The Washington Post claims today that Hillary Clinton won’t be able to fulfill her promise to increase domestic infrastructure spending, because House Republicans will insist on cuts elsewhere to pay for it. But that would only be the end of the story if we assumed – as the Washington Post apparently does – that the…
The Los Angeles chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace reports that on Thursday, the California Senate Appropriations Committee will vote to either send the “anti-BDS” bill AB 2844 to the Senate floor for a full vote or leave it in the suspense file, where it would expire. Regardless of how you feel about “BDS,” this…
They may not agree on much. But both Democrats and Republicans included reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act – separating traditional commercial banking from Wall Street financial speculation – in their official party platforms. “Too big to fail” banks are a threat to our economy. But they’re also a threat to our democracy – and not only…
“Unions want one thing from Hillary tonight: A stake in TPP’s heart,” The Hill reports. If Hillary denounces the TPP tonight in her acceptance speech at the DNC in Philadelphia, “labor officials believe it would kill any chance of moving the pact in a lame-duck Congress after the election.” Call your Senator now at (202)…
Roll Call reports: “Because of the strength of [Sanders’] campaign, his opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership has now become accepted Democratic policy, even as President Barack Obama continues to support it.” Call Debbie Wasserman Schultz now at 202-225-7931. When you reach a staffer or leave a message, you can say something like, “I urge…
Today, July 14, there is a National Call-in Day in support of the Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act (HR 5474). The bill would cut off U.S. funding and training of the Honduran “security” forces, as called for by the AFL-CIO and many human rights groups. See if your Rep. is a co-sponsor of…
Just Foreign Policy’s Robert Naiman is in Providence with Rhode Islanders delivering a petition to Senator Jack Reed urging him to renounce his support for cluster bomb sales to Saudi Arabia. Here are 3 quick reasons Sen. Reed should do this: Cluster bombs often kill civilians, sometimes years after a conflict ends. Although the company…
On the TPP and settlement expansion in the West Bank, we mostly lost the first round of the fight over the Democratic Platform. The Platform Drafting Committee rejected an amendment opposed to the TPP and rejected an amendment opposed to settlement expansion in the West Bank. There were five Sanders appointees on the fifteen-member drafting…
On June 16, the House of Representatives narrowly failed to approve an amendment sponsored by Rep. John Conyers [D-MI] that would have blocked the transfer of U.S. cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, which has used U.S. cluster bombs in civilian areas in Yemen, in defiance of U.S. law. Textron, based in Providence, Rhode Island, is…
Maryland Democrat Elijah Cummings, chair of the Democratic Platform Committee, says an agreement on the platform language between the Clinton and Sanders forces could happen within days. One of the issues that has been in dispute is what the Democratic Platform will say about Palestinian rights and the occupation of the West Bank, especially about…