09 | March | 2017 | Be a Seed for Change

This speech …

the First Family traveled to Selma, Alabama to mark the 50th anniversary of the historic marches from Selma to Montgomery. Those marchers in March of 1965 wanted to ensure that all African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote — even in the face of a segregationist system that wanted to make it impossible.

As President Obama explained in his remarks this weekend, the lesson of Selma isn’t an outlier of the American experience:

[Selma] is instead the manifestation of a creed written into our founding documents: “We the People … in order to form a more perfect union.” “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

If you missed the President’s powerful speech, watch it here — and pass it on.

Christopher Herrera, Rainforest Action Network

Trump has appointed a white supremacist with no national security experience to the National Security Council (NSC) — Steve Bannon. This is an unprecedented and dangerous power grab by a man with an extreme agenda.

We’ve teamed up with racial justice, women’s rights, anti-war, and civil rights groups to take action.

Tell Congress to do their job: no white supremacists on the National Security Council!

From open attacks on the First Amendment and the free press, to his xenophobic anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic rhetoric, to his attack on the environment through appointing climate deniers and oil executives to the heights of the U.S. government, our new president poses a serious danger to the foundations of our nation and to the safety of all Americans.

One man in particular has been credited with advising Donald Trump on these extreme positions — Steve Bannon. Bannon is one of the founders of Breitbart News, a megaphone for openly racist, white nationalist, misogynistic and misleading information.

Tell Congress to keep Steve Bannon off the National Security Council.

Bannon believes in the dangerous lie that the U.S. is at war with Islam and that America should be the center of a new movement of right-wing populism centering on white supremacy.1 Bannon also believes that clean energy is “nonsense” and “madness” — despite the fact that intelligence experts have cited climate change as a national security threat since 2004.2

Congress created the National Security Council and Congress has the power to stop this. Now is a moment for all members of Congress — Democrats and Republicans — to take a stand for our basic values and for our safety.

Tell Congress to do their job: No white supremacists on the National Security Council!

For the future,

Christopher

Christopher Herrera
Communications Director
Rainforest Action Network
http://www.ran.org/