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Welcome to Saturday...

Submitted by randtntx on Sat, 07/18/2020 - 6:54am

Good morning everyone, I'm standing in for Smiley today.



Several weeks ago smiley made a comment about the WPA as a model to help solve some of our massive unemployment. The Works Progress Administration was put into place in 1935 and lasted until 1940. It was a ...

...gigantic new program of emergency employment. The new measure would give three and a half million jobs... The program would cost nearly $5 billion, making it far and away the largest single appropriation of money by the United States or any other nation in history.

Can Bolivians Survive the Coup Regime?

Submitted by wendy davis on Thu, 07/16/2020 - 11:44am

Lawfare in Bolivia: Añez wants to Jail the Favored Candidate in the Coming Elections’, resumen-english.org, Ernesto Reyes, June 30, 2020

“Bolivia’s de facto president, Jeanine Añez, is losing more and more of her mask obscuring democracy that, with the complicity of the United States and the European Union, she had to put on to justify the violent overthrow of Evo Morales in November of last year.

Hot Air

Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 07/16/2020 - 5:39am

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Remember how fast the Chinese built their coronavirus hospital in Wuhan. Fourteen days, 1000 beds, six acres.

[video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHMlMRmCH00]

And the US government has yet to step up to the coronavirus plate, nor has it taken any action on the climate crisis, our teetering economy, or institutionalized racism.

So, again, how do we the people organize ourselves? Can we build our own “Wuhan hospital”?

I recently spoke with Ernestina, who I helped to organize our Sanctuary Movement. She said she felt defeated. I said I felt hopeless. But then there was a light, a thought, the conversation shifted and a plan emerged.

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