Battle for Democratic Party: After the Unity Reform Commission

With the Democratic Party’s “Unity Reform Commission” now history, major political forces are entering a new stage of contention over the future of the party. Seven months after the commission’s first meeting -- and nine months after Hillary Clinton backer Tom Perez won a close election over Bernie Sanders supporter Keith Ellison to become chair of the Democratic National Committee -- the battle lines are coming into focus for next year.

 

Molestation Chamber

Reality vs Impracticality – The Protection Racket of the Jewish State

The New York Times reported on Wednesday, Dec 6, 2017:

Care for the Land, Serve the People Rally

Words USFS motto: Caring for the land and serving people" They are doing neither join us 12-14-2017 and tell them to do their job. #Keep Wayne Wild against a background of trees and a cliff

Thursday, December 14, 2-4pm
13700 U.S. 33, Nelsonville Ohio
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One year ago the Bureau of Land Management began auctioning off public land in Wayne National Forest to gas and oil companies for unconventional fracking. The fracked gas from these wells will feed into Energy Transfer Partners' Rover Pipeline, which is currently under construction, and will go under the Ohio River and through Wayne National Forest's Proclamation Boundary. These industrial threats put the beautiful forest we love and the natural resources we depend on at risk.

On December 14th the fourth auction will be held, despite continued public outcry. The US Forest Service can stop the leasing of this land, but decision makers have refused to act.

On the day of the auction grassroots groups and other concerned forest lovers will gather at the Athens Ranger Station to tell Forest Supervisor Tony Scardina and other decision makers to do their job and protect the forest!

Protesters denounce GOP tax bill, demand education, health care for all

As Congress scrambles to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the GOP tax bill before Christmas, a nascent resistance movement is growing. On December 9 students and working people marched from the Ohio Statehouse to the office of Senator Rob Portman, a key architect and proponent of the tax bill.

The Republican tax plan “is nothing more than blatant class warfare waged on the working class, especially women and people of color,” said Alex Davis, a graduate student at OSU and member of Socialist Alternative. “It’s raising taxes on the poor while reducing taxes on the rich. By 2019, nine percent of taxpayers would pay higher taxes, which would expand to 50 percent by 2027. And that’s not even counting the cuts to vital social services that will be used to help fund the tax cuts.”

“Tax the greedy, not the needy!” the crowd shouted.

Franklin County Green Party meeting

Young black man facing left talking into a microphone, he has short cropped hair and glasses and a goatee, sitting in front of a plant

Tuesday, December 12
Business meeting-6pm
Public meeting -7pm
Northwood-High building, 2231 N. High St.
If parking in rear- park in "R" spots only
Discussion on Franklin County jail reform, led by Michael Vinson
Facebook event

 

Franklin County Green Party meeting

Young black man facing left talking into a microphone, he has short cropped hair and glasses and a goatee, sitting in front of a plant

Tuesday, December 12
Business meeting-6pm
Public meeting -7pm
Northwood-High building, 2231 N. High St.
If parking in rear- park in "R" spots only
Discussion on Franklin County jail reform, led by Michael Vinson
Facebook event

 

North Korea is Not a Threat to the US

Like Pavlov's dog, the mainstream media slobbers platitudes every time North Korea launches another test missile. Listening to the blather one would think that once Kim Jong-un has a missile capable of reaching the US, he is going to use it in an unprovoked nuclear attack on the US mainland killing millions of Americans.

Will Jim Crow Strip & Flip the Alabama Senate Race?…

While the whole world watches Tuesday’s Alabama US Senate election, race-based battles behind the scenes could decide the outcome.

They focus on likely stripping of voter rolls to prevent African-Americans from casting their rightful ballots , and flipping the electronic outcome should that prove insufficient.

But election protection activists have just won a major court victory that could make electronically flipping the election more difficult.  An in-depth feature will follow on that tonight.

The national Democratic Party has poured significant resources into this race. We hope it will provide careful scrutiny on whether legitimate citizens are allowed to vote, and on how the votes are actually counted.

African Americans Hold the Key to Victory for Doug Jones in Alabama

It started with the soft, mellifluous chords of an electric organ in the basement hall of the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama two blocks north and east of the 4th Avenue headquarters where the African American organizers and the white suburban volunteers in the Doug Jones for U.S. Senate campaign are working shoulder to shoulder to turn the tide of recent history and elect a progressive, pro-choice Democrat in the Deepest Southern bastion of reactionary Republicanism.

One by one, other parishoners joined in on drums, then sax, then bass, then trumpet, until the two hour service in the historic church was rocking to hymns of joy and praise.

If Jones has a prayer of pulling off an upset victory in the December 12th special election for U.S. Senate in Alabama, it resides in the community halls of African American churches like this one, and in the barbershops that still line the blocks of the former black business district of Birmingham, where Jones' headquarters are located.

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