[mpen-dayton] FW: "Holland has solved this problem; why can't the US?" & "One Faculty, One Resistance ..." & "Trump's Message to White Supremacists" and more

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• FW: Holland has solved this problem; why can't the US?
• FW: “Confounds the Science” on "Sounds of Silence" & Pieces for outreach for Yes on Issue 2
• FW: One Faculty, One Resistance: Welcome to Fall
• FW: Trump's Message to White Supremacists
• FW: Arrest Made due to Firing; TEN Things Teachers Should Know; WP in Collegiate Sports; Jobs Heal? Natural Disasters
• FW: OUTRAGE! Trump diverts money for hurricane assistance to border wall

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From: Andrew Tierman
Subject: Holland has solved this problem; why can't the US? (opinion) – CNN

Holland has solved this problem; why can't the US?

By Frida Ghitis; Updated 4:34 PM ET, Tue August 29, 2017

Frida Ghitis: Dutch are confused why Americans seem reluctant to apply lessons they've learned from previous storms
A combination of climate change denial and a preference for small government seem to be to blame, writes Ghitis.

Read more here: http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/29/opinions/dutch-america-storms-opinion-ghitis/?iid=ob_mobile_article_footer_expansion

 

 

From: David P. Little; Public Policy Communications Consultant, Southern Regional Director, Ohio Taxpayers for Lower Drug Prices
Subject: Confounds the Science as an alternative "Sounds of Silence" & Pieces for outreach for Yes on Issue 2

https://facebook.com/theparodyproject/videos/139213316683714/
OMG you've got to hear this. A song parody, "Confounds the Science" sung to the tune of Sounds of Silence."
Need any clues as to who this parody is about? Bet you don't.   - http://parodyproject.com

     

 

 

From: Rudy Fichtenbaum; President, AAUP
Subject: One Faculty, One Resistance: Welcome to Fall

There are times when being part of a movement matters. This is one of those times.

It’s a pivotal moment for higher education. With new challenges arising weekly at the federal, state, and institutional levels, the need for a strong, united voice speaking up for quality higher education has never been greater. The AAUP and our members work daily to confront these challenges, protect academic freedom, and fight for the right of higher education professionals to organize and bargain collectively. Thank you for being part of the resistance.

As we head into the new semester, we wanted to recap some of the work we’ve accomplished together and let you know what we’ll be working on in the months ahead.

We’re fighting for academic freedom and shared governance. Our investigations in recent months have taken on the most hot-button issues facing faculty today. We investigated a case involving race and campus safety, in which a long-serving faculty member was fired after she took issue with the administration's handling of a report of an armed student. We also investigated a case of a part-time faculty member who was fired after sending a letter that described a new initiative at his institution as an effort to “increase student success via lowering standards.” We examined political intrusions into shared governance in a case in which the board designed a presidential search process specifically to prevent any meaningful faculty role in the selection of the final candidate.

Our investigations will continue to take on challenging issues to ensure that the fundamental principles of the profession and the faculty voice of the profession have a champion.

We’re serving as a united voice for higher education. Your voices were heard by legislators and members of Congress. We delivered petitions signed by more than ten thousand faculty members and higher ed supporters opposing the draconian cuts proposed by the Trump administration and in favor of the College for All Act. We challenged the Professor Watchlist’s intimidation tactics by delivering the names of thousands of faculty asking to be added to the watchlist in solidarity with their colleagues named to it.

Beyond the Professor Watchlist, the nationwide trend of legislators and alt-right news outlets targeting higher education and scholars continues, with scholars of color and those opposing racism and sexism increasingly being targeted. These are not individual attacks on individual professors, but part of a concerted effort to stifle critical speech. Please find resources and take action here.

We’re growing stronger through collective action. With active members on hundreds of campuses across the country, we are growing the collective power of faculty and working with students to advocate on campuses. Recently, we welcomed new collective bargaining chapters of part-time, full-time, and graduate employees at Santa Fe Community College, Northern Illinois University, and Portland State University. New advocacy chapters have formed at Gettysburg College, Kentucky State University, Otterbein University, the College of New Rochelle, the University of South Carolina Aiken, and the University of St. Thomas, MN.

And there’s more to come! Graduate workers at the University of Chicago have decided to come together as a union with the AAUP. Organizing is underway at Oregon State and at the University of New Mexico, both jointly with American Federation of Teachers. We’re helping chapters at Northern Illinois University and the College of Southern Nevada as they negotiate first contracts. We supported graduate workers at Yale as they participated in a hunger strike, calling national attention to the issue of graduate employee rights as the administration refused to engage in constructive dialogue. Despite drastic changes in state law, our University of Northern Iowa chapter has successfully preserved many contractual benefits through joint efforts with the administration.

We’re protecting freedom of research. We’ve taken the fight to court. In a case currently pending before the Arizona Court of Appeals, the AAUP recently submitted a third amicus brief in support of faculty members at the University of Arizona who have been subjected to intrusive public records requests for emails related to their climate research. We continue to monitor legal developments in higher education around the country and work with experts in submitting friend-of-the-court briefs in key appellate cases, seeking to shape the law in ways supportive of Association principles.

We’ve also partnered with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, to examine the legal issues of how border patrol searches of traveler’s cell phones and other electronic devices may have a chilling effect on academic freedom and constitute the invasion into the privacy of academic work.

We’re looking ahead! We’re gearing up for a big semester. We’ll be launching our One Faculty, One Resistance site in the coming weeks. It will serve as a hub for activism for members and AAUP supporters across the country. We look forward to an exciting push to the end of 2017!

Thank you for being part of the AAUP. Together, we can go far.

 

 

From: PFAW’s American Way (August 2017)
Subject: Trump's Message to White Supremacists

Spotlight Trump Emboldened White Supremacists -- And Now They Know He Has Their Back Trump's reaction to this month's white supremacist violence in Charlottesville marked a sickening new low, even from a man who spent his presidential campaign energizing white supremacists and who has staffed his administration with people who cater to them. Anyone who has been paying attention remembers that Trump's presidential campaign was grounded in disgusting, broad-brush smears of racial and religious minorities. The fact that the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website endorsed him less than two weeks after his immigrant-bashing launch did not seem to cause a moment's pause or reflection. He pushed the racist lie that President Obama was not born in this country. He said an American-born judge could not be trusted because of his Mexican heritage. He retweeted white supremacist Twitter accounts -- including content from a user called @WhiteGenocideTM whose profile photo showed the founder of the American Nazi Party--sending their hateful messages to a sprawling audience they could not have otherwise reached. And Trump went out of his way to avoid denouncing these figures … like when he infamously failed to condemn David Duke and the KKK during a CNN interview before blaming it on a bad earpiece.   Provide Support to Hurricane Harvey Victims Hurricane Harvey slammed into Texas and is taking a staggering toll on the people of that state. So far 13 million people are under flood watches and warnings, 30,000 people will need temporary shelter, and 58 counties are under the Texas disaster declaration. And as the rains subside, the catastrophe could be just beginning, with the threat of major health-related dangers and hundreds of thousands of Texans in need of assistance. If you are able to, please make a donation to local Texas relief nonprofits that are already on the ground and providing support to the people of Texas. This Month Next Up Announces Endorsements for Virginia Candidates This month, PFAW's Next Up Victory Fund was proud to announce its endorsement of 12 young, progressive candidates -- all under the age of 40 -- running for state legislative seats in Virginia. State legislative races are key to resisting the abuses of the Trump administration, and Next Up is helping progressive candidates win state and local races with the ultimate goal of turning states blue and building a deep bench of new and exciting candidates. The endorsed candidates in Virginia are not just candidates who can win, but candidates who can change the face of power. They reflect the diversity of Virginia, from women candidates, to candidates of color, to a woman who could be the first openly transgender state representative. Learn more about all of our Next Up Virginia candidates and how you can help>> Trump's 'Election Integrity' Commission Harkens Back to Jim Crow Director of Outreach and Public Engagement at People For the American Way, Diallo Brooks, in a piece in "OtherWords" places Trump's voter suppression commission in the context of the history of anti-voting rights violence. He writes about the efforts during Jim Crow to suppress turnout of African American voters by alleging voter fraud, and implementing poll taxes, literacy tests, and voting roll purges. "The same sham justifications used to prop up voter suppression tactics during the Jim Crow era -- claims that such measures preserve the integrity, efficiency, and sustainability of elections -- are being unapologetically recycled today." America can't afford a right-wing takeover of our appeals courts Senior Fellow Elliot Mincberg writes in "The Hill" about Trump's extreme nominees to the federal courts of appeals and his current success with having his nominees confirmed. Since the last election, the majority of Trump's nominees have been far-right ideologues approved by the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society. Thus far the courts have been a necessary check on Trump's misuse of presidential power, and if the courts are stacked with far-right activist judges instead of conscientious ones, we are in danger of losing an important tool to hold Trump accountable. In Theaters: "WHOSE STREETS" -- a hard-hitting documentary on activists in Ferguson The film WHOSE STREETS takes a deep look at the Ferguson community's rise against injustice after the murder of Michael Brown. The topic is particularly resonant in the aftermath of the white supremacist marches and violence in Charlottesville and other cities. PFAW Digital Organizing Coordinator Bradley Williams describes the film as a "must-see" that "will ignite a fire in anyone who cares about the fight for social justice." WHOSE STREETS is a necessary reminder of why we must keep fighting in the face of hate and adversity, and why we must do all we can to amplify the voices of the marginalized. PFAW Voices Respond to Charlottesville      ·        A special note about the emboldened white supremacists who rallied in Virginia this weekend » ·        Khizr Khan: Trump "has failed us." » ·        Our Diversity is Our Strength: White Supremacy Has No Place in America Today » ·        The New Civil Rights Crisis  »     ·        Charlottesville Racists Try to Cover Their Tracks by Denying Violence, Neo-Nazi Presence » ·        After Charlottesville Violence Alt-Right Plans Another Weekend of Hate » ·        The Pro Trump Right Reacts to Charlottesville Attack: Both Sides, False Flag, Blame the Left » ·        Trump Makes Good On Promise To Extreme Anti-Immigrant Groups With Proposal To Cut Legal Immigration » ·        Activist Who Claims Suffragists Opposed Abortion Rights Named To Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission » ·        Why Doesn’t Right Wing Watch Understand That Dominionism Is a Good Thing?  » ·        Michele Bachmann To Become Religious Right Ministry’s ‘Pastor To The United Nations’ » ·        Bannon’s Out, But We Still Have The White House That Breitbart Built » ·        Birthers, Far-Right Come To Trump’s Defense After Arpaio Pardon » More News & Analysis       ·        PFAW Grassroots Guide to Resistance Recess » ·        “Blue Slips” and Their Power to Shape Our Courts: An Activist’s Guide » ·        Fighting for Justice at Justice Means Opposing the Dreiband Nomination » ·        Trump’s Nativist Attacks on Immigrants Weaken Our Country » ·        Sessions: Tell the Truth About Your Project to Attack Campus Diversity Efforts » ·        Bringing Transparency and Accountability to Private Prisons » ·        GOP Efforts to Break Up the Ninth Circuit Would Harm Justice » ·        Concerns Remain After DOJ Narrows DisruptJ20 Warrant »

 

 

From: Thomas Scott
Subject: Arrest Made due to Firing; TEN Things Teachers Should Know; WP in Collegiate Sports; Jobs Heal? Natural Disasters

Man Who Fired Weapon At Charlottesville Counterprotesters Identified as Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard

10 things every white teacher should know when talking about race

White privilege in college sports

Trump Says Jobs Can Close Racial Divides. Here's Why That's Unlikely

Everyone’s a Socialist After a Natural Disaster

 

 

From: tbacane
Subject: FW: OUTRAGE! Trump diverts money for hurricane assistance to border wall (please read)

Please tell this TRAITOR (who claims to be President) that all the victims of the hurricane must be made whole before any thoughts of building some damn wall is contemplated!  It is also time for him to admit he is not the President, nor is he up to the job, and to RESIGN!  If not we will support his IMPEACHMENT!!!

Sign the petition to Congress: No money for the U.S.-Mexico border wall. Help victims of Hurricane Harvey instead.

Sign the petition

Texas is experiencing the most extreme rainfall in history, but Donald Trump is only making things worse.

Ten days before Hurricane Harvey, he signed an executive order that overturned rules requiring that infrastructure projects be designed to withstand the effects of climate change.

And his 2018 budget cuts funding for FEMA and flood insurance (which would directly help the victims of Hurricane Harvey) while diverting the money to his U.S.-Mexico border wall.

This is an outrage. Members of Congress must insist on no funding for the border wall, full assistance to the victims of Hurricane Harvey, a restoration of the infrastructure rules, and fully fund both FEMA and flood insurance.

Sign the petition to Congress: No money for Border Wall. Help the victims of Hurricane Harvey--and future disasters--instead.

Sign the petition

Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos

P.S. It may take years for Texas to recover from Hurricane Harvey. If you're looking for ways to aid in the recovery, please click here and consider chipping in to these 14 charities.

 

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