California cities sue to challenge Trump administration plan to deny green cards and visas to poor immigrants (updated)
August 14, 2019
President Donald Trump’s top immigration official on Tuesday offered a revised version of the poem long displayed inside the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal that aligns more closely with the administration’s latest rule aimed at curbing the number of people who enter the United States legally. Trump immigration official offers rewrite for Statue of Liberty poem: … Read more
Another sham police and community listening session in Phoenix
August 14, 2019
By Dianne Post The AACCC (African American clergy) hosted a “Police and Community Listening Session” on August 6, 2019 at the First Institutional Baptist Church, Phoenix. About 70 people discussed a series of questions presented by the facilitators at seven different tables. The questions asked to tell of a positive and negative interaction with a police officer, … Read more
Arizona Democratic Congressional Candidates react to the Proposed Gutting of the Endangered Species Act.
August 14, 2019
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This may be hard to believe but it was Republican Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Richard Nixon that led the way in starting land conservation, creating National Parks, launching the Environmental Protection Agency, cleaning our rivers, terrain, and air, and signing the Endangered Species Act. Those enlightened Republican Administrations have given way to an Anti Science … Read more
The 2017 Republican Tax Cut has made it Okay for People to behave like Scrooge.
August 13, 2019
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Readers of the Charles Dickens classic will remember the scene early in the tale where two philanthropic businessmen visit Scrooge at his business and ask that he contribute charity to help the unfortunate. Scrooge dismisses them, saying that he wants to be left alone and that the prisons and workhouses he supports through the taxes … Read more
Incendiary GOPropagandist media radicalized the El Paso killer
August 13, 2019
The New York Times has done an analysis of the striking degree of overlap between the incendiary rhetoric of right-wing media provocateurs and the language used by the Texas man who confessed to killing 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso. How the El Paso Killer Echoed the Incendiary Words of Conservative Media Stars … Read more
In the KKK Endorsed Candidates United States, “the Tired, the Poor, the Huddled Masses, and Homeless” are the ones not Welcome in our Country.
August 13, 2019
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Two conclusions regarding this Administration’s anti-immigration policies can be reached with last weeks I.C.E. raids in Mississippi and today’s release of the pending Executive Order on changing the guidelines for Legal Immigration. They are: Illegal Immigrants can be charged and detained away from their families while the employers who broke the law hiring them (and … Read more
Climate change and water shortages: potentially millions of climate refugees
August 12, 2019
Axios recently reported that “17 countries use more than 80% of their available water supplies every year, meaning droughts or increased water demand for agriculture and growing cities could leave them at risk of crisis, according to the World Resources Institute.” Last year, the nearly 4 million people who live in Cape Town, South Africa … Read more
Farmers are on the frontline of climate change
August 12, 2019
According to a new United Nations climate report release last week, agricultural practices and people’s diets will need to change as rising temperatures diminish the earth’s ability to absorb dangerous emissions. UN panel calls for changes to farming, diets to stave off climate change: The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released on … Read more
