Engage, Wisdom, Despite Trump
Rise Up, Sing Out Watch Party, June 14th
Go to the above link and consider signing up to host a watch party. Listen to the inspiring performances, get to know neighbors and invite them to join our CommunitiesRising.us email list to find ways to they can help protect our Democracy. HERE’s a toolkit for a Rise Up, Sing Out House Party.
On June 14, the Committee for the First Amendment will be hosting Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment, an uplifting evening of song, solidarity, and action. Featuring an all-star line-up of performers, this 90-minute concert event will celebrate the freedoms guaranteed by our First Amendment—of speech, religion, press, assembly, and protest—and the people power that both fuels these rights and is essential to guarantee them. … Even as authoritarians increase their attacks on our freedoms and communities, we see examples across the country of people rising up together, taking action, and turning back those forces. …. The event will be streamed with watch parties all across the country—so wherever you are, you can sing along, find inspiration in the performances, build community, and take meaningful action together.
OMB Plans To Politicize Federal Grant-Making. You Can Take Action
Join us to learn how you can take action against the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as they plan to politicize federal grant-making. We will meet at Keystone Church (5019 Keystone Place N) on Thursday, June 25th from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Put it on your calendar. We’ll have more details on the CommunitiesRising.us website soon. READ MORE HERE about this OMB Plan.
Free WA Project - a good resource
The Free Washington Project is a grassroots network and hub for individuals and organizations taking action against the authoritarian and anti-democratic actions of the MAGA regime. … We connect across diverse organizations to uplift each other’s efforts and stand in solidarity with immigrants and targeted communities. … We aim to be your go-to resource for trainings, actions, and tools that facilitate and inspire beautiful, creative, nonviolent resistance in Washington State.
Let’s Protect Democracy, Wisdom From Leaders
To protect Democracy, what should each of us be doing right now.
Preet Bharara: … build the collective case against Trump and his dangerous positions and practices, … have the best arguments … have the best evidence … have the best analysis for why his odious decisions are dangerous to democracy, freedom, and prosperity. …. Every messenger in every community can make a difference. Be one of them.
Eric Holder: GET INVOLVED! Whether it’s working with a pro-democracy group, working on a campaign, working with a dedicated community group, participating in protests when they take form.
Stacey Abrams: Democracy is … shared power to make life better—based on our individual or communal needs. … Engage. Not just by voting—though, please vote—but by showing up, making demands, building relationships, and holding officials accountable. … use the tools of local and state government to demand the democracy we deserve.
Katie Phang: … find one issue that you really care about. … Find others in your community and neighborhood that are like-minded ... And find politicians who have made your issue one of THEIR issues. Reach out to those politicians/their staff and volunteer to spearhead your local community’s efforts on that issue. …
Dahlia Lithwick: ….Pick your cause: voting rights, reproductive freedom, LGBTQ rights, the environment, everything is under assault. Find work that fills you up. Then find the folks doing it: Swing Left, Indivisible, Brennan Center, No Kings, ActBlue, Protect Democracy, Democracy Defenders. … This isn’t a sprint or a marathon. It’s a relay. Take a baton and pass it on and do it again tomorrow.
Pete Strzok: Take care of yourself and safeguard your resilience. … We each have a role to play and a unique set of skills, experiences, and perspectives to offer. Use yours. … Make space for the things that restore you—whether that’s reading, cooking, working out, or simply stepping away for a moment of quiet. …. Lean into the people and communities around you: friends, family, colleagues, neighbors, and groups with shared interests or values. …. They remind us that in the midst of noise and difficulty, there is still decency, care, and goodness all around us.
250 to 250 Substack, Heather Cox Richardson
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A Future Vision, Piketty et al.
Imagine a future in which everyone enjoys high levels of wellbeing; where 90% of the world’s population doubles their income but works half the hours we work today. A world in which the bottom half of humanity sees its share of global wealth rise from just 2% today to 30%; a world where we consume enough, but nobody over-consumes. And imagine achieving this on a planet that can comfortably sustain human life without its climate breaking down. … Our new report examines the conditions required for the world to progress towards this ambition on an economically and ecologically compatible path, by the end of the century**.**
Its conclusion? A global transformation that reconciles planetary habitability and high standards of wellbeing for all is possible – as long as three conditions are simultaneously met. Fast decarbonisation of energy systems is necessary. But we also need a major shift away from overconsumption towards “sufficiency”. This would involve a sharp reduction in labour hours and the use of raw materials, along with big changes in consumption patterns, food habits, land use and forest cover. Financing and politically sustaining decarbonisation and sufficiency will require a drastic reduction in inequality of income, wealth and power, between countries and within them.
The Global Justice Report is the first attempt to propose a fully quantified plan for this transition. It combines four dimensions that today’s debates often treat separately: redistribution at the world scale; a deep reform of the international financial and economic order; a radical transformation of energy systems; and substantial shifts in consumption patterns.
Trump Depravity This Week
Trump Plans to Give 2,000 Nuclear Bombs’ Worth of Weapons-Ready Plutonium to Private Companies - Risking Safety & Nuclear Proliferation
Trump to Dismantle Crucial Ocean Monitoring System - Nick Kapur says, “Apparently climate change doesn’t exist if you prevent scientists from measuring it.” David Doninger asks “Wouldn’t you want to know if the ocean currents are changing? Wouldn’t you want to know ocean temperatures? These things affect everything from fishing to hurricanes.” This is in addition to the Environmental Protection Agency repealing the endangerment finding, which has underpinned the agency's environmental protection efforts, and Trump shutting down the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which improves our weather forecasts.
Trump-Kushner $1.6B Luxury Resort on Albanian Island- sparks local protests - “… complete collapse of rule of law with no consideration of society, no environmental consideration, no contract permits, just bulldozers moving in.”
