A Year of Trump and Right-wing Populism In the GOP tax bill, $5 trillion is given to households with over $1 million income. Seniors, the poor, children and students are attacked. The severe cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, HUD, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, SNAP, food stamps, WIC food assistance, Pell grants, the EPA, the Department of Education, the National Institute for Health and the Legal Corporation are sadistic. Are we headed back to the 11th century when narcissism and illiteracy were accepted and not overcome?...
Posted: Mon Feb 5, 2018 4:27AM
2017 Census of Agriculture: Harvesting Opportunity 
Harvesting Opportunity: The Power of Regional Food Systems Investments to Transform Communities is a new tool released by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis that utilizes data points provided by the Census of Agriculture. Last century we began our journey helping to quantify and qualify better opportunity for Black Agriculture producers toward impacting better health outcomes in our communities, in partnership with the USDA/NASS. A 2020 Vision was put forth as a methodology to utilize b...
Posted: Thu Feb 1, 2018 12:28PM
Westley Bayas III on the Unrig the System Summit (audio/mpeg 27.7mb) Civic and Community Consultant Westley Bayas III joined WTUL News & Views in the studio to talk about the upcoming represent.us Unrig the System Summit. Folks from near and far and across ideological and partisan lines will gather from February 2nd-February 4th in Tulane University's Lavin-Bernick Center to work on solutions to unrig the United States' political system....
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 8:54AM
New Orleans City Council Rescinds Universal Human Rights Resolution Due to Backlash Over Inclusion of Palestinians WASHINGTON, DC, January 25, 2018 – Today, the New Orleans City Council rescinded a universal human rights resolution, R-18-5, under intense pressure from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans (JFGNO), simply because the resolution was introduced by a Palestine solidarity group which framed the resolution as a victory for Palestinian rights within the broader scope of human rights....
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:56PM
Conservation, Tribal Groups Sue to Block Repeal of Federal Fracking Rule 
SAN FRANCISCO, January 24, 2018 — A coalition of environmental and tribal groups sued today to block the Trump administration’s repeal of a 2015 rule designed to protect water, wildlife and public health from the harmful effects of hydraulic fracturing on federal and tribal lands....
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 12:47PM
Struggles of Using Legal Recourse as a Path Toward Better Prison Conditions 
It seems there could never be enough legal support to help the millions of prisoners who would benefit from having a lawyer at arms’ length. Whether it is lack of medical care, abhorrent nutrition, exposure to extreme temperatures, lack of clean water, or brutality by prison guards, there are endless inhumane conditions prisoners are forced to live through on a daily basis. The National Lawyers Guild’s National Office receives letter after letter from prisoners, mainly requesting a copy of th...
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:38PM
Honor Roll of BDS Organizations Banned by Zionist Israel Nazi Zionist Israel has been so adversely affected by the successful Boycott Divest Sanctions movement that it is now lashing out, like a wounded, dying beast, with a list of 20 organizations banned from visiting the hellhole, US military base and settler colony called Israel. This honor roll is:...
Posted: Sun Jan 7, 2018 3:14PM
CDC Promotes Lie of Nuclear Survival; Protest Jan 20-21, 2018 The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has announced that on January 16, 2018, it will have a 1 hour session on the “Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation” claiming that “Despite the fear surrounding such an event, planning and preparation can lessen deaths and illness. For instance, most people don’t realize that sheltering in place for at least 24 hours is crucial to saving lives and reducing exposure to radiation.” See https://www.cdc.gov/cdcgrandrounds/archives/2018/January2018.h...
Posted: Fri Jan 5, 2018 9:32PM
1/20-21/18: Response to Nazi Trump & Minions: "Never Say" Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Anthem With the complete destruction of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and all anti-poverty programs imminent in 2018 to pay for the Trump Tax Scam of 2017, we will all certainly be at the January 20-21, 2018 Women's Resistance Demonstrations celebrating women's right to abortion won 1/22/73 in Roe v Wade and affirming our commitment to putting an end to the capitalist profit motive that is the cause of all our grief. The anthem of the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Uprising of April-May 1943, Neve...
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2017 9:17AM
Someone left a box of horse manure for Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Steven Mnuchin is one of Trump’s numerous very wealthy cabinet members living in luxury while the treasury of the country is being plundered by the latest tax bill passed by the corrupt Republicans in the House and Senate!...
Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2017 8:40PM
Tax deform bill reveals the most corrupt government that money can buy To call your Member of Congress to say “NO” to the tax deform bills?:
Toll free number for the US Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044 or 1-888-516-5820 - Call NOW and call often!...
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 8:36PM
Archbishop and Evangelical Leader Tell Congress to Protect Puerto Rico in Tax Plans As the Senate and House tax plans head to conference committee to reconcile tax plan differences, major religious leaders from Puerto Rico are asking Congress to protect the island from new proposed taxes....
Posted: Fri Dec 8, 2017 9:50AM
Despised Peter Roskam of Wheaton picked for notorious tax bill negotiations Wheaton is a racist town. Back in the mid 1970s, someone tried to get a permit to build an apartment building near Gary Avenue and Jewel Road, but it was opposed and blocked by many families in the area. This included my own family and grandfather who lived in his windmill house nearby at the time (now owned by my uncle Steve), because they were afraid that the apartment building would allow blacks to move into the neighborhood. I was ashamed of my family when that racist incident occurred an...
Posted: Wed Dec 6, 2017 9:39PM
Philippines - Why there is nothing Revolutionary about the call for a "Revolutionary Govt" 
Statement of Dr. Walden Bello, National Chairman of Laban ng Masa (Fight of the Masses), Nov 30, 2017...
Posted: Wed Dec 6, 2017 2:08AM
Broadband monopolies to censor Internet content 
There is a growing consensus within the ruling establishment that the Internet must be purged of oppositional, left-wing, socialist and anti-capitalist ideas, with the ending of net neutrality being yet another major step toward the implementation of Internet censorship.
The recently released plan by the Federal Communications Commission to abolish net neutrality has evoked mass opposition across the US and around the world....
Posted: Tue Dec 5, 2017 8:58AM
$67 billion in tax cuts to 11 donor families to the GOP To call your Member of Congress to say “NO” to the tax deform bills?:
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Posted: Tue Dec 5, 2017 1:22AM
GOP tax deform bill is a kickback scheme for corporations and the filthy rich The corporate media has failed in it’s reporting to point out that the present tax deform bill being debated in the Senate is nothing more than a massive corrupt kickback scheme to assist wealthy corporations and the filthy rich! To call your Member of Congress to say “NO” to the tax deform bills?:
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2017 10:59PM
Congress Tax Reform Package Could Harm Poor, Warns Religious Development Group As the Senate pushes tax reform, the head of a religious development group expressed concern over parts of the House and Senate proposals that could harm low income people in the United States and people in the developing world....
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2017 2:05PM
List of Republican Senators who voted in favor tax deform bill To call your Member of Congress to say “NO” to the tax deform bills?:
Toll free number for the US Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044...
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 11:59PM
Religious Development Group Urges Stronger Corporate Reporting Standards Jubilee USA, a religious development group, asked the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to require greater disclosure of what payments corporations make to governments where they operate....
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 7:27AM