Oh, I've heard some words put into Obama's mouth. I know a woman who is
on SSI and she was opposed to Obama because he was against the annual
COLA raise in SSI. She said that someone told her that. But every time I
told her that he did not say that she lost her temper. Then over time
she seemed to forget that she was told that by someone. Her claim
morphed into she personally heard him say, "There will be no raises in
SSI as long as I'm president." I was never an Obama supporter, but truth
is truth anyway. But because I kept telling her that he never said such
a thing she started telling people that I was a big fan and supporter of
Obama. Honestly, I feel like I am forced to spend my life in a state of
exasperation.
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“ I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people
became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs. ”
― Sam Harris,
On 1/18/2020 6:50 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
Platforms are statements of what a party, ideally promises. I have no idea what
the Democratic Platform will be this year. But today I was listening to a
really smart black woman, a professor and writer who was on Michael Moore's
podcast. I've actually heard her before but I didn't catch her name. She was
talking about how Obama inadvertently contributed to the election of Trump and
she reminded us that the allegation that people projected their own fantasies
and hopes onto Obama, that they put words in his mouth, isn't true. She talked
about the real promises that he made in campaign speeches and how he went back
on those promises. Well, if a party is going to make promises which may or may
not be kept once they're in power, at least I want the promises to be all
encompassing, to actually solve contemporary problems, not to be stale , old
promises that don't even deal with all our current problems. Big tech companies
weren't mentioned. Unions were, but not the relationship of American laborers
with those in other countries. Trade relations weren't mentioned, nor complex
economic relationships. That platform sounded like we were living back in the
1930's. And anyone who is talking about a two state solution in Palestine in
2020, has got to be living in some alternative universe. I'm sure these people
are well meaning, but I certainly wouldn't trust them with the future of the
world, any more than I'd trust the corporate Democrats.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2020 6:24 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Socialist Workers Party 2020 campaign platform
True enough. Nothing's perfect. it's subject to criticism. Look at
what has taken shape with our own constitution over 240 years. And it still
needs serious reform. But alongside the Platforms of the Democratic and
Republican Parties, it does address a wide range of issues currently being
ignored or downplayed by the Empire's Media.
Seriously, I'm very willing to give Socialism a shot at righting the wrongs of
a greed driven Corporate Capitalism.
Carl Jarvis, a believer in, All for One and One for All!
On 1/18/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It does have some shortcomings, especially if it's an ideal toward
which one works with the knowledge that we'll never get there.
Why did they omit Bolivia from the "hands off" section, also Iraq and Syria?
Why not mention removing all those 800 plus US bases throughout the world?
Why not put a ceiling on how much income one individual US citizen can have?
Do we need billionaires?
Why not say flatly that we will end the use of all fossil fuels by a
specific year in order to save the planet?
And what about prison abolition, something that many groups are
working for?
Why should there be a Jewish State and a Palestinian state? Many on
the left are way beyond that now and want a one secular state where
Jews and Palestinians can live in peace with equal rights.
Where is any discussion of how the US will function economically in
relation to other countries?
I think it's dated and shortsighted, at best.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2020 12:17 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Socialist Workers Party 2020 campaign
platform
A solid platform, well worth supporting.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/17/20, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://themilitant.com/2020/01/11/socialist-workers-party-2020-campa
i gn-platform-2/ Socialist Workers Party 2020 campaign platform
article Vol. 84/No. 2 January 20, 2020
As the Socialist Workers Party prepares to launch its 2020 campaign
for president and vice president, the party has begun announcing a
series of candidates for federal and state offices across the country
(see below).
This is the SWP’s fighting campaign platform to confront the
economic, social and moral crisis caused by capitalism:
UNIONS/FOR A LABOR PARTY Support workers’ struggles to organize to
defend themselves, to use union power on behalf of ourselves and all
working people.
Workers need their own party, a labor party. One union for all
drivers — taxi, Uber, Lyft, other app-based and car service drivers!
Support farmworkers in their fight to organize unions and for safe
working conditions.
AMNESTY FOR ALL UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS in the US, a life-and-death
question for the unions to unite workers and cut across divisions the
bosses use to drive down wages. For access to driver’s licenses for
all.
JOBS Fight for a federal government-financed public works program to
put millions to work at union-scale wages building roads, bridges,
hospitals, child care centers, mass transportation and quality
affordable housing workers need. Set the minimum wage to allow
workers to have a home and support a family.
OPPOSE WASHINGTON’S WARS US hands off Iran, Venezuela and Cuba. US
troops out of Afghanistan, Korea, the Middle East. End US colonial
rule in Puerto Rico.
CUBA’S REVOLUTION — AN EXAMPLE End the US rulers’ economic war
against Cuba; US out of Guantánamo. The Cuban Revolution in 1959
showed it is possible for workers and farmers to transform themselves
in struggle, to take political power and uproot capitalist exploitation.
HEALTH CARE FOR ALL Fight for universal, government-guaranteed
cradle-to-grave health care, and retirement income for all.
ABORTION Defend women’s right to unrestricted access to family
planning services, including the right to safe, secure abortions.
ISRAEL & PALESTINE For the recognition of Israel and of a contiguous
Palestinian state. For the right of Jews to return to Israel as a
refuge in the face of capitalist crisis, Jew-hatred and murderous
violence.
WORKERS CONTROL OVER PRODUCTION & SAFETY Capitalism’s profit drive is
the despoiler of nature and cause of unsafe working conditions.
Workers and our unions must fight for workers control over production
and safety in the factories, mines, railroads and all energy
monopolies to protect those on the job and in nearby communities, and
to control emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases to prevent the
poisoning of the air, water and soil.
Workers control
over production to prevent disasters like the Boeing 737 MAX.
“JUSTICE” SYSTEM Fight against police brutality, racist
discrimination and the entire capitalist injustice system with its
frame-ups, “plea bargains,”
onerous bail and outrageous prison sentences, all of which
disproportionately hit workers who are Black. For the right to vote
for ex-prisoners and all workers behind bars.
POLITICAL RIGHTS Defend democratic rights — the right to vote, to
free speech and assembly and to bear arms, under attack from
Democrats and Republicans alike. Stop FBI and other government
spying, harassment and disruption.
PRISONER RIGHTS End solitary confinement. End suppression of the
Militant, books and newspapers by prison authorities. Abolish the
death penalty, an anti-working-class weapon in the hands of the
rulers.
FARMERS — WORKERS ALLIES ON THE LAND To put a halt to farm
foreclosures, bankruptcies and skyrocketing rural debt, we demand
nationalization of the land.
This puts the soil at the service of the farmers who till it, as
opposed to control by the banks and landlords. We demand the
government guarantee farmers their costs of production, including
their living expenses.
Working people must organize and act independent of the ruling
capitalists and break from their political parties — the Democrats
and Republicans. For a labor party and a movement of millions to
fight for these demands along a course to replace the rule of the
exploitative capitalist class with a workers and farmers government.
Join the Socialist Workers Party campaign!
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