12/14 News Roundup – Sanders Headlines #ReplaceNAFTA Day-of-Action Event, Poll: Nobody Likes Plan To Kill Net Neutrality & More
Lawmakers and 70+ Advocacy Groups Call on North American Leaders to #ReplaceNAFTA
While this year’s final renegotiation talks for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) continued behind closed doors on Wednesday, members of more than 70 advocacy groups and multiple lawmakers hosted an event on Capitol Hill and launched a social media campaign as part of the #ReplaceNAFTA Day of Action.
“Americans have had enough with trade deals that make it easier to outsource jobs to wherever workers are the most exploited and environmental regulations are the weakest,” said Arthur Stamoulis, executive director of the Citizens Trade Campaign, one of the groups that helped organize the event in D.C.
“It’s time to replace NAFTA with a new agreement that prioritizes the creation of good-paying jobs, the protection of human rights, and increased wages for all working people,” he said.
Activists with labor, environmental, faith, consumer, family farm, and other advocacy groups came together to demand that through the renegotiation, the United States, Mexico, and Canada—the three nations party to the agreement—end NAFTA’s outsourcing incentives and craft “labor and environmental provisions that are based on fundamental international standards and include swift and certain enforcement,” Stamoulis said.
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“When Donald Trump campaigned for president, he promised that he was going to stop corporations from shifting American jobs to Mexico,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who spoke at the event alongside Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.). Addressing the president directly, Sanders added: “For once in your life, keep your promises.”
More news/video/tweets/etc. in the comments, including:
*World’s richest 0.1% have boosted their wealth by as much as poorest half
*Almost 100 million people a year ‘forced to choose between food and healthcare’
*Tax Scam Opponents Rally as GOP Aims for Final Vote Next Week
*Alabama’s warning for Democrats: Don’t take black vote, poor whites for granted
*Pipeline news, Water Protector updates & More
Tips, Comments, Complaints, Etc!
‘Keep your promises’: Bernie Sanders pushes Trump to maintain NAFTA hard line
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders Headlines #ReplaceNAFTA Day-of-Action Event: Millions Nationwide Call for Successful Renegotiation to Eliminate Job Outsourcing Incentives, Add Strong Labor and Environmental Terms
World’s richest 0.1% have boosted their wealth by as much as poorest half
The Republican Tax Bill Provides Huge Benefits to People Who Don’t Work. But Only if They’re Rich.
Almost 100 million people a year ‘forced to choose between food and healthcare’
The Biggest Moments of 2017 in the Fight for Universal Healthcare
$3.10/day is “moderate poverty”? even taking into account extreme “3rd world” countries, I’d wager their “leaders” are bringing in waaay more than that.
Poll: Almost Nobody Likes Plan To Kill Net Neutrality. GOP FCC Chair Ajit Pai: We’re Doing It Anyway
What is net neutrality? It protects us from corporate power
Basically the “web” could become as “controlled” like it is in China and North Korea and a few others.
Actually the rich aholes want a monopoly like cable TV years ago. You want faster, better, etc., give us your money!
It’s not the only thing. Screw the multi-national corpses!
Unfortunately, it’s been ripped.
Question for the bloggers here: has anyone decided to pay to get access to YT Red? What’s the alternative?
Im still debating on yt red. i use yt enough to where it would be beneficial in time saved viewong ads, but am wary of investing in the platform as iffy as it is now with creators and their content. Need to investigate where the money goes or if the content creator is better off by me viewing the ads.
The next senator from Alabama would make Bernie Sanders proud
https://youtu.be/DHgaiHbiP3s
Alabama earthquake shakes up political landscape
If by “social justice” Keith is talking about health care, then I agree with him.
Almost every account I heard from people who interviewed Alabama voters said “jobs” and “health care” were their main concerns. I saw lots of direct quotes saying that.
they may be in for a surprise, then. i hope not. i hope he does take up the berniecrat mantle. and maybe you should let him know, mags. you know how those establishment types can get caught in a bubble. 😉
Doug Jones’s victory over Roy Moore could mean a dramatic shift in Congress
Don’t get cocky Perez, Alabama was a anomaly, a deep red state that had a such a bad candidate that peoples personal morals came into play. Some R’s sat home some wrote in. If they ran a R candidate with no baggage this wouldn’t be a conversation. Even though i’m glad Jones won but he will have a very hard time keeping it in 2020. The Dems and the DNC have a lot of work to do and they better not take voters for granted.
Perez and the Turd Way can shove it!
Alabama’s warning for Democrats: Don’t take black vote, poor whites for granted
‘Wake Up Call’: Charles Barkley’s Wise Words to Democrats on Alabama
How long can Democrats count on being rescued by the very people our government is failing?
One can’t help but wonder whether or not Luther Strange would have beaten Jones.
Barkley is a hot-air ex-NBA player. He’s right about one thing: the Democratic Party is political toast if it does not jettison the Turd Way/Clinton crap!
Good question about Strange.
Bribes for TV soccer rights allegedly paid with ‘agreement and support’ of Murdoch’s Fox executives
‘If This Bill Passes, People Will Die’: Tax Scam Opponents Rally as GOP Aims for Final Vote Next Week
It’s hard to watch Nanci Pelosi speak about the immorality of the tax bill.
She’s gonna benefit by it a lot, so she’ll damn the bill but laugh all the way to the bank.
As Final Tax Scam Vote Looms, Demands for McConnell to Seat Doug Jones ‘Immediately’
The R’s Christmas present for most of America
Report Links Trump’s Anti-Press Rhetoric to Record Number of Jailed Journalists
White House contradicts Tillerson and says not right time for North Korea talks
Peace talks are bad for business –sadly
The new cold war: how our focus on Russia obscures social media’s real threat
Ex-Facebook VP: Social media destroying society with ‘dopamine-driven feedback loops’
I have a friend who spends far too much time on facebook.
Imo, she’s addicted to it. She gets into arguments on threads about controversial topics, makes comments, then spends a lot of time responding to comments on her comment.
She gets all outraged, let’s her ‘buttons’ get pressed, and I don’t think it all has a good effect on her. Kind of like TOP pie fights. Remember how awful those were??
I don’t get it. I live with a guy who is super techno-smart in both video and audio (a very rare combination). Right now as I write this comment, he’s asleep and all our TVs, phones, etc. are not in use. What is so addictive about Facebook and Twitter?
I have two accounts on FB, one that is more political and the other for reaching out to family, friends, and reacquaintances. I check FB a few times a day, but I don’t rant very often. Twitter is where I find more of the political rants, especially by Armando of TOP, Peter Daou, and the sinking centrists who are beginning to yell more as the country continues to move leftward and the center right has shrunk a bit.
I’m reading “What Happened” by the baroness. (I checked it out of the public library, a good democratic socialist institution) It meanders. I think she’s trying to come across as the late Elizabeth Edwards but she’ll never be able to write like EE. In some parts, Clinton succeeds, but in others…not so much. Anyway, Elizabeth Edwards was a fan of social media, one of the first to embrace it. Her tweets would matter more than the baroness’s.
Global warming made Hurricane Harvey deadly rains three times more likely, research reveals
Research shows that certain facts can still change conservatives’ minds
Yet Another Group of Scientists Just Said We Are the Ones Screwing the Weather
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sea-ice-melting-at-fastest-pace-in-1500-years-arctic-report-card-finds/
I’d like to have a very simple explanation of the jet stream effect. It’s fairly obvious that huge swaths of air changing behavior and temp while swirling around the globe would change things, I struggle to put it in very simple terms when I’m discussing climate chaos with others.
You know, the “but we got a record snowfall” argument. Yes, and “global warming” may continue to provide with more and more snow and water because you’re in a whole different climate stream now.
A different dimension of loss’: inside the great insect die-off
I really enjoy The Guardian’s ‘Long Read’ pieces. Almost always quite interesting & informative.
Wildcats, butterflies, tortoises: all are endangered by Trump’s border wall
There used to be jaguar, too.
There is at least one Jaguar in the “bootheel” of New Mexico, where the Southwest corner juts down into Mexico. A rancher down there saw one several years back and just photographed it. They were native way up into Santa Fe through the 1700’s. I’m working with a progressive candidate for State land Commissioner in NM,who is currently head of the New Mexico Wildlife Federation. If he wins, he’ll have a lot to say about Trump’s BS, as he will control 9 million acres of State owned trust lands, a lot of it along the border.
Yay! and thanks for your work!