From: Munsup @SISCOM Seoh
Subject: FW: Government Remains Shut Down; Join a #TrumpShutdown action near you; Comcast + Trump = disaster; and more
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- FW: Today’s Headlines: Bitter Bickering Muddies the Path to Ending the Government Shutdown
- FW: Government Remains Shut Down
- FW: Join a #TrumpShutdown action near you
- FW: BREAKING: #TrumpShutdown
- FW: [SHUTDOWN] How did this happen?
- FW: Take Action: Stand With Dr. Laurie Rubel at Brooklyn College
- FW: Comcast + Trump = disaster
- FW: Speaking up about injustice is a good thing. No elected official should threaten our right to do so.
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From: New York Times
Subject: NYT Today’s Headline: Bitter Bickering Muddies the Path to Ending the Government Shutdown
Bitter Bickering Muddies the Path to Ending the Government Shutdown
By THOMAS KAPLAN and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
With the government shut down and the two parties faulting each other, senators from both parties were looking for an agreement to end the crisis.
From: Jedith
Subject: Government Remains Shut Down
- U.S. government shuts down after Senate talks fail
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/government-shutdown-likelihood-grows-amid-senate-standoff-n839301?cid=eml_nbn_20180120 - Republicans Just Lost The Midterm Election As Trump Gets The Government Shutdown That He Wanted
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/19/trump-causes-government-shutdown-republicans-couldnt-get-together-avoid-shutdown.html - A List of Everyone Who Will Be Screwed by a Government Shutdown
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/a-list-of-everyone-who-will-be-screwed-by-a-government-shutdown/ - What Will Happen if the Government Remains Shut Down
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/19/us/politics/government-shutdown-employee-effects.html
From: Katharine, Elsie, Ben, Jackie, and the rest of the team, MoveOn.org Civic Action
Subject: Join a #TrumpShutdown action near you
Donald Trump and his GOP Congress just shut down the federal government.1
Our National Parks are closing down.
9 million kids who depend on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) still have their coverage unfunded.2
And 800,000 Dreamers are without the protections they were promised under DACA.
All because Donald Trump and the GOP chose to shut down the government rather than give up their reckless and racist policies, including billions in funding for a border wall.
Trump is tweeting up a storm to pass blame for his shutdown off onto Democrats because they stood strong for Dreamers and resisted his radical agenda. But we won’t stand for it—and MoveOn members and our allies are going to show up at speak-out actions across the country this next week to demand that the GOP end the #TrumpShutdown and get back to work to pass the Dream Act and fund CHIP.
Click here to host or join an urgent speak-out this week to demand Congress end the #TrumpShutdown and protect Dreamers—find and RSVP for an event near you, or start a new one! (If there isn’t an event near you yet, hosting one is easy! MoveOn staff and volunteers will support you every step of the way and even recruit other MoveOn members and partners in your area.)
Yesterday marked exactly one year since Trump’s inauguration—and one year of the resistance to Trump’s administration. In the past year, so many of us have stepped up our civic engagement in ways we may never have expected. We’ve been vigilant in defending health care coverage, standing with communities bearing the brunt of Trump’s attacks, and resisting the Trump agenda as we’ve mobilized to win key elections and lay the groundwork to rebuild progressive power.
And we’ve had incredible impact! We’ve been able to defeat horrible Republican policies and support leadership from Democrats who have stood strong—even now, the fact that the Democrats are so united in their opposition to Trump’s and the Republicans’ cruel legislative games is a testament to the power of the Resistance, which has stiffened the spines of Democrats and showed we’ll have their backs in a moment like this.
And now it’s critical to make sure Republicans feel the pressure—to get back to work, pass Dream, fund CHIP, reopen the government, and reject Trump’s racist agenda and reckless actions.
MoveOn and our allies are organizing a national wave of protests to end the #TrumpShutdown, beginning Monday and lasting through Wednesday (unless we can win before then!).
Can we count on you to join or host a speak-out event in your area to end the #TrumpShutdown?
Republicans have shut down the federal government before, and they suffered a political cost from holding our country hostage to their extreme agenda. If we all come together to stand up to this egregious negotiating tactic, we can win public opinion, help secure a deal that protects Dreamers, and emerge as a stronger country. It all starts with what we do next.
Thanks for all you do.
P.S.: One year ago, the day after the Women’s March, MoveOn and our allies held the first Ready to Resist call—and broke the Guinness World Record for the largest conference call in history. Tonight, Sunday January 21, we’re marking that anniversary with another Ready to Resist call, live from the Women’s March in Las Vegas and featuring leaders of the Women’s March, where we’ll focus like a laser on urgent steps to stop the #TrumpShutdown.
Sources:
- “The government has officially shut down,” Vox, January 20, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/31180?t=17&akid=197431%2E1195276%2ExlND84 - “9 million kids get health insurance under CHIP. Congress just let it expire,” The Washington Post, October 19, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/30949?t=19&akid=197431%2E1195276%2ExlND84
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From: Nancy Treviño; Reform Immigration FOR America
Subject: BREAKING: #TrumpShutdown
Somehow, the Republicans have managed to shut down the government. Again.
How could this happen? The GOP has complete control of the House and Senate, not to mention their President sitting in the Oval Office. The DREAM Act has bipartisan support and remains overwhelmingly popular with a majority of Americans. They’ve also had a full year to pass the budget and ensure CHIP was reauthorized.
It seems that, in their unwillingness to govern outside of their white nationalist agenda, Trump and the GOP derailed the process of creating permanent protections for DACAmented youth.
The new reality of American politics is that racism has a seat at every table. So, what now?
- Hundreds of thousands of federal workers and contractors will lose pay
- Vital programs like Medicare and Medicaid, social security, and veterans services will experience significant delays
- Trump and his GOP allies will place the blame everywhere but where it actually belongs: on themselves
Don’t be silent. Take action right now by tweeting or posting:
Instead of acting as POTUS for all Americans, @realDonaldTrump has doubled down on his racist agenda & caused a government shutdown to appease the white nationalists he really works for. And the @GOP let it happen. #TrumpShutdown #RacistinChief
Last week, Trump sent a clear message with his shameful “s—hole” comment: that he and the extremists in the Republican party intend to support their white nationalist agenda, no matter the consequences.
The most powerful tool we have in this fight is our collective voice. We can’t let Trump, the white nationalists who control him, and the spineless GOP use this moment to further attack immigrants and people of color.
From: MARGARET PETERS on behalf of Dorian Warren, CCCAction President
Subject: FW: [SHUTDOWN] How did this happen?
…”Instead of acting as POTUS for all Americans, @realDonaldTrump has doubled down on his racist rhetoric and the GOP let it happen.”…Dorian Warren, President, Center for Community Change Action
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Somehow, the Republicans have managed to shut down the government. Again.
Despite their majorities in the House and Senate, not to mention their President sitting in the Oval Office, the Republicans have failed. How could this happen?
Incompetence? Obviously. The GOP has been in control of every branch of government for an entire year, and has failed to pass a budget, reauthorize CHIP, or take the necessary steps to pass a bipartisan DREAM Act.
Ideology? Sure. After all, Republicans are the anti-government (and apparently, anti-governing) party. Many of them have dreamed about a shutdown – Trump even encouraged the idea just months ago.
But really, it all goes back to white nationalism. The new reality of American politics is that racism has a seat at every table.
Trump, the white nationalists who control him, and this spineless Republican leadership are using this moment, and the budget, to prioritize attacks on immigrants and people of color:
- Threatening a “wall” that will cost billions of taxpayer dollars
- Terrorizing immigrant communities with gestapo-like raids
- Emboldening racists to spread their vitriol online, in our communities, and in our government
Don’t be silent. Take action right now by tweeting or posting:
Instead of acting as POTUS for all Americans, @realDonaldTrump has doubled down on his racist agenda & caused a government shutdown to appease the white nationalists he really works for. And the @GOP let it happen. #TrumpShutdown
The shameful “s—hole” comment heard around the world wasn’t a slip – it was a clear and direct signal to every American: the Presidency has been compromised by the white nationalist agenda of Trump and the extremists in the Republican party. The question now is whether the rest of the GOP-controlled Congress will fall in line.
From: Munsup @MPEN Seoh
Subject: Take Action: Stand With Dr. Laurie Rubel at Brooklyn College
I thought you might want to sign on to the petition by the AAUP excerpted below:
Together with the Brooklyn College chapter of the Professional Staff Congress, we stand in support of Laurie Rubel, professor of mathematics education, who has become the latest “click bait” for the right-wing media’s outrage machine. Dr. Rubel’s recent article in the Journal of Urban Mathematics Education was caricatured and decontextualized by Campus Reform, an online “watchdog” outlet seeking to curb academic freedom.
To sign and read more, click here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/stand-with-dr-laurie-rubel?source=email&
From: Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Adam, Holly, Kathy, Susan, Anathea, Audine, Shannon, Emma, Pilar, Natalie, Melody, Pam, Lindsay, and Ryan, the UltraViolet team
Subject: Comcast + Trump = disaster
It probably took you only a second to open this email. Those days may soon be over, as big internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon just got a green light to mess with your internet access.
Internet service providers (ISPs), with the backing of Trump’s Federal Communications Commission, are about to implement a plan to create fast and slow lanes on the internet–and we’ll all pay the price.1 No matter how fast your internet is, ISPs will be able to decide which sites to slow down or even block. That could get in the way of paying bills, searching for urgent medical care, streaming Netflix, using Facebook, even just Googling information. And websites that big telecom companies don’t agree with–like news articles or advocacy sites critical of them or Trump–could be blocked entirely.2
Fortunately, due to the outcry, all 49 Democrats and independents, along with Republican Senator Susan Collins, support a bill to overturn the FCC rules. Under Senate rules, because it has the support of 50 senators, the Majority Leader is forced to bring it up for a vote. Now we just need one more vote to pass it. History shows that when telecoms mess with our internet access, Congress listens closely.3 That’s why we’re joining our allies at Free Press to demand the Senate take action. Can you sign the petition?
Tell Congress: “Reinstate net neutrality. Save our internet.”
A free and open internet is essential not just to our everyday browsing, but also to our work together on behalf of women’s equality. Just think about what would have happened if the New York Times story about Harvey Weinstein’s years of abuse broke when millions of AT&T customers could not read it, or Verizon customers could not sign UltraViolet’s successful petition to get him fired, or Comcast customers had to pay a fee just to share the petition on Facebook.
In fact, for years, net neutrality has helped UltraViolet members win rapid social change. Think of the lightning fast and enormous outcry to the outrageous sentencing of Stanford University rapist Brock Turner. Placing a huge volume of calls to successfully protect the Affordable Care Act last year through all the rapid twists and turns in Congress–news we learned about quickly through the internet. Forcing the termination of Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly after we organized a petition and protests outside Fox’s headquarters.
None of this would be possible without an internet that emphasizes quality and importance of news and ideas over the ability to pay. Net neutrality has been baked into the internet since it was invented–and we cannot allow companies like Comcast to act like gatekeepers and pick winners and losers in the online marketplace of ideas. Simply put, the ability of advocates fighting for justice depends on net neutrality, as does the power of the internet to make our lives better and easier. That’s why this petition is so important.
Sign the petition demanding the Senate save our internet.
Sources:
- Senate Dems searching for one last vote to revive FCC’s net neutrality rules, CNBC, January 16, 2018
- Net Neutrality: What You Need to Know Now, Free Press, accessed January 19, 2018
- Five Lessons From the SOPA/PIPA Fight, Slate, January 20, 2012
Want to support our work? UltraViolet is funded by members like you, and our tiny staff ensures small contributions go a long way. Chip in here.
From: Sarah Hogg, Daily Kos
Subject: Sign if you agree: Speaking up about injustice is a good thing. No elected official should threaten our right to do so.
In the year since Trump was inaugurated, activists have been heating up White House and Congressional phone lines, demanding accountability and ethics from their elected officials.
But apparently one Republican—Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton—can’t handle his constituents exercising their First Amendment rights.
Cotton recently sent letters to local community activists demanding they cease and desist ALL communications with the Senator’s office. If they don’t comply, Cotton’s office will report them to the U.S. Capitol Police.
It is outrageous that activists who were calling Senator Cotton’s office to express grave concerns about his support of the Trump administration will now be met with police action if they try to speak up again.
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