Poor People's Campaign
18 Jun 2022
The Poor People's Campaign took place in Washington DC. An excerpt of our
message:
We gather in Washington D.C. for a Mass Poor Peoples and Low-Wage
Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls in a
dark summer, as our democracy is threatened by a state by state
coordinated assault on the right to vote and imperiled by open
violence,
greed, obstruction, distortions, and denial, while more than 140
million poor and low wealth people of every race, creed, religion, in
every region of this country are rising up daily against growing
indignities, pain, injury, and death at the hands of immoral policies
and interlocking injustices.
Message was followed by seven demands and a declaration that we need a
Third Reconstruction Agenda.
The most immediate, big, headline-making news of the day is the January
6th Commission. An important background item is that it partially owes
its success to the Minority Leader of the House, Kevin McCarthy. Thanks
to his stubbornness,
Democrats and two Republicans were free to proceed in a coherent and in
a confidentail way. The Republican Party has no one working at the
Commission who can keep them updated on wha's happening behind the
scenes, let alone can anyone "throw sand in the gears" or engage in any
other sorts of disruptions. Best of all, The Former Guy (TFG) is
throwing McCarthy under the proverbial bus as someone who was foolishly
stubborn. Of course, Trump has said nothing critical about McCarthy
prior to this, so it must be that the hearings are having an effect on
public opinion.
The testimony has inspired a documentary film maker to declare that,
oh, by the way, I
have film footage
of the Trump family from the loss of the 2020 election covering all the
way into January. And yes, Ivanka Trump was saying something very
differenet to her daddy and other conspirators than she's now saying to
the Commission.
The blogger here guesses:
So what does it all mean? It means
Rupert Murdoch is cutting Trump
loose, and that Ron DeSantis, the smarter, younger fascist, is warming
up in the bullpen to be the Anointed One. After all, Trump's costing
them money!
And Fox voters will go along with it, because DeSantis doesn't have the
same public taint as Trump does.
The January 6th Commission is
geting threats, meaning their presentations are
having an impact.
Big, and very good news, The January 6th Commission has so
much new evidence that it's scheduled further hearings for July.
An increase in subpoenas indicates that institution seeking to hold the
former president and his people accountable are
completing their investigations and are getting ready to start
charging people.
As far as grain exports from Ukraine via ports on the
Black Sea are concerned:
Mr
Lavrov denied that Russia was obstructing Ukraine's wheat exports,
saying the onus was on Ukraine to de-mine the waters off Odesa and
other
ports.
A
Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesman said Ukraine could not de-mine the
coast because Russia would "use grain corridors to attack southern
Ukraine".
Russia also blames Western sanctions for the food crisis. The West
however says Russia has "weaponised" food supplies.
Turkey is trying
to help the situastion:
Ukraine is one of the top global wheat
suppliers, but shipments have
been halted by Russia's invasion, causing global food shortages. The
United Nations has appealed to both sides, as well as maritime
neighbour Turkey, to agree to a corridor.
...
While Moscow wants certain Western sanctions lifted to help facilitate
grain and fertiliser exports, Kyiv seeks security guarantees for its
ports to agree the U.N.-led plan.
Ukraine was used to exporting grain out to the Middle East and Northern
Africa by first using roads and railways to ports and then loading it
onto ships. With the ships option non-workable, they're now trying
to get food out via railways. Europe is
also dependant on Ukrainian grain exports.
Videos of the campaign.
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is
very actively talking with European countries to tr and gain
membership in the Europen Union. Ukraine's candidacy is looking
good. Ukraine is now officially a candidate
for membership in the EU!
Kamikaze drones! Ukainian drone badly
damages Russian oil refinery.
It's never good news for a nation at war when their Commander in Chief
has to engage in yet
another shake-up of the command structure.
Russia expressing serious "hate and discontent" over Lithuania
and the port of Kaliningrad.
Putin has also decided to rattle his
sabre at Lithuania. Lithuania, in a move to fully enforce the EU
sanctions on Russia, announced this week that it would block the
shipment of goods from Russia to Kaliningrad. Putin was not amused.
More
from Reuters.
Russia is trying hard to
influence US elections, trying to enable Republicans to take over.
Is Severodonetsk
strategically vital? Not really, there are more easily defensible
cities further back, but Ukraine is making
Russia pay a steep price to take the city. Essentially, Ukrainians
are holding onto the site because the Russians, along with DPR [Donetsk
People’s Republic] and LPR [Luhansk] People’s Militia
are suffering from the severe attrition of an exhaustible resource.
Both their people and equipment are being drained. Meanwhile, with
serious Russian units tied up there, Ukrainians can make progress
elsewhere on the front. Russian forces have been trying to take the
city for almost
six weeks
at this point. The introduction of HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery
Rocket Systems) is expected to tip the balance against Russia further.
HIMARS is the successor to the old Russian Katyushas, rocket artillery.
Confidence in the Supreme Court has
now sunk
to 25%, just as the court rules on the carrying of concealed weapons.
The state of New York was requiring citizens to show that they had good
reason to carry a concealed weapon. Supreme Court has
nullified that requirement.
Roe vs Wade is
now officially overturned. As I've said before, from 1840 to 1860,
there was a steadily-growing opposition to slavery. Has there been
anything like that agains abortion? Nope.
If anything, there's been a growing acceptance that pregnancy is
properly a woman's choice and is not a choice that she should delegate
to others. Legally, the abortion decision is based on viability,
the date when a fetus can survive outside the womb. It was about 23
weeks back in 1973. Where is it today? Ehh, about 23 weeks.
The abortion decision is
an entirely political one.
The ruling came in a dispute over a
2018 law passed by Mississippi’s Republican-controlled Legislature that
banned abortions after 15 weeks.
Note that the law cuts off access to safe, legal abortions eight weeks before Roe does.
Remembering the original Poor People's Campaign.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of course approved of the Supreme Court decision. McConnell played a major role
in packing the Supreme Court, starting in early 2016. Under Trump,
McConnell saw to it that three new Justices were placed onto the court,
all of whom came onto the court via the Federalist Society.
Chief Justice John Roberts tried to put some daylight between himself and the more radical members of the court, but his hands are far from clean. Essentially,
he wanted to get rid of the viability test for when it was permissable
to have an abortion. This is a distinction without a difference, a
"clever" way to overtur Roe without seeming to.
The stage, which made the campaign feel like a bit of a rock concert.
Chillin' & relaxin'
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