@ASoulAFire @JaniceOCG @HandmaidsTaleOx We’re prepping for the 10/14, 8 pm Sneak Peek of “If America Fails: The Coming Tyranny,” relating current events to The Handmaid’s Tale. Join us! @alexvhenderson interviewed @rickhasen for @AlterNet on election subversion, a current threat to democracy. #FightFascismNow
Category Archives: Democracy/Autocracy, Voting Rights and Elections
Calling A Traitor A Traitor
@ASoulAFire @JaniceOCG @_handmaidstale In “Donald J. Trump: Traitor,” @MelGurtov of @NatCounterPunch raises issue of why Trump is not being described in the media as a traitor and held to account on that basis. I wonder, too.
Bravo! Fair Fight Action Releases #CivicsForTheCulture Video Education Series
@ASoulAFire @JaniceOCG @fairfightaction @staceyabrams released #CivicsForTheCulture, a video education series. Great idea!
On Remembering the “Day of Rage” – Jan. 6th
@ASoulAFire @JaniceOCG @handmaidsdaily @nytimes provided this 40-minute video of the #J6 “Day of Rage,” so we can remind ourselves of the horror. Americans have short memories and it seems many humans need to repress violence. This is something we should not forget.
Professor Wendy Brown and Chris Hedges On Inverted Totalitarianism in the U.S. Today
Robert_Scheer @ChrisLynnJedges @CornelWest Professor Wendy Brown and Chris Hedges On Inverted Totalitarianism in the U.S. Today
America Can Become Afghanistan.
America Can Become Afghanistan. AUGUST 17, 2021 / JOHN PAVLOVITZ I’ve seen this movie before. Watching the Taliban gloating in the Presidential palace in Kabul this week after violently overthrowing the government there, gave me major January 6th déjà vu. The muscle memory of that day kicked in again: the disbelief and shock, the stark helplessness, theContinue reading “America Can Become Afghanistan.”
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on the danger of strongmen leaders
It’s a common mistake to think of Trump as a madman but Trump’s strongman tactics are more predictable than they seem. Political commentator and New York University professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat explains why. She writes: “I’M NOT the one trying to undermine American democracy. I’m the one who’s trying to save it,” Donald Trump told theContinue reading “Ruth Ben-Ghiat on the danger of strongmen leaders”
The Whole Country is Reichstag
EDITORIALBY ADOLPH REED, JR.AUGUST 23, 2021 It’s time to be blunt.1 The right-wing political alliance anchored by the Republican party and Trumpism coheres around a single concrete objective—taking absolute power in the U.S. as soon and as definitively as possible. And they’re more than ready, even seemingly want, to destroy the social fabric of the countryContinue reading “The Whole Country is Reichstag”
If America Fails? 