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The Republican Party’s 50-Year Assault on Voting Rights

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Fiddling (around) While the World Burns (literally)

Last weekend 195 nations, who can’t ever agree on much, agreed to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change, but as The New York Times notes, the Republican presidential candidates remained nearly mum on the issue.  Not so in the past, however:

“We’re not going to make America a harder place to create jobs in order to pursue policies that will do absolutely nothing, nothing, to change our climate,” Marco Rubio said in a Republican debate in September.

“I am not a believer, and I will, unless somebody can prove something to me, I believe there’s weather, said Donald Trump:  “I believe there’s change, and I believe it goes up and it goes down, and it goes up again.”

And just last week, Ted Cruz, who believes President Obama and the other 194 nations have come together in some kind of climate-science conspiracy, said: “Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big-government politician who wants more power.”  But, on Saturday, after the climate deal was announced, Mr. Cruz had nothing to say.

Yes, President Obama should be lauded for his leadership on this issue, but the Republican Party is willing to bet your future that their candidates are right and the rest of the world is wrong.  Indeed, the “Know-Nothing” Party is putting our nation (and the world) at risk.  It’s time we elected leaders who believe in science.  Heck, it’s past time.  Get organized to Get Out the Vote.

December 16, 2015 by:leeharrison Filed Under: News

Doesn’t God Help Those Who Help Themselves?

image002As the New York Daily News headline screamed the day after the San Bernardino massacre, “God isn’t fixing this.” Our only hope lies in electing people who have the political will to take on the gun manufacturers – who have made a profit on every firearm used to murder Americans from Columbine to Sandy Hook to San Bernardino – and limit the sale of guns, especially assault weapons. With a month to go in 2015 we’ve already suffered 462 firearm deaths and 1,314 injuries. Yes, gun manufacturers must be having a banner year.

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December 5, 2015 by:leeharrison Filed Under: News

Elections count – Syrians and governor Baker

A weak Democratic candidate and low voter turnout in 2014 led to the election of Republican Charlie Baker in historically liberal Massachusetts … further proof that even in the bluest of states, where voter suppression is virtually nonexistent, citizens must organize and take action to get out the vote … or learn to live with a reactionary government.  Elections do have consequences! 

Open Letter to Mass. Governor Charlie Baker

Governor, let the Syrians in.

Shame on you for saying you do not want Syrian refugees in Massachusetts.  We are a land of freedom beckoning to those who yearn to be free.  That is our heritage, that is our belief, and that is the morally right thing to do. [Read more…]

November 30, 2015 by:sherwood Filed Under: News

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