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Category: Protest/Resistance

Edwin Starr

War, huh (good God y’all) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing

April 30, 2022 Christopher Burke Military, Protest/Resistance, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, War One comment

War, huh (good God y’all) / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing / Say it, say it, say it / War (uh-huh), huh (yeah, huh) / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing, / Listen to me

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tariffs

Protest letters: Economists try to educate Trump on perils of tariffs

February 6, 2019 Renee Shur Activism, Economy, History, Protest/Resistance, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

In May 2018, more than eleven hundred American economics teachers and  economists, among them eleven Nobel Prize winners, banded together to sign an open

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op-ed

Top Trump official publishes devastating op-ed in New York Times [anonymously]

September 5, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Government, Letter to the Editor, Media, Politics, Protest/Resistance, Transcripts, Trump, Widget: Transcripts, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

The New York Times took the rare step, today, of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. The author, an unnamed, senior White House official, delivers

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Steve Schmidt

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt renounces GOP membership

June 20, 2018 Renee Shur People, Politics, Protest/Resistance, Republicans, Resignations, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

Republican strategist and party loyalist Steve Schmidt’s painful statement today on why he has decided to leave the Republican party is well worth reading

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Bagalan-Djene

Kurdish Rights and Autonomy in the Middle East

March 30, 2018 Adam Levin Civil liberties, Community/Common good, Human Rights, International, Protest/Resistance Leave a comment

The March for Our Lives on March 24th received much-needed attention from the mainstream press. However, March 24th also saw demonstrations across the world

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resignation

Why he quit: Dept. of Interior scientist blasts Zinke in resignation letter

October 5, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Corruption, Environment, Protest/Resistance, Resignations, Trump, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

Joel Clement,  a scientist at the Department of the Interior, has just joined the legions of people quitting the Trump administration and leaving toughly

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ST-L

The View From The Tower

September 19, 2017 Adam Levin Activism, Civil liberties, Civil Rights, Courts, Crime/Violence, Democracy, Protest/Resistance, Public safety, Violence One comment

If you were looking for a hackneyed and inelegant metaphor for privilege and inequality, the building I work in would be an excellent choice.

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quit

Why he quit: Scientist resigns from Trump’s State Dept. with a biting message

August 27, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Politics, Protest/Resistance, Resignations, Widgets: Letters of protest One comment

Daniel Kammen couldn’t take it any more, so he quit. An expert in renewable energy, he was appointed by President Obama in 2016 as

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In case you missed it

  • Would President Hillary Clinton have saved Roe? Probably Not
  • War, huh (good God y’all) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing
  • Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation Should’ve Been a Celebration
  • How Loose Lips from Obama Hurt America and the World
  • Back in the USSR
  • What Putin and Affirmative Action have in common

A new book by Arthur Lieber. Political Introverts: How Empathetic Voters Can Help Save American Politics.  Buy it here.

Gloria Shur Bilchik’s new book, Election Insiders: Behind the scenes with the people who make your vote count. Kindle edition now available at Amazon.

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