Coretta Scott King on Attorney General Jeff Sessions

DC Politics National Politics

Little Rock   During the US Senate debate on the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions, which was ultimately achieved, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren was silenced in the debate for trying to read the following letter in opposition to his approval. Statement of Coretta Scott King on the Nomination of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for the United …

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Looking at the Indivisible Guide for Progressive Tea Party

Community Organizing National Politics Organizing

New Orleans   Some groups are forming in Congressional Districts as part of the resistance to President Trump’s agenda and are deliberately mimicking the Tea Party’s earlier playbook when they were opposing any and all Obama. Several groups are using Indivisible in their names having been inspired by the Indivisible Guide, which is described as having …

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Is a Progressive Tea Party a Good Idea?

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues National Politics Organizing

New Orleans   The other day I was warning that progressives speaking out and organizing against some policies and programs of the new administration were already being lectured by the mainstream media, as some call it, about how boycotts should be conducted and whether or not anarchists attaching themselves to demonstrations could be disciplined. Today’s story …

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