[ Reader Comments: Impeachment - GOP Stirrings, Trump Sanity,
Racism and First Impeachment, Mormon Women; Tulsi Gabbard; Resource -
Year of White Racist Terrorism; Witness at the Border-Brownsville TX;
Poor People’s Assembly and March-Washington, DC;]
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TIDBITS - DEC. 26, 2019 - READER COMMENTS: IMPEACHMENT-GOP STIRRINGS,
TRUMP SANITY, FIRST IMPEACHMENT, MORMON WOMEN; TULSI GABBARD; YEAR OF
WHITE RACIST TERRORISM; WITNESS AT THE BORDER-BROWNSVILLE TX; POOR
PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY AND MARCH-WASHINGTON;  
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_ Reader Comments: Impeachment - GOP Stirrings, Trump Sanity, Racism
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White Racist Terrorism; Witness at the Border-Brownsville TX; Poor
People’s Assembly and March-Washington, DC; _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, Shorts, AND
cartoons - Dec. 26, 2019, xxxxxx

 

Re: Trump Pens Deranged Six-Page Impeachment Letter, Mails It to Nancy
Pelosi (Roberto Rosario; Millie Lopez)
Re: We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated (Claire O'Connor)
Re: The A to Z of Things Trump Could and Should Have Been Impeached
For (Janet Rackham; Cecily Stephens)
Re: Edmund G. Ross Was a Profile in Impeachment Corruption, not
Courage (Om Williamson)
And the Reindeer Went Union
Separated  --  cartoon by Mike Luckovich
Mormon Women Support Impeachment - Official Statement (Mormon Women
for Ethical Government)
Trump Falls  -- cartoon by Mike Stanfill
Re: Trump’s Pal Tulsi (David Ecklein and Marcosa J Santiago; Tom
Berkowitz; Elias P Vlanton; Ray Markey)
Re: No Final Defeat (Mike Liston)
How to Save $5,800 on Health Insurance
Re: 'A National Disgrace': Trump Proposes Social Security Change That
Could End Disability Benefits for Hundreds of Thousands (JD Scot;
Bobby Calimano; Michel Bellefeuille; Wayne Gravelle; Rafael Rodriguez)
Re: They Killed Frank Ordoñez (Alvarado Victor; Rosalina Rosario
Melendez; Disraelly Gutierrez Jaime)
Re: The Rent in the Bay Area Is Too Damn High. So These Moms Occupied
a Vacant House. (Sionna Breasal; Linda J McPhee)
Re: The Very Bad Space Force Deal (Gordon Galland; Jim Price)

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RESOURCES:

This Is America - Eleven years after Obama’s election, and three
years into the Trump presidency, the threat of domestic terrorism
can’t be ignored. (Photo Essay -  New York Magazine)
New book coming January - The Union Member's Complete Guide (Hardball
Press)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Witness at the Border - Brownsville TX/Matamoros MX - January 12
(Witness Fund, Inc.)
Save the Date: Poor People’s Assembly and March on Washington, June
20, 2020 (Poor People’s Campaign)

 

RE: TRUMP PENS DERANGED SIX-PAGE IMPEACHMENT LETTER, MAILS IT TO NANCY
PELOSI
 

Roberto Rosario

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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It is a compilation of All his lies.......

Millie Lopez

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: WE ARE REPUBLICANS, AND WE WANT TRUMP DEFEATED
 

I watched the debate last night. It continues to be obvious despite
the powerful and monied opposition, the candidates who are pushing for
justice, democracy, equality and a clean healthy planet are still in
the lead. And those candidates who argue for "moderation", the middle
way, and the current euphemism "working across the isle" are not
eroding that lead. They keep pounding the same old drum - let's do it
again the same old way. It is a mystery to me how they hope to deflect
the force for CHANGE and survival.

But Eureka. This morning I read your piece on the Lincoln Project and
determination by some Republicans to defeat Trump. The Democrat Party
candidates are hoping to attract those Republican votes. I mean, think
of it - who are they going to vote for? Unless they have the power and
influence and money it will take to mount a republican contender,
their only choice - a "palatable" democrat contender. S#%t. That's the
strategy that got us to now!

Claire O'Connor

RE: THE A TO Z OF THINGS TRUMP COULD AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN IMPEACHED
FOR
 

We need more letters in the alphabet

Janet Rackham

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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And that's the short list.

Cecily Stephens

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: EDMUND G. ROSS WAS A PROFILE IN IMPEACHMENT CORRUPTION, NOT
COURAGE
 

Had Johnson been removed and replaced by a Radical Republican perhaps
America would have been spared the Jim Crow era and segregation, and
the Civil Rights Movement might have been unnecessary a century later.

Om Williamson

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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AND THE REINDEER WENT UNION
 

SEPARATED  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
 

Mike Luckovich

December 22, 2019
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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MORMON WOMEN SUPPORT IMPEACHMENT 
 

Official Statement
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From Mormon Women for Ethical Government on the House Impeachment Vote

December 18, 2019

We assert that our most sacred civic expression is the casting of an
individual vote. Any president or leader who forces political support
and fails to honor and protect the free and legitimate elections on
which our republic rests has lost the moral right to govern. By
attempting to compel Ukraine to announce investigations benefitting
only his re-election efforts, President Trump forced every American
taxpayer to become an unwitting contributor to his political campaign
and a supporter of his re-election.

Regardless of the behavior of any other political actor in either
party, the president of the United States is never justified in
bringing our common resources and might to bear against a political
rival. As an organization committed to the defense of ethical
government, we feel an urgent need to speak in defense of our norms
and institutions. The House of Representatives produced the required
articles, following procedures previously established, and voted
through a legislatively approved process. They have fulfilled their
constitutional obligation. 

When presented to the Senate, these articles deserve a full and fair
trial
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jurors
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conducted as required by the Constitution. Even in an era of polarized
partisan politics, truth is discernible and powerful. The Senate must
resist all impulse to reduce this process to gamesmanship and theater
and instead must pursue truth by compelling testimony from the actors
at the heart of this inquiry. The president himself must honor his
sworn duty to uphold the law by providing the documents Congress has
subpoenaed and instructing his staff to testify. If he is innocent,
their testimonies will be exculpatory. Subversion of this process,
regardless of outcome, represents a subversion of justice. 

At MWEG we are committed peacemakers. However, we recognize that true
peace is not an absence of conflict. Rather, it requires, as Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. taught
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a courageous defense of truth and justice. Some argue that an
impeachment process must be bi-partisan before it is legitimate. Some
say that without Congressional Republican support, investigating the
president would be too divisive. We reject this argument as one devoid
of moral authority. Peace cannot be purchased so cheaply. Effective
leadership does not sacrifice truth and principle on the altar of
consensus. Instead, it gives voice to truth and lends courage to those
who are fearful. Our nation is truly indivisible only when there is
liberty and justice for all. 

While we speak to all of our fellow citizens and elected officials, we
call specifically upon our co-religionists
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Mike Lee (R-Utah), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Tom
Udall (D-New Mexico) to honor their oaths of office. We remind them
that this oath qualifies them for service and was taken in the name of
God. The oath of office does not require our representatives to
protect the economy, their political party, their seat, their
ambition, or even the president. It demands that those sworn to office
will uphold the Constitution and fairly adjudicate on behalf of every
citizen. We expect them to honor that oath, and we will hold them to
account with our votes.

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Mormon Women for Ethical Government [[link removed]] (MWEG) is
a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring women of faith to be
ambassadors of peace who transcend partisanship and courageously
advocate for ethical government._ _MWEG is not affiliated with or
endorsed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We do,
however, fully sustain the leaders and doctrines of the Church.

TRUMP FALLS  -- CARTOON BY MIKE STANFILL

Mike Stanfill

December 20, 2019
Raging Pencils
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RE: TRUMP’S PAL TULSI
 

Harold Meyerson here delivers a disgusting hatchet job.  Tulsi
Gabbard is the only candidate who has always spoken most firmly for
peace and cooperation rather than war and confrontation.  We are
teetering close to a major war, not just the perpetual sandbox wars
characterized by the opening years of the millennium.  This issue is
overlooked by most of the other candidates, but war and its
preparations will override all other domestic concerns and programs.
 The superpower monopoly of nuclear weapons has been broken, and a
misunderstanding or error in judgment anywhere can lead to existential
catastrophe.  The clock of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists reads
two minutes to midnight.

Hinting about "Russian bots", Meyerson echoes Hillary Clinton, that
polar opposite of Tulsi.  Hillary was so provokingly aggressive as
Secretary of State under the last administration that Obama had to
replace her with Kerry.  Tulsi Gabbard would make a fine Secretary of
State under a Sanders administration - if that happens despite the
tactics of Meyerson, Clinton, the DNC, and others not learning their
lessons from 2016 when they enabled Trump and his GOP wrecking crew
with a poor candidate and a lackluster campaign.

Recall that in 2016 Gabbard resigned as Vice-Chair of the DNC in order
to be free to endorse Bernie rather than Hillary, the DNC's pick.  If
she is out of contention close to the time of the primary, she would
most likely endorse Bernie again.  So Meyerson delivers a body blow
not only at Tulsi, but also at Bernie, who has been gaining great
strength since 2016, not only in number of supporters, but also in
clarity of his positions, particularly in the realm of foreign
affairs.

David Ecklein

Marcosa J Santiago MD

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This article was atrocious and beneath xxxxxx or any organization
that pretends to do journalism.  Did Hillary Clinton write this?
 Smearing Tulsi with no evidence is the opposite of journalism?
 What is this linking her with Russia?  Any evidence?  Any evidence
that she is Trump's pal?  I saw none.  Are you now pushing
McCarthyism and red-baiting.  Are you now a right wing rag?  She is
an anti-war and anti-interventionist candidate.  Do you oppose that?
 If Bannon or other right wingers happen to also be anti-war, does
that make it wrong?  What a simplistic piece of garbage.  One more
pro-war, Russophobic piece of garbage like this and you will have lost
this reader.  Outrageous!

Tom Berkowitz

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I was very disappointed with your article from the American Prospect,
"Tulsi continues to play to the credulous wing of the left." You bash
the most outspoken critic of US foreign intervention because she does
not back Nancy Pelosi on impeachment? She made her argument on why she
thought censure was a more appropriate option, we can disagree, but
because we're not in lockstep with liberals on impeachment doesn't
make her supporters dupes or fools. The article denigrates legitimate
political debate, and I am sure it gave many interventionist liberals
great comfort.

Elias P Vlanton

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Tulsi doesn’t support Sanders. He is just a tool she is using to
help elect Trump. This is the same tactic she used in 2016. Having
watched this same scene play out before it is hardly believable that
anyone on the left would fall for it again. Last time it was a
harangue against Hillary Clinton. This time it is just against all
Democrats in general.After watching Impeached Trump in action for
three years who wouldn’t want to defeat him? The answer is
apparently some people on this thread. Impeached Trump must be
defeated. Those applauding Tulsi just want criminal Trump to be
re-elected.

Who cares what she says. Her actions speak for themselves. In visiting
her Congressional Office for over 2 years Indivisible Hawaii found her
to be a serial liar.

Ray Markey

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Re: No Final Defeat
 

This is no time for Corbyn and the new Labor to give up. It's time to
double, triple down and keep up the fight. The Tories will bumble butt
Britain to disaster but a strong united Left Labour  can be there to
pick up the pieces and lead the people of England (because Scotland is
most certainly going to leave the union and perhaps even N. Ireland
and Wales) to a better life, good luck and keep up the fight! 

Mike Liston

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RE: 'A NATIONAL DISGRACE': TRUMP PROPOSES SOCIAL SECURITY CHANGE THAT
COULD END DISABILITY BENEFITS FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSAND
 

Keep trying to tell you Republicans aren't your friends but no one
listens! What else do you need taken before you get the message!

JD Scot

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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So that's how they pay for the rich people tax breaks

Bobby Calimano

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What a true humanitarian who attacks the disabled, the young and
senior's who have a hard enough time getting by day to day now trumpet
will make it even harder. Is there no end to the crimes on humanity
this criminal will bring upon humanity?

Michel Bellefeuille

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Rich get richer the poor are left to die.

Wayne Gravelle

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A president that seeks benefits for the well to do but leaves the poor
to face hardships is not fit for the job he was elected. The sooner he
leaves his position, the better for the majority of Americans.

Rafael Rodriguez

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THEY KILLED FRANK ORDOÑEZ

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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So sad

Alvarado Victor

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Support for the families of the victims is appreciated, it just does
not bring them back.

Rosalina Rosario Melendez

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"On Thursday, December 5th 2019, Frank Ordoñez, 27, a UPS driver and
father of two, was killed in a shootout between police and suspects
fleeing the scene of a robbery. Ordoñez was taken hostage while
covering for a sick coworker when his delivery vehicle was hijacked.
Both suspects, Ordoñez, and a bystander, Rick Cutshaw, 70, a business
agent with OPEIU Local 100, were killed in the exchange of gunfire at
a busy intersection in Miramar, Florida."

Disraelly Gutierrez Jaime

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THE RENT IN THE BAY AREA IS TOO DAMN HIGH. SO THESE MOMS OCCUPIED
A VACANT HOUSE.
 

All we need to do is make a registry of every building that is owned
by land speculators, and occupy them and claim them as vacant
property.

Sionna Breasal

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squatting has a long history.

Linda J McPhee

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THE VERY BAD SPACE FORCE DEAL
 

All together now, kids:

“Oh, I wanna live a life of danger;

I wanna be a Spaaace Ranger!”

Gordon Galland

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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our Democratic reps voted overwhelmingly for this budget

Jim Price

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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xxxxxx ANNUAL FUND APPEAL - NOT FROM A READER IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
 

Thank you for the material that you send to me on a daily basis. It is
always good reading and very much appreciated.

Here in Australia, in many ways, we share similar problems with the
USA - like abuse of human rights of refugees, constitutional
recognition of our indigenous people, attacks on trade union, and of
course, climate change. denial by our government.

Thank you once again from Sydney, Australia (I'm 75 years old - for
context)

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annual Fund Appeal. Thank you xxxxxx Readers! You have contributed
about 25% more than this same time last year.

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THIS IS AMERICA - ELEVEN YEARS AFTER OBAMA’S ELECTION, AND THREE
YEARS INTO THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY, THE THREAT OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM
CAN’T BE IGNORED. (PHOTO ESSAY -  NEW YORK MAGAZINE)
 

Photo Portfolio By Mark Peterson, Introduction By Claudia Rankine, and
Reporting by James D. Walsh

December 19, 2019
New York Magazine
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Members of the Shield Wall Network celebrating Hitler’s birthday on
April 20.
Photo: Mark Peterson/Redux Images  //  New York Magazine
When Dylann Storm Roof walked into the Emanuel African Methodist
Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, he joined the
Bible-study class before gunning down nine African-Americans as they
prayed.

Roof still communicates with his admirers on the outside. In jail, he
began exchanging letters with a man in Arkansas named Billy Roper. A
former schoolteacher and the son and grandson of Klansmen, Roper leads
the Shield Wall Network, a group of several dozen white nationalists
who organize rallies and conferences — often collaborating with
neighboring hate groups — with the goal of building a white
ethno-state.

Roper and Roof are only two of those affiliated with the 148
white-nationalist hate groups in this country. Though it is impossible
to calculate their exact membership numbers (as individual groups
either conceal or inflate them), their violence is indisputable. White
supremacists were responsible for the deaths of at least 39 people in
2018 alone. And the activity has not slowed this year: not in January,
as neo-Nazis plastered flyers outside newspaper offices and homes in
Washington State and the Carolinas and an army veteran pleaded guilty
to killing a black man in New York to “ignite a racial war”; in
February, as Vermont synagogues and LGBT centers were vandalized and a
self-described white-nationalist Coast Guard lieutenant was arrested
for plotting a domestic terror attack; in March, as WELCOME TO GERMANY
and GAS THE JEWS were spray-painted outside Oklahoma City Democratic
Party and Chickasaw Nation offices and, on the Upper East Side,
classmates handed their school’s only black ninth-grader a note
reading “n—–s don’t have rights”; in April, as a shooting at
a synagogue left one dead and three injured and FBI Director
Christopher Wray called white supremacy a “persistent, pervasive”
threat to the country; in May, as swastikas fell from the sky — on
flyers dropped by drones outside an Ariana Grande concert — and were
scrawled on public spaces in at least three states; in June, as
far-right groups rallied in Portland, Oregon, for the first time that
summer; in July, as a man promoted a white-power manifesto on
Instagram before killing three and wounding 17 others at the Gilroy
Garlic Festival in California; in August, as another angry young man
— this one 1,000 miles away in El Paso, Texas — posted an
anti-immigrant manifesto online then committed this year’s most
deadly mass shooting, killing 22 and injuring 24 at a Walmart; in
September, as the Department of Homeland Security added
white-supremacist extremism to its list of priority threats, the same
month a swastika appeared on its walls; in October, as swastikas also
appeared on Cape Cod and invitations to a white-supremacist gathering
were mailed to Maine residents; in November, as a white-supremacist
group filmed a video outside Mississippi’s Emmett Till Memorial; nor
this month, as students flashed possible white-power signs at an
Army-Navy football game.

This rally in Portland, Oregon on August 17 — one of at least eight
such far-right events in major cities this year — was organized by
the Proud Boys
Photo: Mark Peterson/Redux Images  //  New York Magazine
After a white supremacist killed 51 people in two New Zealand mosques
in March, President Trump was asked if he thought the threat of white
nationalism was on the rise. “I don’t, really,” he responded.
“I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious
problems.”

Hate-crime statistics are notoriously difficult to calculate. Local
and state law-enforcement agencies are not required to submit numbers
to the FBI, laws defining hate crimes vary from state to state, and
experts estimate that more than half of all hate crimes go unreported.
According to the FBI, hate-crime violence hit a 16-year high in 2018
with the black, Jewish, Latino, and transgender communities being
targeted more than ever and the nation’s largest cities seeing the
most activity. The FBI’s 2019 numbers won’t be available until
next November, but indications suggest they will continue to trend
upward. The most deadly mass shooting of 2019 was committed by a
xenophobic extremist in El Paso, Texas. “Lone wolf” killers have
found their pack.

Fractured as it may be, the far right is now connected by public
figures arguing for some form of ethno-nationalism. One such figure is
Jared Taylor, founder of the New Century Foundation and the American
Renaissance Conference, which brings together far-right leaders from
various strands of neo-Nazism, the KKK, and the alt-right. Not long
ago, Taylor’s pseudo-intellectual ideas were widely considered
fringe. Now, they have a powerful advocate in the White House: Before
becoming a top Trump adviser, Stephen Miller cited Taylor’s American
Renaissance work to a Breitbart News reporter, suggesting that she
aggregate a recent “AmRen” story on the (specious) link between
immigration numbers and crime rates.

Taylor has also counseled Patrick Casey and Richard Spencer, members
of the alt-right involved in the Unite the Right rally in
Charlottesville. Nate Snyder, a former counterterrorism official in
the Department of Homeland Security, says activity on the neo-Nazi
website Stormfront jumped after the rally. “But when it really hit a
spiking point was directly after the president’s comments, his
infamous words about ‘very fine people on both sides.’ You saw
activity on this thing exponentially spike,” he explains. “It was
a validation point. You started seeing posts like ‘We now have an
ally in the White House. I’m setting up a similar rally in my town.
Let’s take this online action and move it offline and supply it with
money and supply it with people.’ It was a mass mobilization.”

Anthony Petruccelli, member of the National Socialist Movement, is
surrounded by Nazi paraphernalia in his Lynn, MA, apartment in
September.
Photo: Mark Peterson/Redux Images  //  New York Magazine
Photo: Mark Peterson/Redux Images  //  New York Magazine
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WITNESS AT THE BORDER - BROWNSVILLE TX/MATAMOROS MX - JANUARY 12
(WITNESS FUND, INC.)
 

WHERE: BROWNSVILLE TX/MATAMOROS MX

WHEN: ON JANUARY 12, 2020, WE BEGIN A SUSTAINED PRESENCE

WHY: REMAIN IN MEXICO (MPP)

“MPP (Migrant Protection Protocols) are a sham and just one
component in the well oiled machine overtly trying to end asylum in
this country.”--RAICES (Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education &
Legal Services) 

PLEASE JOIN US at the Texas-Mexico border as the VIGIL BEGINS on
January 12, 2020, to highlight the growing humanitarian crisis among
refugees and asylum seekers caused by US immigration policy.  

Activists will gather in Brownsville, Texas to protest the Justice
Dept.’s "tent courts." We are working in cooperation with the ACLU
in their demand for legal transparency and fairness. Activists with
passports may also cross the bridge into Matamoros, Mexico at their
own risk to bear witness to the life-threatening living conditions of
migrants who have been pushed back into Mexico due to recent US
policy. 

Join us on the ground to bring broad public attention to "MPP," the
Migrant Protection Protocols. MPP has forced children and families
back into very dangerous conditions in Mexico. The protest will
continue for a month, or as long as citizens of conscience come to
participate.

“Josh Rubin, [a witness and organizer of the protest], exemplifies
the kind of vision, courage and commitment that is needed to turn back
the tide against the cruelties that are inherent in the immigration
policies promoted by the Trump administration.” --Camilo Perez
Bustillo, Hope Border Institute, TX, and Stanford University, CA

Fill out Witness: MPP sign up sheet
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for travel info and coordination.

Consider supporting the Witness Fund to help others be there: The
Witness Fund, Inc.
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For more info, write to [email protected].

#EndMPP * Follow Witness: Tornillo. Target: MPP
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SAVE THE DATE: POOR PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY AND MARCH ON WASHINGTON, JUNE
20, 2020 (POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN)
 

The Poor People’s campaign recently announced an assembly and march
in Washington. D.C. on June 20, 2020.  Their launch announcement is
below.

On this anniversary of the launch of the Poor People’s Campaign in
1967, we are more urgently committed than ever to building a broad and
deep national moral movement – rooted in the leadership of poor
people – to unite our country _from the bottom up_.

Over the next 200 days, we are going to Mobilize, Organize, Register
and Educate all across the country towards a MASS POOR PEOPLE’S
ASSEMBLY AND MORAL MARCH ON WASHINGTON ON JUNE 20, 2020. Today our
registration is LIVE!

RSVP HERE
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Please spread the word far and wide with our UPDATED Social Media
Toolkit
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On June 20, 2020, we rise to speak truth, to challenge the distorted
moral narrative, and to call this nation to the ethic of love and
justice. We demand action.

We know the poor and dispossessed of this country must organize to
address systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war
economy and the false moral narrative of religious nationalism.

The question isn’t how much it costs to address these moral
issues, _but what it costs us not to_.

When there are 140 million poor, 43% of a nation, who are poor and
low-income, in a country this rich, we must RISE! When over 250,000
people a year, over 600 people a day,
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from poverty and low wealth, we must RISE!

If the rejected millions—the poor without health insurance, without
living wages, without clean water, without voting protections—unite,
we can move the moral and political  imagination of this country and
revive the heart of the nation!

If you believe this movement is important, join us with your financial
support by becoming a monthly sustainer or making a one-time
donation.
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We have solutions that will work
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The only scarcity we need to worry about is the _scarcity of will_.
We are building  power for a long-term moral fusion movement from
the ground up
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from Appalachia to Alabama, Kentucky to California, from the Deep
South to the Wheat Belt.

Jacqueline, somebody is hurting our people and it’s gone on far too
long. We won’t…We can’t…We refuse to be silent anymore. We
must rise in the public square, in pulpits, in the voting booths, in
state capitols and in the Congress.

Together we must rise!

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