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THE NEW CAPITALIST AGENDA --LIFE, LIBERTY and JUST US !
26
January 2017
Grenoble, France
Dear
Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
“I don’t
know what kind of president he will be, but he’s one hell of an organizer! ” --these were the words of a labor union representative
from ASCME (the American State, County, and Municipal Employees Union) speaking
at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. last Saturday.
World capitalism has found its new leader, for the moment at least, and it forebodes “more of the same” for most of the world (despite the incoherent rhetoric); so hunker down and prepare for the worst. The military/police/security industrial complex remains the central pillar of the American economy, and any leader of a capitalist nation is compelled to guarantee war profits from future conflicts if the private profit motive and gainful employment are not to abate. Nevertheless, there are signs of change, some more dramatic than others, and it is instructive to visit the cradle of capitalism in late medieval Europe in order to see the early signs of its awakening, its development and its geneology. The war on working people and their families has been escalated.
To gain a historical perspective of
this development there is no better source than Vol. 1 of Fernand
Braudel’s meticulous study of “Civilization &
Capitalism –from the 15th to the 18th Century” in which we can appreciate the micro changes that occurred
sporadically across the world as political economies began to transform and
modern capitalism started to unfold, in fits and starts, from its embryonic state.
In the
last chapter of The
Structures of Everyday Life, The limits of the Possible, the historian
explains how “towns were the outposts of modernity” in the 15th
century. Here we can see a new behavior pattern emerging within a new social
class, compared to what existed before their arrival on the scene . . . .
No question now of
living from day to day, as noblemen did, always putting up revenues to try to
meet the level of their expenditure, which invariably came first –and letting
the future take care of itself. The merchant was economical with his money,
calculated his expenditure according to his returns, his investments according
to their yield. The hour-glass had turned back the right way. He would also be
economical with his time: a merchant could already say that . . . “time is money.”
Capitalism and towns were basically the same thing in the West. Lewis Mumford
humorously claimed that capitalism was the cuckoo’s egg laid in the confined
nests of the medieval towns. By this he meant to convey that the bird was
destined to grow inordinately and burst its tight framework (which was true),
and then link up with the state, the conqueror of towns but heir to their
institutions and way of thinking an completely incapable of dispensing with
them. The important thing was that even when it had declined as a city the town
continued to rule the roost all the time it was passing into the actual or
apparent service of the prince. The wealth of the state would still be the
wealth of the town: Portugal converged on Lisbon, the Netherlands on Amsterdam;
and English primacy was London’s primacy (the capital modeled England in its own
image after the peaceful revolution of 1688).
The latent defect in the Spanish imperial economy was that it was based
on Seville –a controlled town rotten with dishonest officials and long
dominated by foreign capitalists-- and not on a powerful free town capable of
producing and carrying through a really individual economic policy. Likewise,
if Louis XIV did not succeed in founding a ‘royal bank’, despite various
projects (1703, 1706, 1709), it was because faced with the power of the
monarchy, Paris did not offer the protection of a town free to do what it
wanted and accountable to no one.
. . .
[O]ne
could say that the West has had three basic types of town in the course of its
evolution: open towns, that is to say not differentiated from their hinterland,
even blending into it (A); towns closed in on themselves in every sense, their walls
marking the boundaries of an individual way of life more than a territory (B);
finally towns held in subjection, by which is meant the whole range of known
controls by prince or state (C).
Roughly, A preceded
B, and B preceded C. But there is no suggestion of strict succession about this
order. It is rather a question of directions and dimensions shaping the
complicated careers of the Western towns. They did not all develop at the same
time or in the same way. Later we will see if this ‘grid’ is valid for
classifying all towns of the world.
Type A:
the ancient Greek or Roman city was open to the surrounding countryside and on
terms of equality with it. Athens accepted inside its walls as rightful
citizens the Eupatrid horse-breeders as well as the vine-growing peasants so
dear to Aristophanes. As soon as the
smoke rose above the Pnyx, the peasant
responded to the signal and attended the µAssembly of the People, where he sat
among his equals. . . . The Greek city was in fact the sum of the
town and its surrounding countryside. And this was the case because the towns
had only just come into existence (a century or two in nothing in this
context), only recently emerged from the rural background.
. . . it might be added that villages round
about had their craftsmen and forges, where it was pleasant to warm
oneself in winter. In short, industry was rudimentary, foreign and unobtrusive.
Likewise, if one explores the ruins of Roman cities, one is in open country
immediately outside the gates: there are no suburbs, which is as good as saying
no industry or active and organized trades in their duly allotted place.
Type B:
the closed city: the medieval town was the classic example of a closed city, a
self-sufficient unit, as exclusive, Lilliputian empire. Entering its gates was
like crossing one of the serious frontiers of the world today. You were free to
thumb your nose at your neighbor from the other side of the barrier. He could
not touch you. The peasant who uprooted himself from his land and arrived in
the town was immediately another man. He was free –or rather he had abandoned a
known and hated servitude for another, not always guessing the extent of it
beforehand. But this mattered little. If the town had adopted him, he could
snap his fingers when his lord called for him. And though obsolete elsewhere,
such calls were still frequently to be heard in Silesia in the eighteenth
century and in Muscovy up to the nineteenth.
Though the towns opened their gates easily
it was not enough to walk through them to be immediately and really part of
them. Full citizens were a jealous minority, a small town inside the town
itself. . . . The ordinary townspeople were no less
mistrustful or hostile to newcomers. According to Maris Sanudo,
in June 1520, the street people [of Venice] attacked the peasants who had
arrived from the mainland as recruits for the galleys or the army, crying:
‘Back to the plough, shirkers!’ . .
. But citizenship was also
parsimoniously granted in Marseilles in the sixteenth century; it was necessary
to have ‘ten years of domicile, to possess property, to have married a local
girl’. Otherwise the man remained amongst the masses of noon-citizens of the
town. This limited conception of citizenship was the general rule everywhere.
The main source of contention can be
glimpsed throughout this vast process: to whom did industry
and craft, their privileges and profits, belong? In fact they belonged to the
town, to its authorities and to its merchant entrepreneurs. They decided if it
were necessary to deprive, or to try to deprive, the rural area of the city of
the right to spin, weave and dye, or if on the contrary it would be
advantageous to grant it these rights. Everything was possible in these
interchanges, as the history of each individual town shows. . . . [E]verything
was arranged for the benefit of the craft guilds. They enjoyed exclusive contiguous
monopolies, fiercely defended along the imprecise frontiers that so easily let
to absurd conflicts.
Type C:
subjugated towns, of early modern times. Everywhere in Europe, as soon as the
state was firmly established it disciplined the towns with instinctive
relentlessness, whether or not it used violence. The Habsburgs did so just as
much as the Popes, the German princes as much as the Medicis
or the kings of France. Except in the Netherlands and England, obedience was
imposed.
In Spain, [for example] the corregido, the urban administrator, subjected the
‘free towns’ to the will of the Crown. Of course the Crown left the not
inconsiderable profits and the vanities of local administration to
the petty local nobility. . . . Paris, equally under the royal thumb, helped
–had to help—the royal treasury and was the centre of the large-scale fund-raising
known as the rentres sur
l’Hôtel de Ville. Even Louis VIV did not give up
the capital. Versailles was not really separate from nearby Paris,
and the monarchy had been accustomed to moving around the periphery of the
powerful, redoubtable city. . . . In fact it was advisable to govern these
over-populated towns from a distance, at least from time to time. Philip II
spent all his time at the Escorial, and Madrid was
only at its beginnings. Later the Dukes of Bavaria lived in Nymphenburg;
Frederick II in Potsdam; the emperors outside Vienna in Schoenbrunn. Moreover, to return to Louis XIV, he did not
forget ot assert his
authority in Paris itself not to maintain his prestige there. The two great royal squares, the Place des Victoires and the Place Vendôme, were built during
his reign. The ‘prodigious construction’ of Les Invalides
was undertaken at this time. Thanks to
him, wide access roads where carriages flowed and military marches were
organized opened Paris to the nearby countryside on the pattern of Baroque
towns. Most important from our point of view, was the creating in 1667 of a
Lieutenant of Police with exorbitant powers. The second holder of this high
office, the Marquis d’Argenson, nominated thirty
years later (1697), ‘assembled the machine –not the one that exists today’,
explained Sébastien Mercier, ‘but he was the first to
think of its main springs and mechanisms. One can even say that today this
machine runs by itself.’(pp.515-520)
Braudel
concludes the first volume of his histoire
de long durée, with the admission that his quest
has been to find order in apparent chaos.
Material
life, of course, presents itself to us in the anecdotal form of thousands and
thousands of assorted facts. Can we call these events? No: to do so would be to
inflate their importance, to grant them a significance
they never had. That the Holy Roman Emperor Maximiian
ate with his fingers from the dishes at a banquet (as we can see form a
drawing) is an everyday detail, not an event. So is the story about the bandit
Cartouche, on the point of execution, preferring a class of wine to the coffee
he was offered. This is the dust of history, micro-history in the same sense
that Georges Gurvitch talks about micro-sociology:
little facts which do, it is true, by indefinite repetition, add up to form
linked chains. Each of them represents the thousands of others that have
crossed the silent depths of time and endured.
It is with such chains; such ‘series’, and
with history in the ‘long term’ that I have been concerned: they provide the horizons
and vanishing-points of all the landscapes of the past. They introduce a kind
of order, indicate a balance; and reveal to our eyes the permanent features,
the things that in this apparent disorder can be explained. . . . Material life conforms to such slow rhythms
more readily than other areas of human history.
Among the constant elements, the reader will
have noticed that we have placed in the foreground those arising from
civilizations and from what I have called cultures. . . .
It is a fact that every great center of
population has worked out a set of elementary answers –and has an unfortunate
tendency to stick to them out of that force of inertia which is one of the
great artisans of history. What is a civilization then, if not an ancient
settlement of a certain section of mankind in a certain place? It is a category
of history, a necessary classification. Mankind has only shown any tendency to
become united (and has certainly not yet succeeded) since the end of the
fifteenth century. Until then, and further we go back in time the more obvious
it becomes, humanity was divided between different ‘planets’, each the home of
an individual civilization or culture, with its own distinctive features and
age-old choices. Even when they were close together, these solutions never
combined.
I have used the expression ‘the long term’
and ‘civilization’: these major categories call for a supplementary
classification, based on the notion of ‘society’ (which is present everywhere
too). Everything is part of a social order . . . [T]hese commonplace
and obvious truths have their importance.
But even the word society is rather vague:
we really ought to talk of socio-economies. Marx asked the right question: who
owns the means of production, the land, the ships, the machinery, the raw
materials, the finished products and, no less, the leading positions in society?
It is, however, clear that the two coordinates : society and economy, are still
not sufficient: the State, in all its forms, simultaneously cause and
consequence, makes its presence felt, disturbs and affects relationships
whether it seeks to or not, and often plays a very forceful role in those
architectural structures that can be classified into a typology of world socio-economic
systems: those based on slavery, those with serfs and overlords, those where
there are businessmen and pre-capitalists. This is to return to the language
used by Marx, and to walk some of the way with him, even if one rejects his precise
words or the rigorous process by which he saw every society moving from one
stage to the next. The problem remains one of classification, of a considered
hierarchy of societies; no observer can escape this necessity –which imposes
itself from the most elementary level of material life. That such problems –the
long term, civilization, society, economy, the stqte,
the hierarchies of ‘social’ values—should present themselves at the level of
the humble realities of material life, proves in itself that history is present
at this level too, with its enigmas and difficulties, familiar ones which are
encountered by all the human sciences when they come to grips with their
subject. Man can never be reduced to one personality who fits into an acceptable
simplification; though many people have pursued this false hope. No sooner has
one approached even the simplest aspect of his life than one finds his
customary complexity there too.
. . .
In a
context where other structures were inflexible (those of material life and, no
less, those of ordinary economic life) capitalism could choose the areas where
it wished and was able to intervene, and the areas it would leave to their
fate, rebuilding as it went its own structures from the components, and
gradually in the process transforming the structures of others.
That is what made pre-capitalism the source
of the economic creativity of the world: it was the origin or the signal for
all major material progress and for all the most oppressive exploitation of man
by man. Not only because of the appropriation of the surplus value of man’s
labor’, but also because of those disparities of strength or situation which
meant that there has always been, on a national scale or on a world scale, one
stronghold waiting to be captured, one sector more profitable to exploit that
the others. The choice may have been a limited one sometimes, but what an
immense privilege to be able to choose!(pp.561-563)
In Braudel’s history readers are warned not to underestimate
the sheer force and astounding resilience of the capitalist political economy.
As its history bears witness, this socio-economic-political system is a human
construct with a history, and it contains built-in protections, to guarantee
survival, even at unimaginable human costs. The world should beware: It will not
go down easily !
The 12 items below will provide CEIMSA
readers with insights into crisis capitalism, and the depth of the commitment
to keep it alive which paralyzes many among us to oppose even its most catastrophic
consequences. The ideological hegemony of capitalism seems to have done an
outstanding job in recruiting propagandists and maintaining the essential relationships
of alienation and labor exploitation.
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
Professor emeritus of American Studies
University Grenoble-Alpes
Director of Research
University of Paris-Nanterre
Center for the Advanced Study of American Institutions and
Social Movements
The University of California-San Diego
a.
India –
Crime of the Century – Financial Genocide
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46274.htm
by
Peter Koenig
A Financial genocide, if there was ever one. Death by demonetization, probably killing hundreds of thousands, if
not millions of people, through famine, disease, even desperation and suicide –
because most of India’s money was declared invalid. The official weak
reason for this purposefully manufactured human disaster is fighting
counterfeiting. What a flagrant lie! The real cause is of course – you guessed
it – an order from Washington.
===========
b.
Lest we forget . . .
The Project for the New American Century
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1665.htm
by William Rivers Pitt
February 25, 2003
The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC,
is a Washington-based think tank created in 1997. Above all else, PNAC desires
and demands one thing: The establishment of a global American empire to bend
the will of all nations. They chafe at the idea that the United States, the
last remaining superpower, does not do more by way of economic and military
force to bring the rest of the world under the umbrella of a new socio-economic
Pax Americana. …
The People versus the Powerful is the oldest
story in human history. At no point in history have the Powerful wielded so
much control.
At no point in history has the active and informed involvement of the
People, all of them, been more absolutely required.
===========
c.
Abby Martin Blows The Lid
Off The Clinton Criminal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzFp5lmVE4o
Digging deep into Hillary's connections to Wall Street, Abby Martin
reveals how the Clinton's multi-million-dollar political machine
operates.
This episode chronicles the Clinton's rise to power in the 90s on a right-wing
agenda, the Clinton Foundation's revolving door with Gulf state monarchies,
corporations and the world's biggest financial institutions, and the
establishment of the hyper-aggressive "Hillary Doctrine" while
Secretary of State. Learn the essential facts about the great danger she poses,
and why she's the US Empire's choice for its next CEO.
d.
Michael Moore, Corporate Feminists, & Controlled Opposition of
Women's March Washington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrnACRaiuOU&t=245s
Sources Below; Click Show More, I
will add more reading on specifics managed later today:
Mainstream media NEVER would have given a 24/7 spotlight to any event that
threatened the power interests. On the hypocrisy of Michael
Moore, Corporate Feminists, & Partisan Hacks. Time
to do the shadow work.
Lee Camp/Hedges Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6UJB...
The Democratic & Corporate Media Plan that Gave Us Trump:
http://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-h...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrnAC...
On the Honduran Coup:
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/1...
https://www.thenation.com/article/the...
Berta's Family at the March in Philly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FacoN...
Clinton Arming Authoritarian Regime Governments:
http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-founda...
https://www.thenation.com/article/the...
Obama's Kill List/Terror Tuesdays:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-w-...
Habeas Corpus GONE:
http://www.salon.com/2010/05/21/bagra...
Obama took right to KILL American citizens even on our own SOIL without trial
or charges (liking that now that Trump has it)?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world...
Obama bombing seven countries (eight if you count proxy war we are fighting
through Saudi Arabia in Yemen):
http://www.mintpressnews.com/barack-o...
For more on Obama's civil rights narrative, the Russia fairy tale, election
fraud, and many other topics, subscribe and see my video channel which always
includes source lists in video description for your reading pleasure/horror
e.
2013 Interview with
Thom Hartmann .
. .
Thom Hartmann on "The
Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America—and What We Can Do to Stop It"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvxhh3hjfSs
Published on Nov 12,
2013
Could the United States face another economic collapse? Writer
and broadcaster Thom Hartmann looks back at past financial crises
and comes to a startling conclusion. "As long as you don't
look too closely at our nation, things seem under control -- the United States
looks whole ...
but when you go around to the 'dark back side' of the nation, you
see the shocking truth. There you see a nation whose core fundamentals have
been
hollowed out," writes Hartmann in his new book, "The Crash of
2016: The Plot to Destroy America -- and What We Can Do to Stop It."
===========
f.
Democracy
Now! Special Broadcasts from the Inauguration and the Women's March on
Washington
(5
hours each of film coverage)
https://www.democracynow.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=angela+davis
===========
g.
Millions Around
the World March in Solidarity with Women's March on Washington
&
Women's Protest Against Trump Goes Global
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=18184
===========
h.
From: "Groucho Marx" <byronsandiego@gmail.com>
Subject: A Dozen-Plus Opportunities in San Diego to Protest Trump’s
Inauguration
A
Dozen-Plus Opportunities in San Diego to Protest Trump’s Inauguration
January
13, 2017 by Doug Porter
San
Diego gets it. Lots of us are unhappy with the incoming administration.
There
are community gatherings. There are rallies. There are protest marches. There
are teach-ins. There are press conferences. There is art. There are even dance
parties.
People
from all walks of life find are finding ways to express their displeasure with
the incoming administration. Check out the calendar below for events over the
next ten days or so. Events related to the inauguration include the Trump/NOPE
graphic.
Americans
don’t think much of the
President-elect’s transition performance, according to a Gallup poll released
this week. It’s historically bad with 51% of those surveyed disapproving, as
opposed to 12% (Obama/2009), 25% (Bush/2001) and Clinton (18%/1993).
Meanwhile,
signs of the Trumpacolypse are all around. An unvetted document alleging Russian influence is, we were
told via Twitter, not true because the Russians say so. A Republican Congress
is rushing headlong into repealing the Affordable Care Act without a hint of a
consensus of what could replace it. House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz says he may probe a federal ethics official
for daring to question President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to distance
himself from his business empire.
It’s
quickly become apparent that the best course for opposing Trump is grassroots
activism. Networks and coalitions are springing up faster than I can keep track
of them. (But I’m working on it and will report on them soon.)
Activism
abounds in San Diego if you know where to look for it. I’ve been posting this
progressive activism calendar on Fridays now for more than six months and every
week I learn about new groups.
Get
your event listed: I
try to list the next 10 days or so of mostly non-commercial events I think our
readers might find of interest. I source my material from social media listings
and press releases. In cases where there are competing but similar events or
campaigns of the progressive persuasion, I do my best to list everything
related to citizen activism.
Progressive Calendar for San Diego, Mid
January 2017
San Diego Rising to
Protect Immigrants & Refugees
Press Conference
Saturday,
January 14, 10am
Escondido Police Dept Hdqtrs
1163 Center City Parkway, Escondido
For More Information
The
Trump team has already announced that some of their first acts of brutality
will be to lash out against immigrants and Muslims. They want to deport
millions of immigrants, rip families apart and drive tens of millions of
immigrants, refugees and their families and friends into silence out of fear.
Just
one week before Donald Trump’s inauguration as a President elected by a
minority of voters, it is critical that the majority stand up and say NO to
Trump’s promised reign of terror and YES to community, love for one another,
shared strength and human dignity. It is time for us to unite and rise
together.
Join
the San Diego Dream Team for our press conference on the national day of action
as we uplift the intersectional voices of our community, organize to end local
police and ICE collaborations, and build beloved community.
Prism: Femme Fest
Saturday,
January 14, Noon-6pm
Writerz Block
5010 Market St. San Diego
For More Information
PRISM
is part of the Jacobs Center’s Jacobs Presents
performance series that celebrates San Diego graffiti art, music, and culture.
These events are free to the community and open to all ages.
For
this upcoming PRISM we are showcasing all female talent. We are presenting an
all-women lineup, with graffiti artists/muralists, DJs, musicians and community
resources. Come support all our rad creative women.
HOST:
Alex Zaragoza
LIVE PERFORMANCES: GAVLYN, Miki Vale, Sancha y Las Sirenas @sanchaylassirenas, TRU7H Wilnisha Sutton
LIVE
ART:Panca (Tijuana) aypanca.com,
MUSIC/DJs:
Chulita Vinyl Club (SD + LA) @ChulitaVinylClub,
Cookie Crew @hvyd + @meleesas,
Betty Bangs @betty_bangs, Dauche
@_dauche
Sierra Club Rally to Oppose
Trump
Saturday,
January 14, 3pm
Mission Valley Public Library
2133 Fenton Pkwy, San Diego
For More Information
The
Sierra Club has a national and local game plan to take on the Trump
administration and allied interests to fight against his environmentally toxic
cabinet nominees, to stand in solidarity with vulnerable families and
communities, and not let his fossil fuel friends run our lives on dirty energy
for years to come.
“Donald
Trump may be president for the next several years, but the Sierra Club has been
doing this work for nearly 125 years. We’ll still be here when he is gone,
and our movement will be bigger, stronger, and more innovative than ever for
having opposed him. For many of us, these will be the biggest
environmental fights of our lives, but they’ll also be the most meaningful.
We’re ready to give it everything we’ve got.” -Michael Brune,
Executive Director of the Sierra Club.
Democratic Socialists of
America
General Membership Meeting
Sunday,
January 15, 4pm
Peace Resource Center of San Diego
3850 Westgate Pl., San Diego
For More Information
San
Diego DSA is continuing to grow. This meeting will be a good
place to join the Political Revolution and to meet like-minded
people. Come here to find out about the activities and participation
of our local DSA chapter; our participation in local electoral activities;
our work to defend those who are most threatened by the new xenophobia, nativism, misogyny; and our support for environmental
and labor struggles.
Community Meeting to Resist
Trump
Sunday,
January 15, 3pm
Coronado Public Library, Coronado
Click here to RSVP and get
the details.
Join
MoveOn, Working Families Party, and People’s Action
for a critical national day of action just days before the inauguration—on
Sunday, January 15.
We’ll
organize community meetings across the country to talk about what resistance
looks like on the local level and sketch out a plan to keep our communities
safe, fight for our values, and resist the new administration every step of the
way—including by organizing opposition to Trump’s dangerous cabinet
appointments.
Per
Library policy, attendance at this meeting does not require an RSVP and
attendance is open to the public. It is imperative you bring a cooperative and
flexible attitude to this event. January 15th is a national day of action
against the Trump administration and our meeting is just one of 500 others
taking place across the nation. Please feel free to spread the word and bring
friends.
I
have had an amazing outpouring of support in response to this event and it is highly
likely we will exceed room capacity and be required to overflow into outside
areas. That is a GREAT thing! We should all be excited and invigorated to learn
so many individuals are interested in taking action and collaborating against
the radical agenda of the incoming administration. Concerned Citizens Unite!
Join with fellow progressives at the Coronado library Sunday January 15th at
3:00 pm for a “Resist Trump” community meeting. We’ll collaborate on ways we
can tap into the people power in our area and form a plan to resist the radical
agenda of the incoming administration.
King Day March
“Our Lives, Our Agenda”
Monday,
January 16, 2pm
Park Blvd and B Street (nr San Diego City College)
For More Information
Dr.
Martin Luther King died fighting a poor people’s campaign fighting for the
poor, jobless and our workers. He also died leaving racial injustice as a front
and center topic for years to come. It’s time to take a stand for what Dr. King
stood and died for and let our elected officials know that if they are not
fighting for the people they are not working for us! We need to send a message
to ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS in San Diego and beyond that they will be held
accountable in the areas of workers rights, police
reform and mass incarceration. If they are not fighting for the people, they
should not work for the people! Join the movement! #KINGDAY2017#KINGMARCH
The 29th All Peoples Celebration
Monday,
January 16, 10am
Balboa Park Activity Center
2145 Park Blvd, San Diego
For More Information (Tickets)
Join
us on Monday, January 16, 2017 to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. at the 29th All Peoples Celebration. This annual community
program is the preeminent event in San Diego County where more than 1,000
business leaders, elected officials, faith leaders, community organizers,
artists, and students come together for an inspiring program and common goal of
honoring the work and the sacrifice of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We
are thrilled to announce that Rev. Dr. William J. Barber will keynote the 29th
All Peoples Celebration. Rev. Barber is a dynamic leader and electrifying
speaker who is in the national spotlight for his work around civil rights with
the North Carolina NAACP.
Legal Observer Training:
Protect Free Speech
Tuesday,
January 17, 6pm
RSVP for Location
Please
join the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties and the National Lawyers’
Guild for a Legal Observer Training!
Learn
how to legally protect and exercise your First Amendment rights and the rights
of your fellow community members in the event of any incidents, arrests, or
official misconduct during a protest. With the anticipated increase in protests
and political demonstrations, your leadership is needed now more than ever!
Please note you do not need to be an attorney to attend this training.
Please
RSVP and forward any questions to either Gerrlyn Gacao at 619-398-4490 and ggacao@aclusandiego.org or Mayra Lopez at 619-232-2121 or mlopez@aclusandiego.org.
Environmental Democrats
Meeting
Wednesday,
January 18, 6pm
Elijah’s Restaurant
7061 Clairemont Mesa Blvd
For More Information
San Diego County Democrats for Environmental Action will hold our January meeting at a new location this month. Instead of meeting in La Jolla, we’ll meet in the banquet room at Elijah’s Restaurant, Delicatessen & Catering in Clairemont, located at 7061 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. in the theMcGrath
shopping center, at Clairemont
Mesa Blvd. and I-805.
We’ll begin our social at 6 p.m. instead of our usual time of 6:30, in
part so guests, attendees and members will have time to come by and eat (if you
want) before we call the meeting to order at 7. Among the topics we’ll discuss
will be the future of the California Coastal Commission, Mission Bay and Agua Hedionda Lagoon, with
appearances from Kevin Beiser and Steve Padilla.
Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute
2017 Kick Off
Thursday,
January 19, 5:30pm
United Domestic Workers
4855 Seminole Blvd, San Diego
For More Information
Join the Center on Policy Initiatives for a networking reception and
special panel discussion to kick-off the 2017 Boards and Commissions Leadership
Institute (BCLI) cohort. BCLI, a leadership development program, trains and
places advocates with an equity, economic and racial justice framework onto
local and regional boards and commissions.
For
our kick-off we will have a timely discussion about the role Boards and
Commissions can play in protecting our communities. Join us for this important
discussion and to meet our amazing 2017 cohort! Click here to RSVP: http://www.cpisandiego.org/bcli2017_kickoff
Saturday,
January 21, 2pm
Cafe Cabaret
3739 Adams Avenue, San Diego
For More Information
We
will discuss: Where is Our Labor Party and Rise and Fall
of the Socialist Party of America.
San Diego United Against Hate
Friday, January 20, 5-9pm
Chicano
Park (Barrio Logan)
For More Information
Friday,
January 20
10:30 Meet at Park Blvd & A Street,
March to Federal Building
Noon: Rally at Federal Building
Hosted by: San Diego Alliance for Justice
For More Information
Protest Inauguration Day and Fight Trump
Friday,
January 20, 10:30am
San Diego City College
1313 Park Blvd
For More Information
Daytime
Rally: Speakout at City College at 10:30 am
March
and Rally Federal Building 11:30 am
Evening
Rally: Speakout at City College 6:00 pm
March
and Rally Federal Building 7:00 pm
This is being
organized by the San Diego Alliance for Justice
Protest Trump on Inauguration Day
Friday,
January 20, Noon
Park
Boulevard and President’s Way Lawn (Balboa Park)
For More Information
Hosted by: ANSWER San Diego
Consider
taking January 20th (#J20) off work and
joining us in the streets. We want to send a clear message to the Trump
administration that we will not allow business as usual.
We will be
gathering at 12 noon at the lawn area on Park Boulevard near the intersection
of President’s Way. There is a large parking lot across the street. We will
march to the downtown Federal Building at 880 Front Street where we will end
our march with speakers defending immigrant rights, women’s rights, the
environment, the muslim
community, racial justice and the LGTBQ community.
The 2017 Inauguration Day People’s Ball Fundraiser
Friday,
January 20, 7pm
Centro
Cultural de La Raza
Balboa
Park, 2004 Park Blvd.
For More Information Tickets
$25 advance
Activist San
Diego and KNSJ Justice 89.1FM present
The
People’s Ball Counter-Inaugural Celebration and Fundraiser
Live Music
and Dancing, Inspiring Activist Speakers, Food and No-Host Bar, Raffle &
Silent Auction
Musical
Talent: Favio Alejo and his
Latin Roots Band
Keynote:
Greg Palast, Investigative Reporter
Reporting
on voter disenfranchisement, election manipulation and fraud
Artful Activist San Diego
Anti-Inaugural Ball
Grassroots Oasis
3130 Moore Street
For More Information
Come out
after the inauguration to enjoy the sounds of three punk/grindcore
bands, Nervous Defects, The Stalins
of Sound, and Endless/Nameless. All ages welcome, $5
at the door.
San Diego Women’s March
Saturday, January
21, 10am
Civic
Center Plaza
1200
Third Ave, San Diego
For More Information (Main Page)
East County Brigade
Run, Women, Run
Rise Up Show Up Shine On
The Women’s
March will take place on Saturday, January 21, 2017 from 10 am-12 pm. It
will start at the Civic Center Plaza (1200 Third Avenue) and march on Broadway
to Harbor Dr. and end in front of the County Administration Building.
WE APPRECIATE
YOU!!!! Thank you for your support! If you would like to donate funds to
support our event you can do so here: https://www.gofundme.com/sandiegomarch
Women’s March on Washington, North County
Saturday, January 21, 11am
San
Marcos Civic Center
March
to Palomar College @ Noon
Rally
@ Palomar College 1pm
For More Information
The rhetoric
of the past election cycle insulted, demonized, demeaned and threatened many of
us- immigrants, Muslims, people who identify as LGBTQIA, Native Americans,
Black and Brown people, people with disabilities
and
survivors of sexual assault. We stand together in the face of national and
international concern. (Thanks to the Women’s March on Washington.)
We march here
in North County to show solidarity with the March on Washington and our sister
marches happening all over the country. We stand together recognizing
that defending the most marginalized among us is defending us all. We call on
all defenders of human rights to join us.
This march and rally is the first step in unifying our
communities and create change from the grassroots level up. We will work
peacefully while cognizant that there is no true peace without justice and
equity for all. This is an historic event for North County San Diego. This is
an event of inclusion and compassion.
Saturday,
January 21, Noon
Officer
Jeremy Henwood Memorial Park
3700
Fairmount Ave, San Diego
Hosted
by Mid-City CAN
For More Information
On January
21st, join us at #UnitedCityHeights to:
– Enjoy food,
music, art, and conversation;
–
Meet organizations in City Heights that are doing the work to empower our
communities;
–
Share safe space to plan next steps and address current needs;
–
Connect with resources to protect your families and improve health
Co-hosted by:
– Comite Organizador Latino
–
Employee Rights Center
–
International Rescue Committee
–
Mid-City CAN
–
NAACP San Diego Youth Council
–
Somali Bantu Association
–
Together We Will
Nasty Women Art Exhibition
Saturday,
January 21, 2-8pm
Helmuth Projects
1827
Fifth Ave, San Diego
For More Information
With
artwork ranging from $30-$300, it also serves as a fundraiser to support
organizations defending these rights and and to be a
platform for organization concurrent with Trump’s Presidential Inauguration
weekend and Women’s Marches across the county.
100% of the
sale will go to Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest,San Diego LGBT Community Center, or La Maestra Community Health Centers.
Teaching Positive
Alternatives to Trump:
A
Teach-in for Activism
Sunday, January 22, 9am-5pm
Centro
Cultural de La Raza
Balboa
Park, 2004 Park Blvd.
For More Information
Limited
free seating – please register here asap. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/teaching-positive-alternatives-to-trump-teach-in-for-activism-resistance-tickets-30440317810.
One-hour long
working sessions are being organized all day by these community activist
coordinators:
- Centro
Cultural de la Raza venue and Education – Tommy Ramírez
- Climate
Change – Nicole Capretz
- Communications
– Martin Eder
- Community
Self-defense Rapid Response – Justin Hewgill
- Computer
Security Upgrade Consultation & Installation – Computer servicing free
all afternoon
- Constructing
Giant Street Puppets ~ Antonia Davis, The Puppet Insurgency
- Cultural
resistances program @ food, music, poetry, puppets, piñatas, et al. –
Alessandra Moctezuma, Antonia Davis, Edwardo Garcia, Ernie McCray, Makeda,
and friends.
- Debt
Resistances within Capitalism ~ Jubilee San Diego, The Debt Collective
- Elections
Have Consequences: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda – Lori
Saldaña
- Food
~ Solidarity Farms
- Gender,
sexuality, race, and class – Leslie Quintana
- Health
~ Ava Torre-Bueno, Jeoffry B. Gordon, Rich Macgurn
- Housing
– Leslie Quintana
- International
trade agreements – Kali Katt aka Nicole Gochmanosky
- Immigration
– Coordinator needed
- Local
economics – Andrea Carter, Liz Rider
- Palestine
– Stephanie Jennings
- Peace
– Anne Barron
- Police/prison
– Mark Anthony Bartlett
- Powerful
prayer ecumenical opening ceremony / blessing – Michelle Anne Narvaez
- Puppet
Insurgency – Antonia Davis
- Registration
online – Susan Beattie
- Self-sufficient
bike maintenance – Bikes del Pueblo, bike servicing free all afternoon.
- Social
media promotion – Adam Powers, Michelle Luellen, Oren Robinson
- Scheduling
– Peter Brown
- Standing
Rock – Bobby Wallace
- Technology
Issues in the Times of Trump – Adam Powers, Oren Robinson
- Volunteer
Coordinator – Coordinator needed
- Women
– Diana Shakti Contreras, Jourdan Lopez
- Work
– Bo Diego
- Worldbeat
Cultural Center venue and outstanding vegan food – Makeda Makossa, all day
- Zapatista
101 – The Sixth Campaign
International & Nationwide #Resist Events
We
are not alone. There are people around the globe who are fired up and ready to
go. The best resource for this type of information is lovealwaystrumpshate.org.
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Ashley Judd FULL Speech at "Women's March" In Washington DC ‘I
am a nasty woman’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNXMOxBbt6g
Ashley Judd cuts off Michael Moore's speech at the "Women's
March" in Washington DC Saturday January 21, 2017. Ashely judd goes off talking
about "The Bloodstains On My Jeans" during
her psycho rant. Ashley Judd also told the crowd "Our Pussies Aint for Grabbing". Actress Ashley Judd read a poem by
19-year-old Nina Donovan from her home state of Tennessee. “I am a nasty
woman,” the poem began. “Not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in Cheeto dust, a man whose words are a dis
to America, Electoral College-sanctioned hate speech.” “I feel Her in these streets,” the poem continued, “Nazis renamed.”
Another line referenced Trump’s past comments about the attractiveness of his
daughter Ivanka: “I’m not as nasty as your daughter
being your favorite sex symbol.” The poem also touched on why tampons are taxed
but Rogaine isn’t, the annoyance of unexpected
periods, the pay gap in Hollywood and sexual harassment. “Our p—ies ain’t for grabbing,” the poem
concluded. “This p—- is for my pleasure and giving birth to more nasty
woman.”Watch Ashley Judd interrupt Michael Moore at the Women's March on
Washington Update on 'Women's marches live updates: American Ferrera, Michael Moore, Ashley Judd speak at packed ...
While speaking at the Women’s March on Washington today, actress Ashley Judd
used many of the complimentary things President Donald Trump has said about his
daughter Ivanka’s beauty to accuse him of lusting
after her. During an impassioned address to the crowd, Judd first invoked Trump
calling Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman” to go after him on many of the allegations
about him and his administration. “I am not as nasty as racism, fraud, conflict
of interest, ignorance, white privilege,” Judd shouted. She then went after
Trump over Ivanka. “I am not as nasty as your own
daughter being your favorite sex symbol,” she exclaimed. “Like your wet dreams
infused with your own genes but, yeah, I’m a nasty woman!”
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From: Jim O'Brien
To: haw-info@stopthewars.org
Subject: [haw-info] HAW
Notes 1/19/17: HAW contingent in NYC march; Marv Gettleman;
links to recent articles of interest
For anyone in the New York City area planning
to take part in the Women's March on Saturday, this is a reminder that
there will be a HAW contingent in the march. It will meet at the southwest
corner of 45th Street and 2nd Avenue at 11:30; look for the big
"Historians Against the War" banner.
Two tributes to the late Marv
Gettleman by HAW Steering Committee members have been posted on the
HAW website, one by Van Gosse and one on behalf of the
organization by Rusti Eisenberg.
Links to Recent Articles of Interest
:
"Escalation Watch:
Four Looming Flashpoints Facing President Trump"
By Michael
Klare, TomDispatch.com, posted January 17
By Roger Cohen, New
York Times, posted January 17
“A Lesson on How to
Survive Trumpism – from the McCarthy Era”
By Ellen Schrecker, The
Nation, posted January 9
The author has written,
among other books, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America.
“How Henry
KissingerConspired against a Sitting President”
By Zach
Dorfman, Politico.com, posted January 6
On Kissinger’s advice to
the dictatorial Pinochet regime in Chile during the Jimmy Carter presidency
“America’s
MajorChallenges in Middle East Policy, 2017”
By Juan Cole, Informed
Comment blog, posted January 1
The author teaches
history at the University of Michigan.
By John A. Farrell, New
York Times, posted December 31
New evidence on the sabotaging
of Vietnam peace talks in October 1968
“Trump’s Madman Gambit:
History Shows His Nuclear Threats Will Fail”
By Jeffrey P.
Kimball, US News and World Report, posted December 30
“Why Obama – and Every
President since Carter – Failed to Transform the Middle East”
Interview with Andrew J.
Bacevich by Sean Illing, Vox.com, posted December 29
Suggestions for these
lists can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.
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From: "Groucho Marx" <byronsandiego@gmail.com>
Subject: Byron Morton Photos San Diego Women's March Jan. 21,2017
Francis,
I took what seems like an iconic photo from the San
Diego Women's March this past Saturday January 21st, 2017. 5 (Please
see « Unicorns Three” immediately below.)
I have been taking photographs for forty years.
Sometimes an image resonates with me long after I press the camera button.
Once in a while, out of hundreds of images, there is
one that sums up an event and touches me emotionally.
It dawned on me that this image of the flag draped
marchers with the sign “I am a Person” is a
contemporary cross between the African American men carrying the "I
am a Man" sign during Memphis sanitation workers strike of 1968 and the
1876 painting by
Archibald Willard "The Spirit of '76" with the drummer and fife
player and American flag.
The San Diego marchers in the photograph were
draped in the Gay Pride rainbow colors, the Transgender rights flag with lite blue, pink and white colors and the American flag of
red, white and blue with white stars.
I found the image evocative.
The marchers expressions, especially the blonde in the middle with head tilted up, teeth together, expresses hope, strength
and confidence.
It is followed by the younger flagged draped
woman's eyes expressing a careful consideration or thoughtfulness with just a
tinge of weariness of things to come perhaps.
The marchers draped in flags, represent a growing demographic. The photo
expresses a feeling for respect, dignity and self-determination.
The sign held up states the obvious about the humanity we all share. I am a person. It is the spirit of San Diego 2017.
Byron
Womens March San Diego
1-21-17 Unicorns Three.jpg
PLUS . . . .
Womens March San Diego 1-21-17 Grandma and three
Generations.jpg Womens March San Diego 1-21-17 Rainbow Tutu Make America
Gay Again.jpg
Womens March San Diego 1-21-17 Government in My Womb.jpg
Womens March San Diego 1-21-17 To Old for This Shit.jpg
Womens March San Diego 1-21-17 Princess Leia.jpg
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Can the Democrats Build a Progressive Movement Against
Trump?
Video
- DATE: 2017-01-24 | LENGTH: 13:03
Black Agenda
Report's Glen Ford says a progressive movement can't be build out of the
pro-war, pro-CIA, and McCarthyite politics coming
from Democratic leadership