Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Jill Stein Tweets

Jill Stein is seeking the Green Party's 2016 presidential nomination:



  1.  Pinned Tweet
     Jun 11
    We're rising in the polls! I need your help to ensure MSM doesn't shut us out. Sign today: 📈
    827 retweets1,631 likes



  2.  1 hour ago
    "Unifying the party" really means suppressing . The only hope of survival is to reject the Democratic Party.
    189 retweets422 likes



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     3 hours ago
    Today folks in the movement are encouraging all to switch their registration from Democrat to Green Party. See:
    126 retweets220 likes



  4.  2 hours ago
    Live near Indianapolis? Come to the Circle City Greens meeting: , , &
    33 retweets65 likes



  5.  3 hours ago
    Reps & Dems collude to keep out competition. Help us by making calls to PA where we're gathering 22k signatures:
    88 retweets162 likes



  6.  3 hours ago
    We don't have because only 9% of health care CEOs support it compared w/ 58% of the public. We need to put people over profit.
    337 retweets633 likes



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     3 hours ago
    Minnesota for Jill Stein will hold their second ballot access meeting this Tues at 6:30p in St. Paul:
    45 retweets85 likes



  8.  5 hours ago
    We can't have peace when corporate politicians put profits of fossil fuel & weapons industries first. Stop the invasions, coups, & drones.✌🏼
    401 retweets694 likes



  9.  
     8 hours ago
    . Meet
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  10.  7 hours ago
    It's possible to cancel student debt for the 43 million Americans who have furthered their education only to be stuck in a predatory system.
    324 retweets786 likes



  11.  
     7 hours ago
    Juan Chávez, killed in one week ago today, was undocumented. Can you help his family pay the burial cost?
    265 retweets152 likes



  12.  8 hours ago
    .'s record: ✅Iraq War ✅NAFTA/TPP ✅Fracking ✅Welfare Reform ✅Mass Incarceration ✅Anti-Gay Marriage Doesn't match her rhetoric.
    1,047 retweets1,554 likes



  13.  
     12 hours ago
    Jill Stein insists it’s her year to get noticed—and she may make it onto 47 state ballots
    398 retweets620 likes



  14.  8 hours ago
    Every contribution you make is currently doubled through federal election matching funds:
    113 retweets209 likes



  15.  10 hours ago
    There is no shortcut through the Democratic Party to building a mass party of the left. -
    125 retweets260 likes



  16.  20 hours ago
    📞 Already on the ballot in your state? Help by calling states like PA, MO, GA where petitioners are hard at work:
    117 retweets228 likes



  17.  20 hours ago
    I was in Philly today talking to voters & petitioning to get on the ballot. Join us in PA:
    191 retweets506 likes



  18.  23 hours ago
    Yes, I'm saying it again: Revolution cannot happen inside of a counter-revolutionary party. A party can't be both revolutionary & corporate.
    626 retweets1,321 likes



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This edition's playlist








1) Nick Jonas' LAST YEAR WAS COMPLICATED.


2) Ben Harper's CALL IT WHAT IT IS.




8)  Carly Simon's MY ROMANCE.


9)  Rickie Lee Jones' THE SERMON ON EXPOSITION BOULEVARD.



10) Sade's SOLDIER OF LOVE.





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WORKING HANDS An interview with photographers David Bacon and Frank Silva By Jackson Nichols

David Bacon's latest book is The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration. Bacon is a journalist who actually covers labor as well as issues to do with poverty and the working class.  








Working Hands - An interview with photographers David Bacon and Frank Silva from Jackson Nichols on Vimeo.




https://vimeo.com/169321492?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_campaign=29220

Interview with workplace photographers Frank Silva and David Bacon, along with ILWU Educator and poet Gene Dennis, at the ILWU main office in San Francisco on May 18, 2016.

"What we are doing here, all three of us, is producing socially conscious art, art that is very consciously part of a social movement for change.  I don't think that is very well respected in our world, in our art world especially.  I don't think you're going to see it at the de Young.  I don't think you're going to see it at the Berkeley Art Museum.  And I think that is wrong.

"There have been periods of time in the history of this country when the art of working people was part of the mainstream, a very well respected part of our culture.  So I think that our show is fighting for something in the art world as well.  For the legitimacy, and not just for the legitimacy, but for the importance of having art that reflects the reality that people are dealing with day to day, and that is part of the movement for social change.

"That's someplace where our art world needs to go.  So I hope we get some curators from some institutions to come and see this show and think about what they're putting on their own walls.  And wondering why there's such a, what I would say, terrible absence of art that really relates to the concerns of the people you see in the photographs that we have on the walls at Photocentral [and the Asian Resource Gallery]."

- David Bacon, from the interview

WORKING HANDS
Photographs of Farm and Recycling Workers by David Bacon
Photographs of Longshoremen by Frank Silva

Photocentral Gallery
1099 E St.
Hayward, CA
6/4 to 8/6/16
Hours:  Mon 5-10pm, Tu & Th 10am - 1pm, Sat 12-3pm

ON THE STREETS : UNDER THE TREES
Homelessness and the struggle for housing in urban and rural California
Photographs by David Bacon

Asian Resource Gallery
317 Ninth St at Harrison
Oakland, CA
May - June, 2016

THE REALITY CHECK - David Bacon blog
http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com

EN LOS CAMPOS DEL NORTE:  Farm worker photographs on the U.S./Mexico border wall
http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=fc67a76dbb9c31aaee896aff7&id=0644c65ae5&e=dde0321ee7
Youtube interview about the show with Alfonso Caraveo (Spanish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJeE1NO4c_M&feature=youtu.be

David Bacon radio review of the movie, Cesar Chavez
https://soundcloud.com/kpfa-fm-94-1-berkeley/upfronts-david-bacon-reviews-film-on-cesar-chavez-and-the-grape-strike

Interviews with David Bacon about his book, The Right to Stay Home:

Book TV: A presentation of the ideas in The Right to Stay Home at the CUNY Graduate Center
http://booktv.org/Watch/14961/The+Right+to+Stay+Home+How+US+Policy+Drives+Mexican+Migration.aspx

KPFK - Uprisings with Sonali Kohatkar
http://uprisingradio.org/home/2013/09/27/the-right-to-stay-home-how-us-policy-drives-mexican-migration/

KPFA - Upfront with Brian Edwards Tiekert
https://soundcloud.com/kpfa-fm-94-1-berkeley/david-bacon-on-upfront-9-20

Books by David Bacon

The Right to Stay Home:  How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration  (Beacon Press, 2013)
http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2328


Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants  (Beacon Press, 2008)
Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008
http://www.beacon.org/Illegal-People-P780.aspx

Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006)
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100558350

The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9989.html

En Español:

EL DERECHO A QUEDARSE EN CASA  (Critica - Planeta de Libros)
http://www.planetadelibros.com.mx/el-derecho-a-quedarse-en-casa-libro-205607.html

HIJOS DE LIBRE COMERCIA (El Viejo Topo)
http://www.tienda.elviejotopo.com/prestashop/capitalismo/1080-hijos-del-libre-comercio-deslocalizaciones-y-precariedad-9788496356368.html?search_query=david+bacon&results=1

For more articles and images, see  http://dbacon.igc.org





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Miller Statement on VA Decision to Dump Faster Firing Authority







US House Rep Jeff Miller (above) is the Chair of the House Veterans Affairs Committee.  His office issued the following last week:

Miller Statement on VA Decision to Dump Faster Firing Authority

For more information, contact: Curt Cashour, (202) 225-3527
Jun 17, 2016

Chairman Jeff Miller released the following statement today regarding the Department of Veterans Affairs’ refusal to use expanded legal authorities that enable the VA secretary to swiftly discipline senior executives for cause.
“Everyone knows VA isn’t very good at disciplining employees, but this decision calls into question whether department leaders are even interested in doing so. After all, VA is a place where egregious employee behavior, such as armed robbery participation and wait-time manipulation, is routinely tolerated. This decision underscores the urgent need for civil-service reform across the federal government that enables leaders to swiftly and efficiently discipline those who can’t or won’t do their jobs – an ability that is presently almost nonexistent.”- Rep. Jeff Miller, Chairman, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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The New York Times
April 22,
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Leading U.S. Disability Organization Condemns Deepak Chopra for Calling Donald Trump ‘Emotionally, Maybe Mentally Retarded’

Last week, the Ruderman Family Foundation issued the following:



Leading U.S. Disability Organization Condemns Deepak Chopra for Calling Donald Trump ‘Emotionally, Maybe Mentally Retarded’
Ruderman Family Foundation calls on Chopra to apologize to Trump and the disability community
Boston, MA – The Ruderman Family Foundation, a national leader in disability inclusion, has strongly denounced New Age guru Deepak Chopra for his comments calling Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump ‘emotionally, maybe mentally retarded.’
“Deepak Chopra’s comments are beyond the bounds and he should immediately publicly apologize to American society and to Mr. Trump for these inappropriate and hurtful comments,” said Jay Ruderman, President of the Ruderman Family Foundation. “These comments are a slur that have the impact on people with disabilities and their families that any other slur directed at someone’s race, religion, or sexual orientation would have on their respective communities. The Foundation has criticized Mr. Trump in the past for his inappropriate mocking of a reporter with a disability. We only see it fair to speak up when someone is inappropriately disparaging Mr. Trump.”
In an interview Tuesday with FOX News Radio, the famed author and alternative medicine advocate, unleashed an attack on Trump and offended the disability community when he said that “Mr. Trump represents the emotional retardation of a 3-year-old” and later in the interview saying, “Maybe I was too kind when I said he was emotionally retarded, maybe he’s mentally retarded too.”
“In the U.S. we are currently going through a super charged political season where emotions are running extremely high. While people can and should have very strong views about the future of our country, it is never acceptable to criticize anyone by describing them with a real life disability which millions of Americans have,” added Ruderman.
For all inquires contact:
Dvir Assouline
(646) 266-4532
About the Ruderman Family Foundation
The Ruderman Family Foundation is an internationally recognized organization, which advocates for the full inclusion of people with disabilities in our society. The Foundation supports effective programs, innovative partnerships and a dynamic approach to philanthropy in advocating for and advancing the inclusion of people with disabilities throughout America.
The Ruderman Family Foundation believes that inclusion and understanding of all people is essential to a fair and flourishing community and imposes these values within its leadership and funding.
For more information, please visit www.rudermanfoundation.org


--
Jake Sharfman | Co-Founder
J Cubed Communications
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Isakson Blasts VA Decision to Ignore Accountability Reforms Passed in Wake of Wait-time Scandal

 







 
 

 Senator Johnny Isakson (above) is the Chair of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee.




FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, June 17, 2016
Amanda Maddox, 202-224-7777
Lauren Gaydos, 202-224-9126



Isakson Blasts VA Decision to Ignore Accountability Reforms Passed in Wake of Wait-time Scandal
‘Choosing to ignore these key reforms is a slap in the face to our veterans… the only way to combat this blatant executive overreach is for the Congress to swiftly pass the Veterans First Act.’
 
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, today released the following statement after being notified by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) that it will no longer use its expedited removal authority to hold VA senior executives accountable.
 
The VA’s decision comes in light of the recent Justice Department decision not to defend key accountability provisions of the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014 against a constitutional challenge from a VA executive who was fired in the scandal.
 
“It is outrageous and unconscionable that the VA is choosing to blatantly ignore all of the accountability reforms set in place by the Veterans Choice Act.  Two years ago, veterans were forced to wait far too long for care because of incompetent executives. Since then, we’ve seen scandal after scandal emerge at the department. While some progress has been made to hold those responsible accountable, there is still a long way to go and choosing to ignore these key reforms is a slap in the face to our veterans.
 
“I am not going to stand by and watch the VA continue to look the other way while another one of its own gets away with egregious misconduct at the expense of veterans’ access to quality care and services. The only way to combat this blatant executive overreach is for the Congress to swiftly pass the Veterans First Act, which I introduced to bring even more accountability reform to the VA.  It is the only pending bill in Congress that can stand up to a constitutional challenge and will offer sweeping accountability reform. I urge my colleagues to pass this much-needed bill to change the culture of corruption at the VA immediately.”
 
Background:
 
Sharon Helman, the former director of the Phoenix VA Health Care System, was fired in 2014 in the wake of the VA wait-time scandal. Helman sued for her job back, saying the Veterans Choice Act is unconstitutional, partly because it does not allow executives to appeal to the full Merit Systems Protection Board, only to an administrative judge at the board.
 
The Justice Department announced that it is refusing to mount a defense against this claim by Helman, saying current law violates the Appointments Clause of the Constitution because the administrative judges are not presidentially appointed whereas members of the board are.
 
The VA informed Chairman Isakson today that because of this, the department would not use any of the accountability reforms established in the Veterans Choice Act to remove executives.
 
Isakson’s Veterans First Act removes the Merit Systems Protection Board from the appeal process for senior executives altogether, avoiding this constitutionality challenge. Isakson’s legislation passed the Senate VA Committee unanimously and awaits action by the full Senate.
 
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The Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs is chaired by U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., in the 114th Congress.

Isakson is a veteran himself – having served in the Georgia Air National Guard from 1966-1972 – and has been a member of the Senate VA Committee since he joined the Senate in 2005. Isakson’s home state of Georgia is home to more than a dozen military installations representing each branch of the military as well as more than 750,000 veterans.


 
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Highlights


 This piece is written by Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude, Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix, Kat of Kat's Korner, Betty of Thomas Friedman is a Great Man, Mike of Mikey Likes It!, Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz, Ruth of Ruth's Report, Marcia of SICKOFITRADLZ, Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends, Ann of Ann's Mega Dub, Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts and Wally of The Daily Jot. Unless otherwise noted, we picked all highlights.




"Back to reality yet?" -- most requested highlight.


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