[mpen-dayton4] FW: "Kick HP out of Massachusetts" & "White Supremacists Love Donald Trump" & "Adios, McCain" and more

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·         FW: 60 Minutes to air wrongful prosecution Chinese scientist this Sunday May 15

·         FW: Kick HP out of Massachusetts

·         FW: Act Now: Defend our Right 2 Boycott in Ohio!

·         FW: We're in deep trouble

·         FW: would you believe

·         FW: Kiss Supreme Court obstruction goodbye?

·         FW: White Supremacists Love Donald Trump

·         FW: Donald Trump still has a hate group problem

·         FW: Taking on gun violence

·         FW: Adios, McCain

·         FW: Sign the pledge: I will Get Out The Vote to defeat Trump

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From: Theresa Lee
Subject: FW: 60 Minutes to air wrongful prosecution Chinese scientist this Sunday May 15

Unless there is unexpected, over-riding news, CBS plans to air a story about wrongful prosecutions of economic espionage including Temple University Professor Xiaoxing Xi and National Weather Service hydrologist Sherry Chen on 60 Minutes on Sunday, May15.   Please watch and make comments on their website.

 

 

From: Liza Behrendt; Organizer, JVP-Boston
Subject: FW: Kick HP out of Massachusetts

Mass Against Hewlett-Packard: Campaign Launch!

Wednesday, May 18 at 6 PM
Friends Meeting At Cambridge: 5 Longfellow Park

RSVP Now

While Massachusetts taxpayer dollars buy Hewlett-Packard (HP) products for local governments, HP profits from institutionalized racism from here to Palestine. Israeli checkpoints, US prisons, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement  all use HP technology to control and segregate people. Let's organize to end contracts with HP and pressure the corporate giant to end its complicity with human rights violations.

Speakers will include Caroline Hunter, who led the successful boycott of Polaroid due to their complicity in South African apartheid; Jason Lydon of Black & Pink; and Tarek Abu-Jbarah of Mass Against HP.

 

 

From: Ted Steinberg and Eleanor Gottesman, Cleveland JVP & Farrell Brody and Connie Hammond, Central Ohio JVP
Subject: Act Now: Defend our Right 2 Boycott in Ohio!

Have you heard that the Ohio House is trying to pass a bill to boycott companies that support the BDS Movement?

Here's what's happening: Since March legislators from both parties have been promoting HB 476, which would prohibit any state agency from contracting with a company that boycotts or divests from Israel. The bill, should it become law, is almost certainly unconstitutional and would create all kinds of problems for the state and the business community.

However, supporters of Palestinian human rights are fighting back. Local Ohio chapters of JVP have joined forces with other peace and activist groups in Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, and elsewhere around the state to form a coalition called Freedom2Boycott in Ohio. We are strategizing and organizing to make sure that Ohio legislators know that many of their constituents support BDS and will defend their right2boycott as protected by the First Amendment!

Tell the Sponsors of the bill and Members of the House Committee on Government Accountability and Oversight to drop this ill-conceived and undemocratic legislation!

The bill is currently before the House Committee on Government Accountability and Oversight, which intends to vote on it next week. Over the last two weeks, organizers in Freedom2Boycott in Ohio have marshaled an overwhelming number of witnesses to testify against this dreadful piece of legislation. Indeed, more people have testified against this bill than against any other bill brought before the committee this year—Palestinians, Muslims, Jews, Christians, teachers, doctors, lawyers, business owners, and many others.

Don’t let the Ohio House cave in to the politics of fear that helps to underwrite the illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories. Add your voice to Ohio residents who support the #right2boycott as a vital political tool.

Take Action

This legislation is part of a nationwide push to stifle the movement for justice in Israel/Palestine, and is a sign of how threatened the anti-Palestinian forces feel by the growing strength and size of our movement.

Let’s use that strength to send a clear message to the bill sponsors and House Committee members: protect our free speech and the right to boycott by opposing HB 476!

If you want to be more involved in supporting this effort by organizing in your town, write to us at cleveland@jvp.org.

 

 

From: Michael Moore
Subject: We're in deep trouble

Hey. It’s Michael Moore. We need to talk.

Now, I know I don’t have to tell you that America is pretty screwed up. (Unless you were really confused when you signed up for MoveOn’s email list.) The lead crisis in Flint. The Senate refusing to do its basic constitutional duty and vote on a Supreme Court nomination. The mass shootings so commonplace that most of them don’t even get news coverage anymore. And Trump. Oh, Trump.

America’s in pretty big trouble right now, and the only way it’s going to get fixed is with regular folks like you and me fighting back.

MoveOn is doing incredible work fighting back on all these issues. And so here’s my ask: If you have any money you can spare, will you make a donation to MoveOn Civic Action? Every little bit helps. Even a buck or two. And just to sweeten the deal, if you donate $27 or more, I’ll send you a DVD copy of my latest movie, "Where to Invade Next."

How about it? Are you in?

Click here to chip in. If you give $27 or more, you'll get a DVD copy of "Where to Invade Next."

The movie is about progressive ideas that we could adopt right here in America. But it’s also about how change happens—and how what seems impossible can become real, if we just work together to create an alternative.

OK. So we have problems. What are we going to do about it? You know, besides watching my movie.

I know I already said make a donation to MoveOn. And I’m going to get back to that. But I actually have a longer to-do list for you.

First, vote. And make your friends and family vote. I know, it’s basic. But year after year, millions of people don’t bother, and we’re never getting out of this mess until that changes.

Second, find a candidate you believe in and sign up to volunteer. I don’t care who it is. Someone running for city council, mayor, Congress, president, whatever. If you can’t find anyone, then pick an office to run for and run yourself.

But I want you to commit to spending at least as much time working on a campaign this year as you do watching "Game of Thrones." Tweeting and Facebooking about politics doesn’t count. You have to get out in the real world and talk to actual breathing humans.

OK, then last but not least, chip in whatever you can to MoveOn.

And again, if you donate $27 or more, I’ll send you a DVD copy of my latest movie, "Where to Invade Next." (Not that you, as a good, altruistic MoveOn member, would ever be so materialistic as to be motivated by such a crass commercial offer.)

Oh, and one more thing you can do: watch the movie, of course! 

Click here to chip in today.

 

From: M. Basheer Ahmed
Subject: FW: would you believe

Sadiq Khan, London’s First Muslim Mayor

LONDON — Sadiq Khan was elected Mayor of London on Friday, making him the most powerful Muslim politician in the Western world.

He won a resounding victory in the capital despite a hostile campaign by Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party, which attempted to link the South Londoner to terrorism and extremists.

Claims that Khan could not be trusted to protect London’s 8.5 million inhabitants backfired spectacularly, with senior Conservatives admitting that the divisive campaign drove voters away from the party.

Former Conservative chairwoman Sayeeda Warsi said her party’s strategy would cause lasting damage. “Our appalling dog whistle campaign for #LondonMayor2016 lost us the election, our reputation & credibility on issues of race and religion,” she wrote on Twitter as the results came in.

With most of the first round votes counted, the Labour candidate had a lead of around 9 percent.

Khan, whose father became a bus driver when he moved to Britain from Pakistan, will command a $23 billion annual budget and oversee London’s policing, housing and transport infrastructure.

The 45-year-old former human-rights lawyer was elected as a Member of Parliament for Tooting in South London just 11 years ago but he rose quickly through the Labour ranks.

In 2009, he became the first Muslim member of the British Cabinet, which required him to be sworn in by the Queen. He told the New Statesman: “The palace called me and said, ‘What type of Bible do you want to swear on?’ When I said the Quran, they said, ‘We haven’t got one.’ So I took one with me.”

Khan is a devout Muslim, who refrains from drinking alcohol, but he has often explained that his faith is just one facet of his character. “We all have multiple identities: I’m a Londoner, I’m British, I’m English, I’m of Asian origin, of Pakistani heritage, I’m a dad, I’m a husband, I’m a long-suffering Liverpool fan,” he said.

Zac Goldsmith, Khan’s Conservative opponent, started the race to replaceBoris Johnson as a popular figure with a reputation for political independence who was best known for his advocacy of ecological issues.

His image has since been tarnished in the eyes of many Londoners who were disappointed by the tone of his campaign.

Shazia Awan, a former Conservative Party candidate, broke ranks ahead of Thursday’s vote to accuse her party of running a “racist” election campaign. She told the Daily Beast she was relieved by the result.

“I’ve voted Labour for the first time in my life and it is David Cameron’s and Zac Goldsmith’s vile racially charged rhetoric that has made me do so. We will not tolerate the vitriolic politics of hate,” she said. “We do not want the divisive campaign of Donald Trump in the U.K.”

Earlier this year, Members of Parliament debated whether Trump should be prevented from visiting Britain under hate speech laws after he proposed a ban on Muslims entering the United States.

If the presumptive Republican nominee where ever able to enforce his pledge, the Mayor of London, one of Washington’s closest allies, would be denied the right to attend summits in the U.S. or even travel to the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan.

Andrew Boff, the former leader of the Conservatives in the London Assembly, said his party would suffer lasting ramifications from the attempt to pit its diverse communities against one and other. “I don’t think it was dog whistle politics because you can’t hear a dog whistle. Everybody could hear this. It was effectively saying that people of conservative religious views are not to be trusted and you shouldn’t share a platform with them. That’s outrageous,” he told the BBC. “It has done lasting damage.”

Khalid Mahmood, a fellow Muslim MP who has represented Birmingham for 15 years, told The Daily Beast he had been stunned by the decision to target Khan’s religion. “I was surprised to see some of the attacks which were personal to Sadiq,” he said. “The people of London have spoken and I think that should be a lesson to all politicians who try to go down that route because people are not prepared to take that.”

Before launching his own unlikely bid to become mayor, Khan developed a reputation as a fearsome campaigner. It was he who engineered Ed Miliband’s ill-fated victory over his brother David in the contest to be Labour leader in 2010.

He then oversaw two election campaigns in London where the party performed far better than it did in the rest of the country under Miliband’s leadership. He was considered an outsider to win Labour’s mayoral nomination, and when he did, Goldsmith was immediately installed as the favorite to win their head-to-head match up.

If his political star continues to rise at this pace, we may be looking at a contender to become Britain’s first Muslim prime minister.

 

 

From: Jo, Manny, Justin R., Emily, and the rest of the team, MoveOn.org Political Action
Subject: Kiss Supreme Court obstruction goodbye?

Chuck Grassley, the Republican from Iowa who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, has made the choice to hold no hearings and have no vote on President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court.

Because of his unprecedented obstruction, he's facing his toughest re-election campaign ever this November, and a major new poll shows that his approval ratings back home are "tumbling."^1,2

If Chairman Grassley relents to salvage his job, it'll create a domino effect. Other rank-and-file Republicans, who also are feeling the heat, will join him to end their obstruction.

That's why we've launched a powerful ad, a billboard, and a hard-hitting social media campaign featuring Iowans who have voted—and even volunteered—for the senator. These prior supporters are saying openly and plainly that they've lost their respect for Grassley and won't vote for him, because he's playing politics with the Supreme Court. Chairman Grassley has already been forced to respond to these comments, so we know our strategy is working.³

Can you chip in to help us keep the pressure on Chairman Grassley and end the Republican blockade of the Supreme Court?

Donate: $10   Express Donate: $40   Express Donate: $150   Donate another amount

Chairman Grassley could end his party’s reckless Supreme Court obstruction in a minute. But he won’t budge until he has proof that choosing party loyalty over his constituents will cost him his re-election. And that's where our campaign comes in.

At our news conference in Des Moines on Tuesday, Jack L. from Cedar Rapids explained that his family has supported Sen. Grassley since his first election to Congress more than four decades ago and that he volunteered on the senator's campaigns in high school even before he could vote. But he said that he feels "betrayed" by Sen. Grassley and will not vote for him in November.

Jack is one of a delegation of Iowans we're bringing to Washington, D.C., this week to confront Chairman Grassley directly and to tell their stories to the national media.

But we need your help to ensure that Sen. Grassley sees and hears these courageous Iowans wherever he goes. And that means flooding social media, putting their stories in every newspaper in Iowa, organizing events at his offices in Iowa, flying them to Washington, D.C., and more.

Please stand with Jack and the many other Iowans who are speaking out by chipping in now.

Donate: $10   Express Donate: $40   Express Donate: $150   Donate another amount

Chairman Grassley is feeling enormous pressure. He even called out MoveOn in an email asking his campaign donors for help.⁴

But we can't let up. There's just so much at stake—every day that goes by without a confirmed Supreme Court nominee is another day of Citizens United on the books, of more women attempting "self abortions" because their states have forced women's health centers to close, and so much more.⁵

We must force Senate Republicans to end their obstruction of the Supreme Court. Will you help us keep the pressure up by chipping in now?

Donate: $10   Express Donate: $40   Express Donate: $150   Donate another amount

Sources:

1.       "Poll: Supreme Court blockade eroding support for Grassley," Politico, May 2, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/3611?t=17&akid=164904.1195276.WxlurE

2.       Tweet by Jason Noble, April 22, 2016
https://act.moveon.org/go/3313?t=19&akid=164904.1195276.WxlurE

3.       "MoveOn.org Political Action campaign takes aim at Sen. Chuck Grassley," CBS 2 and Fox 28, May 3, 2016 
http://act.moveon.org/go/3594?t=21&akid=164904.1195276.WxlurE

4.       Email from Anne Roth, Grassley Deputy Campaign Manager, to campaign supporters, April 22, 2016

5.       "Up to 240,000 Women Have Tried to Give Themselves Abortions in Texas," Mother Jones, November 17, 2015
http://act.moveon.org/go/3612?t=23&akid=164904.1195276.WxlurE

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From: Mike Honda
Subject: White Supremacists Love Donald Trump

A man called William Johnson just became a delegate for Donald Trump in California.

Johnson leads the American Freedom Party, whose stated mission is "to represent the political interests of White Americans" and protect "the customs and heritage of the European American people."

In other words, William Johnson is a white supremacist, who leads what the Southern Poverty Law Center calls one of the most prominent white nationalist groups in the United States. In 1985, Johnson published a book called Amendment to the Constitution: Averting the Decline and Fall of America, which advocates for the abolition of the 14th and 15th Amendments and the deportation of all nonwhites in the United States.

This is not the first time the presumptive Republican nominee for President has been singled out by racists as their candidate of choice. Don’t forget, Trump was also endorsed by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

Trump has repeatedly failed to firmly denounce support from dangerous hate groups and bigots. He cannot be allowed to become President. Stand with us today by chipping in $25 to send progressive leadership, not hate, to Washington this November.
     

Paid For By Mike Honda for Congress

 

 

From: Southern Poverty Law Center
Subject: Donald Trump still has a hate group problem

White nationalist leader named a Trump delegate in California

Donald Trump is once again trying to distance himself from the racists flocking to support him – this time in California, where the head of the white nationalist American Freedom Party (AFP) has been selected as a Trump delegate for the state’s primary. The Trump campaign is blaming a “database error.” The AFP recently funded racist, pro-Trump robocalls in key state primaries.   READ MORE

 

 

From: Nina Agrawal, MD and David Berman,DO; Co-Leaders of the DFA Gun Violence Prevention Campaign
Subject: Taking on gun violence

When it comes to addressing gun violence, doctors and medical students have proven ourselves to be one of the most effective messengers.

Together, we have made national and international news to raise awareness for the 20-year ban on gun violence research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We’ve led over 100 of the Nation’s leading medical and public health groups -- including the American Medical Association-- to support ending the effective ban on gun violence research. Our voices are having a tremendous impact.

In order to keep up this important work we must chip in more than our time. We need to raise funds to keep fighting to reduce gun violence and make our communities safer. Without your generous donation, Doctors for America won't be around to fight these important battles.

Can we count on you to join Don Nguyen in donating today to help us keep fighting to reduce gun violence? Don has agreed to match your donations up to $1,000.

As doctors, we know the long-lasting devastation that comes with gun violence, with 91 Americans who die each day and the 108 who are injured. It is so important for us to keep speaking up. There has never been a better time to maximize your donation. Please consider giving today.

 

 

From:  Ben, Online Engagement Director; Take Back the Senate
Subject: Adios, McCain

Here’s a chance to flip the US Senate and unseat Sen. John McCain!

Lest we forget, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank yesterday reminded us that it was McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008 that kicked the door wide open for a presidential candidacy like Donald Trump’s -- actually calling Palin the “political mother of Trump.”

Sen. McCain is responsible for Palin and Trump’s brand of know-nothing rabblerousing making to the mainstream of Republican -- and American -- politics. If no McCain, then no Palin … and if no Palin, then no Trump … it’s that simple.

Thank Senator McCain for his part in our national Trump-fueled nightmare now by helping us pack his bags and boot him out of office in November. Donate>>

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Earlier message from PFAW president Michael Keegan:

This week, we’re up on the air with a Spanish-language ad in Arizona targeting both Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake for their obstruction of President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination AND tying it to Donald Trump leaving his own mark on the Court.

Here’s why the timing is so, so crucial, and why RIGHT NOW is when we need to pile on:
         

·         Sen. McCain is up for re-election this year and the most recent polling shows him in a DEAD HEAT with his Democratic challenger Ann Kirkpatrick.

·         He’s vulnerable in part because of his refusal to do his constitutional duty regarding the Supreme Court vacancy, and in part because Trump will be at the top of the Republican ticket, and nearly a quarter of the Arizona electorate is comprised of Latino voters (who overwhelmingly reject Trump and could decide the election).

·         McCain was JUST in the news this week for callously brushing off the question of whether Trump should retract his famous statement that Mexican immigrants are "rapists" and criminals with an, “Oh, I don’t know.” He doesn’t know?!

We need 1,236 members to pitch in with a contribution before the end of the day TOMORROW to help keep the pressure on these senators!

Will you make a donation right now to help us keep up the pressure at this critical time and help fund our 2016 electoral programs, like Latinos Vote!?

Sen. Jeff Flake, for his part, also just made some news this week when he admitted the dishonesty of the bogus Republican line that their blockade on filling the Supreme Court vacancy is about letting the voters decide who should pick Justice Scalia’s replacement.

Flake said the real principle they’re fighting for is to have the most conservative jurist they can get on the Court, NOT that the people ought to decide in the next election.

We’re exposing their lies, and, together, we can run the table and win a series of historic victories to clear the way for real progress!

1. We’re going to keep the heat on ALL these Republican obstructionist senators…
2. We’re going to confirm President Obama’s nominee, fill the vacancy, and change the balance on the Supreme Court for the first time since the Nixon administration… AND
3. We’re going to take back the Senate from Mitch McConnell’s current radical, obstructionist, right-wing majority.

It’s going to take a lot of work … and we won’t do it without your help, Munsup.

That’s why I’m hoping you’ll stand with us and make a donation to support this work today>>

Script of Spanish language radio ad, translated into English:

Setting: Music under…
We know the Supreme Court makes some of the most important decisions affecting our friends, families, and community on issues like immigration, voting rights, and health care.
So why are Senators McCain and Flake refusing to do their job - and blocking President Obama's nominee?
Is it because they want to see Donald Trump - the man who called Mexican immigrants rapists and drug dealers - get to name our next Supreme Court Justice?!
By not doing their job, our Senators are playing dirty Republican tricks.
What a disgrace!
McCain and Flake need to confirm President Obama's Supreme Court nominee - and stop doing Donald Trump's bidding.
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Paid for by People For the American Way(www.pfaw.org) and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. People For the American Way is responsible for the content of this advertising.

 

 

From: Michael Langenmayr; Daily Ko
Subject: Sign the pledge: I will Get Out The Vote to defeat Trump

Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee. We cannot allow him to become the President of the United States.

We must commit to doing all we can do to elect a Democratic president in November—which means making phone calls, knocking on doors, registering voters, contacting friends and more to help drive a huge voter turnout.

Sign the pledge: I will help Get Out The Vote to defeat Donald Trump. We absolutely must do everything we can to stop him from getting to the White House.

Trump's toxic mix of racism, sexism and vulgarity is dangerous—even right-wing pundits are renouncing the GOP, declaring that Trump would be a disaster for the country and the world.

Simply put, Trump is tearing the Republican Party apart. He could sink the entire Republican ticket this fall, putting on the table Senate seats, governors offices, and state legislatures that otherwise wouldn't be competitive—maybe even putting the GOP's extremely-gerrymandered House majority in jeopardy.

We can win this fall—and win big. But only if we start mobilizing our base of supporters right now.

Sign the pledge to help Get Out The Vote for Democrats this fall. We'll contact you as the election nears to put you in touch with Democrats in must-win races.

Can't volunteer? Chip in $3 to Daily Kos to help us get voters to the polls.

 

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