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Black Lives Matter at Schools Rolls Out National Week of Action
A nationwide movement is underfoot as educators wear Black Lives Matter shirts to school this week and teach lessons about structural racism, intersectional black identities, black history, and anti-racist movements.
Progressive Breakfast
As Shutdown Looms, DREAMers May Lose Congress weighs leaving Dreamers in limbo another year. Politico: "As lawmakers grasp for a solution for the young undocumented immigrants, one option is a temporary extension — perhaps one year — of their legal protections paired...
GOP Tax Break Sucker Punches Wisconsin Workers
Failure to enforce international trade law and a corporate tax break that some are using to pay for plant closures are significant factors in the loss of thousands of paper mill jobs in Wisconsin, including two announced last week.
Progressive Breakfast
Russia Memo Distraction Escalates While you are tweeting Nunes, Russia is plotting its midterms attack. Mother Jones: “It is working — the Trump-GOP campaign to distract attention from the Russia scandal. And this is placing the nation—literally and...
How Public Schools Became Easy Pickings for the Kochs
The Koch brothers' dark-money network says public schools are the "lowest hanging fruit" in their campaign to dismantle government institutions. It's time for Democrats to step up and defend public education from this coming assault.
Progressive Breakfast
New Government Shutdown Looms Congress has 2 weeks to fund the government. They have 3 working days. Vox: "Still without a deal on DACA and spending, Congress has two jam-packed weeks — of retreats. Congress only has three working days between today and the next...
Menace and Mush: Trump’s State of the Union
Donald Trump drenched his audience in calls to unity, then purposefully preyed on our fears, plying the race-bait politics he and his party have perfected. This is his trademark: a combination of patriotic banality with toxic cunning.
Progressive Breakfast
State of Our Union Calls For Women To Unite State of Our Union event calls for women to unite against Trump agenda. Detroit Free Press: "The resistance to President Donald Trump made its objections loud and clear on the night of his first State of the Union address......
The State of OUR Union Is Ready To Lift Up Truth
There’s a new wave of defiance growing, and that defiance is female, is young and old, and is every color of the rainbow. The state of OUR union is ready to lift up truth, to raise our voices collectively and move mountains. We are ready.
Progressive Breakfast
Federal Judge Frees Immigrant Activist, Slams ICE Federal judge blasts ICE for ‘cruel’ tactics, frees immigrant rights activist Ravi Ragbir. WaPo: "Comparing the Trump administration’s immigration practices to those of an authoritarian regime, a federal judge in...
