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NY_20th's JournalRep. Pramila Jayapal arrested with women protestors
https://twitter.com/RepJayapal/status/1012430012916658177Women plan 'civil disobedience' action in Washington against Trump
Women activists are planning a "mass civil disobedience" act in the U.S. capital on Thursday ahead of weekend protests across the country against the Trump administration's immigration policy.
Women's March, a movement that began when President Donald Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 21, 2017, then spread internationally, has called on women to risk arrest at Thursday's protest.
"We are calling for all women to join us for a mass civil disobedience in DC on Thursday, 6/28, to demand this administration stop criminalizing undocumented immigrants and tearing children away from their parents," Women's March said on Twitter.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/women-plan-civil-disobedience-action-in-washington-against-trump/ar-AAzhpak
They aren't wedge issues, stupid.
They are human rights. Civil rights.
We need to fight for our Democracy, our freedoms and our rights.
Democracy and lives are at stake. Wake up.
An encouraging tweet from Rep. John Lewis
https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/1011991303599607808Ocasio Cortez tweet
https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1011842600100384768These are two Democrats, showing how Democrats work together.
Ocasio Cortez is yet another example of Democratic Women dominating the primaries
What does she stand for?
We must also fully fund the offices of public defenders, decriminalize poverty, end arbitration clauses that shield corporate abuses of everyday Americans, and provide comprehensive mental health care to both incarcerated communities and law enforcement.
Mass incarceration is the latest iteration of a long line of policies (Jim Crow, redlining, etc) rooted in the marginalization of African Americans and people of color. Comprehensive criminal justice reform is part of the work that must be done to heal our past and pursue racial justice in the United States.
https://ocasio2018.com/issues
She's quite a bit more than your average OR candidate. She's actually an impressive woman who understands that Civil Rights are just as important as economic rights.
In fact, she's your typical liberal New York Democrat.
I welcome her to Congress. And keep rocking on, women. We will fix this atrocity.
They are planning on running on bigotry and hatred again.
Watch out for these tactics.
1. Creating anger against the Black Lives Matter Movement. Whether they make a big deal about kneeling at an NFL football game, or complaining about Maxine Waters, they are stirring up racism.
2. Creating anger against immigrants and attempting to portray them as criminals. i.e. Travel ban and Horrific border law implementation.
3. Creating anger against the Me Too Movement by using Al Franken as a tool to fuel up anger.
4. Protect the NRA by attempting to portray Democrats as pro-criminal, pro-crime.
We need to knock down this propaganda every chance we get. And it's not just Republicans who will be pushing it.
Russia would like nothing more than to stir up dissention in the United States and they will aid and abet them.
We also need to be aware of idiots who claim to be on the left, i.e. tinfoil hat wearing idiots who lean left but fall for this propaganda time and time again. i.e. Susan Sarandon and Jill Stein.
How Trump's travel ban threatens health care, in 3 charts
Walk into any hospital, but especially rural hospitals, in the US, and you’ll notice something: Many of the people taking care of you probably weren’t born here. Health care in this country is strikingly international, with the largest proportion of foreign-born and foreign-trained workers of any US industry.
According to 2015 data from the Migration Policy Institute, the US medical profession is particularly reliant on immigrant doctors. Of all the active physicians and surgeons, fully 30 percent are immigrants.
When you break it down by medical specialty, foreign-trained doctors do a disproportionate amount of the work in certain areas. They make up more than 50 percent of geriatric medicine doctors, almost half of nephrologists (or kidney doctors), nearly 40 percent of internal medicine doctors, and nearly a quarter of family medicine physicians, according to data from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Compared with US-trained physicians, foreign doctors are also more likely to practice in areas where there are doctor shortages — in particular, in rural areas. (Many enter the US on visas that allowed them to stay if they work in an underserved area for three years after residency.) They’re also more likely to serve poor patients on Medicaid, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found.
https://www.vox.com/2017/2/1/14470746/trump-travel-ban-health-care-doctors
Statement From Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood On Travel Ban Decision
“President Trump’s travel bans are a stain on American history that were rooted in deep anti-Muslim animus and unleashed chaos on families, businesses, institutions, and communities throughout New York. Despite today's ruling, New York will continue to serve as a beacon to the world, welcoming people of all faiths, races, nationalities, and backgrounds.
I’m proud of our work to successfully beat back President Trump’s first two discriminatory bans. My office won’t hesitate to act to protect New York’s families and ensure that we live up to the values on which this state and this nation were built.”
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/statement-attorney-general-barbara-d-underwood-travel-ban-decision
Amnesty International USA Reaction to Supreme Court Ruling on Muslim Ban
The following can be attributed to Ryan Mace, Grassroots Advocacy & Refugee Specialist at Amnesty International USA:
“This hateful policy is a catastrophe all around – not only for those who simply want to travel, work, or study here in the States, but for those seeking safety from violence as well. While this decision doesn’t address the separate and equally harmful ban on refugees, it cruelly traps people in conflict-afflicted countries and prevents them from seeking safety in the U.S. or being reunited with family. Some of the people banned from this policy are fleeing conflicts that the United States has had a direct hand in creating or perpetuating, as is the case in Yemen and Syria. In those cases especially we are essentially lighting a house on fire and locking the escape door shut. This ban, and the anti-Muslim sentiment in which it originated, has no place in a country that claims to value human rights.”
https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/amnesty-international-usa-reaction-to-supreme-court-ruling-on-muslim-ban/
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