As I’m Interviewing Kimberle Crenshaw in this piece…I’m actually unaware that Crenshaw is the creator of the term intersectionalactivism. In our Lyme work, the number one problem we’ve seen Lyme Activism encounter…is clash of egos…and activists…disliking each other within the movement. What’s amazing, is right about now….the Lyme community is waking up to that fact and doing something about it. Crenshaw realized 30 years ago…that progressive movements clashing with each other may not be the best thing for progressivism…clashing progressive values played a huge role in this last election. People continuously want answers as to what happened (in this last election). The answer is that a lot of things happened. Not showing up in Wisconsin and Michigan…not really having political “Killers’ run HRC’s campaign, a non strong enough defense of the Clinton Foundation–which is an extraordinary organization (Comparing it to Trumps foundation: best…to the worst) somehow that message was not brought out strongly enough…Caine…may not have been strong enough choice. the third and 4th party candidacies (way to go Jill Stein…Gary Johnson: clearly an idiot…but you?)
James Carville would (and did) identify one element above all: progressives tearing down Hillary Clinton. Intersectional Activism is about as important of a concept to apply in taking action out there. Know what you’re fighting against: because its certainly in our faces now. I cannot tell you how much Ha Goodman and Julian Assange…helped make this bed. The good news: California passed Universal Health Care today….the pushback will be strong…and that is in someway a hopeful message for today. The bad news: Bloomberg recently said that he felt there was 55 percent chance of Trump being re-elected….he sited a non-clear democratic message, and most importantly, infighting amongst progressives.–Milon Henry Levine
Its Equal Pay Day. JFK, in 1963, signed the “Equal Pay Act”…and we still have a long way to go…at about 1 minute into this video …a woman asks Kennedy about Equal Pay for Women…my view is that all public service should carry with it public knowledge of it …not lack of knowledge through Government obsfucation of the details of it…we should know more about this issue today…than we do. Below, a transcript of Kennedy speaking on the day he signed the “Equal Pay Act:”
June 10, 1963
I AM delighted today to approve the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibits arbitrary discrimination against women in the payment of wages. This act represents many years of effort by labor, management, and several private organizations unassociated with labor or management, to call attention to the unconscionable practice of paying female employees less wages than male employees for the same job. This measure adds to our laws another structure basic to democracy. It will add protection at the working place to the women, the same rights at the working place in a sense that they have enjoyed at the polling place.
While much remains to be done to achieve full equality of economic opportunity–for the average woman worker earns only 60 percent of the average wage for men–this legislation is a significant step forward.
Our economy today depends upon women in the labor force. One out of three workers is a woman. Today, there are almost 25 million women employed, and their number is rising faster than the number of men in the labor force.
It is extremely important that adequate provision be made for reasonable levels of income to them, for the care of the children which they must leave at home or in school, and for protection of the family unit. One of the prime objectives of the Commission on the Status of Women, which I appointed 18 months ago, is to develop a program to accomplish these purposes.
The lower the family income, the higher the probability that the mother must work. Today, 1 out of 5 of these working mothers has children under 3. Two out of 5 have children of school age. Among the remainder, about 50 percent have husbands who earn less than $5,000 a year–many of them much less. I believe they bear the heaviest burden of any group in our Nation. Where the mother is the sole support of the family, she often must face the hard choice of either accepting public assistance or taking a position at a pay rate which averages less than two-thirds of the pay rate for men.
It is for these reasons that I believe we must expand day-care centers and provide other assistance which I have recommended to the Congress. At present, the total facilities of all the licensed day-care centers in the Nation can take care of only 185,000 children. Nearly 500,000 children under 12 must take care of themselves while their mothers work. This, it seems to me, is a formula for disaster.
I am glad that Congress has recently authorized $800,000 to State welfare agencies to expand their day-care services during the remainder of this fiscal year. But we need much more. We need the $8 million in the 1965 budget for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare allocated to this purpose.
We also need the provisions in the tax bill that will permit working mothers to increase the deduction from income tax liability for costs incurred in providing care for their children while the mothers are working. In October the Commission on the Status of Women will report to me. This problem should have a high priority, and I think that whatever we leave undone this year we must move on this in January.
I am grateful to those Members of Congress who worked so diligently to guide the Equal Pay Act through. It is a first step. It affirms our determination that when women enter the labor force they will find equality in their pay envelopes.
We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation for these day-care centers, which seems to me to be money very wisely spent, and also under consideration of the tax bill, that we can consider the needs of the working mothers, and both of these will be very helpful, and I would like to lobby in their behalf.
As we prepare to launch into our extensive coverage of some behind the scenes meetings involving the organizers of the Women’s March on Washington…a talk with one of the most present feminist activists over the past ten years, Medea Benjamin, a co founder of Code Pink…and not a supporter of Hillary Clinton…not so sure she’s particularly comfortable with the outcome of this election, and we wonder if she would support HRC a bit more….in 2020. We imagine Hillary’s been awed by her general election tally, and the size of the Women Marches around the globe, compared with Trump’s Inauguration crowd, and television audience, which was the 9th ranked Presidential Inauguration in terms of household ratings…coming in behind Richard Nixon…and way behind Obama and Bill Clinton.
Here Assange says that “The source distracts form the content.” Id remind EVERYONE that NOONE reads the content of Wikileaks 600 thousand leaked emails here or there–just the press releases about them, the tweets about them….maybe a few soundbites. Its sensationalism at its worst. I don’t think Assange should be in jail…or in hiding…he should be freed and protected…but his publishing this season was outright bullshit. he was just another journalist and publisher with a hatred of one candidate. Murdoch was more graceful and fair in this election cycle. That…is saying a whole bunch–MHL
Donald Trump says some encouraging things about the United States Of America early in the morning on 11/9/2016 in New York City. As he won the presidency, his face was projected on the Empire State Building. Very New York Election.
Guiliani is not the most appealing surrogate. But Anthony “Recovering Weiner” should stop allowing himself to be photographed in Rehab. He had almost completely gone away…and this film is great on throwing it back on the FBI and what may have motivated them to try to swing an election 11 days before it went off…which is the really disturbing story in the mix.
After an extremely dramatic day, a day in which the FBI has raised suspicion again on HRC’s Email issues WITHOUT Any specifics…except the emails come form Huma Aberdeen and Anthony Weiners shared phone GREAT(yes sounds like a political hit job coming from the FBI but guess what,we didn’t hire Huma Abedeen as our top assistant, lotta retail political appeal there, always has been, and Weiner surely adds to that right?….. Trump speaks live now in Iowa. The details of this case in the next few days arguably obviously will mean a lot. And of course how the Clinton campaign responds is absolutely an extremely important mystery at the moment, as is what this FBI letter by Comey with 11 days to go…is really all about.
This is a very big story in America right now. The Stand off at Standing Rock Continues, and there is a very good chance that police will eventually try to end it in the same why Occupy Wall Street was cleared out early in the morning on November 15th, 2011. That pipeline builders cant do what they are doing without an environmental safety net, a plan to make the job environmentally sound, and to NOT disturb and marginalize communities is a major shame. The World waits to see whether Barrack Obama or Hillary Clinton will get involved. It may wait along time, and even I, a middle of the road Third Wayer….stand with Bernie and Jill Stein on this. And you dont see that every day.
An important piece for people who believe this election is over. When You make the issue the “Obscene Level Of Corruption of Hillary Clinton” (Which may be imaginary) you get back in the game but the prison thing is so intense that Trump is already saying he was joking. Oh?
Newt Gingrich says Trump became a ‘historic figure’ at the debate — here’s why
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a top surrogate for Donald Trump, says the Republican presidential nominee “crossed into being a historic figure” during Sunday night’s presidential showdown.
While the debate was certainly memorable, it was Trump’s promise to appoint a “special prosecutor” to look into Democratic rival Hillary Clinton that made the face-off one for the history books, according to Gingrich.
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“The key point is when he said he would appoint an independent prosecutor,” the former lawmaker toldFox News Radio host Josh Gibson Monday. “[I] think Trump crossed into being a historic figure by saying, ‘You know, we have so much corruption in this administration.’”
Though that comment clearly performed well in Gingrich’s corner, it was also one that earned Trump scorn — specifically when he said Clinton would “be in jail” if he was president — from CNN correspondent Dana Bash. She likened the comment to “Stalin and Hitler,” who “put their opponents in jail.”
But Gingrich, whose own political résumé dates back to the 1970s, sang Trump’s praises for sticking it to Clinton.
“Hillary Clinton herself is so corrupt that we really need to handle it as a criminal justice matter, not just a campaign matter,” he said. “I thought, in many ways, that was the most important conversation starter of the whole evening.”
Gingrich also had a few words for House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who Monday said he will no longer defend Trump but will instead focus on down ballot races to ensure the GOP maintains control of Congress.
“I think Paul Ryan’s got to follow his own politics, but I think it’s a mistake,” he remarked. “Ryan becomes caught up in the emotions. A lot of Republicans do, because they don’t understand what the game is.”
Fox News commentator Sean Hannityjoined Gingrich’s chorus, saying on his own radio show that Ryan is “done” after backing away from the brash billionaire, adding he just doesn’t “know it yet.”
