NEWS: @marwilliamson, a Democratic presidential candidate, criticizes Israel's govt.
"As a Jew and as a lover of Israel...we must be honest. The occupation is illegal. The settlements are illegal. The blockade of Gaza is a terrible injustice."
Says @JoeBiden is "hands off"
"We’re no longer functioning as a democracy. We’re functioning as a oligarchy. We’re a government of the corporations, by the corporations!"
@marwilliamson joined @Frances_Fisher on the @sagaftra picket lines.
"The status quo will not disrupt itself. We have to do it!"
#SAGAFTRAstrike Picket Line Interviews:
"The streaming residuals formula is pitiful" _ @Frances_Fisher, SAG Negotiating Committee
"Their business model is not job creation, it is job elimination"- @Marwilliamson, US Presidential Candidate
We’re discussing the effort to Stop Cop City in Atlanta on this week’s Firelight Chat.
Streaming on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Marianne2024.com and your favorite podcasting platforms tomorrow, Wednesday, July 19th at 6pm ET / 3pm PT.
Americans are realizing the size of our military budget does not correlate to an increase in our “national security.” Iraq War did not make us more secure. 20 years too long in Afghanistan did not make us more secure. 750 military installations around the world do not make us more secure. Buying more military equipment that isn’t even made here and isn’t even the smartest use of our dollars does not make us more secure.
Nope. It just makes military defense contractors wealthier.
#CutTheMilitaryBudget by 20%.
Pentagon budget proposed for FY2024: $886 billion / $146 billion higher than when Biden entered office. (Makes us less safe)
Cost of the $600 checks from Dec 2020/Jan 2021: $141 billion. (Lifted millions out of poverty)
Just FYI.
.@RoKhanna describes his political vision, then explains endorsing someone who slowwalks it to the point of blocking it.
DEBATE: Krystal & Kyle PRESS Ro Khanna On Biden | Krystal Kyle & Friends... youtube.com/qZcKNUdd1lM via @YouTube
I’m very sorry about what you went through. You’re right that no one who has not served can know the full horror of it. But all of us should weigh in on issues of war and peace.
We would have had a powerful environmental agenda, and no Iraq War.
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was the swing vote we were hoping for at the time, but she didn’t come through.
With all the misinformation about a stolen election in 2020, there actually WAS one in 2000. @SCOTUS overturned the Florida Supreme Court’s decision to recount their votes.🧵
Watch last week’s Firelight Chat with climate scientist Peter Kalmus.
One of the ways we counter climate despair is by arming ourselves with information. Once we have our hands on the lever of power we’ll treat climate change as the emergency it is.
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Rev Jesse Jackson stepped down today as head of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. He inspired so many of us to take a stand for more just society, and his guidance will continue to reverberate. I hope his next chapter is blessed with peace and joy.