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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Activists Fly ‘Hollywood: Stop Enabling Abuse’ Banner Over Hollywood

Activists Fly 'Hollywood: Stop Enabling Abuse' Banner Over Hollywood

The banner was commissioned by the women’s advocacy group Ultraviolet. [ more › ]

Challenging racial supremacy — from Charlottesville to Tel Aviv | +972 Magazine

as long as our recognition and understanding of racial supremacy begins and ends with groups of enraged men chanting and beating up people of color, leftists, and anyone else they see as a target, we will never approach the depth of reckoning needed to effect meaningful change.Racist mobs are not the load-bearers of supremacy; they are its outgrowths. Income inequality; disparities in incarceration rates; education gaps; housing discrimination; lack of representation: these are the constant reality of the effects of racial supremacy, and they pose a far greater challenge than the iconography of statues, ruins and flags. It is our tragedy, and our indictment, that it takes physical violence to make us see what has always been there.———————As I was writing these words on October 7, a group of torch-carrying white supremacists—led by Richard Spencer—again gathered at the Lee statue in Charlottesville, not two months after one of their number murdered Heather Heyer. May her memory be a blessing, as well as the memory of all those killed by the racist mentality she died protesting.

Source: Challenging racial supremacy — from Charlottesville to Tel Aviv | +972 Magazine

Vindicated in UK, Al Jazeera to reveal secrets of US Israel lobby | The Electronic Intifada

The UK documentary in January exposed the activities of Israeli embassy officer Shai Masot, and his efforts to influence political groups in the UK.He had plotted to “take down” senior government minister Alan Duncan, and worked with pro-Israel lawmakers in the Labour Party who exaggerated and faked anti-Semitism in the party, amid plots and coup attempts against leader Jeremy Corbyn – long a Palestine solidarity activist.As a result of the film, Masot was removed from his position as senior political officer and sent back to Israel. Israeli ambassador Mark Regev was forced to make an apology to the UK government.A British civil servant who was recorded with Masot plotting “a little scandal” for Duncan was made to resign.Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn called for a government investigation into the issues raised by the program.

Source: Vindicated in UK, Al Jazeera to reveal secrets of US Israel lobby | The Electronic Intifada

ESPN Is Terrified of Jemele Hill’s Honesty on Racism – The New York Times – White male owners afraid of the truth and of losing wrongful place!

Let’s be clear: The N.F.L. players who refuse to stand for the anthem aren’t protesting the flag or the anthem; they’re objecting to the obscenely high number of unarmed black people brutalized and killed by police officers in the United States. When Jerry Jones says that players can’t be “disrespectful,” what he’s really saying is that black people are not supposed to complain that we are routinely killed by the police, even when unarmed. We are supposed to embrace the idea that our lives should not be valued, because floating the opinion that maybe we shouldn’t be killed for no reason might offend advertisers.

NFL boss Roger Goodell says all players should stand for the national anthem | Sport | The Guardian – F#ck you Goodell for supporting racists! Not about flag – about murder and repression!

In a letter to the league’s 32 teams concerning players’ protests against police brutality, Goodell urged them to ‘move past this controversy’ and ‘honor our flag’

Source: NFL boss Roger Goodell says all players should stand for the national anthem | Sport | The Guardian

Mike Ditka rips NFL protests: ‘There has been no oppression in the last 100 years’

What would he know about oppression of black-americans? Can’t stand it when supposedly progressive publications pimp with dolts to appear to be “fair.” ASk him about football, yes; race oppression, no!

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  • Hall of Fame coach blast players who demonstrated before games
  • Ditka: ‘If you want to work … I think you can accomplish anything”

Hall of Fame coach Mike Ditka said on Monday that he doesn’t believe there has been oppression in the United States “in the last 100 years”.

The 77-year-old Ditka made the remarks during an interview on Westwood One’s Monday Night Football pregame show when asked about the ongoing wave of NFL players opting to sit or kneel during the national anthem as a way to protest social injustice in America.

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Trump’s Plan to Roll Back the Clean Power Plan Will Kill People

He does not believe he is doing anything wrong because he has not a clue what he is doing except pleasing those who don’t care what they are doing!

Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator who made his career off of suing the EPA, has announced that he will sign a rule to roll back President Obama’s central legacy on climate change, the Clean Power Plan. The Clean Power Plan set concrete goals for reducing carbon pollution from power plants that produce our electricity.

Here are five reasons why this roll back is so dangerous.

1. Power plants account for nearly 40% of the United States’ carbon dioxide emissions, which are heating up our atmosphere and leading to more extreme weather events.

2. The EPA estimates that the Clean Power Plan would have prevented 3,600 premature deaths, 1,700 heart attacks, 90,000 asthma attacks, and 300,000 missed days of work or school per year.

3. To repeal the Clean Power Plan, the Trump administration is literally arguing that human beings’ lives and health matter less than the bottom line. That’s heartless and unethical. It’s also wrong. Though fossil fuels are often considered “cheaper” than renewables, that’s because we do not consistently factor in the true societal cost of burning them. Everything from polluted air in cities to the storms and wildfires exacerbated by climate change cost average people a lot of money. We have to pay for damage to our homes, evacuation from disasters, inhalers for our children, heart attacks and illnesses developed after living near power plants, and more. The Obama administration calculated that the Clean Power Plan would be economically beneficial because it took these costs into account. Trump’s EPA wants to take them out of the equation.

4. The people who are the most impacted by climate change and the toxic effects of living near fossil fuel production sites in the United States are mostly low-income, communities of color. Meanwhile, fossil fuel executives would only grow their record profits thanks to fewer restrictions on how much they can pollute our planet while the most marginalized among us pay the consequences.

5. It’s a feminist issue! Around the world, women are more likely to bear the brunt of extreme weather events and less likely to be in the decision-making bodies that control everything from urban planning to foreign climate policy. Blocking bold climate action is another tear in the social safety net that women build and rebuild.

The Trump administration’s proposed repeal likely won’t go down without a legal fight. But let this stand as just one more example of how blatantly the Trump administration is willing to sacrifice the health and safety of Americans for the coffers of their fossil fuel industry cronies — and why it’s vital that all of us fight back.

Header image credit: Union of Concerned Scientists.

I am the woman in the ‘racist Dove ad’. I am not a victim | Lola Ogunyemi | Opinion | The Guardian (Dove screwed up… still)

When Dove offered me the chance to be the face of a new body wash campaign, I jumped. I had no idea I would become the unwitting poster child for racist advertising

Source: I am the woman in the ‘racist Dove ad’. I am not a victim | Lola Ogunyemi | Opinion | The Guardian

Inoreader – Tuesday Open Thread | Mike Pence’s NFL game walkout stunt was planned in advance

In other words, Mike Pence’s walkout stunt today was one hundred percent orchestrated from the start. He wasted a bundle of taxpayer money just so he could attend an NFL game for a couple minutes on the other side of the country, and then post a divisive series of tweets about it. Moreover, Pence tweeted a substantial prepared statement almost immediately after walking out of the game, which had clearly been written in advance.

Source: Inoreader – Tuesday Open Thread | Mike Pence’s NFL game walkout stunt was planned in advance