JimDandy
JimDandy's JournalCheck in here if you're at a Debate Party!
We've got about 70 people at my Bernie Debate Party. Most of them Independents, a couple of us Dems, and, so far, no Republicans. About 1/4 of us here are minorities.
How's your's going?
DFA is the DEMOCRATIC BASE. This simply confirms what's being observed
on the ground by precinct reps of County Democratic Parties.
And to top off the huge, beginning body of support in the Dem Party for Bernie, the phone banking is having great success in reaching new supporters to get them to the caucuses and out to vote in the primaries.
The Clinton supporters in my local county party are being overwhelmed by Bernie supporters who are using up all the base's normal phone banking energy to make calls to get Bernie elected.
The complacency of Hillary and her supporters and the lack of Media attention is what allowed Bernie's support to swell under the radar. I decided a month ago to not say one thing more to the Hillary supporters to dissuade them of Hillary's 'inevitability' as it became clear that thinking was working in his favor.
GO BERNIE!!!
When you check that box
you are indicating to the campaign that an employer's name isn't needed to accompany the donation. (Employed donors must submit that info by law.)
My experience is that retired donors get hit up at each phase of a campaign just like those who are employed. (The former campaign solicitor blushes, looking down and kicking the dirt)
But I know what you mean...
Baltimore: Killer Police out on $250,000 Bond; Window breaker jailed on $500,000 Bond
The Criminal Injustice System at work.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-police-custody-death-officers-charged-30730377
THANK YOU to ALL the Baltimore Protesters!
And those Protesters around the Country who protested in Solidarity with Baltimore.
You brought attention to the injustice of Freddie Gray's Death, the injustice of police actions in your community, and in the larger sense, the Injustice of Police Actions in thousands of cities across the U.S.A.
Communities mired in Injustice need to Protest EVERY TIME a citizen is killed by the Police; injured by the police, or falsely arrested by the Police.
SIX Cops Being Charged in Freddie Gray's Death!
2nd Degree Depraved Murder
Involuntary Manslaughter
False Imprisonment
Assault
Negligence
Failure to Render Aid
$15,000 Per Course is Fair
Justin Miller April 16, 2015
On campuses across the country, adjunct professors are starting to organize against rock-bottom pay and tenuous job security.
As yesterday’s Fight for $15 protests wound to a close across the country, it’s become clear that this movement is not a fleeting effort—it’s here to stay. The focal point has primarily been on the most visible low-wage workers...However, another employment sector that’s not typically associated with low wages was prominent yesterday as well: the American professoriate.
Higher education institutions in the United States employ more than a million adjunct professors. This new faculty majority, about 70 percent of the faculty workforce, is doing the heavy lifting of academic instruction. These are positions with tenuous job security (often semester-by-semester), sparse instructional resources, limited academic freedom, and meager wages—the average working adjunct makes around $3,000 per three-credit course. An astounding 20 percent of part-time adjunct faculty rely on government assistance, according to a recent report from NBC News.
...While fast food workers called for $15 an hour, adjuncts rallied for a base pay of $15,000 per course—an aspirational standard initiated by SEIU’s new Faculty Forward campaign.
https://prospect.org/article/faculty-join-fast-food-fight-15
The Fight For 15--- $15 Per Hour AND $15,000 Per Course
Federal Contract Workers On Strike
Thursday, 23 April 2015 00:00 By Miya Pontes, Campaign for America's Future
More than 600 federal workers went on strike yesterday, including about three dozen Senate employees, in a protest over low pay by federal contractors.
The strike won support from members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), who joined the US Senate contract workers who were protesting low pay.
...(Sen. Bernie )Sanders spoke on behalf of a new populism that recognizes the harm in the growing wealth gap and is ready to fight it. "The taxpayers of this country want to make sure that when government contracts are made those employers who get those contracts pay their workers a living wage. That they allow workers to form a union, that they provide good benefits to their workers. A great nation will not survive when so few have so much and so many have so little. What we need to do is rebuild the American middle class," Sanders said.
The Progressive Caucus has worked hard to convince President Obama to sign two executive orders to improve working conditions for federal contract workers. The "Good Jobs Executive Order" prevents employers who commit wage theft from receiving government contracts. A previous executive order signed by Obama raised the minimum wage to $10.10 for federal contract workers.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30400-government-contract-workers-strike-for-better-pay
$15 PER HOUR...MINIMUM LIVING WAGE...NOW!!!
Voluntary self-policing is never the start
of a fair system...it is the end product of an unjust system.
Voluntary self-policing is the last stand of a corrupt process that, when it has come under intense public criticism, tries to retain power and control in the hopes that, after the public eye has lost focus on it, it can go back to business as usual.
I suggest a 'while the iron is hot tactic": more intense public scrutiny/protests and dissent to force such a conservative legislature to confront and adjust the inequalities in their system.
More bills like Senate Bill 5 should be proposed...they are getting a hearing in MO's republican controlled legislature.
Those are voluntary agreements only and cover only one MO county.
Jackson County, MO is even more egregious and isn't part of this voluntary agreement nor are any of the other 113 Missouri counties.
Missouri residents, especially minority residents, are in need of a uniform state law that limits traffic and court fine revenue streams to a reasonable percentage of each municipality's budget (Currently at 30%. Will be reduced to 10%, if MO Senate Bill 5 becomes law.)
The best defense is not 'to obey laws' it's to generate uniform, fair and just laws, enforce them fairly and protest/dissent when that does not happen.
The next step is to reverse the trend of generating warrants for unpaid traffic and court fines. These fines, like any debt, can be best and fairly handled outside the arrest/debtors prison tract: via collection companies with fair fees that are regulated by law.
No one's life should become as awful as those who have become trapped by this cycle of fines, warrants and escalating fees, simply due to poverty or being born a minority in an unfair and often racially targeted system.
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