Hi, all, and happy Monday! Wow! What a weekend! The passage of a last-minute “clean” Continuing Resolution that avoided, at least for now, a government shut down was a pleasant surprise, indeed. But let me be very clear, y’all: you made that surprise happen
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🗳️ It’s High School Voter Registration Week! 🗳️
From Oct 2-6, The Civics Center is bringing parents, educators and teens together around the importance of voter registration in high school.
This week is what it’s all about and we need your help.
With the presidential election coming soon, and the stakes high for local races in our communities, we’re working hard to help as many high schools as we can to hold voter registration drives.
Speaking of book bans and censorship.....Run for Something, the organization that helps train and mentor young people under 40 to run for office, from dog catcher on up to the highest positions in the nation, has begun a new campaign to focus on school board races around the country, in an attempt to recapture some of the board seats taken recently by extreme right candidates with the main intentions of banning books, firing teachers and administrators and changing school curriculum. To read more about Run for Something's latest program and how to donate to it, go to:
I'm learning a fair amount of history these days. Yes, I did take a year of Russian History and one of the History of China - decades ago. It deeply saddens me to hear American propaganda hoisting its petard to make us all hate Russia and Russians. Just as it did back when we were instructed to hate France and show it by not ordering "French" fries. So midget minded that attitude. Patrick Lawrence has written an excellent piece entitled "Tampering With History" (Consortiumnews.com) In it he says this, "We all recall what had transpired at the time of these disgusting perversions of the past. In February 2014 the U.S. orchestrated an antidemocratic coup in Ukraine and installed a viciously Russophobic puppet regime in Kiev. Moscow responded, as a first-year poli sci student could have predicted, by reannexing Crimea and supporting the Russian-speaking majority in Ukraine’s eastern provinces.
By the spring of 2015 Kiev [Ukraine] was daily shelling civilian populations in the east, a campaign that would last eight years and claim roughly 14,000 lives. Moscow had by then decided to support Luhansk and Donetsk as autonomous republics, while co-sponsoring accords — the two Minsk Protocols — that would have held Ukraine together as a federated republic." Some of this is news to me. This essay is about the white washing of historical events so they are not accurately remembered but if remembered, the remembered version is spun, fictionalized, to serve a political purpose not for historical accuracy. I invite you all to read this enlightening piece about critical events in Ukrainian history. So you are not beguiled.
Jessica, I am very interested in your sources for your assertion that Putin has intentions to retake former Soviet satellites. Especially, given - by now - the well documented fact that Putin’s
invasion of Ukraine was instigated by NATO enlargement to Russia’s borders despite Western
promises not to do that. What statements has Putin made that I can access that express his intention to expand his claim to other countries?
I suggest - if you are open minded - your consideration of viewpoints expressed by these highly respected academicians accessible on You Tube.
1) Professors Mearsheimer (University ofChicago)(John Mearsheimer, the eminent political scientist who has warned for years that NATO's Ukraine policy would lead to disaster - see - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2451jFeZp0)
3) Vijay Prashad with Noam Chomsky (Uof AZ) on Youtube recently (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGZyj-_T6hQ) “Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad on Ukraine - Why US Must Negotiate with Russa and What Media Gets Wrong”
Not incidental: Most of the countries in the world do not support our efforts in supplying military weapons and aggressiveness in perpetuating this war. Of course
you are aware of the USA supplying cluster bombs and England -depleted uranimum shells. And their consequences even when the war is over.In anticipation for your courtesies and open mindedness, thank you.
Why insist on funding for more war, young Ukrainians dead, depleted uranium shells supplied by the USA, cluster bombs provided by the USA, more pure poisonous gunk flooding the air and more billions for Raytheon, other corporate makers of death machines, lobbyists' bank accounts and those swelling bank accounts of the retired Generals (exactly what wars has the USA won?) sounding off on TV infotainment parading as news talk shows and raking in the clover as consultants for the makers of killing machines et al-----instead of insisting on efforts for Peace? Have you completely inhaled the propaganda of Biden - always the hawk - and his neoconservative band of war hawks of Nuland, Sullivan et al- for his domestic audience? Please take a serious look at what Prof Jeffrey Sachs and John Mearshiemer (UChicago) and Chomsky all say if you consider yourself open minded.
Selina, to me it is imperative that we stand firmly with Ukraine in their battle against Russian aggression. Aiding Ukraine not only weakens Putin AND Trump as a result, but it directly affects the lives of Americans. It's essential to recognize that by aiding Ukraine, we're not only safeguarding their sovereignty but also protecting American lives. If Ukraine falls, Putin will continue west to retake former Soviet satellites which are now our NATO partners. That will inevitably drag our Servicemembers into a dire conflict in Europe, because of our commitment to. NATO. (NATO countries rushed to our defense on 9/11 and committed troops to Afghanistan. If Putin attacks them, we would defend them. ) So, neglecting Ukraine isn't merely a breach of trust with our allies; it directly jeopardizes the American troops who would bear the tragic cost of such a conflict.
Sorry, all. Broken link to the PTV linktree. Correct link is https://linktr.ee/postcardstovoters
Schumer's DC office voicemail is FULL lol. I left a message for his NYC office.
Thanks!
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Perhaps you could share this from The Civics Center
The Civics Center
🗳️ It’s High School Voter Registration Week! 🗳️
From Oct 2-6, The Civics Center is bringing parents, educators and teens together around the importance of voter registration in high school.
This week is what it’s all about and we need your help.
With the presidential election coming soon, and the stakes high for local races in our communities, we’re working hard to help as many high schools as we can to hold voter registration drives.
Yes! I put them in the newsletter regularly but will do again this week. Thanks!
Speaking of book bans and censorship.....Run for Something, the organization that helps train and mentor young people under 40 to run for office, from dog catcher on up to the highest positions in the nation, has begun a new campaign to focus on school board races around the country, in an attempt to recapture some of the board seats taken recently by extreme right candidates with the main intentions of banning books, firing teachers and administrators and changing school curriculum. To read more about Run for Something's latest program and how to donate to it, go to:
https://runforsomething.net/50stateschoolboard/
Yes! I included that in EE this week! So excited about it! RFS is the best.
I'm learning a fair amount of history these days. Yes, I did take a year of Russian History and one of the History of China - decades ago. It deeply saddens me to hear American propaganda hoisting its petard to make us all hate Russia and Russians. Just as it did back when we were instructed to hate France and show it by not ordering "French" fries. So midget minded that attitude. Patrick Lawrence has written an excellent piece entitled "Tampering With History" (Consortiumnews.com) In it he says this, "We all recall what had transpired at the time of these disgusting perversions of the past. In February 2014 the U.S. orchestrated an antidemocratic coup in Ukraine and installed a viciously Russophobic puppet regime in Kiev. Moscow responded, as a first-year poli sci student could have predicted, by reannexing Crimea and supporting the Russian-speaking majority in Ukraine’s eastern provinces.
By the spring of 2015 Kiev [Ukraine] was daily shelling civilian populations in the east, a campaign that would last eight years and claim roughly 14,000 lives. Moscow had by then decided to support Luhansk and Donetsk as autonomous republics, while co-sponsoring accords — the two Minsk Protocols — that would have held Ukraine together as a federated republic." Some of this is news to me. This essay is about the white washing of historical events so they are not accurately remembered but if remembered, the remembered version is spun, fictionalized, to serve a political purpose not for historical accuracy. I invite you all to read this enlightening piece about critical events in Ukrainian history. So you are not beguiled.
Jessica, I am very interested in your sources for your assertion that Putin has intentions to retake former Soviet satellites. Especially, given - by now - the well documented fact that Putin’s
invasion of Ukraine was instigated by NATO enlargement to Russia’s borders despite Western
promises not to do that. What statements has Putin made that I can access that express his intention to expand his claim to other countries?
I suggest - if you are open minded - your consideration of viewpoints expressed by these highly respected academicians accessible on You Tube.
1) Professors Mearsheimer (University ofChicago)(John Mearsheimer, the eminent political scientist who has warned for years that NATO's Ukraine policy would lead to disaster - see - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2451jFeZp0)
2) Jeffrey Sachs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OGkz5czqGw)(Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University)
3) Vijay Prashad with Noam Chomsky (Uof AZ) on Youtube recently (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGZyj-_T6hQ) “Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad on Ukraine - Why US Must Negotiate with Russa and What Media Gets Wrong”
Not incidental: Most of the countries in the world do not support our efforts in supplying military weapons and aggressiveness in perpetuating this war. Of course
you are aware of the USA supplying cluster bombs and England -depleted uranimum shells. And their consequences even when the war is over.In anticipation for your courtesies and open mindedness, thank you.
Why insist on funding for more war, young Ukrainians dead, depleted uranium shells supplied by the USA, cluster bombs provided by the USA, more pure poisonous gunk flooding the air and more billions for Raytheon, other corporate makers of death machines, lobbyists' bank accounts and those swelling bank accounts of the retired Generals (exactly what wars has the USA won?) sounding off on TV infotainment parading as news talk shows and raking in the clover as consultants for the makers of killing machines et al-----instead of insisting on efforts for Peace? Have you completely inhaled the propaganda of Biden - always the hawk - and his neoconservative band of war hawks of Nuland, Sullivan et al- for his domestic audience? Please take a serious look at what Prof Jeffrey Sachs and John Mearshiemer (UChicago) and Chomsky all say if you consider yourself open minded.
Selina, to me it is imperative that we stand firmly with Ukraine in their battle against Russian aggression. Aiding Ukraine not only weakens Putin AND Trump as a result, but it directly affects the lives of Americans. It's essential to recognize that by aiding Ukraine, we're not only safeguarding their sovereignty but also protecting American lives. If Ukraine falls, Putin will continue west to retake former Soviet satellites which are now our NATO partners. That will inevitably drag our Servicemembers into a dire conflict in Europe, because of our commitment to. NATO. (NATO countries rushed to our defense on 9/11 and committed troops to Afghanistan. If Putin attacks them, we would defend them. ) So, neglecting Ukraine isn't merely a breach of trust with our allies; it directly jeopardizes the American troops who would bear the tragic cost of such a conflict.