I don't know how she does it but Professor Richardson's Letter from an American is a monumental contribution to political and historical education and commentary. Fresh writing on current and past events arrives via Substack in my inbox practically every morning and I am consistently in awe.
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Dec 31, 2022
Professor Heather Cox Richardson's 2022 Wrap-up Letter from an American
Nov 22, 2022
#Georgia: 🆘️💙🇺🇸 Reverend Warnock is a #climate champion. Send the climate-denier packing.
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Dec 19, 2021
Galactic: What emits more greenhouse gas than 100 countries combined?
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Date: Sat, Dec 18, 2021, 9:36 AM
Subject: What emits more greenhouse gas than 100 countries combined?
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From: Michael Galant <info@winwithoutwar.org>
Date: Sat, Dec 18, 2021, 9:36 AM
Subject: What emits more greenhouse gas than 100 countries combined?
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The United States faced simultaneous wildfires, snow squalls, dust storms, and deadly tornadoes during just *one day* this week.
How did the Senate respond? By overwhelmingly approving a whopping $778 BILLION for weapons and war — the LARGEST peacetime war budget in history.
Weapons and war require massive amounts of fossil fuel — and not only is the Pentagon the world's single biggest institutional consumer of petroleum, it's also a HUGE source of greenhouse gas, emitting more than 100 countries combined.
Continuing massive payouts to fund the Pentagon's mega-polluting pet projects as multiple weather disasters rock our communities? The disconnect is as infuriating as it is mind-boggling.
But here's the thing: while this bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, is critical to set policy, it doesn't actually include "one penny" for the Pentagon. That happens through the appropriations process. And those negotiations are heating up NOW.
We've got just a few critical weeks to pull out all the stops to keep the pressure on Congress to push them away from fueling the climate crisis with more weapons and war — because believe us, they'll be hearing from ALL the special interest lobbyists on the other side.
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U.S. agencies have already issued a collective warning that climate change is coming for us all.
This week, new reports confirmed temperatures in the Arctic have reached as high as 100.4 Fahrenheit.
But as our communities struggle through a year of wildfires, freezes, tornadoes, heat waves, and hurricanes, the Senate is STILL mired in a months-long debate over the Build Back Better plan — which would help fund energy and climate action.
What are they prioritizing? Here's just a peek and what they signed off on this week:
- 13 new warships (five more than the Navy wanted)
- 17 F-15E Strike Eagle jets (five more than the Air Force wanted)
- 12 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighters (that the Navy didn't include in its budget).
(That's $25 BILLION on weapons the Pentagon didn't even ask for.)
These numbers expose the real reason we're in a nonsensical position of having one of the largest Pentagon budget proposals in history at the same time as we're ending wars like the one in Afghanistan and face existential threats like pandemics and climate change.
It comes down to the defense lobbyists.
Luckily, we've got game at defeating them. Last year, we helped block outrageous proposals to add additional funding for the Pentagon to the COVID stimulus bill, and this year we've blocked attempts to sneak these funds into the infrastructure bills too.
Now, we're bringing this momentum to the next phase in our fight to stop a rubber-stamp of one of the biggest Pentagon budgets in history — and we need your help.
It's time we truly reconciled with what all this war spending costs us, got our priorities back in order, and put the PEOPLE first — and Win Without War is at the forefront of this fight. Please support our work now.
Thank you for working for peace,
Michael, Amy, Faith, and the Win Without War team
P.S. Want to understand more about the ins and outs of the budgeting process and what's at stake? Check out our new resource: 'Tis the Season: People Over Pentagon Activist Guide!
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Sep 5, 2019
World: Concerns about 5G
Yesterday I sent a short message (herebelow) to my city council in the USA re concerns about the 5G rollout in our town. Everyone can do their own research which is easy due to 4G and previous generations. A helpful post is: https://emfacademy.com/5g-radiation/#experts and the blogger's other posts on the subject such as the ones about locating antennas near you and how to find an emf-free home. It is important to add that (1) time is of the essence should you choose to advocate for removal or a moratorium (2) determine which governmental agencies are captured and (3) team with other advocates to lighten the load and be as effective as possible. The monied forces are clever and powerful. There are alternatives, however, and communities that have stood up to 5G.
Sent September 4, 2019:
Hello:
Please refer to the link below that goes to a post by the Boulder CO radio station KGNU.org.
USA states that have so far been convinced about transferring their power and the power of the people to the wireless industry can be convinced to reverse what they did. Municipalities can do what is their mandate to do, i.e. adhere to the precautionary principle and uphold the rights of their citizens to be well-served and protected from harm.
Please listen to the 10-minute podcast contained in the KGNU.org post; it summarizes (what took ~4 years to produce) the 156-page scientific paper, published in December 2018 and a link to which is also contained in the post.
Besides 5G small cell antennas very possibly causing dire harm to residents, business people, livestock operations, developers, students and the entire ecosystem, it potentially could cause egregious harm to government and sanitation workers who spend all their work lives along utility areas.
Sincerely,
Liz Marshall
Sep 6, 2012
USA & beyond: A True Story to Remember
From: kay warner [mailto:kaywarner@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 2:05 PM
To: undisclosed recipients:
Subject: A True Story to Remember
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 2:05 PM
To: undisclosed recipients:
Subject: A True Story to Remember
Share so we don't become complacent
This is the story of our Mothers and Grandmothers who lived only 90 years ago.
The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.' (Lucy Burns)They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. (Dora Lewis) They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cell mate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women. Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote. For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. (Alice Paul) When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press. Mrs. Pauline Adams in the prison garb she wore while serving a 60 day sentence. Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO's movie 'Iron Jawed Angels.' It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that I could pull the curtain at the polling booth and have my say. I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder. Miss Edith Ainge, of Jamestown , New York All these years later, voter registration is still my passion. But the actual act of voting had become less personal for me, more rote. Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes it was inconvenient. (Berthe Arnold, CSU graduate) My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied women's history, saw the HBO movie, too. When she stopped by my desk to talk about it, she looked angry. She was--with herself. 'One thought kept coming back to me as I watched that movie,' she said. 'What would those women think of the way I use, or don't use, my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn.' The right to vote, she said, had become valuable to her 'all over again.' HBO released the movie on video and DVD . I wish all history, social studies and government teachers would include the movie in their curriculum I want it shown on Bunco/Bingo night, too, and anywhere else women gather. I realize this isn't our usual idea of socializing, but we are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think a little shock therapy is in order. Conferring over ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution at National Woman's Party headquarters, Jackson Place , Washington , D.C. Left to right: Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, Anita Pollitzer, Alice Paul, Florence Boeckel, Mabel Vernon (standing, right)) It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy. The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.' Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all the women you know. We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, republican or independent party - remember to vote. Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk , Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for carrying banner,'Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.' So, refresh MY memory. Some women won't vote this year because - Why, exactly?
Read again what these women went through for you!
We can't let all their suffering be for nothing
Addendum: According to Wikipedia 4/22/12, “ Wilson , after first sidestepping the issue, became a major advocate for the women’s suffrage.” RK
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