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First published in The Progressive

As you ride the Amtrak along the Pacific coast between Los Angeles and San Diego, you pass the San Onofre nuclear power plant, home to three mammoth atomic reactors shut by citizen activism.

Framed by gorgeous sandy beaches and some of the best surf in California, the dead nukes stand in silent tribute to the popular demand for renewable energy. They attest to one of history’s most powerful and persistent nonviolent movements.

But 250 miles up the coast, two reactors still operate at Diablo Canyon, surrounded by a dozen earthquake faults. They’re less than seventy miles from the San Andreas, about half the distance of Fukushima from the quake line that destroyed it. Should any quakes strike while Diablo operates, the reactors could be reduced to rubble and the radioactive fallout would pour into Los Angeles.

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January 20, 2017  7:30 pm -   Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park, Columbus, OH 43214

GIVE WHAT YOU FEEL, so everyone can attend. The recommended donation for this event is $20. 

Gird yourself for the coming struggle to preserve basic human rights and equal justice. The Kate Schulte Foundation presents Warriors for Justice in an inauguration day benefit for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the ACLU. Many of Columbus’s finest performing artists will help support the SPLC's efforts fighting anticipated assaults on equal rights by the federal government. Featuring the Jazz Poetry Ensemble, Mark Lomax II, Donna Mogavero, Warriors for Justice a Capella (Debra James Tucker, Vicki Saunders, Tia Harris-Roseboro), Miller-Kelton Redux, Paisha Thomas, the Columbus Liberation Music Orchestra, and more.    Rise Up And Resist – A Counter-Inaugural Event

Rise Up and Resist is the first of many Kidd Jordans Place events! We want these events to be accessible to people of all income levels. Door tickets will be be Give What You Feel with no minimum donation.

Three women holding signs about saving the Wayne National Forest
 

Tuesday, January 17, 6:30pm, Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100

Join Ohio Revolution and a long list of interested organizations and parties as we discuss and coordinate strategies to address fracking in Wayne National Forest following the Bureau of Land Management’s auction of leases for 17 parcels of the forest to oil and gas corporations in December.

Free parking is available in the “R” spaces — “R” for “Rardin Clinic” — behind the building.

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I was a FL certified teacher from 1997-2012, and I now live in MA. I
am writing because of a problem I perceive with elections – and I am
suggesting a possible solution.

As a voter, I believe I should not only have the right to vote, but I
should be able to know facts about whom I am voting for. Yet, because
of the 1974 federal law FERPA, I am unable to review a candidate's
college transcript unless I file a lawsuit under that law.

Jeb Bush ran for governor three times in Florida, and also ran for
president. Each time he portrayed himself as a graduate of a 4-year
public university, but after much research I now believe he dropped
out of college after two years, and his father covered it up for him.
I am now sure Jeb Bush never attempted nor completed two of the four
years of his alleged degree in Latin American Studies. He dropped out,
but since 1988, his father, mother, friends, and the government make
false claims about his actual college status.

Should a candidate be able to run for office posing as a college

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Most Americans never learned that there was slavery in the northern United States. Half of all slave voyages docked in tiny Rhode Island, and slave owner James DeWolf of Bristol, Rhode Island was said to be the second richest person in the U. S. at the time he died in1837. He was a merchant, founded a bank and an insurance company, and owned a rum distillery; all of these profited from his status as a slave trader. Several branches of the DeWolf family were also heavily involved in the slave trade. The DeWolfs were said to have transported twelve thousand slaves from the middle of the seventeenth century through the early 1800s. This alone made them the most successful slave trading family in the country. However, in spite of a small number of wealthy and influential slave owners, and for various other reasons, slavery never became as entrenched in the north as it did in the south. This made it easier for northerners to divorce themselves from the peculiar institute.

As you ride the Amtrak along the Pacific coast between Los Angeles and San Diego, you pass the San Onofre nuclear power plant, home to three mammoth atomic reactors shut by citizen activism. 

Framed by gorgeous sandy beaches and some of the best surf in California, the dead nukes stand in silent tribute to the popular demand for renewable energy. They attest to one of history’s most powerful and persistent nonviolent movements. 

What do these pieces of evidence tell you?

The United States and Russia each possess enough nuclear weapons to destroy all life on earth many times over.

With the mind fogging meme of “Russian Influence,” we are avoiding a fact-based analysis of the 2016 election at our own peril.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Sir John Harington 1561-1612  -  (Also credited with being the inventor of the flush toilet.)

Tragedy, Comedy and Farce All Rolled Into One

The official mythic revisionism of the recent US electoral debacle now seems to be settling firmly into place: Putin did it – the outcome was a result of ‘Russian influence.’

One can see how the Russian Influence Mind Fogging Meme might be mutually convenient for the elites of both parties to unite behind. 

For the Dems it deflects attention away from their terminal corruption and incompetence.

For the GOP it deflects attention away from their gargantuan election theft apparatus, patiently assembled by the ruthless radical right-wing billionaires over the past decades . 

For the deluded and dis-informed members of the American populace it provides someone to hate besides themselves and each other. 

The idea has been floated and endlessly reintroduced in legislation since the founding of the United States of creating a Department of Peace. These efforts even resulted in 1986 in the creation of the USI”P” — the U.S.

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