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Peltier, Election Protection & the Eco Broadcast Network

Our GREEP Zoom #209 begins with “Time” by our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN.

We hear the latest about Leonard Peltier from TATANKA BRICCA and LYDIA PONCE in concert with the Indigenous community supporting him: “I would like to be out of prison, but I am a free man.”

BARBARA WRIGHT reminds us to thank The Creator for the fact that Leonard is out of prison & with his people.

LIndsay Graham, Lisa Murkowsky & Susan Collins are summoned for praise by DANIELA GIOSEFFI.

Will Trump’s GOP wear itself out with a Rope-a-Dope of illegal acts, asks MYLA RESON.

We hear from MIMI S about the need to recognize what should have been with Bernie Sanders.

From Columbus, Ohio we hear from SANDY BOLZENIUS about the kinds of election fraud that turned the Buckeye State to Bush in 2004. .

From co-convenor MIKE HERSH we bemoan the Democrats’ lack of a backbone—except when disenfranchising people of color.

“How long can they keep this up?” wonders MELISSA HALL.

Massive disenfranchisement demands a class action case against the Democrats for failing to protect the vote, says DAVID SALTMAN.

Arrested for supporting workers

Young woman being arrested

Allies were arrested in NYC after staging peaceful sit-in to support union baristas' fight for a contract.

Why are we doing this now? It’s been more than three years since baristas in Buffalo like me won their union and ignited a movement. It’s time for Starbucks to come back to the table with a fair contract offer so we can finalize a framework for contracts and focus on the future.

Starbucks needs to listen to us. Starbucks paid their new CEO Brian Niccol over $96 million in just four months and gave him a private jet to commute to work in Seattle. Then the company turned around and offered baristas no raises or benefits increases in the first year of our union contracts. Are you kidding me? And to top it all off they proposed closing this store in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Meanwhile, we’re struggling to keep up with rising costs — rent, food, bills — here in Brooklyn and all over the country. Our union has filed more than 90 unfair labor practice charges in January alone.

D.E.I. vs D.R.U.N.K

The shame of what we’ve done

Confrontation at protest of men carrying Israeli and Palestinian flags

The dominant self-conception of the Jewish story is innocence, repeated persecutions, and then redemption by creation of the Jewish nationalist State of Israel.

This narrative is critically examined in Peter Beinart's new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning.

Beinart's book says the maudlin story we Jews tell ourselves of our virtue and heroic endurance inoculates Jews from seeing Israel's agency in creating the resistance it faces:

“We must now tell a new story to answer the horror that a Jewish country has perpetrated… We are not history’s permanent virtuous victims.”

Beinart, former editor of The New Republic, is now an editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, and a New York Times contributor.

He has been in a 20-year progression of seeing, more and more sharply, the “Jewish and democratic” state of Israel as anti-democratic and incompatible with Jewish tradition.

He writes that support for a Jewish state has become “idolatry,” permitting endless killing, torture and oppression of Palestinians:

Sign the petition: Don't let the Senate send ICC sanctions to Trump's desk

Older white man scowling

TELL THE U.S. SENATE: The International Criminal Court is being targeted for attempting to hold Israeli leaders accountable for war crimes against Palestinians. The U.S. should not issue sanctions to the Court for pursuing justice. 

Sign the petition: Block U.S. sanctions against the ICC!

The U.S. Senate will vote TODAY, Tuesday, January 28 on sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) in retaliation for the Court pursuing justice against Benjamin Netanyahu for Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.1

It’s clear that these sanctions are meant to shield Israel from all accountability related to its siege on Gaza and the murder of more than 46,000 Palestinians. The House has already passed the sanctions bill. Now, our Senators must stand against such unjust, undemocratic sanctions.

Statement of Support for Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination to Director of National Intelligence

During my sixteen years in Congress, I fought consistently for peace, accountability, and the protection of our nation’s core values. I understand the gravity of the position of Director of National Intelligence (DNI)—a role essential to the security of our nation, where the person in charge must evaluate and interpret military intelligence that informs decisions affecting the lives of millions. That is why I fully support Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in the Trump administration.

This critical position requires a person who understands the urgency of truth and the severe consequences of sending America’s sons and daughters into battle based on false or manipulated intelligence.

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Figured You Out

Gaza's Unbreakable Resistance: A Historical Perspective on the War and Its Aftermath

The problem with political analysis is that it often lacks historical perspective and is mostly limited to recent events.

 The current analysis of the Israeli war on Gaza falls victim to this narrow thinking. The ceasefire agreement, signed between Palestinian groups and Israel under Egyptian, Qatari, and US mediation in Doha on January 15, is one example.

 Some analysts, including many from the region, insist on framing the outcome of the war as a direct result of Israel's political dynamics. They argue that Israel's political crisis is the main reason the country failed to achieve its declared and undeclared war objectives—namely, gaining total "security control" over Gaza and ethnically cleansing its population.

 However, this analysis assumes that the decision to go to war or not is entirely in Israel's hands. It continues to elevate Israel's role as the only entity capable of shaping political outcomes in the region, even when those outcomes do not favor Israel.

Death Penalty Action - alerts!

People marching with sign Stop State Killing

The State of Michigan abolished the death penalty in 1847, and constitutionally prohibited it in 1963. Human rights norms prohibit the transfer of prisoners to other jurisdictions where they may suffer punishment that is disallowed in the originating jurisdiction. And yet, Michigan sent Demetrius Frazier to Alabama to be suffocated to death.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has a chance to uphold Michigan values and halt the next Alabama execution. Learn more and take action!

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