Monthly Archives: August 2018
what do you think of Trump’s response to the wildfires?
California is now facing the largest fire in its history. While tens of thousands of California are feeling their homes, President Trump has taken to Twitter to use the crisis to weigh in on contentious water issues.
What do you think: Has Trump completely ignored the impact of climate change, which has raised global temperatures and intensified droughts, making wildfires in the state larger and more common?
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Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs and Prisons on NOW!
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Tune in tonight at 7 pm PT/10 pm ET to our Facebook page – we will be live streaming the premiere of our latest short film, Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs and Prisons, followed by a LIVE panel discussion with Robert Greenwald, President of Brave New Films; Fr. Gregory Boyle, founder and director of Homeboy Industries; and Homeboy Industry alumni and staff.
Don’t miss out on the premiere of our short film – Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs and Prisons – and a LIVE discussion on sentencing justice and how Homeboy Industries creates lives of possibilities. Not on Facebook? We’ll post the full event on our YouTube page. We hope you can tune in! Onwards, Amy Korngiebel |
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Which corporations are funding today’s KKK?
It’s time to expose the corporations enabling white supremacists groups.
Join the fight against hate and support Black media!
It’s been one year since the deadly Unite the Right march in Charlottesville, Virginia, and we must force America to wake up! As we try to reverse the tide on rising white nationalism, a film coming out this weekend details past efforts to undermine a similarly violent movement aimed at maintaining white supremacy.
In the 20th century, the KKK used a number of recruitment tactics to expand their base- infiltrating community groups, churches and even placing newspaper ads openingly calling for new members.1 They threw over the top mass “Americanism” pageants, showcasing their power and striking fear into the heart of communities. Opening today, the Spike Lee joint, BlacKkKlansman, highlights the true story of how one man was able to infiltrate and destabilize the Klan, even temporarily neutralizing David Duke.2
While KKK chapters are dwindling, hate groups are on the rise – with over 600 groups adhering to some form of white supremacist ideology.3 In the 21st century, the new recruitment tool of choice is the internet — Facebook, Twitter and Amazon all have become the community groups, churches and newspapers used to swell the ranks of violent hate groups. Smaller communities like Berkeley, Portland and Charlottesville have become the site of their grotesque pageantry. And though Klan membership has declined, David Duke and people like him remain as influential as ever because they are able to have prominent profiles online and collect funding quickly through a variety of financial platforms.
The hate and violence of the past thrives today, having been legitimized by the Trump Administration and corporate enablers that profit from hate. Companies like Discover and American Express continue to allow groups like Patriot Prayer to process donations on their platform, while Amazon sells racist propaganda for nearly a dozen hate groups and countless white nationalist leaders across their platforms.4 This has to end. So far, in partnership with members like you, we have already cut off funding sources of over 150 groups. Let’s go even harder and work to get the number of white nationalist groups thriving online down to 0.
Your support helps Color Of Change:
- Gather thousands of petition signatures and phone calls to send to the desks of CEOs of companies like Amazon and Discover.
- Expose corporations enabling hate groups through deep research into payment processors and who they serve.
- Run truth-exposing campaign ads to put payment processors’ image on the line, and pressure them to end their support of the far right.
In just two days, the same racists that rallied in Charlottesville and murdered Heather Heyer will show up in Washington, D.C., to rally across the street from their Commander in Hate. But they’re flailing for funding because of Color Of Change’s Blood Money campaign. Jason Kessler, the organizer of the “Unite the Right” rally last year in Charlottesville, has recently been kicked off of PayPal. He’s stuck asking people to send him Bitcoin, checks and cash in the mail.5 But companies like Amazon and Discover are still allowing hate groups to use their platforms, which is undoubtedly helping violent groups like the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer to organize armed rallies.
Until justice is real,
–Rashid, Brandi, Rashad, Arisha, Kristi, Eesha, Whitney, Johnny, Evan, Mary, Sareya, Kristen, and the rest of the Color Of Change team
References:
- “When Bigotry Paraded Through the Streets”, The Atlantic, 4 December 2016 https://act.colorofchange.org/go/83139?t=9&akid=16739%2E1174326%2EQZj2gb
- “BlacKkKlansman trailer: first look at Spike Lee’s fact-based race drama”, The Guardian, 14 May 2018 https://act.colorofchange.org/go/83140?t=11&akid=16739%2E1174326%2EQZj2gb
- “The Year in Hate: Trump buoyed white supremacists in 2017, sparking backlash among black nationalists groups”, Southern Poverty Law Center, 21 February 2018 https://act.colorofchange.org/go/83141?t=13&akid=16739%2E1174326%2EQZj2gb
- “How Amazon Has Made Money Off Racism and Hate”, Huffpost, 6 July 2018 https://act.colorofchange.org/go/81877?t=15&akid=16739%2E1174326%2EQZj2gb
- “Struggling white nationalist running out of fundraising options for second ‘Unite the Right’ rally”, Think Progress, 28 July 2018 https://act.colorofchange.org/go/79183?t=17&akid=16739%2E1174326%2EQZj2gb
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Observation …. word of the day
Word of the day is all about the act of observation …and a rant
I have to ask everyone who is taking the time to read this —at what point will the various cable and main stream stations do the right thing and stick to the truth instead of skewing it to make the current government look sane -stop trying to sway voters and report the news…This stuff is NOT normal
After days and weeks of offensive down right discriminatory comments coming from Politicians already in office, folks running for office, even some pundits are riding on the edge of truth but the reality is – this kind of rhetoric, this fear mongering could quite possibly put our democracy at risk.
The only solution is to End the #trumpTrifecta yes, midterm2018matters
Compare and Contrast all the things that the Obama2010admin as well as Congress managed to achieve despite the Republican Tea Party.
Observe and analyze who what when and why things have not improved as some out there on the left want and then remind them what people said … that a President that goes too far left of center is not representing all Americans. The truth is most people “most” used to be moderate and expect the President to be not just moderate but bipartisan; until Obama! And while folks on the right said one thing and did another on the floor of congress and btw this is standard republican behavior no matter who is in office, it makes you wonder if taking a hard left is the only way to solve and get the People’s Business done and back on track.
Then reality comes back and we have to remember the Democratic Party is made up of a huge tent with various degrees of democratic ideology and going or taking that hard left was not only a mission impossible but possibly no one was or is ready for. The 2010-2013 Republican Tea Party were united no matter what their colleagues said or did, the Democratic party on the other hand seem to fight to get good legislation on the floor of the Senate ,debate it to make progress in the move toward the 21st Century living. We all know our ability to move forward is being held hostage by the Republican Party having turned full out trumpNation until they can ruin our recovering economy of all “it’s Obama” stamp. I hope my worry is your worry, that we will have no place to go or anyone to help if in fact we fall into a deep recession … again!
I have to say my Observation of “the Media” … is not just giving Republicans more airtime but seemingly those folks know who is buttering their paychecks so the fair and balanced slogan when describing the news is just a joke now.
We must remember what happened in 2008! Yes, Congress goes through change, but the era of trump is at hand. Now, more than ever we need main stream media to provide on a daily basis information on the failure of the house of bush, the deficit he left and finding out that Wall Street, Oil and the Banks as well as AIG made bets not only with the people’s money but against us – you would think some would understand that after years of corruption it might take years to make all the corrections given the fact that some parts needed to make the fix are being held hostage by Republicans. I am no expert but people need to compare their own budgets to what happened in 2008 then estimate your recovery time… and realize any correction will take a long time especially since folks on the right were able to downsize/block or stall most of the financial fixes in the Senate. So, voters need to take a real look at the spending that team trump is engaged in and call him out.
The Democratic Party needs to get our arses out to vote.
Mitdterm2018 is a pivotal moment and if we really want change; Not Autocratic change, we need to urge all protected classes to make sure they vote. It has become apparent that some folks do not understand why the process of change cannot and should NOT be done by only the POTUS but Congress in both Chambers as separate branches of our government needs to do the work of the people. While it is obvious, the House is definitely representing $$$$ the Senate faces obstacles and the only solution is getting truer Dems on the floor of the Senate. We must make sure our Nation is NOT sliding into an autocratic nation to which some of trump supporters have expressed as a good change? Come on!?
President Obama did the best he could with what the last admin left him and again it took a long time to get to an improved 2017 but it seems team trump has not only stripped away the Obama legacy it has hurt Americans in ways that probably won’t be fully felt until 2019. We are witnessing those on the right who choose to provoke trump fear; lately that has turned into action by those feeling certain TV or radio personalities were giving them subliminal instructions to act against those who support the Democratic Party ,Muslims, Black and Brown folks and Jews. That has got to stop; it would be even better if “the Media” would stop giving folks on the right passes when they make outrageous, racist, xenophobic exclusionary comments…we hear it from Fox News but now cable stations, depending on the day or hour seem to take a hard right and has this viewer wondering where the money is coming from, supporting the more extreme view on our airwaves? But then again Sinclair Broadcasting is another animal doing its best to alter the facts and reality of our daily lives. What we are seeing by some reporters, pundits, and talking heads are of engaging in the dance of “News manipulation” which is a sad representation of what real journalists, reporters and commentators used to be … What hashtag #FreePress means and meant to our founding fathers …lol
If you are trying to figure out exactly how we got into this mess? Remember that once fabulous video “House of Cards” by David Faber…on CNBC… but I don’t believe it’s still available
What have you Observed?
~Nativegrl77
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