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· (July 8) FW: Nominations are being accepted for the 2016 Access to Justice Awards.
· (July 10) FW: Event for Gov. Strickland in Tipp City
· FW: Call Rep. Turner to tackle gun violence now!
· FW: Ombudsman Office Weekly Update 6-24-2016
· FW: OHIO AFRICAN DIASPORA DIALOGUE
National Issues
· FW: Your member of Congress needs to listen on #GunSafety!
· FW: This: Sign ECU's card to John Lewis!
· FW: Guns, Guns and more Guns
· FW: "Abigail Fisher's Supreme Court loss: A massive blow to mediocre white people coasting on their racial privilege"
· FW: Deep Thoughts...
· FW: Sign the petition: Stop the Koch Brothers' attack on veterans
· FW: Stronger Together? Monmouth Poll Says Only Winning VP Pick Is Bernie
· FW: Guess who just proposed raising the Medicare eligibility age (hint: it's Paul Ryan)
· FW: Make America White Again" campaign signs removed - WRCBtv.com | Chattanooga News, Weather & Sports
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From: Karla Garrett Harshaw; Regional Director of Development, Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc.
Subject: FW: Nominations are being accepted for the 2016 Access to Justice Awards.
Nominations are being accepted for the 2016 Access to Justice Awards.
Individuals, organizations and businesses will be recognized for providing extraordinary assistance to low-income and disadvantaged people in our community by helping them to gain access to justice and secure stability in their lives. Nominees may be an attorney or other advocate who has demonstrated concern and dedication to assisting individuals in need.
Honorees will be selected for the following: Lloyd O'Hara Public Interest Law Award that recognizes attorneys; Community Advocacy Award for activism; and Community Impact Award for long-term enhancements for low-income area residents. (All nominees must reside in the Miami Valley and may not be employed by ABLE, GDVLP or LAWO.)
The awards will be presented at the Access to Justice Awards Gala to be held Thursday, November 3 at 5:30 p.m. at the Sinclair Community College Ponitz Center. The event is presented by Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. (ABLE), Greater Dayton Volunteer Lawyers Project, Inc. (GDVLP), and Legal Aid of Western Ohio, Inc. (LAWO), organizations that provide free legal assistance to low-income individuals and families facing housing, domestic violence, elder abuse, disability, public benefits and consumer issues, education, and immigration concerns.
>> Submit a nomination form online at www.ablelaw.org/a2j-mv-2016
If the online form is not used, please include the following:
o A cover page should include the nominee's name, address, telephone number, email address, and name of the award that is being pursued. Also, include the nominator's contact information.
o Describe the reasons for your nomination. (Essay or list, 700 words or less.) Attachments may be included.
o Lloyd O'Hara Award: Describe how the individual or firm has represented minority, disabled or disadvantaged clients; Describe how the nominee has made a significant or lasting benefit to clients represented; Describe the urgency, difficulty and impact of the work provided.
o Community Advocacy Award: Describe the grassroots organizing, public education or community advocacy performed by the individual or organization you are nominating; How does this work benefit lowincome, disadvantaged people or communities?
o Community Impact Award: Describe the types of improvements this individual, organization, business or government has made in the lives of low-income people; How has this work improved the economic, educational and/or living conditions and opportunities for low-income or minority communities?
Nominations not submitted using the online form, may be submitted by email to kharshaw@ablelaw.org or mailed to: Access to Justice Awards, 130 W. Second St., Suite 700, Dayton, OH 45402. The deadline for nominations is Friday, July 8, 2016.
A selection committee, comprised of community representatives, will choose the honorees. If you have questions regarding the nomination process, please contact Karla Garrett Harshaw at (937) 535-4432.
Honoring extraordinary service in the public interest by individuals and organizations in the Miami Valley.
From: Katie Hough; Strickland for Senate
Subject: Event for Gov. Strickland in Tipp City
I wanted to make sure you knew about an event that Dee and Kelly Gillis and Mark and Rachel Livengood are hosting in support of Ted Strickland's Senate campaign on July 10th at 1:30 pm at the Rusty Harden Art Studio (120 West Broadway, Tipp City, OH). We'd love to have you there! You can RSVP here or call me on my cell at 412-398-5552.
From: Jo, Manny, Emily, Mark, and the rest of the MoveOn team, MoveOn.org Civic Action
Subject: Call Rep. Turner to tackle gun violence now!
Last week, House Democrats staged a historic sit-in for gun violence prevention. But House Republicans did everything in their power to thwart any meaningful progress to stem the epidemic of gun violence in America.
House Democrats won't back down in the face of outrageous GOP obstruction. They've vowed to return to Washington, D.C. after recess and resume the fight. So we have to put Republicans on notice that MoveOn members will fight alongside House Democrats until we win meaningful gun violence prevention legislation.
Wednesday morning, led by civil rights champion Congressman John Lewis, House Democrats refused to engage in business as usual. They called for the House to vote on solid gun violence prevention measures, such as a bill to mandate universal background checks on all gun sales, which the vast majority of Americans support.
But even though Democrats didn't prevail in last week's action, as they headed home for recess, their message was clear: We're coming back to Washington after recess, ready to resume the fight, because now is the time for real action on gun violence.
MoveOn members agree. In the wake of the tragic mass shooting at an LGBT club in Orlando, FL, nearly 600,000 MoveOn members signed a petition calling for a total ban on assault weapons. And as the Senate prepared to vote on universal background checks, MoveOn members made more than 15,000 calls, flooding Senate offices.
Can you pick up the phone and call Representative Michael R. Turner now?
Here's where to call:
- Representative Michael R. Turner; Dayton, OH: 937-225-2843
You can say, "Enough is enough. Enough obstruction and inaction. Reinstate an assault weapons ban and pass universal background checks. Stand up for the safety of your constituents and stop doing the NRA's bidding."
Click here to report your call.
Want to support our work? MoveOn member contributions have powered our work together for more than 17 years. Hundreds of thousands of people chip in each year—which is why we're able to be fiercely independent, answering to no individual, corporation, politician, or political party. You can become a monthly donor by clicking here, or chip in a one-time gift here. Contributions to MoveOn.org Civic Action are not tax deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes.
From: David K. Greer
Subject: FW: Ombudsman Office Weekly Update 6-24-2016
Dear Members of the Ombudsman Board of Directors, Elected Officials and Colleagues:
This week your Ombudsman Office opened 20 new cases on City of Dayton Engineering, City of Dayton Water, Disability Assistance, Food Stamps, Medicaid, Social Security, and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles for households in Brookville, Dayton, Germantown, Kettering, Miamisburg, Riverside and Trotwood. We provided brief assistance or referrals to an additional 35 households in Centerville, Dayton, Kettering, Moraine, Trotwood, Vandalia and West Carrollton about Dayton Municipal Court, Food Stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, the Department of Labor, GDPM, landlord-tenant concerns, the Attorney General's office, the Ohio Civil Rights Commission and the Ohio Department of Insurance.
We assisted a victim of domestic violence to obtain a state identification card, which was destroyed by her husband. He had also destroyed all their tax documents and other significant documents needed to prove identify. We were able to assist her in replacing or recreating the documents she needed for the id.
Our Long-Term Care Ombudsmen received complaints about 11 facilities this week concerning physical abuse, unresponsive staff, menu quality, temperature, cleanliness, billing, staff lack of respect, and odors. We participated in 10 regulatory surveys of the Ohio Department of Health by providing the complaints we have verified in the facilities and the activities observed by volunteers and staff when visiting the facilities being surveyed. We provided information about how to select a nursing home and information about residents' rights to another 12 persons. We received the results of a discharge hearing from last week, and the resident was also to remain in the facility of her choice.
Unfortunately, we are investigating yet another case of possible financial exploitation by a Power of Attorney of an elderly couple's resources. These come to our attention when the bills are not paid.
With regards,
Diane Welborn; Ombudsman
From: Migwe Kimemia; Program Director, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Subject: OHIO AFRICAN DIASPORA DIALOGUE
Greetings community members,
This is to inform you that the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a global peace and social justice organization that was founded in 1917. The AFSC Dayton program empowers African immigrants and refugees to lift up their voices and pursue their hopes and dreams for a better life in Ohio. The program also advocates for immigrant-friendly policies and programs, such as the Welcome Dayton Plan, and the New African Immigrants Commission in Ohio.
I am particularly pleased to inform you that AFSC plans to spearhead a campaign urging the State of Ohio Governor to appoint African immigrants to the "New African Immigrants Commission" that was passed by Ohio General Assembly in 2009. Please read the roles and responsibilities of the commission in these links:
http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4112.31
http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4112.32
http://www.governor.ohio.gov/Portals/0/Boards%20and%20Commissions%20Application%20Final.pdf
Meanwhile, I will keep you informed about AFSC's campaign strategy and other relevant information on immigrant integration and leadership in Ohio.
From: Gloria, Kristin, Nina and the entire MomsRising team
Subject: Yourmember of Congress needs to listen on #GunSafety!
Welcome your U.S. Representative home with a #GunSafety message!
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The Orlando shooting happened just two weeks ago. It was the worst mass shooting in our history, but Congressional inaction continues. Without taking a single vote on gun safety, your member of Congress returned home to your state to take a break and to celebrate the 4th of July with family, friends and constituents.
Would you help remind your member of Congress that when it comes to the tragedy of American gun violence, there's no time left for breaks?
This week, leading up to the 4th of July weekend, would you drop off MomsRising's "Welcome Home" gun safety packet to your U.S. Representative's local office?
Sign up to deliver the "Welcome Home" gun safety packet now. When you sign up, we'll give you everything you need to make the delivery at your convenience.
Since the Newtown mass shooting tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the U.S. House of Representatives has not held a single vote on gun safety policy. Not one. This is not right, and this is not acceptable, and we need your help to let your member of Congress know! Why? Because the current situation is simply not okay. More than 20,000 children are injured or killed by guns each year,[1] more than 33,000 people are killed by guns each year, [2] and just recently 49 people in #Orlando were gunned down in a LGBTQ+ safe space on Latinx night by a mass shooter using a military-style assault weapon with a high capacity magazine that has no legitimate civilian use.[4]
Elected leaders really sit up and take notice when they hear from their constituents at home. It shows you are paying attention and expect them to do their job. This week, members of Congress are home in their states, and it's the best opportunity for MomsRising members to really make a difference on gun safety by showing up IN PERSON! It's easy. All you need to do is drop off some materials.
This week, before the 4th of July weekend, would you drop off MomsRising's "Welcome Home" gun safety packet to your U.S. Representative's local office?
Sign up to deliver the "Welcome Home" gun safety packet now.
The "Welcome Home" gun safety packet includes a coloring page of the Statue of Liberty (crying because of gun violence), and a gun safety message with information and stories that help you tell your member of Congress that you are looking to him or her to take action.
You can personalize the packet by giving the Statue of Liberty to your child to color or coloring it yourself (though if you don't have time, delivering it without coloring it is fine too!). And don't forget to sign the message!
Dropping off the "Welcome Home" gun safety packet is easy and will have an impact! Sign up, and we'll tell you exactly what to do!
Sign up to deliver the "Welcome Home" gun safety packet now.
Together, we will be a strong force for safer families and communities.
[1] "More Kids Suffer Firearm Injuries Than Researchers Previously Believed, Study Finds," ABCNews, Oct. 17, 2011.
[2] National Center for Health Statistics: All Injuries, CDC.
[3] "Orlando Gunman Attacks Gay Nightclub, Leaving 50 Dead," The New York Times, June 12, 2016.
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Subject: FWD This: Sign ECU's card to John Lewis!
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From: albert baca
Subject: FW: Guns, Guns and more Guns
Must Read: Attached if you want to read it in word.
THE BUSINESS AND POLITICS OF SELLING GUNS
By Evan Osnos
The New Yorker; 26 June 2016
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/37672-focus-the-business-and-politics-of-selling-guns
From: Judy Burnette
Subject: FW: "Abigail Fisher's Supreme Court loss: A massive blow to mediocre white people coasting on their racial privilege"
http://www.salon.com/2016/06/23/abigail_fishers_supreme_court_loss_a_massive_blow_to_mediocre_white_people_coasting_on_their_racial_privilege/
From: Judy Burnette
Subject: Deep Thoughts...
This pretty well sums it all up ! ! ! !
From: Paul Hogarth; Daily Kos on behalf of Rick Hegdahl; Iraq War Veteran, VoteVets
Subject: FW: Sign the petition: Stop the Koch Brothers' attack on veterans
Have you seen this? It is outrageous that the Koch Brothers and other right-wingers want to privatize health care for veterans.
Sign the petition by Daily Kos and VoteVets urging the V.A.'s "Commission on Care" to stop trying to privatize veterans' health care.
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There are over 8 million veterans enrolled to receive a wide range of services through the Veterans Administration. In 2013 alone, the VA accommodated almost 90 million outpatient visits; that's an average of almost 250,000 appointments every day.
Those numbers should help explain why for-profit hospitals and people like the Koch Brothers are fighting so hard to privatize veterans' health care.
I served two tours in Kuwait during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and I get great care from the VA. And while we should always strive to decrease wait times, I am not alone. According to independent polls, over 90% of veterans approve of their inpatient and outpatient care through the VA.
In 2014 after the VA crisis, Congress passed a large veterans health care bill that authorized funds to hire more doctors and nurses to keep up with the influx of veterans recently returned from two new wars overseas. But the legislation also called for a commission to develop recommendations for improving veterans' health care (The Commission on Care). And I am sad to tell you, a number of members of the commission are trying to phase out all VA hospitals and clinics over the next two decades.
We can stop them.
Sign our petition calling on the "Commission on Care" to stop trying to privatize veterans health care and instead focus on improving access to a well-funded, properly staffed VA.
Privatizing the system would severely under-fund the department, leaving many veterans with service-connected injuries out in the cold. Often times, VA centers are equipped to deal with specialized care, amputations and traumatic brain injuries, in a way a local doctor or hospital may not be.
For veterans in need of specialized care, both physical and mental, they may not have a caregiver to turn to in their area.
But more to the point, as a RAND study recently indicated, "the quality of care provided by the VA health system generally was as good as or better than other health systems on most quality measures."
Sign our petition calling on the "Commission on Care" to stop trying to privatize veterans health care and instead focus on improving access to a well-funded, properly staffed VA.
This is not only a very real legislative issue, but it will also be an election issue. The Koch Brothers, who have an employee on the "Commission on Care," are going to spend untold millions on the presidential and senate races through their shell organization, Concerned Veterans for America.
That is why it is so important we stand together to make our voices heard.
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From: tbacane
Subject: Fw: Stronger Together? Monmouth Poll Says Only Winning VP Pick Is Bernie
We need to tell Hillary Clinton that her best and most certain chance to win the Presidency is with Senator as her Vice President! He brings a lot to the table that is why the FRAUD named TRUMP is trying to drive a wedge between the Secretary and the Senator. With the Senator on the ticket that solidifies the Democrats and probably brings more Republicans to support the ticket because they can't stand the FRAUD named TRUMP no more than we can. Hillary can not afford to under estimate the FRAUD named TRUMP like his competitors did in their primary or she will lose. Why? Because there are a lot of scared people in our country and the FRAUD named TRUMP is playing to those fears with his racial bigotry and cloaked calls for violence and his hate filled rhetoric. He is the very essence of evil and we all must do whatever we can to prevent his obtaining the office of President. So please tell Hillary to select Senator Sanders as her VP to win in November!
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From: The Pen
Subject: Stronger Together? Monmouth Poll Says Only Winning VP Pick Is Bernie
Victory for us means actual progressive policy change. Some prefer one personality over another as a candidate. Some have strong aversions to one personality or another.
But as POLICY activists all we really care about is . . . DO WE GET THE POLICY CHANGE WE WANT?
And our clear-eyed perspective is that we get there by supporting, and by electing the best people we can on election day, and then by speaking out every other day as activists. For us it is not about lesser evils, it is about who we are likely to influence the most.
Monmouth University just did an exhaustive poll on the impact of various VP picks on the respective tickets, and one and only one positive result stood out on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders as VP is +19 percentage points. Nobody else even came close. Even Elizabeth Warren, who also has strong progressive support, was only+3.
This result is so striking we will link again the action page we had already started, to call on Clinton to offer Bernie the VP slot.
Bernie for VP action page: https://www.utalk.us/?a=choose_bernie
Just so we're clear, Bernie's endorsement doesn't get this result, though he himself said today he would vote for Clinton over #TrumpTheFraud. Bernie's issues on the party platform, though he is still fighting for that, doesn't get this result. Only Bernie himself ON the ticket as VP gets this result. Some Clinton supporters will resist. Some Bernie supporters will grouse. But the numbers are what they are.
Yet, by all media accounts Clinton's people seem to have written off Bernie as a possible VP pick (though they are giving lip service to a Warren selection).
When a result is this clear you have to ask yourself, how desperately do they want to lose? Does Hillary Clinton really want to be the next president of the United States or like what?
Because even though #TrumpTheFraud has had a successive series of bad weeks, the swing states of OH, PA, FL and VA are still a virtual toss up even now. Anyone who thinks he can't suddenly come back to life like Jason or Freddie, based on one debate performance, the public perception of a nominating convention, or some surprise development in the next 5 months, is a fool.
The best news is that we will know the final composition of the Republican ticket one week before the Democrats have to commit to theirs.
But we actually heard one person, presented as a Democratic "strategist" on a national news show over the weekend, arguing that Clinton should pick the most bland, boring person possible as a running mate.
Is that supposed to be some kind of get out the vote strategy, to pick the most unexciting person you can find?
Let's say for argument's sake that Clinton still manages to win the presidency with a VP pick who adds NOTHING much to the national turnout, which is the case with basically everyone except Bernie. How do the Democrats win back the Senate and the House? Because if they don't, all she's really being elected to is the office of instant lame duck.
Ask President Obama about what that's like. MAYBE she'll get some lukewarm Supreme Court picks through, but that's about it.
If we actually want policy change, real policy change, we're not going to get bit of it without taking back both the House and the Senate. And we would suggest again that only Bernie on the ticket maximizes those prospects.
We'll like to think that someone with the Clinton campaign can add one and one together and arrive at the correct answer . . . two.
"Stronger together?" Hillary has now adopted it as her main campaign slogan if we are to judge by the placard on her podium and elsewhere in the audience. We'll just see.
We'll say it again. The best Bernie to turn out Bernie supporters is Bernie himself.
In the meantime, whatever else you do keep using the #TrumpTheFraud hashtag in your tweets, and you can request our hardhitting new bumper sticker in support of that counter-branding initiative here.
Trump the Fraud bumper sticker: https://www.utalk.us/?g=TTF
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From: Michael Phelan, Social Security Works
Subject: Guess who just proposed raising the Medicare eligibility age (hint: it's Paul Ryan)
Speaker Paul Ryan made his name on ending Medicare as we know it. For years, he has introduced plan after plan that dismantled the guarantee of healthcare for Seniors who have paid into the program their whole lives.
This week, Speaker Ryan introduced a new plan to remake the Affordable Care Act – or Obamacare – and he tacked on a proposal to raise Medicare's eligibility age by two years!
Raising the Medicare age to 67 means that millions of Americans, many of them Social Security beneficiaries, would be forced to purchase expensive private insurance instead. That's a cut to our earned benefits. If we are doing anything to the Medicare age, we have to be lowering it, at least to 62.
Please sign our petition rejecting Paul Ryan's calls to cut Medicare benefits by raising the eligibility age.
Republicans like to claim that Americans are living longer – and use this as justification to cut our hard earned benefits. That may be true for upper-income earners, but it's not for the vast majority of Americans who are being forced to work well into their retirement years just to stay financially afloat. And if you want to save Medicare money, start by holding prescription drug corporations accountable for price-gouging.
At a time when Americans face an unprecedented $7.7 trillion retirement savings gap – meaning that for the first time in our country's history, current and future retirees are preparing for a lower standard of living in retirement than their parents – we should be expanding earned benefits, not cutting them.
We must fight back!
Sign our petition today rejecting Republican proposals to cut our earned benefits and raise the Medicare eligibility age to 67.
Together, we can achieve real retirement security for all Americans, not just the wealthy few.
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From: Thomas Scott
Subject: "Make America White Again" campaign signs removed
http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/32277324/make-america-white-again-campaign-sign-causing-controversy-in-polk-co
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