Monthly Archives: June 2021

Citizens can change bad law

 in Current Events

Arkansas for a Unified Natural State AFUNS Campaign Many bad bills were passed during the last legislative session. Instead of fuming at the injustices, would you like to try and change some of those?Kwame Abdul-Bey, a Little Rock lawyer working with Citizens First Congress, has discovered a clause in the Arkansas Constitution that allows citizens to petition to block and force bad bills onto a future ballot with the potential to be changed.NWA activists are gearing up to help collect signatures in support of changes to three of many bad bills: 1) Voter Restrictions, 2) Stand Your Ground, and 3) […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #26

 in WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

By Dick Bennett Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuelaby Justin Podur and Joe Emersberger. Monthly Review P, 2021. In March 2015, President Obama initiated sanctions against Venezuela, declaring a “national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in Venezuela.” Each year, the U.S. administration has repeated this claim. But, as Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur ague in their timely book, Extraordinary Threat, the opposite is true: It is the U.S. policy of regime change […]

Revolutionary Power

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Revision to the revision: Revolutionary PowerSunday June 6 – 1:30 pm – zoom link belowShelley Buonaiuto will present on Revolutionary Power by Shalanda Baker, the new Deputy Director of Energy Justice at the DOE.    Revolutionary Power is a playbook for energy transformation complete with a step-by-step analysis of the key energy policy areas that are ripe for intervention. Baker tells the stories of those who have been left behind in our current system and those who are working to be architects of a more just system.      Zoom link: Climate Change Forum Time: Jun 6, 2021 01:30 PM Central […]