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vyorei · 6 months

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Protests in DC, nice job guys, people have to keep making noise.

Reading the names is also important.

Speak them.

Those people existed, had lives, were meant to live and grow and experience a world without occupiers pointing guns in their faces and dropping bombs on their children. They can't because the global powers who could prevent further chaos, failed to do so. There is blood on the hands of the Biden Administration.

Good to see USians aren't completely brainwashed.

BASED WASHINGTON DC ✊🇵🇸

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thekeypa · 2 months

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“The U.S. must end its complicity in the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. We need a ceasefire and a massive influx of lifesaving aid — NOW.”

#jeff merkley #free palestine #palestine #politics #world news #israel #news #human rights #jerusalem #west bank #gaza

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phoenixyfriend · 2 months

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Most useful podcast I've heard this morning is Democracy Now again. Here's the 2/29/24 episode on Spotify:

It is also available online, with text format as well.

This episode has an extended interview with a sitting US Senator, Oregon's Jeff Merkley, about the work he and other pro-ceasefire officials are doing to push for Palestinian survival, the possible impact of Listen To Michigan, and the ramifications of Mitch MConnell stepping down as Senate Leader in November, in light of his history in US government.

#current events #Democracy Now #united states #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #politics #Jeff Merkley #mitch mcconnell #presidential primaries #primary elections #2024 elections #Spotify

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kp777 · 1 year

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By Alexander Bolton

The Hill

May 17, 2023

A group of Democratic senators led by Sen. Tina Smith (Minn.) are circulating a letter urging President Biden to invoke his constitutional authority under the 14th Amendment to raise the nation’s debt limit without having to pass legislation through Congress.

These senators say the spending reforms that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has demanded in exchange for raising the debt limit are unacceptable and that Biden should circumvent Republican lawmakers by raising the debt limit unilaterally, something that has never been done before and would almost certainly be challenged in court.

“We write to urgently request that you prepare to exercise your authority under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which clearly states: ‘the validity of the public debt of the United States…shall not be questioned.’ Using this authority would allow the United States to continue to pay its bills on-time, without delay, preventing a global economic catastrophe,” they write in a letter currently circulating through the Senate Democratic conference.

The signatories on the letter so far include Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.).

The lawmakers warned they will not accept any concessions attached to the debt limit that cut federal assistance for low-income Americans without raising taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations.

“We cannot reach a budget agreement that increases the suffering of millions of Americans who are already living in desperation. At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, we must ask billionaires and large corporations who are doing phenomenally well to start paying their fair share of taxes,” they wrote in response to proposals by House Republicans to increase work requirements for people who rely on Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

The Democratic senators warned that Republican proposals in a House-passed bill to raise the debt limit could push as many as 21 million people off of Medicaid and deny nutrition assistance to 1.7 million women, infants and children.

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theivorybilledwoodpecker · 5 months

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Keep calling your reps!

#israel #palestine #jeff merkley

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floorcharts · 1 year

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Who: Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon)

Twitter: @SenJeffMerkley

When: July 2022

What: Supreme Court

Watch on C-SPAN

Read Congressional Record

#Senator #Jeff Merkley #Democrat #Oregon #July #2022 #117 #M001176

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meandmybigmouth · 1 year

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Protect?. The oppression of the American people by the economic fascists has gone too far!. These fucks asking for special treatment at the cost of their employees freedom? Again?.

#health #breastfeeding #airlines #jeff merkley

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biscuitsngravie · 4 months

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Shut down Morrison Bridge entirely. You don't get peace until the occupation ends COMPLETELY. Call and email Jeff Merkley to call for a Ceasefire NOW. this will not stop.

#Palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #ceasefire #jeff merkley #happy new year

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sinoeurovoices · 11 months

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紀念六四34週年美提名中國這3人角逐諾貝爾和平獎

今（4）日是六四天安門34週年。為了紀念該屠殺悲劇，美國國會及行政當局中國委員會（CECC）日前提名三位中國民權鬥士角逐諾貝爾和平獎，包括為抗議當局清零政策，而在天橋上拉起橫幅的的北京「四通橋勇士」彭載舟（本名彭立發）、前往武漢追蹤疫情消息而遭判刑入獄的公民記者張展，以及「白紙革命」先驅、至今仍「被失聯」的南京傳媒學院學生李康夢。天橋上拉起橫幅的的北京「四通橋勇士」彭立發與張展、李康夢被美國提名角逐2023諾北爾和平獎。圖：翻攝時代雜誌官網共和黨籍眾議員、CECC主席史密斯（Chris Smith）和民主黨籍參議員默克利（Jeff…

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#Chris Smith #Jeff Merkley #六四34週年 #張展 #彭載舟 #李康夢 #諾貝爾和平獎

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plitnick · 2 years

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J Street trying to oust AIPAC as dominant pro-Israel force for Democrats

In my latest piece for Mondoweiss, I look at the possibility that J Street is moving to replace AIPAC as the dominant pro-Israel voice in the Democratic party. Despite the fact that the liberal Zionist group has some positions that are directly at odds with the Palestine solidarity movement and that has caused them to lock horns in the past, I demonstrate why this is an opportunity for the…

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#AIPAC #Andy Levin #BDS #Cori Bush #Democratic Party #Haim Saban #J street #Jeff Merkley #Jeremy Ben-Ami #Jewish Voice for Peace #Joe Biden #JVP #Masafer Yatta #Melanie Stansbury #Nancy Pelosi #One-State Solution #PLO #Rebecca Vilkomerson #Two-state solution

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Voters in three states approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a fourth state rejected the move. The measures approved Tuesday curtail the use of prison labor in Alabama, Tennessee and Vermont. In Oregon, “yes” was leading its anti-slavery ballot initiative, but the vote remained too early to call Wednesday morning.

In Louisiana, a former slave-holding state, voters rejected a ballot question known as Amendment 7 that asked whether they supported a constitutional amendment to prohibit the use of involuntary servitude in the criminal justice system.

The initiatives won’t force immediate changes in the states’ prisons, but they may invite legal challenges over the practice of coercing prisoners to work under threat of sanctions or loss of privileges if they refuse the work.

The results were celebrated among anti-slavery advocates, including those pushing to further amend the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits enslavement and involuntary servitude except as a form of criminal punishment. More than 150 years after enslaved Africans and their descendants were released from bondage through ratification of the 13th Amendment, the slavery exception continues to permit the exploitation of low-cost labor by incarcerated individuals.

“Voters in Oregon and other states have come together across party lines to say that this stain must be removed from state constitutions,” Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat, told The Associated Press.

“Now, it is time for all Americans to come together and say that it must be struck from the U.S. Constitution. There should be no exceptions to a ban on slavery,” he said.

Coinciding with the creation of the Juneteenth federal holiday last year, Merkley and Rep. Nikema Williams, D-Georgia, reintroduced legislation to revise the 13th Amendment to end the slavery exception. If it wins approval in Congress, the constitutional amendment must be ratified by three-fourths of U.S. states.

After Tuesday’s vote, more than a dozen states still have constitutions that include language permitting slavery and involuntary servitude for prisoners. Several other states have no constitutional language for or against the use of forced prison labor.

Voters in Colorado became the first to approve removal of slavery exception language from the state constitution in 2018, followed by Nebraska and Utah two years later.

The movement to end or regulate the use of prison labor has existed for decades, since the time when former Confederate states sought ways to maintain the use of chattel slavery after the Civil War. Southern states used racist laws, referred to as “Black codes,” to criminalize, imprison and re-enslave Black Americans over benign behavior.

Today, prison labor is a multibillion-dollar practice. By comparison, workers can make pennies on the dollar. And prisoners who refuse to work can be denied privileges such as phone calls and visits with family, as well as face solitary confinement, all punishments that are eerily similar to those used during antebellum slavery.

“The 13th Amendment didn’t actually abolish slavery — what it did was make it invisible,” Bianca Tylek, an anti-slavery advocate and the executive director of the criminal justice advocacy group Worth Rises, told the AP in an interview ahead of Election Day.

She said passage of the ballot initiatives, especially in red states like Alabama, “is a great signal for what’s possible at the federal level.”

“There is a big opportunity here, in this moment,” Tylek said.