[mpen-dayton] FW: "Gov. Kasich signs gun legislation" & "Fight Trump’s Muslim registry" & "Bankrupt DAPL" & "Are Younger Whites Less Racist?" and more
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· FW: Gov. Kasich signs gun legislation
· FW: Get reintroduced to Rosa Parks, thanks to a new archive
· FW: Harper's January cover
· FW: Case Studies and 'Unpresidented': Donald Trump invents the Guardian's word of the year
· FW: Sign the petition: Fight Trump's Muslim registry
· FW: The Pen: "All The Inoffensive 'Advocacy' Groups Out There Will Never Change A Thing"
· FW: We built JVP for moments like this
· FW: Bankrupt DAPL
· FW: Are Younger Whites Less Racist?
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From: AAUP - Ohio Conference
Subject: Gov. Kasich signs gun legislation
Gov. Kasich Opens Door to "Campus Carry"
Thanks to each of you who took the time to call and e-mail Gov. Kasich to encourage him to veto House Bill 48. In the late moments of the General Assembly's lame duck session, the major components of HB 48 were folded into another gun bill -- SB 199 -- and that bill was signed today by the governor.
Once enacted, SB 199 will reduce the offense for unauthorized carrying of a concealed handgun on the premises of an institution of higher education from a felony to a minor misdemeanor, if the offender produces a valid conceal/carry license within ten days of arrest.
In addition, boards of trustees of Ohio colleges and universities will be able to develop their own "campus carry" policies, and will be granted immunity from liability caused by a conceal/carry licensee bringing a gun on to campus.
The Ohio Conference AAUP already has begun working with our chapters to encourage boards of trustees to keep campuses weapon-free. We encourage you to work with and support your chapters in these efforts.
Given that this likely is the last communication from us for the year, we wish you a happy and safe holiday season.
From: Sang Kang
Subject: Get reintroduced to Rosa Parks, thanks to a new archive
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/reintroduced-rosa-parks-new-archive-reveals-woman-behind-boycott-180957200/#2HhaVqzQWFXumDuw.14
From: Andrew Tierman
Subject: Harper's January cover
Dear Munsup,
A small fraction of one percent of Americans subscribe to Harper's, one of the oldest 'small magazines' in American, published since 1850. Nor is Harper's sold in supermarkets (at least not in "the heartland" where I live.) For the ensuing Trump years, America needs periodicals like Harper's, and needs more people to read such periodicals. Partly for that reason - that even many literate Americans never or rarely get near an issue of Harper's, and partly for the understandably ephemeral, while monumental character of the January 2017 cover - and with respect to intellectual property rights, hoping that this fair use will induce some to go out and look for, or go online for Harper's - aside from enjoying this cover of bold dissent, I am attaching a pdf, for you to distribute at your discretion.
(Munsup's Note: The attachment is too big to be forwarded. I am copying it below.)
From: Ambrose Ng
Subject: Case Studies and 'Unpresidented': Donald Trump invents the Guardian's word of the year | US news | The Guardian
Case Studies: 2 Years After Raising Taxes on the Rich...
https://m.mic.com/articles/111424/2-years-after-raising-taxes-on-the-rich-here-s-what-happened-to-minnesota-s-economy
Guardian Article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/19/unpresidented-trump-word-definition
From: Heidi Hess; Senior Campaign Manager, CREDO Action from Working Assets
Subject: Sign the petition: Fight Trump's Muslim registry
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From: Judy Burnette
Subject: FW: The Pen: "All The Inoffensive 'Advocacy' Groups Out There Will Never Change A Thing"
Dear Friends and Activists,
We get two kinds of incoming email from our own participants.
A considerable number of people comment how remarkable it is to find anyone actually speaking the truth. "Wow," they say, "this is just what I've been thinking, but you were able to put it into words."
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We ourselves get innumerable solicitations for contributions from other advocacy groups. And they invariably bend over backwards not to offend anyone. God forbid they should lose a potential donor by challenging them in any way.
With this in mind we share with you another of Pen's eternal truths.
"There is nothing a loser will fight harder for than to keep from being changed into a winner."
If you try to get a loser to change their losing ways they will scream and curse at you, attack you in the most abusive manner, call you derogatory names, and literally hate you for the rest of their lives.
That is why they are losers.
Recently we have referenced our reliable track record of making political predictions over many years. We do this for one reason only, to help you persuade yourself that what we have to say now is equally as valid.
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Losers react by chastising that nobody likes a know it all I told you so, and accusing us of having an "arrogant" tone. What do losers prefer better to listen to, know nothing always get it wrongs?
That is why they are losers.
When we told you in 2010 that the so-called Affordable Care Act (ACA) would doom the Democratic party this was not just some revelation pulled out of the sky. At the time, we were doing action pages in support of single payer, Medicare For All, which is what should have been done instead, which is what the people really wanted.
The personal added comments, which anyone can read from the live stream of any of our action pages, were truly heartrending. People were expressing angry betrayal in the most blunt terms, because Obama had led people to believe he would support single payer. People were swearing that they would not only never vote for a Democrat again, but that they would never vote again at all. It was that bad.
Yet and still we were unable to get enough peole to speak out overall to make the difference. Too many told us, "This is the best we can do, don't push for more.
Based on that it should have been easy to predict, and it was, that there would be a landslide against the Democrats in 2010, remember they had already lost the Senate seat in MA, as if that was not stunning enough, because of their corporate fooling around in the first year of the Obama presidency. And extrapolating from that it was clear to us that the ACA was a recurrent liability, a bad idea, a corrupt corporate sham that would over a series of successive elections wipe out the Democratic party.
People at the time told us we were stupid. People told us we were crazy. Some even called us racists for challenging our first black president in any way. We dropped participants like flies.
That is why they are losers.
When we predicted that Trump would be the Republican presidential nominee, at a time when the entire main stream media was casually laughing him off, the primary thing we recognized was that he had more on camera public figure experience than all the other candidates in both parties combined.
When we predicted that the selection of Kaine for VP would make the general election a chancy toss up, we simply took the temperature of the anger of our our participants against the Democratic party, noting that in the year of the outsider they ended up with the most corporate establishment ticket possible.
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From: Rebecca Vilkomerson; Executive Director, Jewish Voice for Peace
Subject: We built JVP for moments like this
The month since Donald Trump was elected has not been an easy one. But I am beginning to feel ready to face what's to come. I want to share one example of a critical (and successful) organizing fight that Jewish Voice for Peace spearheaded in the last couple of weeks. It serves as an example of what we can achieve, together.
And I want to be as transparent as possible: We will need your help to meet the challenges we are sure to face in 2017. Can you help out with a gift of $50?
No one knows what is going to happen in 2017. But we are definitely going to face challenges like the one this story illustrates:
Two weeks ago we found out that a bill called the "Antisemitism Awareness Act" was going to be introduced in the Senate the following day. This bill was conceived as another tool for pro-Israel activists to suppress the fight for Palestinian rights on campus. Beating it back is a victory for free speech rights everywhere in service of justice.
It sounds uncontroversial enough. But it was anything but -- it was a cynical move by organizations like AIPAC and the ADL, exploiting a spike in antisemitism since the election to push its own agenda. Instead of focusing on the far-right, the bill creates an official government definition of antisemitism that explicitly includes criticism of Israel on college campuses.
So what did we do? Our members made over 1,000 calls and sent 5,000 emails to Senators in less than 24 hours. After the bill passed the Senate, we pivoted to the House. We held a webinar for our members with our partners from Palestine Legal. We helped shape press coverage in outlets as diverse as the Forward, the Washington Post, and the Intercept. We met with staffers on the Hill. The JVP Student Network gathered over 300 signatures on an open letter from Jewish students protesting the bill, and our Academic Council collected signatures of over 70 Professors of Jewish Studies who strongly objected to it.
So when the bill was introduced in the House, that pressure we brought helped stop the bill in its tracks. And the Congressional session has ended without it being brought to a vote.
We're going to have to wage these kinds of turn-on-a-dime, nimble organizing campaigns over and over again in 2017. Renew your support for JVP - right now every dollar is matched, but only until December 31!
What struck me about this effort is how powerful JVP can be when all the different parts of our organization work together seamlessly. Our student network, our academic advisory council, our DC staff, our online organizing infrastructure, our media relationships and our chapter leaders all played a critical role.
And in 2017 I am so ready to put all those skills, networks and experience on the line to fight for our basic values: justice, equality, and dignity, even when we're forced to fighting defensive battles for our basic rights.
And your gift is part of what could help us transform these defensive sprints into pro-active, visionary campaigns.
I can't tell you exactly what the next fight will be: David Friedman, the ultra-right wing Ambassador-designate, moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem? Trump following through on his horrific promise of a ban on immigration to the U.S. by Muslims?
But you've made it possible for us to gather over 10,000 dues-paying members, over 65 chapters, and half a million online followers and supporters. Together, we've built the creative, disciplined and strong force that this moment demands. And grassroots fundraising is vital to our work.
With your help at the $50 level, we can be even more ready. Or any level. Every dollar you give will be doubled but you have to give by the end of the year.
From: John Sellers, Other98
Subject: Bankrupt DAPL
The now-infamous Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) was almost another done deal for Big Oil. But months of incredible Indigenous-led resistance changed the game, and halted construction of the DAPL. Now with Trump appointing Big Oil's dream team to his Cabinet, the DAPL could come back again next year.
We have a plan to kill the DAPL before Trump takes office. On January 1, the DAPL will be in breach of contract to its oil company clients and the Big Banks who are financing its construction.
We can starve the DAPL of the dirty money it needs to survive. Join us in demanding three of DAPL's most critical funders -- TD Bank, Citibank, and Wells Fargo -- pull funding from the project now and kill the Dakota Access Pipeline for good.
Out of the 17 banks directly funding the pipeline, we've identified Citi, TD, and Wells Fargo as the most vulnerable. Citibank has the largest stake in the project, with the most to lose if it decides to stay aboard this sinking ship. TD Bank is a Canadian bank that consistently paints itself as especially devoted to Indigenous people. Wells Fargo is still raw from the discovery of a massive fraudulent account scheme, which earned them over $190 million in fines in September; plus, cities like Seattle are introducing legislation to divest from Wells Fargo over their DAPL financing, which would cost the bank BILLIONS.
Laws and leaders can change at any moment. Only one thing is certain: no money, no DAPL. Send a message straight to the Investor Relations teams at these banks: divest from DAPL immediately.
Thanks for believing that Big Oil isn't too big to fight.
From: Thomas Scott
Subject: Are Younger Whites Less Racist?
Are Younger Whites Less Racist? New Research Into Racial Attitudes Suggests Demographics Alone Won't Save America
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