UPDATE: We made the rec list! Don't know how, 31 recs, 1 share, but I will take it!
Thank you to everyone who braved the waters for me on this, big hugs and loves to you!
Greetings!
I recently posted a diary here on c99:
Please Tell Me, Hillary: Do You Support Late-Term Abortion Exceptions for the Fetus?
I was cruising through CNN just now and ran across this editorial by one Meg Jacobs, a history prof at Columbia and Princeton. In it she talks about how Clinton pissed off the coal miners in March by saying "We are going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business".
President Obama foreign policy record has not been one of consistency. It has fluctuated, and that fluctuation seems to mirror who is working as point-man (i.e. Secretary of State) at the time.
Hillary Clinton had the office from January 2009 to January 2013. John Kerry has been there since.
Let's look at U.S. foreign policy during this era.
On Thursday the Massachusetts Senate is scheduled to begin debate on adding protections for transgender people in public accommodations to the 2011 anti-discrimination law that bans discrimination in the workplace and in housing.
There is no justification on earth for discrimination against anyone who wants to go to park, movie theater, doctor’s office, restaurant or a gym,” said Deborah Shields, executive director of MassEquality, an organization that has vocally supported the bill. “It’s unconscionable that in 2016 discrimination would be permitted.
--Deborah Shields, MassEquality
House and Senate versions of the bill were recently released from committee. Both versions would prohibit discrimination against transgender people in public accommodations, allowing them to use locker rooms and restrooms consistent with their gender identity.
While supporters of the bill say it would provide important protections to transgender people, opponents of the legislation have argued it could subject women and children to voyeurs and sexual predators.
I know that I have been writing a lot more than usual. I am generally not the type of person who shares a lot of my opinions in long, written rants. But I am currently going through one of my phases where politics seems to be on my mind constantly.
Thursday May 10, 1906
From the International Socialist Review: A. M. Simons on Justice for W. F. of M.
Hi guys!
Sorry I missed the last one, with family in town I haven't had a second to do anything but clean and entertain, lol!
I sent them all off to Disney Land as present for my wife's graduatio, for a few days of a quite house for me, and of course, to allow me to able to hang with my C99P Peeps for tonight's primary. 
Yes, there are people on this world who hate Bernie Sanders' supporters so much that they have posted the "recipe" for this very real, very dangerous and possibly fatal homemade (you can get all the ingredients at Walmart!) explosive device. [WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS AS IT MAY LEAD TO INJURY OR DEATH]
Corporatist economics creates giant, global business organizations and concentrates property ownership into the hands of oligarchs. Corporatist economics creates massive obstacles to property accumulation for ordinary individuals.
"True dat, G, but how does that relate to local or personal sufficiency? Such topics seem to be more macro-economic in nature, rather than local or personal. What gives?"
Well, I have little hope of democratic-socialism ever being imposed from the top down. Nor should it. Democratic-socialism should be built from the bottom up. We need to work democratic-socialist principles into the social fabric of our local communities and spread the good news from there.
Very, very few progressives know anything about democratic-socialist principles; we've been immersed in corporatist culture all our lives. We know what we're against, but we struggle to imagine the alternative and how to implement it. This series presents the alternative; you can find it in the Resilience Group's essay queue. Part 4 starts below.
