter harassment and that’s a good thing.”
Ginsburg isn’t worried that the #MeToo movement might cause a backlash against women. “So far it’s been great,” she said. “When I see women appearing every place in numbers, I’m less worried about a backlash than I might have been 20 years ago.”
Ginsburg recalled moments from her time as both a student and teacher when she experienced sexism and how she handled it. “Every woman of my vintage knows what sexual harassment is, although we didn’t have a name for it,” Ginsburg said.