Almost six months after it began, the #MeToo campaign is still having an impact and generating debate 鈥 and not just against the right wing, notes Elizabeth Shultz.
Elizabeth Schulte
It did not take Donald Trump long to begin the war on immigrants, refugees and Muslims that he promised during his presidential campaign.
On January 27, he signed an executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for at least 90 days and suspending the admission ofallrefugees from any country for at least four months, among other measures.
It also did not take long for many thousands of people to send a loud message in response: No ban, no wall, let them in!
WikiLeaks release of nearly 20,000 e-mails and more than 8,000 attachments from seven officials on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) just before the party's convention meant a quick end for Debbie Wasserman Schultz's position as DNC chair, after the e-mails revealed favoritism toward the Clinton campaign and organized hostility to rival Bernie Sanders.
But if the emails--and the convention itself--show anything, it's the undemocratic nature of the whole Democratic Party, and firing one official won't come close to fixing that.
A general strike rocked France in late May in the latest escalation of protests and workplace actions against the government's attempt to scrap long-standing protections for workers.
The economy ground to a halt as dockworkers in port cities, workers in oil refineries and nuclear power stations, airport and Paris metro workers and many more took action.
Workers took to the streets on May 26 with massive protests. Unions estimated that 300,000 people took part in demonstrations, including railway workers, postal workers, students, low-wage workers, the unemployed and retirees.
Black America is hurting 鈥 from the suppression of voting rights, to police violence to the lack of access to good jobs, education and housing. Tens of thousands of people were determined to bring that message to Washington, DC, on August 24.
About 100,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial as part of a demonstration to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King gave his famous 鈥淚 Have a Dream鈥 speech.
鈥淭here鈥檚 no reason why technologically we can鈥檛 employ nuclear energy in a safe and effective way,鈥 United States President Barack Obama told a group gathered at a town meeting in New Orleans in October 2009.
鈥淛apan does it and France does it, and it doesn't have greenhouse gas emissions, so it would be stupid for us not to do that in a much more effective way鈥
You might think after the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima that Obama would have a reason to back off his support of nuclear energy as a new 鈥渃lean鈥 energy alternative.
The US government had a terrifying New Year鈥檚 message for the people of Yemen 鈥 you are our targets this year.
In the world of Washington insider politics, it鈥檚 not what you know, it鈥檚 who you know.
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Directed by David Silverman
Written by James Brooks & Matt Groening
With Dan Castellaneta & Julie Kavner.
Directed by David Silverman
Written by James Brooks & Matt Groening
With Dan Castellaneta & Julie Kavner.
James Brown treated rhythm like a mad scientist with test tubes full of chemicals 聴 always reinventing, trying new combinations and creating more powerful potions. Brown 聴 the Godfather of Soul, the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business, Mr Dynamite, Soul Brother No. 1, and the Minister of Super Heavy Funk 聴 died December 25 of congestive heart failure at the age of 73.
An Iraqi prisoner cowering naked and terrified as a US soldier sics a dog on him. This photo 鈥 along with others, for example, showing a hooded prisoner hooked up for electric shocks 鈥 exposed the barbarism of the US occupation of Iraq for the world to see.