Thunder On The Left
It's still a ways off in the distance, but a moral movement is gathering steam:
A moral movement is growing against the violence perpetrated by all of them, and the necessity for both government and business to take action.
It is being led by people whose moral authority cannot be denied: students whose friends have been murdered, women who have been abused, the parents and partners of black men who have been slain.
It is already having a profound impact on America.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/02/27/moral-movement-against-vio...
Rev. Barber first got attention for his Moral Monday campaign and has now stepped it up a notch with The Poor People's Campaign:
Rev. William Barber Moves Forward With Revolutionary Poor People’s Campaign:
Leaders are drawing inspiration from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 initiative.
“[The goal of the new Poor People’s Campaign is to] consecrate a new movement to transform the political, economic, and moral structures of society,” Barber said.
The duo (Rev. Barber and Rev. Liz Theoharis) has held mass meetings and strategy sessions in 15 cities in efforts to organize mobilizations in the spring of 2018. The plan is to orchestrate 40 days of concentrated episodes of civil disobedience in at least 25 states, but drawing power from the same revolutionary spirit that emboldened King and the SCLC decades ago.
https://newsone.com/3762998/martin-luther-king-jr-2018-poor-people-campa...
It's been a long time coming and we aren't there yet by a long shot. Here is one hopeful sign:
'Fundamental Restructuring of the Economy,' Progressives Embrace Bold New Agenda:
"We need a political movement that fights to take back our government from those who have corrupted and subverted it."
Campaign For America's Future was founded in 1996 and I admit up front that I am only vaguely familiar with their history and current connection to the Democratic Party. At present it appears to be a vehicle to reform or take over the Democratic Party:
"We will resist Trump. But resistance is not enough," reads the introduction to the platform, unveiled by Campaign for America's Future (CAF). "We therefore pledge that: We will fight for good jobs, sustainable prosperity, and economic justice. We will work to build a movement that can make that agenda a reality."
In introducing the ambitious platform—which has already earned the backing of more than 70 prominent progressives, including author Naomi Klein and Our Revolution president Nina Turner—CAF is looking to chart a path that reaches far beyond the centrist and incrementalist approach favored by the current Democratic leadership.
It's good to have goals. CAF put together a concrete agenda:
Here are the 11 planks of the agenda, which supporters believe can both turn out the Democratic base and win over millions of non-voters:
(1) Jobs for All—Created by Rebuilding America
(2) Invest in a Green Economy
(3) Empower Workers to Reduce Inequality
(4) Opportunity and Justice for All—With Focus on Communities Harmed by Racism
(5) Guarantee Women's Economic Equality
(6)High-Quality Public Education—Pre-K to University
(7) Medicare for All—and Shared Economic Security
(8) Make Corporations and Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share
(9) A Global Economic Strategy for Working People
(10) Close Wall Street's Casino
(11) Rescue Democracy from the Special Interests
That actually looks like a realistic platform for genuine progressives to run on, that would have widespread support from a broader spectrum of Americans than TPTB and media would have us believe.
www.commondreams.org/news/2018/02/23/demanding-fundamental-restructuring...
Here is one example of the heroic stands coming from the grassroots:
Could a Berniecrat Running on Marijuana Reform Become the First Black Woman Governor?
Is Oklahoma ready? Former State Senator Connie Johnson is gonna find out and blatantly rejects the DNC:
In 2016, Oklahoma Democratic Party leadership sent a memo to party officials, instructing them to coordinate a central message focused solely on attacking Republicans instead of addressing progressive issues. Johnson has called this a "gag order" memo. "We need to stop trying to act like Republicans, thinking it's going to gain us votes," she told Truthout. "This practice over the years has ended up, I believe, in us having the Republican majority that we have."
On the issues:
Democrats face an uphill battle in shifting Oklahoma back into a swing state, but former State Sen. Connie Johnson, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, has not allowed that fact to deter her from standing behind her unapologetically progressive stances on marijuana legalization and reproductive rights, her opposition to the death penalty, and her support for Sanders-style policies like free public tuition for community colleges.
That's just for starters. This is one very impressive woman:
She made national headlines in 2012 after introducing a counter-bill that would outlaw male masturbation in response to an anti-abortion Republican bill mandating that life begins at conception, which her efforts helped defeat. Through a background in criminal legal reform, with a master's degree in rehabilitation counseling, Johnson is intent on taking on mass incarceration, voter suppression, and racial and economic injustices rampant in Oklahoma and across the country.
"We're first in things that are bad, we're last in things that are good, and we are broke," she said. She views the state's funding issues, a near billion-dollar deficit, as a symptom of Republicans in power who have bankrupted the budget by privatizing public services through lucrative government contracts to allies and donors. "It's very sad what's happening at the Oklahoma capitol right now, but until we as Democrats can write our own message, and get that message out there, Republicans will continue to win," she added.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43644-could-a-berniecrat-running-on-m...
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The CAF platform is necessary but insufficient
Number 11 is a gaping hole of non-specifics, which, if not filled by follow-on measures will doom this, as well as all other governmental reforms to date to failure.
Money is the mother's milk of politics. Do we want to see the putrescent nature of politics stop?
Here are at least a few measures which are also necessary to transform our political system.
1) Preclude any elected officer of the US from entering an corporation in which that officer once maintained jurisdiction --part 1 of ending the revolving door
2) Preclude an elected officer from exercising legislative or executive rights over industries in which the elected officer once held significant financial holdings
3) Mandatory recusal of any elected officer from voting on legislation affecting persons with whom that officer has had business dealings
I am certain other measures to end the revolving door of corruption can be devised
4) End Citizens United and McCutcheon decisions via court action if such cannot be legislated
5) End status of corporations as actual human individuals.
6) Penalize off-shoring of corporate money as a tax-avoidance device. Any funds so transferred to a tax haven should be taxed significantly.
7) Discourage U.S. based businesses from establishing headquarters for tax purposes in tax havens by imposing substantial taxes on all U.S. earned corporate income.
In regard to Connie Johnson, the Corprodems will fight her tooth and nail before the general election, even if it means losing to a Republican.
Excellent Additions AlligatorEd
I suspect your points would be readily accepted by whoever the "members" of CAF are. Perhaps a little too wonkish to campaign on.
No doubt about the DNC preferring a Republican to Connie. She makes Bernie look like a centrist.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
Voting for the right person is not going to work
Not as long as the Koch turds and all the other millionaires and special interests get to buy their own congress critters. The current Supreme Court case about unions is something that the Kochs have been working towards for a very long time. The right to work issue is almost settled. People are disposable to people like them.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Well, the CorproDems can try.
I think the best days of fancy schmancy Nancy Pelosi and her corpoDems are in the rearview mirror.
If Connie Johnson gets regional support from Berniecrats the corpoDems won't beat her.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
Number 12
Cut our military budget in half and bring our troops home, from wherever they are.
Enforce peace.
"The people in the long run are going to do more
to promote peace than our government.
Indeed, I think that people want peace so much
that one of these days government better
get out of the way and let them have it."
Dwight Eisenhower, 1959
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
That Works For Me
I hadn't noticed the absence of any foreign policy issues.
Support Our Troops. Bring Them Home!
I'm reading the interview with Daniel Ellsberg that joe posted in The Evening Blues and this jumped out:
So Reagan won an election even though 87% of Americans supported a nuclear freeze. Because:
I suspect we have the same dynamic today. Cutting military spending and ending all wars would have far more support than we think. Nobody on the national stage is making the case for military cuts and the domestic benefits that would provide, so it is not a priority to voters.
Here's the link again:
https://thebulletin.org/daniel-ellsberg-dismantling-doomsday-machine1153...
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
@earthling1 And then there's the
And then there's the corollary of shutting down the police state, and its favorite activity, the Drug War.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Relative to the CFA and its warmonger democratic party,
this is getting a bit ridiculous. To not put stop U.S. imperialism at the top of these lists has become just stupid. To not understand the role U.S. imperialism plays in this country and the world and how it affects EVERYTHING, is not just short thinking, it's absolutely hypocritical.
Total Agreement
I just came from The Evening Blues where I posted this from an interview with Daniel Ellsberg:
Because land based ICBMs are totally unnecessary and only serve as targets.
The earlier point Ellsberg made was that 200-300 nukes are more than enough to destroy civilization and cause a nuclear winter. Russia and the U.S. both have sufficient submarine based nukes for deterrence.
(See link in comment above)
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
There had to have been a conscious effort to not put
anything related to ending war, imperialism and militarism on their list. It's beyond reason they would simply miss it.
Here's one of the comments under that Common Dreams article:
"Your suggestion would split the progressives into their two main groups which I would call the Bernie Sanders’ group which like Bernie favors an aggressive US foreign policy and what you might call the Green Party group which favors large scale military withdrawal from the world stage. I would stick to domestic policies where there is wide agreement among progressives. Talk of the ‘imperial war machine’ will just divide people and accomplish nothing. Maybe advocating specific actions such as withdrawal from the Middle East where the Sunnis and Shiites seem to carrying out an endless conflict might be helpful as it seems unclear what the US can accomplish through continued military involvement in Syria, Yemen, etc…"
That's as sorry an excuse I've ever seen.
Let me guess
This comment was written by Lrx. Or one of the other people there who will not admit that the democrats are the republicans? I've fought this type of thinking over there for a long time. Lrx and Yunzer are democrat through and through. Nothing sinks in.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Ya, I think it was.
Zackly like the poster called “Scuba” at JackPine Radicals. n/t
Also from the article
"If the Democrats don't start talking about a fundamental restructuring of the economy, either they will lose, or when they win, they will fail."
—Roger Hickey, Campaign for America's Future
How many times has someone said this about the democrats? I remember people saying this exact same thing in 2006, yet here we are 12 years later and it's still being said. I'd think that it's very obvious that the democrats aren't going to do what people want them to.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
The DNC Must Die
A substantial portion of the Dem grassroots has figured that out. Finally. I'm actually surprised at how well the Berniecrat spinoffs are doing and looking forward to the midterms.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
It's not just the DNC that has to die
It's democrats like Pelosi, Schumer, Feinstein and most of the others. I don't think there is any current democrat who isn't a corporate and imperial whore or isn't captured by the 1 %
Bernie knows that nothing can be done for us economically as long as the military budget is so high.
Nope, until money is out of politics, voting isn't going to change anything. I wish people would realize this.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Yeah Your Right
As I mentioned earlier, I was so surprised to see any concrete issues from a Democratic affiliated organization that I didn't even notice the foreign policy omission.
It had to be a conscious decision. We can only guess, but I suspect this was as far as the decision makers thought they could push at this point in time.
Maybe they wanted to leave foreign policy/military issues up to individual candidates. Maybe they are still hashing out foreign policy/defense issues for a follow up agenda.
I guess we will just have to wait and see.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
No, we Berniecrats Do Not
"favor an aggressive foreign
policy," tyvm M$M.
Most BernieBros and 'crats split
with Bernie on that issue and some others.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
@Meteor Man Good man, Ellsberg.
Good man, Ellsberg.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Working Class Priorities
How can we make war abolition a priority for voters if the media is silent? We need massive Anti-war protests to generate enthusiasm and media coverage to elevate this vital issue and make it a priority for voters.
Even the people directly affected feel isolated and alone. The most massive bloodthirsty global military campaign in history gets less coverage than a car chase.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
I guess we can assume the corporate media isn't going to
change, not when it's a 90% monopoly of the rich who drive imperialism. It's up to citizens and citizen's organizations to highlight the issue. Obviously the CFA, as a democratic party tool, will not do that because the democratic party officially supports imperialism.
It's up to them what they want to focus on but they're being completely disingenuous by not addressing imperialism. They actually serve to prevent any focus being put on wars, militarism and imperialism.
The working class has to understand that there will be no domestic progress without ending this global military empire.
I just read an article last night of how the republicans and Trump are now empowered to "reduce government" by ending the budget law that forced inflation adjusted increases to all government programs. Now they're free to cut and cut, but of course, nothing is said about the enormous imperialism budget. Both parties want that left out of the discussion.
That Part There
I think that idea is leaking out very slowly, but it should be the number one talking point with a bullet.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
Since Kucinich and Gravel, I have yet to see any top Democrat
— with the possible exception of Tulsi Gabbard — openly and unequivocally break with the bipartisan “MEDS” (Military Empire and Deep State) orthodoxy.
Mister “Best President Since FDR”
belches forthsquats down and squeezes outoffers a good summary of this orthodoxy here:https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/28/remarks...
@Big Al As I said, the CFA
As I said, the CFA won't last long if they push the Democratic Party too hard. Nor would any DC non-profit to the left of Brookings. Such non-profits are relics of a time when the parties included more diverse opinion, when politicians' opinions and characters had an effect on the political process, when the opinion of experts was sought to inform policy rather than pre-fabricated to justify the policies desired by the powerful, whatever they may be, when politicians to some extent feared the ability of the public to fire them, and when we had a modicum of representation in a flawed and failing republic.
In my reckoning, it has been almost twenty-five years since any of that has been true, and the falsity of these ideas has become extreme, and horribly evident, since 2008-9. The Wall St crash killed a great deal of diversity of political opinion, because the crash was essentially a weapon aimed at the economy of the nation, which brought most politicians nicely into line if the 9/11 police state hadn't done so already. After 2010 and Citizens United, forget it. Apres lui, le deluge.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
The M$M wouldn't cover
a 10 Million people protest in
Lafayette Square, the Ellipse.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
@Meteor Man Massive anti-war
Massive anti-war protests don't get the mass media on our side or ensure any coverage whatsoever, much less positive coverage. At least the traditional, temporary protests don't.
Evidence: the 2002 protests against the Iraq War.
The only way to ensure at least some media coverage is to stay put, like Occupy and DAPL, and that sure as hell doesn't guarantee positive or neutral coverage. I'm not a big fan of John Stewart, but he was right when he said the corporate media tends to have two speeds: blackout, and circus. If you have a day-trip protest, the media will stay on "blackout;" if you have a persistent protest, they will switch to "circus," with the aim being to destroy the reputations of everyone involved with the protest and spread disinformation about the issue itself.
There are reasons, perhaps, to organize massive protests against the war profiteering which apparently runs most of the planet, but getting on TV isn't one of them.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
what do you think of this?
please check below. they are at 448 contributions with goal of 800.
it is so small, it is sad. I felt so bad I donated again.
but the idea is such a good one. or so it seems to me.
what could they do with 10 million dollars?
much rather rent a sign than give money to bernie sanders.
glad you survived illness.
@irishking Thanks, irishking!
Thanks, irishking!
I'll look into the billboard idea. Sounds like a more expensive version of the Occupy illuminations.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
world beyond war billboard campaign is a start
http://worldbeyondwar.org/explained/
It's Cluster Frack America for me
unless and until I see a peace/dismantle the empire policy first on the list.
The 11 point wish list CANNOT be afforded any other way.
And, how can you call your program "moral" when it includes making deals with warmongers, as in OK we won't call for getting our army out of Syria in return for maybe you can think about some of what we want.
The list is impressive, but without a robust peace policy, I call it one more exercise in futility and feeling good about ourselves even while losing.
Mary Bennett
@Nastarana I'm the same about the
I'm the same about the police state, which is essentially the obverse side of the coin you're describing.
Reverse, at the very least, what was done to this country in response to 9/11--the constant warfare abroad, the police state at home.
Better yet, reverse the earlier phase of this social engineering that took place in the 80s with the Drug War.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
@Big Al
What do you want to bet that anyone running in a corporate Party ('3rd' parties having long been already comprehensively blockaded) and therefore - barring their being entirely eliminated - impossible to shut out of public debates where the public cannot be entirely shut out of earshot will, one way or another, quite likely be silenced/'disappeared'/railroaded into prison on some pretext the instant that they start talking about stopping the current attempt at a military/corporate take-over of the planet? Even the possibility would be enough for self-censorship, one would think.
We already know that the corporate media (and now including many once-respected and independent news sources,) won't carry them if countering the current official talking-points, (and seemingly unless echoing them, as well,) except in a negative manner, and there will be nothing to counter the propaganda flood convincing so many that what's oft repeated must necessarily be true, so even if, by attempting to do so, they haven't in that sense 'killed themselves' by 'suicide'-by-'failed-robbery' or 'crazy-person-in-crowd', airplane 'accident' or being 'suicided' by multiple shots to the head or 'hanging themselves' 'falling off a high building' or whatever, they've certainly killed their chances of election and gaining any position from which to do good right there, as their anti-war message won't get out but the slanderous propaganda will.
Public awareness and the public succeeding at the last minute in using what remains of the system to take back their government in a pacific manner (as by running for public office themselves, where feasible, and by only voting Prog in landslides and making this too obvious to cover over and cheat them of without pulling a military coup to which the rest of the world would object) is what TPTB most fear - and is something that could be achieved in the next two elections, if life and any pretense of US democracy lasts that long.
America has a fascist-infiltrated, corporate/billionaire-controlled government, not a legitimate democratic state, and the fact that anyone's willing to risk everything in running for public office to try to replace what amounts to a Mafia organization forming US 'government' with a legitimate government of, by and for the people is a last-ditch, patriotic effort not to be wasted.
When at a disadvantage and facing a group of murderous maniacs which you need to get by, announcing that you're going to stop them from killing once you're past is not likely to end well.
I would not therefore personally assume that anyone who has a good record/no record or indication of actual warmongering and appears to be sane, yet fails to publicly mention that the warmongering must end, necessarily doesn't understand that it must, once the sane are running the asylum and in a position to do it.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
King also used boycotts
The Alabama bus boycott was instrumental in getting buses desegregated as did the Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter
sit ins.
People say that boycotts don't work, but look at how well the Flush Rush one did. There have been other ones that have had an effect, but the main reason why I think they can work is seeing how many laws are being passed trying to make BDS of Israel illegal.
We just need to find enough people who are willing to do them. Imagine if the Rev started pushing for them. He has people's ears and I think he can make them work.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Yes, exactly, this is how you know something is having an impact
When the system’s machinery swings into action to try to criminalize something, you know you’re on the right track. You’ve found a weak spot, you’re starting to hit ’em where they live.
That applies to speech as well as actions. A power structure that blocks discussion of certain topics has something to hide. What facts does it not want a broader public stumbling upon, what lies does it not want questioned, what truths does it not want spread?
Off topic
Greenwald has a tweet on Hamilton 68 that he's calling it propaganda, which it is. This is one of the response tweets.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Actually they did purposefully leave it out.
Here's the article from Robert Borosage, the president of CFA, on the agenda. Here's what he says at the end:
"The pledge is a document in progress. It hopes to spark a debate, and to encourage others to join. It doesn’t claim to be comprehensive, and doesn’t address national-security policies nor social policies."
https://ourfuture.org/20180227/how-democrats-can-offer-real-solutions-to...
So it was a decision to leave it out. But it doesn't matter, I know what it would say if they put it in.
I just spent an hour ranting in an essay about it but am too tired to finish tonight. I publish it tomorrow. Taking the CFA to task and challenging them to a debate, which is what Borosage says he wants.
Of course they purposefully left it out.
Possibly they thought they had to, but, as far as I am concerned, the time for cutting deals with warmongers, I don't care who they are nor how affecting their stories, has ended.
I look forward to reading your essay tomorrow.
Mary Bennett
Thanks For The Update BigAl
Looking forward to how the Borsage Battle against The Machine turns out.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
"This is one very impressive woman:" Kill me now
Oklahoma: "Republicans in power who have bankrupted the budget by privatizing public services through lucrative government contracts to allies and donors."
California: "
RepublicansDemocrats in power who havebankruptedbalanced the budget by privatizing public services through lucrative government contracts to allies and donors."Problem is, and always will be: "We're capitalists." Now, with unlimited bribery all sides legal! Just business.
Religiosity is a mental illness, that's what I think. Do not follow. Instead, think for yourself. Why not Boycott Sanction and Divest from Bezos' kingdom of feudalism? I know I know, ker-plunk! "Alexa, send me more plastic."
First, the tilted economy has to be fixed
This reminds me about the old story of the New England hill farmer, hoeing like mad to get his garden ready for harvest. A city fella stops in front of the farm and comes to speak with the farmer. He tells the farmer how he envys him, to have such a magnificent view with the vibrant palette of fall colors. How this beauty must be proof of the creator. The farmer. never slowing his work, gives his visitor a quick glance and says "Can't eat it, can't eat it".
The more we have to worry about ourselves and our family, constantly grubbing, never having time to look up, the less time and resources we have for anything else. My CT is that every time we seem to recover enough to feel a little prosperous some manufactured disaster hits the economy. Waiting in the wings are those skilled at picking through the wreckage and making a fortune, while we fight for our lives.
@Snode That's a CT?
That's a CT?
I thought it was evident.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
The largest barrier to "programs of social uplift"
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death..." - Martin Luther King Jr. 1967
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giq1IT0z1DA]
“An increase in Russian surface-to-air missile systems in the region threatens our access and ability to dominate the airspace..." - General Joseph Votel, US Central Command (CENTCOM)
CAF is the best of the DC liberal non-profits
But like all DC liberal non-profits, they have a history of not being willing to challenge the Democratic Party.
There's only so much criticism such organizations can make before they stop being invited to cocktail parties and before the atmosphere in Congressional offices gets icy. Or just completely dismissive, which amounts to the same thing. And at that point, a DC non-profit loses its reason for being.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver