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• FW: [Info] June 30, 1966 - Fort Hood Three
• FW: On Health and Health Care
• FW: Health Action Alert
• FW: HHS asked the public what it thinks about an Obamacare repeal
• FW: The fight for jobs in America’s former “sock capital”
• FW: Berkeley author George Lakoff says, 'Don't underestimate Trump' — Berkeleyside
• FW: We stopped them
• FW: Why Trump Likes Fake Time Cover More Than Real One – The Forward
• FW: ASTOUNDING results (for “Medicare for All” plan)
• FW: Very interesting
• FW: We're investing in the next generation. Join us.

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From: carl bunin
Subject: [Info] June 30, 1966 - Fort Hood Three

June 30, 1966

The first GIs—known as the Fort Hood Three,U.S. Army Privates James Johnson, Dennis Mora and David Samas—refused to be sent to Vietnam.

All were members of the 142nd Signal Battalion, 2nd Armored Division
stationed at Fort Hood, Texas.

The three were from working-class families, and had denounced the war as “immoral, illegal and unjust.”

They were arrested, court-martialed and imprisoned.

The Pentagon reported 503,926 “incidents of desertion” between 1966 and 1971.

 

From: Thomas Scott
Subject: On Health and Health Care

How The Senate Health Care Bill Could Disrupt The Insurance Market

Opinion | How Did Health Care Get to Be Such a Mess?

Even the Insured Often Can't Afford Their Medical Bills - The Atlantic Magazine

 

 

From: Sybil Edwards- McNabb, President, Ohio Conference NAACP
Subject: Health Action Alert

The U.S. Senate will consider the “Better Care Reconciliation Act,” (BCRA), its version of legislation to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. “Obamacare” or the ACA).  Unfortunately, like the House-passed bill (which is named the “American Health Care Act,” or AHCA), BCRA does not come close to adequately replacing the gains made by the ACA in terms of the number of Americans who enjoy the security and peace of mind which comes with quality, affordable health care coverage for them and their families.  BRCA will result in many Americans—especially low- and moderate-income and older Americans—paying thousands more in premiums for skimpier health plans. BRCA is nothing more than a huge tax cut for the wealthiest few, paid for by billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, which serves one in five Americans—including two-thirds of seniors in nursing homes.

It is now up to us to let our Senators know that this bill is unacceptable.  We must contact our Senators immediately and let them know of our opposition.  Time is of the essence!

Followed by this update: Senate leadership announced that it is postponing the planned vote on its health care “reform” bill, the “Better Care Reconciliation Act” (BCRA).  No new date has been provided, but it will clearly be after the 4^th of July District Work Period.  The Senate is scheduled to reconvene on Monday, July 10, 2017.  This delay comes a day after the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that the bill which would repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act (“ACA” or “Obamacare”) would result in 22 million additional Americans losing their health care coverage over the next 10 years.

WE NEED TO KEEP THE PRESSURE UP!

For more information on the situation and on how you can make a difference, please see this Action Alert.

 

 

From: Murshed Zaheed; Political Director, CREDO Action from Working Assets
Subject: HHS asked the public what it thinks about an Obamacare repeal

Submit a public comment: Fight Trumpcare and oppose repealing the Affordable Care Act

Submit a public comment to the Department of Health and Human Services:
"The Affordable Care Act has saved countless lives and improved the lives of millions – removing lifetime caps, expanding access to Medicaid, lowering costs, protecting people with pre-existing conditions and making sure millions of people get health care. Trumpcare and Republican plans for 'repeal' would actually steal health care from at least 22 million in order to give a huge tax cut to millionaires. That is immoral and unfair."

The Trump administration just asked the public what it thinks about repealing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.¹ We need to surprise them by sending in a flood of messages supporting it and opposing repeal.

The request for information was posted to ask for comments on Trump’s executive order attempting to delay and sabotage the Affordable Care Act. But it is a golden opportunity to pour in messages supporting Medicare, Medicaid and lifesaving health care reforms. Already, people have started submitting messages opposing Trumpcare.

The timing could not be more urgent – this public comment period coincides with Senate Republicans’ secretive efforts to end Medicaid and steal health care from millions in order to give a tax break to millionaires.² Every comment helps make it clear that opposition to Trumpcare is simply overwhelming and emerging everywhere possible.

Submit a public comment: Fight Trumpcare and oppose repealing the Affordable Care Act.

Trumpcare is cruel, reckless, dangerous and unpopular. It will take health insurance away from at least 22 million people, destroy Medicaid, defund Planned Parenthood, increase health care premiums for seniors, force low-income people to go without necessary care, cost people their employer-provided coverage, deny people treatment for six months if their coverage lapses and punish people with pre-existing conditions³

On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order to delay and sabotage the Affordable Care Act while Republicans cooked up their plan to give millionaires a $1 trillion tax cut paid for by taking health care away from millions.⁴

Now, the Department of Health and Human Services has requested information and public comment on one aspect of that executive order.⁵ Perhaps they expect industry lobbyists to share comments about what a great job they are doing, but they gave us another chance to speak out. We need to use this opening to defend health care and defeat Trumpcare.

Submit a public comment: Fight Trumpcare and oppose repealing the Affordable Care Act.

Congressional Republicans are obstructionist, hyper-partisan extremists committed to jamming Trumpcare through in the dead of night. We need to use every chance we can find to fight back.

Comments have started pouring in opposing Trumpcare. We need to keep hammering this message home.

Submit a public comment: Fight Trumpcare and oppose repealing the Affordable Care Act.

Add your name:

References:

1. Regulations.gov, “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Reducing Regulatory Burdens & Improving Health Care Choices to Empower Patients,” accessed June 25, 2017.
2. Jonathan Chait, “The Senate Trumpcare Bill Is As Mean As the House Version,” New York Magazine, June 21, 2017.
3. Thomas Kaplan and Robert Pear, "Senate Health Bill Would Leave 22 Million More Uninsured, C.B.O. Says," The New York Times, June 26, 2017.
4. Office of the Press Secretary, “Executive Order Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal,” January 20, 2017.
5. Regulations.gov, “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Reducing Regulatory Burdens & Improving Health Care Choices to Empower Patients.”

 

 

From: LinkedIn
Subject: The fight for jobs in America’s former “sock capital”

The fight for jobs in America’s former “sock capital”

Heesun Wee, Senior Producer at LinkedIn

 

 

From: Eric Kramer
Subject: Berkeley author George Lakoff says, 'Don't underestimate Trump' — Berkeleyside

http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/05/02/berkeley-author-george-lakoff-says-dont-underestimate-trump/

 

 

From: James Jameson; Deputy Political Director, Represent.Us
Subject: We stopped them

This is huge. Politicians were planning to overturn a landmark Anti-Corruption law – and the people stopped them.

This week, politicians made an outrageous attempt to ignore the will of the voters and overturn Ranked Choice Voting. But people in Maine and across the country joined together to jam lawmaker's phone lines with calls, flood their inboxes with emails, and show up in person at the state house. And we stopped them.

When we work together, we win. Share this victory post to spread the good news:

The massive response that saved Ranked Choice Voting in Maine came from a broad coalition of partners, including the Committee for Ranked Choice Voting, FairVote, the League of Women Voters, and many others.

This victory is a big deal, for two reasons. One is that this is America's first statewide Ranked Choice Voting law - and if it had been overturned that could set a precedent in other state legislatures where people are working to pass similar laws at the ballot.

Another reason this matters is that over the past few months we've seen a nasty, alarming trend of politicians overturning the will of the people. And this victory in Maine shows that fighting these underhanded schemes matters. We can stop politicians from meddling with voter-approved laws if we're loud enough.

 

 

From: Judy Burnette <eduadvocate1@earthlink.net
Subject: Why Trump Likes Fake Time Cover More Than Real One – The Forward

http://forward.com/culture/375839/this-childishly-idiotic-fake-cover-isnt-donald-trumps-first-time-embarrassm/?utm_content=daily_Newsletter_MainList_Title_Position-1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily

 

 

From: Medicare for All (via BOLD Democrats)
Subject: ASTOUNDING results

Do you support Medicare for All?

YES >>

NO >>

After Bernie Sanders announced his groundbreaking “Medicare for All” plan, support for it has been ASTOUNDING.

Record numbers of congressional members have signed on and thousands of Americans have shown their approval.

This much is clear: Trumpcare is NOT the answer for health care in America.

It’s time we follow the successful health care models of other developed countries and make single payer coverage a reality.



We need to gauge how many of our supporters agree with Bernie’s vision of universal health care.

Your opinion is important to us and to the future of American health care. Please record your opinion right away:

Do you support Medicare for All?

YES >> NO >>

 

 

From: Jedith
Subject: Very interesting

This was in my 'inbox' ......

Very interesting... REAL FACTS.

Before you challenge this as untrue, GOOGLE to check for yourself.
By Richard Stevens:

"I made a comment recently where I claimed that Republican administrations had been much more criminally corrupt over the last 50 plus years than the Democrats. I was challenged (dared actually) to prove it. So I did a bit of research and when I say a bit I mean it didn't take long and there is no comparison. When comparing criminal indictments of those serving in the executive branch of presidential administrations it's so lopsided as to be ridiculous. Yet all I ever hear is how corrupt the Democrats are. So why don't we break it down by president and the numbers.
    

• Obama - 8yrs in office. zero criminal indictments, zero convictions and zero prison sentences. so the next time somebody describes the Obama administration as "scandal free" they aren't speaking wishfully, they're simply telling the truth.
• Bush, George W. - 8yrs in office. 16 criminal indictments. 16 convictions. 9 prison sentences.
• Clinton - 8yrs in office. 2 criminal indictments. one conviction. one prison sentence. that's right nearly 8yrs of investigations. tens of millions spent and 30yrs of claiming them the most corrupt ever and there was exactly one person convicted of a crime.
• Bush, George H. W. - 4yrs in office. one indictment. one conviction. one prison sentence.
• Reagan - 8yrs in office. 26 criminal indictments. 16 convictions. 8 prison sentences.
• Carter - 4yrs in office. one indictment. zero convictions and zero prison sentences.
• Ford - 2 1/2 yrs in office. one indictment and one conviction. one prison sentence.
• Nixon - 6yrs in office. 76 criminal indictments. 55 convictions. 15 prison sentences.
• Johnson - 5yrs in office. zero indictments. zero convictions. zero prison sentences.

So, let’s see where that leaves us. in the last 53 years Democrats have been in office for 25 of those years while Republicans held it for 28. in their 25yrs in office Democrats had a total of three executive branch officials indicted with one conviction and one prison sentence. that's one whole executive branch official convicted of a crime in two and a half decades of Democrat leadership.

In the 28yrs that Republicans have held office over the last 53yrs they have had a total of(a drum roll would be more than appropriate), 120 criminal indictments of executive branch officials. 89 criminal convictions and 34 prison sentences handed down. That's more prison sentences than years in office since 1968 for Republicans. If you want to count articles of impeachment as indictments (they aren't really but we can count them as an action), both sides get one more. However, Clinton wasn't found guilty while Nixon resigned and was pardoned by Ford. so those only serve to make Republicans look even worse.

With everything going on with Trump and his people right now, it's a safe bet Republicans are gonna be padding their numbers a bit real soon. So let's just go over the numbers one more time shall we. 120 indictments for Republicans. 89 convictions and 34 prison sentences. Those aren't "feelings" or "alternate facts" those are simply the stats by the numbers. Republicans are, and have been for my entire lifetime, the most criminally corrupt party to hold the office of the presidency."

Feel free to copy and paste so others can learn "non-alternative facts."

 

 

From: Ari Wohlfeiler, Jewish Voice for Peace
Subject: We're investing in the next generation, Munsup. Join us.

I'm sure you're getting more than a few fundraising emails right now. We're working on a number of urgent projects at JVP - but I want to ask your help with this one in particular: There’s a Student Skillshare coming up in July for campus activists fighting for equality and justice in Israel/Palestine. We have 60 students who need to be there - and now we have funding for all but six of them! In this political moment, I can't stress enough the importance of on-campus activism, and these kinds of trainings, to the success of our entire movement.

Can you help make this happen with just a $18 donation today?


Student Leaders have power - we need you to bring them back together

From Lauren Ballester, Jewish Voice for Peace Philadelphia

The Summer Skillshare is a four-day retreat for student activists committed to justice in Palestine, focused on building practical tools and political skills that enhance campus organizing. It is a program JVP has been a part of for many years, alongside allies like Students for Justice in Palestine and American Friends Service Committee. But a retreat like this hasn’t been held in years, and now everyone who has attended one has already graduated, leaving a knowledge gap on campuses.

Will you help us train the next generation of leaders with a gift of just $18 today?

I attended the Skillshare while I was working with Students for Justice in Palestine during my undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania. Our SJP chapter faced a lot of challenges- UPenn has a large and well-resourced Zionist population with a lot of institutional support. There were smear campaigns against us when we ran for student government, lots of articles about us in the school paper, and people trying to sabotage our events and relationships.

The Skillshare was incredibly influential in my development personally and politically. I learned how to run a campaign strategically and successfully, and brought skills back to my organization on campus so that we could build a stronger Palestine Solidarity movement and forge relationships with others working toward liberation.

I graduated UPenn in 2015. Today I am a JVP member, activist and organizer, and an educator at a Quaker School outside Philadelphia, where I serve on the steering committee of the Quaker Palestine Israel Network. I still use the tools I learned at the Skillshare, and am still in touch with the activists and organizers I met there.

I can’t overstate the importance of this kind of education for the sustainability of the Palestine solidarity movement.

Click here to chip in $18, which will go towards partial and full scholarships for attendance and a travel fund.

College campuses are a major battleground of our entire movement. from Fordham University, where the administration has banned SJP from campus, to UC Irvine, where students have endured sustained harassment on campus from Israeli soldiers. Students also face well-organized campaigns of intimidation and disinformation from conservative groups like Canary Mission, an anonymous cyber-bullying website that posts misleading dossiers on pro-Palestine activists, effectively creating a blacklist reminiscent of the HUAC.

But student activists are fighting back -- and winning. Today there are 189 SJP chapters across the country, and more student governments are voting for boycott and divestment every year -- with six resolutions passed just this spring. And a new study shows that support for Palestinian rights among Jewish college students rose 18% between 2010 and 2016.¹ Now we need to take student organizing to the next level so that these calls for boycott and divestment can be implemented.

We can’t afford not to invest together in the next generation of student leaders.

Will you donate $18 to help students attend the Summer Skillshare for Student Palestine Activists this year?

¹http://www.timesofisrael.com/devastating-survey-shows-huge-loss-of-israel-support-among-jewish-college-students

 

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