Impeachment is not election nullification, it is the will of the majority

Chart of how many votes presidents lost by

During the impeachment vote on CNN, there is plenty of the standard mainstream corporate media pablum arguing that an election is being overturned. – stating that the will of the people is being subverted by impeaching Trump.

The exact opposite is true. In the 2016 presidential election, Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. Three Million Votes. He only became president because of the historically racist electoral college which favors white rural America.

Also, the only reason Trump won with the electoral college was the mass purging of black, Latino. and poor voters in urban areas (read: Democratic strongholds).

Trump’s “victories” in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania were contradicted by the best evidence supplied by the exit polls.

The U.S. House of Representatives is embracing the will of the majority, as opposed to an authoritarian oligarch pandering to white supremacy and extreme nationalism.

The chart above shows the margin that Trump lost the popular vote compared to other presidents who lost the popular vote but won the electoral college vote.

Progressives Need a United Front for Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren

We’re now seven weeks away from the Iowa caucuses, the first voting in the Democratic presidential race. After that, frontloaded primaries might decide the nominee by late spring. For progressives torn between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — or fervently committed to one of them — choices on how to approach the next few months could change the course of history.

As a kindred activist put it to me when we crossed paths last weekend, “Bernie speaks our language” — a shorthand way of saying that the Bernie 2020 campaign is a fight for a truly transformative and humanistic future. “Not me. Us.”

I actively support Bernie because his voice is ours for genuine democracy and social justice. Hearing just a few minutes from a recent Bernie speech is a reminder of just how profoundly that is true.

Clean Slate Clinic - Do you have a record? Seal it here

Chalkboard with words Clean Slate clinic

Wednesday, December 18, 5pm
Legal Aid Society of Columbus, 1108 City Park Ave.
Volunteer lawyers will be available to screen you for record-sealing eligibility or Certificates of Qualification for Employment.
Registration will end at 6.

Impeach and Remove

Word IMPEACH in big red letters

Approximately 1500 people lined High Street at Graceland Shopping Center in support of the Impeachment of Donald Trump on Tuesday Dec 17th.  It was one of many actions held around the country.  People lined both sides of the street, from Bob Evans on the north to the Goodyear location on the south.   More than 200,000 people gathered at events in every state.  There was a second local event in Westerville.  Of course, the crowd was peaceful but annimated.  Cars honked in support throughout the event. 

Our Vanishing World: Birds

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, it is estimated that the total number of passenger pigeons in the United States was about three billion birds. The bird was immensely abundant, as illustrated by this passage written by the famous ornithologist, naturalist and painter John James Audubon:

 

FINAL SHOWDOWN! PG&E at the Brink of Nuclear Bankruptcy

BITTER DISPUTE OVER PG&E'S BANKRUPTCY STILL RAGES WHILE DIABLO REMAINS UN-INSPECTED....
TIME TO ACT!!
Time (again!) to call the governor, the legislature, the CPUC, the courts, the utility, potential investors, stakeholders, etc....
btw....if you think CA's nuke war is brutal, check out Ohio: (https://tinyurl.com/OHSierra1e )

Powerful forces are quickly moving Pacific Gas & Electric towards a settlement on its hideously complex multi-billion-dollar bankruptcy case.  Thankfully, Gov. Gavin Newsom has put at least a temporary hold on a final agreement. 

Beyond Changing Light Bulbs: 22 Ways You Can Stop The Climate Crisis

Environment

Here’s the good news: The debate is over. 75% of US citizens believe climate change is human-caused; more than half say we have to do something and fast.

The Execution of Honduran Berta Caceres, the United Fruit Company and the US Military: A Historical Timeline Identifying Just Some of the Guilty Perpetrators

The following quotes (except as noted) Are From: https://newrepublic.com/article/120559/honduras-charter-cities-spearheaded-us-conservatives-libertarians

 

“In the early 1950s the United Fruit Company hired legendary public relations expert Edward Bernays to carry out an intense misinformation campaign portraying then-Guatamalan president Jacobo Arbenz as a communist threat.” -- Scott Price, IC Magazine

 

DISPOSABLE NECESSITIES Theatre Review

 

Rogue Machine’s world premiere of Disposable Necessities contains plot points that could be dramatized in a Eugene O’Neill or Arthur Miller play about family and friend dynamics. But innovative playwright Neil McGowan has mixed things up by injecting sci fi elements plus a heavy dose of comedy into his two-acter so that Disposable’s Tottens would not only be right at home with A Long Day’s Journey Into Night’s Tyrones and Death of a Salesman’s Lomans, but with Hanna-Barbera’s loony cartoony Jetsons.

 

If that animated futuristic family was 1962’s humorous prediction of what tomorrow may hold for us (hey! while I’m stuck in traffic on the 10 Freeway, I’m still waiting for my winged car, and while we’re at it, for dogs like the pit bull mix named Babaloo to talk back to me!), set in 2095, Disposable has a more sophisticated scientific vision of, as H.G. Wells put it, The Shape of Things to Come.

 

Three Events this Tuesday

People posing with a sign saying Let Edith Stay

Tuesday, December 17, 2019, 9:00 – 10:00 AM.  Response to ICE:  Solidarity with Edith Espinal.  Join in support with Edith Espinal this Tuesday, December 17th at 9 am at Columbus Mennonite Church as we send a unified message of solidarity in response to the fines and criminalization Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is leveraging against her. Edith has been ordered to report to ICE for deportation this Tuesday, December 17th. Rather than comply, Edith will be sending several clergy in her place, and we will gather with her at Columbus Mennonite Church at 9am to send a strong message of solidarity with Edith and her family, including public statements opposing these fines, charges, and tactics of family separation. Please join us.  Location:  Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Avenue, Columbus.  More information on Facebook. 

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