Human Rights & Civil Liberties

• Xenophobia = an intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries
• Nativism = the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants
• Summaries of the First 4 Points of Lawrence Britt’s 14 Characteristics of Fascism That Apply to the Trump/Pence GOP
• Related: 9 MLK Quotes the Mainstream Media Won't Cite

Gary G. Kohls, Duty to Warn

The Wing-Nuts WILL Fund Their Oracles, You Can Be Sure

The right wing will fund their oracles, that's a given. We are told that we will always be without means, never never know stability, never be able to provide. One more lie, after another.

We know what to do with a budget. We know how to apply it, how to grow something of value to the community with it. Let's give them something to talk about.

Thank you all sincerely.

Dave & the Crew

February 6, 2017 | The pre-Civil War 1850s was an era when there was serious political instability and economic uncertainty partly because of the fear of a rising immigrant population without a concomitant increase in job opportunities. There was, as yet, no stable two party political system in the US. Because of these realities, a relatively new, very inexperienced political party, popularly known as the Know-Nothing Party, came out of nowhere and won 43 seats in the US Congress in the national election of 1856.

Although the existence of the new party was no secret, the names of its members were a closely kept secret. “I don’t know” was the preferred answer when the press asked about the party’s behind-closed-doors meetings and conspiratorial agendas. And so the pejorative label “know-nothing” was quickly applied to the group. It was a well-deserved title.

Gary G. Kohls <gkohls@cpinternet.com> is a retired physician who writes about issues of war, peace, justice, mental health and nonviolence and feels it is important to mix religion and non-partisan politics. 

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9 MLK Quotes the Mainstream Media Won't Cite, Kali Holloway, AlterNet

The words of the real MLK were far more radical than today's cherry-picked lines.

• Part 1: 10 Concrete Ways To Take Action Against The Muslim BanTeaser
• Do not allow yourself to become desensitized or fatigued.
• Part 2: Trump banned refugees on Holocaust Remembrance Day. That says everything.
• Trump’s orders are immoral as well as unconstitutional.

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Part 1: 10 Concrete Ways To Take Action Against The Muslim Ban

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Do not allow yourself to become desensitized or fatigued.

Erin Schrode, Huffington Post

01/29/2017 | The #MuslimBan is personal for me — as it should be for every soul on the face of planet earth. I will not respond with silence, indifference or hatred; I will respond with love, resistance and power. Ten Concrete Action Items Below

 While I am neither Muslim, nor a citizen of the seven countries Trump has barred from entering the United States, I am a human being. This is unconstitutional, inhumane, shameful, appalling and offensive, not to mention entirely baseless, senseless and counterproductive. 

Erin Schrode, Citizen Activist and Co-Founder, Turning Green

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Part 2: Trump banned refugees on Holocaust Remembrance Day. That says everything.

Trump’s orders are immoral as well as unconstitutional. Photograph: Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock

Cecillia Wang, the Guardian

In 1939, the German oceanliner St Louis and its 937 passengers, almost all Jewish refugees, were turned away from the port of Miami and sent back to Europe. Of those passengers, 254 were murdered in the Holocaust. The US government turned away those refugees, so heartbreakingly close to safety – and also restricted Jewish immigration and instituted new vetting procedures – because of rampant overblown fears that the Nazis might smuggle spies and saboteurs in among the Jewish refugees.

On Friday, which was Holocaust Remembrance Day, the White House put out a statement that failed to mention the 6 million Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis. Hours later, Donald Trump signed an executive order suspending all refugee resettlement for 120 days and indefinitely suspending the resettlement of refugees from Syria. 

Cecillia Wang is the director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project.

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