9/11 was clearly a false flag operation used to seriously weaken our constitutional rights via the Patriot Act and allow for unending unilateral wars against other nations through the AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE (AUMF).
Our Nation is the Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World
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Why I Protest Drone Warfare & Surveillance
The 9/11 Attack Government Conspiracy
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I am a member of the Oscar Grant Committee. We fully support the prosecution of police who have committed unnecessary violence against people they have interacted. The police should be highly trained in deescalating situations not turning them into an excuse to use violence often fatally in many cases.
The police have shown themselves to be total incapable of positive interaction with those they interact with who have mental problems or episodes. Highly trained unarmed social workers should be first responders to situations of mental crisis. If it is determined by these social workers that armed police might be necessary at the scene, the police should still be under the direction of the social worker as to helping deescalate the situation.
Richmond, CA Police Reform Efforts
Walnut Creek, CA Police Reform Efforts
Hayward, CA Police Reform Efforts
Vallejo, CA Police Reform Efforts
Oakland, CA Police Reform Efforts
The People’s Justice Guarantee – Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley
Unveiling a State-by-State Plan to End our Mass Incarceration Crisis
The 1994 Crime Bill and Beyond: How Federal Funding Shapes the Criminal Justice System
Unveiling a State-by-State Plan to End our Mass Incarceration Crisis
Bernie Sanders Wants Incarcerated People to Vote. Here’s Why He’s Right.
Vast Majority of Americans Favor Keeping Youth Out of Prisons
The Prison Strike Is an Overdue Opportunity to End the Slavery of Incarcerated People
The Family Separation Crisis Exposes America’s Addiction to Incarceration
New Report Examines the Business of Mass Incarceration and the Damage it Does to Democracy
MASS INCARCERATION UNDERMINES OUR DEMOCRACY
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The Green New Deal will convert the decaying fossil fuel economy into a new, green economy that is environmentally sustainable, economically secure and socially just.
The Green New Deal starts with transitioning to 100% green renewable energy (no nukes or natural gas) by 2030. It would immediately halt any investment in fossil fuels (including natural gas) and related infrastructure.
The Green New Deal will guarantee full employment and generate up to 20 million new, living-wage jobs, as well as make the government the employer of last resort with a much-needed major public jobs program.
Our nation – and our world – face a “perfect storm” of economic and environmental crises that threaten not only the global economy, but life on Earth as we know it. The dire, existential threats of climate change, wars for oil, and a stagnating, crisis-ridden economic system require bold and visionary solutions if we are to leave a livable world to the next generation and beyond.
The Green New Deal – Bernie Sanders
What the Green New Deal Will Do
100 percent Clean Energy by 2030 – GP
Need to Invest in Offshore Wind – GP
Landmark ‘United in Science’ Report Informs Climate Action Summit
Climate Science Special Report
The 97% consensus on global warming
Climate Change – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
I find that the United States Government leadership prefers to ignore and/or downplay all the evil actions that have occurred continuously in the United States since its founding. Thus, for our country’s leadership, a nation’s greatness is based solely on its wealth and power in the world regardless of how this wealth and power was obtained. In simple terms they believe in “My Country, Right or Wrong!”.
This was a philosophical principal that allowed Nazi Germany to seize power while ignoring the horrible consequences for tens of millions of people and the near destruction of “human civilization” in WW2.
This has also been the guiding principal of Corporations. Maximizing Shareholder Profits is what makes a corporation “exceptional” and not how it obtains that wealth. Any concern about employees, community, our country, the world, our environment is an afterthought. “My Corporation Right or Wrong”, My Wealth and Power, Right or Wrong” The end result has been the seizure of our government, most of our media and also our social culture by Multi-National Corporations (aka: The Military Industrial Prison Complex, The Deep State).
Profit and Power by any means necessary rules our country! The welfare of the average American means nothing! How is our situation different from what occurred in Nazi Germany! Profit and Power by any means necessary rules our country!
In the words of the scholar activist S. Brian Willson: “The culture and nation state of the United States of America is founded on the egregious and forceful dispossession of others. You might even call it an earlier version of fascism – institutional dehumanization for private profit… So, not only does the lie of “exceptionalism” enable us to avoid extremely unpleasant thoughts and feelings, but it also discourages asking enlightening, delving questions, about who we really are as a people. This makes us dangerously stupid.
Why mess with the apparent successful myth of being exceptional? But thoughtlessness – a suspension of critical thinking – today leads to a dangerous, nuclear, arrogant war-making society. Not unintelligent, but stupid. And the power brokers, and many in the population, have a vested interest in remaining stupid to protect the comfortable original lie, that requires countless subsequent lies, in turn, to preserve that original lie. ”
U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it, an exclusive Post investigation found.
A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.
The documents were generated by a federal project examining the root failures of the longest armed conflict in U.S. history. They include more than 2,000 pages of previously unpublished notes of interviews with people who played a direct role in the war, from generals and diplomats to aid workers and Afghan officials.
The U.S. government tried to shield the identities of the vast majority of those interviewed for the project and conceal nearly all of their remarks. The Post won release of the documents under the Freedom of Information Act after a three-year legal battle.
In the interviews, more than 400 insiders offered unrestrained criticism of what went wrong in Afghanistan and how the United States became mired in nearly two decades of warfare.
With a bluntness rarely expressed in public, the interviews lay bare pent-up complaints, frustrations and confessions, along with second-guessing and backbiting.
Part 1 At war with the truth U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.
Part 2 Stranded without a strategy Bush and Obama had polar-opposite plans to win the war. Both were destined to fail.
Part 3 Built to fail Despite vows the U.S. wouldn’t get mired in “nation-building,” it has wasted billions doing just that.
Part 4 Consumed by corruption The U.S. flooded the country with money — then turned a blind eye to the graft it fueled.
Part 5 Unguarded nation Afghan security forces, despite years of training, were dogged by incompetence and corruption.
Part 6 Overwhelmed by opium The U.S. war on drugs in Afghanistan has imploded at nearly every turn.
Source: THE AFGHANISTAN PAPERS
Green economics is rooted in ecological economics. Our economy should serve us and our planet. Our economy should reflect and respect the diverse, delicate ecosystems of our planet.
Our current economic system is gravely flawed. It is unjust and unsustainable because it is premised on endless economic growth and destruction of nature.
Our market economy, by externalizing the environmental and social costs of greenhouse gas emissions, is creating the greatest market failure in history: climate change, and its devastating effects.
Our government’s top economic goal — increasing Gross Domestic Product — impels us to perpetually intensify our resource use and environmental destruction.
A green economic policy places value not just on material wealth, but on the things which truly make life worth living — our health, our relationships, our communities, our environment, and building peace and justice throughout our nation and the world.
1. We should aim to maximize our quality of life with a minimum of consumption. We need to aspire to less “stuff” but more happiness.
2. We need a shift away from materialism to help people live more meaningful lives as we save the planet from climate change and ever-larger mountains of waste. We need to acquire the ability to distinguish between need and greed.
3. We must also end the colossal waste of taxpayer funds for armaments and war, to reduce our nation’s federal debt, and fund our environmental and social needs.
4. We should be able to provide a green job to anyone who wants one.
5. We must use the tax system to bring more equality to our nation. Rising income inequality makes us all poorer in myriad ways. More equal societies are happier, healthier, safer and greener.
6. We should support strong local economies and regional trade. The best model of economic security is for a community and region to be largely self-sufficient in the production of its necessities.
7. We should oppose the corporate control of “free trade” — which, through the machinations of the World Trade Organization places the enrichment of multinational corporations above the level of national laws.
8. We should support “fair trade,” which protects communities, labor, consumers and the environment. Local economic vibrancy and regional trade keep more money in the community and the region, rather than going to distant corporate headquarters. This is the most sensible model for economic security.
9. We absolutelu must change the legal design of the corporation so that it does not maximize profits at the expense of the environment, human rights, public health, workers, or the communities in which it operates. The giant multinational corporation is the world’s most potent force for environmental and social destruction.
10. Unlike the corporate dominated political parties we must now view economics not as an end in itself but as a service to community development through the building and strengthening of community bonds that constitute the social fabric.
11. We must be defenders of the commons—the vast trove of wealth owned by the people, the social and tangible assets we inherit from generations past. Most people living in this country yearn for a more vibrant and lively commons, such as a richer community life, more parks and protected wilderness, clean air and water, more silence, better access to information and knowledge, and a more nourishing culture.
12. We must stop big business from undermining and stealing our common wealth, such as our public forests and minerals, the fruits of federal research, the public airwaves and the Internet.
Source: Green Party
Howie Hawkins on Budget & Economy
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Green Party Platform on the Issues
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The right to organize unions, bargain freely and strike when necessary is being destroyed by employers and their representatives in government. Today, nearly one out of ten workers involved in union organizing drives is illegally fired by employers who wage a campaign of fear, threats, and slick propaganda to keep workers from exercising a genuinely free choice.
And as union membership falls, so do the wages of all working people, union and non-union alike. We support efforts to overcome these legal handicaps, especially in the South and Southwest where the laws are most hostile. We also must dedicate ourselves to fighting for a complete overhaul of this country’s labor laws.
Source: Green Party
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Green Party Platform on the Issues
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It is imperative that employees enjoy workplace democracy, which includes the following:
Source: Green Party
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Green Party Platform on the Issues
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The right to organize unions, bargain freely and strike when necessary is being destroyed by employers and their representatives in government.
Today, nearly one out of ten workers involved in union organizing drives is illegally fired by employers who wage a campaign of fear, threats, and slick propaganda to keep workers from exercising a genuinely free choice.
And as union membership falls, so do the wages of all working people, union and non-union alike. We support efforts to overcome these legal handicaps, especially in the South and Southwest where the laws are most hostile. We also must dedicate ourselves to fighting for a complete overhaul of this country’s labor laws.
We should support the irreducible right of working people, without hindrance, to form a union and to bargain collectively with their employer. This right was guaranteed under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935.
We support the right of workers, without penalty, to inform other workers on the premises of a union being formed. This includes advertising and recruiting.
It is imperative that employees enjoy workplace democracy, which includes the following:
Source: Green Party
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