It's No Treat To Be Tricked By Climate Change Deniers

 It's No Treat To Be Tricked 
By Climate Change Deniers 
(and Other Horror Stories 
Concerning Our Environment)

collected by C.A. Matthews

 

Happy Halloween! This week we present to you some genuinely "scary" memes and stories regarding our precious planet. We hope they don't give you nightmares, but no guarantees.

Our first meme and story demonstrates the attitude that Big Agriculture and the current administration promotes. What's in our food? It's none of our business--particularly if it contains anything harmful in it.

GMOs are killing the world--not helping feed the hungry:
https://www.newsbud.com/2017/10/26/newsbud-exclusive-gmos-kill-not-save-the-hungry-of-the-world/

But on the positive side, perhaps one cancer-causing chemical, glyphosate, will be kept out of our food supply in the future--if we don't allow the zombies of Monsanto to eat the brains of the EU commissioners first.  
EU delays vote on glyphosate (RoundUp):
https://youtu.be/UN-EzWyDtg4
 

What's in our water? Who knows? Who cares! Just think of all those "minerals" folks in Flint, Michigan get for free in their water supply. You'd think they'd be grateful! Think of how many other cities in America have similar problems with toxic levels of lead in their water supply... This is the stuff of a true tale of terror.

The following article tells more about "free substances" we're all getting in our food, air and water via fracking and what it's doing to the most vulnerable in our society, our children: 

Fracking chemicals harm kids' brains:
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/46494-study-fracking-chemicals-harm-kids-brains

A  new study from the Center for Environmental Health adds to the growing body of evidence that unconventional oil and gas (UOG), which includes fracking, is harmful to human health and especially hazardous to vulnerable populations, including newborns and children.

During the fracking process, a mixture of water, sand and chemicals is directed at high pressures into shale beds to release petroleum resources. This slurry involves the use of nearly 700 chemicals, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found.

The new research, published Wednesday in Reviews on Environmental Health, examined five particular air and water pollutants that are widely used in or byproducts of UOG development and operations—heavy metals, particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrobcarbons, BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes), and endocrine disrupting compounds.

"Every stage of the UOG lifecycle, from well construction to extraction, operations, transportation and distribution can lead to air and water contamination," the paper notes.

Dauntingly, the researchers found that early life exposure to these substances has been linked to potentially permanent learning and neuropsychological deficits, neurodevelopmental disorders and neurological birth defects.

"Given the profound sensitivity of the developing brain and central nervous system, it is reasonable to conclude that young children who experience frequent exposure to these pollutants are at particularly high risk for chronic neurological diseases."

Why are we suffering from the horrors of sky-rocketing rates of asthma and other chronic lung conditions? "Eh, whatever!" say the 1%. "The air is fine at our secluded mansions. So what if it's two degrees warmer and your home on the coast is going under or burning up in a wildfire? Learn how to swim or breathe smoke!"

The climate deniers are having their day in the Trump Administration, from Scott Pruitt, the man who is single-handedly dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency, to our very own Secretary of Oil, uh, State, Former Exxon CEO Tillerson, who sees the world as one vast oil field fit for fracking.

The good news is they're not invulnerable. Trump's administrators' lackluster responses to climate change-fueled disasters such as Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria (and the western wildfires) make it clear we can't afford to sit on the sidelines when it comes to climate change response. We have to act now. Suffering hurricane or wildfire losses (or knowing friends and family members who have suffered) is making Americans aware of how climate change deniers like Pruitt and company are doing us all more harm than good. More and more are waking up from this nightmare.

But we can't become complacent. The following is a horror story that possibly tops all others--climate change may trigger 60,000 premature deaths yearly by 2030: https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=205739

If nothing is done to address climate change, tens of thousands more early deaths may occur worldwide from exposure to air pollution in the coming decades, a new study contends.

Increases in air pollution caused by rising temperatures will trigger an additional 60,000 premature deaths each year around the globe by 2030, and as many as 260,000 more premature deaths annually by 2100, according to the results of several different climate models.

Another frightening scenario is how some of our beautiful national parks and monuments are being shrunk by the Trump administration to encourage drilling and mining: https://www.nationofchange.org/2017/10/30/trump-shrink-utah-national-monuments-allow-drilling-mining/

One bright ray of hope is in recovering Puerto Rico where Tesla restored power to San Juan children's hospital by installing free solar panels:
https://thinkprogress.org/tesla-restores-power-to-san-juan-childrens-hospital-c4d1d79f4db1/ 

After Puerto Rico is up and running again on clean, green energy sources, it should bring about more positive attention to solar and wind power in the mainstream media and lessen the need to gut our national parks for their fossil fuel wealth. (We can only hope green energy receives better and fairer coverage, but Big Oil greases a lot of palms...)  We might have to hammer a stake into Energy Secretary Rick Perry's heart first to see any real results.

Videos, articles and podcasts on the topic of climate change and environmental degradation help spread the message, so please share them widely and discuss them with others. If Caroline's photos of the ocean polluted by plastics (in the video below) don't make your acquaintances cringe and shriek in horror and want to take action, then honestly what will? 

We can't just close our eyes and wish these horrific images of what we've done to ourselves and our planet away. We gotta stop being tricked by the climate change deniers and the anti-environmentalists and start working on the solutions. Only then will we be "treated" to a better world for everyone.

 

Here's the link to the ocean full of plastics solution:  https://www.theoceancleanup.com/    Sign the Congress Act On Climate Change Petition: https://go.ourrevolution.com/page/s/act-on-climate?source=ads_fb_171010_climate
More ways to take actions against the climate deniers:  
In his short tenure, Trump’s EPA head Scott Pruitt has earned a reputation for too-close ties with fossil fuel industries he’s supposed to regulate, shady behavior, and an unbelievable hostility to the mission of his own agency.
He’s been dismantling the EPA piece by piece since he got the job. Now, he’s even actively blocking scientists from speaking out about climate change. Yesterday, the EPA barred three agency scientists from giving a climate change talk at a conference in Rhode Island. 

I've been a climate scientist for decades, and this is the textbook definition of scientific censorship. For anyone who respects the mission of the EPA, this has to be the last straw -- Scott Pruitt must go! 

Add your name to 314 Action’s public demand that Pruitt be removed as head of the EPA.

FIRE SCOTT PRUITT

This latest deliberate attempt to censor science is part of a pattern of outright disdain for the work of professional EPA researchers and climate scientists.
Last week, we found out that parts of the EPA website were scrubbed of the words “climate change.” Many of the agency’s scientific advisors have been replaced by industry lobbyists. Pruitt has refused to speak to most reporters, and is even reportedly building a $25,000 soundproof booth in his office (where we can be relatively sure nothing good will happen). 

The way this plays out in actual policy is unsurprising. Pruitt helped push Trump into pulling out of the Paris agreement. He’s trying to repeal President Obama’s landmark Clean Power Plan, which is already creating jobs and preventing carbon pollution. And he’s rolled back regulations that keep dangerous chemicals out of drinking water -- all because they're inconvenient for his friends in the oil and gas industry. 

And remember when Tom Price was forced to resign for sticking taxpayers with the cost of flying in private planes? That’s right -- Scott Pruitt is doing that, too. 

Scott Pruitt is already the worst EPA administrator in the agency’s history, because he’s actively trying to be. He’s far from the only anti-science official in the Trump administration, but we can’t afford to let him to keep running this life-saving agency into the ground. 

We’ve seen what happens when public pressure is strong and focused. Speak out today -- join our call for Scott Pruitt’s removal.
 
There’s more to come in this campaign -- stay tuned!
Dr. Michael Mann

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Donald Trump’s administration already broke faith with 194 other countries by pulling the United States out of its commitment to the Paris climate agreement. But senior Trump officials continue to obstruct progress for the rest of the world at meetings on the agreement with other international leaders.

Backed by fossil-fuel billionaires, Trump officials keep going to the meetings to represent the interests of big polluters. Since Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement, it's only fair that the U.S. also stop trying to sabotage international meetings about implementation.

Climate Hawks Vote and allies, together, are calling on Trump and Exxon CEO-turned Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to stop sabotaging international efforts to act on climate change.

Sign the joint petition now to send a message to the Trump administration, Sec. Rex Tillerson, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.

Sign our petition

As people concerned about our future and the future of the planet, we demand the U.S. government: Stand down: Stay out of all negotiations concerning the Paris Agreement and its implementation. Stop representing the interests of Big Polluters in international climate negotiations. Pay its fair share to address the global climate crisis.

Your fellow climate hawk,

RL Miller

Also from Climate Hawks Vote:

#StopBridenstine: Tell your senators to oppose climate denier Jim Bridenstine’s confirmation for NASA Administrator.

The Senate Commerce Committee just announced that climate denier Jim Bridenstine’s confirmation hearing to become Trump’s NASA Administrator will take place on Wednesday, November 1.

Bridenstine is an enemy of all elements of NASA’s mission “to understand and protect our home planet, to explore the universe, and to inspire the next generation of explorers.” In 2013, Bridenstine lied on the House floor, saying global temperatures “stopped rising 10 years ago.” He went on to demand that President Obama apologize for spending NASA’s budget on climate research. He has even introduced legislation to privatize NASA’s space programs.

Fortunately, there’s growing opposition in the Senate to Trump’s unqualified nominee to head up NASA—Senator Patty Murray of Washington just announced her opposition.

Bridenstine will be appearing before the Senate on November 1. It’s imperative that we urge every single Senate Democrat and Republican to strongly oppose Jim Bridenstine’s confirmation before the vote happens. 

We’ve joined Daily Kos, Demand Progress, and Common Defense in calling on Senators to resist this dangerous anti-science ideologue. Sign the petition below, then write a letter to your Senators on the next page:

Take action »

I will be personally delivering your signatures to the U.S. Senate before the hearing. Add your name now.

Your fellow climate hawk,

Brad Johnson

Take a Knee, Take a Stand

Editor's note: Since this blog was put to bed, a horrible mass shooting in Las Vegas has occurred. Perhaps the example of Americans taking a stand against violence is more pertinent than ever? Maybe it could even save lives? The truth is truly a revolutionary act.

Take a Knee, Take a Stand

The article links below explain the current uproar on social media surrounding the #TakeAKnee protest in the NFL that the following essayists elaborate upon:

https://www.nationofchange.org/2017/09/26/take-knee-athletes-unite-historic-protest-racism-police-brutality-defying-trump/ 

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/45980-focus-the-pentagons-propagandization-of-american-sports 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/opinion/colin-kaepernick-football-protests.html?mcubz=1%20target=

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/45999-focus-flag-idolatry-is-a-pathology-that-crushes-real-american-values  

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/46025-athletes-and-entertainers-qmay-be-our-best-hopeq 

https://www.nationofchange.org/2017/09/29/taking-knee-standing-justice/

  Respecting the Flag  Michael Sand (from Facebook)  

I’ve seen a lot of posts regarding respecting the flag and what that means… and how athletes who use their public forum to voice dissent are somehow unpatriotic.  I want to offer a different opinion.

My father is buried at the foot of the flagpole in Golden Gate National Cemetery. He landed at Normandy, fought at the Battle of the Bulge and liberated Nazi camps in Germany. His enemy was fascism. I served as a Green Beret in the early 1970s (pretty sure you all know what that entails). Our enemy at the time was communism. My son is currently a serving officer in the Army, who on his dress blues wears the Bronze Star he was awarded during a year-long tour in Afghanistan. His enemy is and was the Taliban and the threat of terrorism.

Three generations of my family, serving the US, in harm's way. Three vastly different enemies, but enemies who shared one common trait. All stifle free speech. All of them bully, degrade and terrorize those who hold opposing views and who peacefully express them. All of them are intolerant and demand loyalty to the leader.

I can tell you, speaking for three generations of my family, it is precisely for men like Colin Kaepernick, and his right to peacefully protest injustice, that we were willing to serve. There is nothing more respectful of our country than living up to its ideals. There is nothing more patriotic than to say "I’m concerned with injustice, and will use my position to try and address it."

Want to know what’s unpatriotic? Using your white privilege to avoid serving, citing 'bone spurs in the heel' while playing varsity tennis at college while others went. Want to know what is antithetical to American values? Using the most powerful pulpit in the land to incite violence – against anyone. Want to define disgraceful behavior? Denigrating a man like Senator John McCain’s service and heroism while you sat home.

Want to respect the American flag? Then respect the ideals for which it stands. Bullying language and calling peaceful protesters sons of bitches who should be fired aren’t among them.

My Two Cents
Kathleen Wray (from Facebook)


"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

For those who do not know, this is the Preamble of the Constitution! 

I have been pretty quiet on this whole Colin Kapernick, NFL thing but as of Friday night and the utmost heartbreak I have read on my timeline, I have decided to say my little two cents piece.

My grandfather landed on the beaches of Normandy to fight oppression. My grandfather took an oath to defend the Constitution and not just the flag. A flag is a symbol of the freedoms afforded by the Constitution! The first amendment states the "rights" and "freedoms" that we have under this so-called "God damn piece of paper."

We have the right to assemble; we have the right to speech; we have the right to practice whatever religion you want. I am tired of people missing the whole freaking point of what Colin was "protesting."

We live in 2017, where a person of color, of gender, or those of different religious practices are afraid to live here. That is not freedom (supposedly what our flag represents). Instead we have a president that has fed into the divisiveness in our country. Good job 45, you once again diverted what should be serious concerns like, health care, tax reform, climate change (PEOPLE IN  PUERTO RICO WITHOUT FOOD AND WATER FOR DAYS), and turn a national pastime into hate. Also, dear president you have internationally embarrassed us time and time again and have started a war with a crazy mother sitting in North Korea. Once again, where is your anger there?

For those that drank his Kool-Aid on Friday, I am sad. Where is your anger at Congress taking away your health care. Where is your anger, about there not being your Social Security in the future. But here you are angry at some sports figures that are taking a stand on racial and social injustices. Where is your anger about a police officer brutally beating and killing a fellow American brother or sister. Where is your anger on those that are suppose to protect and serve, overstep a line that now kills a citizen and not have any consequence. 

Ah, white privilege must feel pretty good. You'll never have to teach or talk to your kids about just walking down the street without having any fear. As long as it is not your problem, do you feel justified in having anger with sports figures having their feelings and their voice.

So, once again, you bought into Trump's hate, and here we stand even more divided.

All People
Jade Ranier (from Facebook)

What some of you all are not understanding is our vets (living and the fallen) did not fight for a flag. They did not fight for an anthem. They fought for the people. ALL PEOPLE. 

They fought for the rights of the people. ALL PEOPLE. Colin Kaepernick is exercising his first amendment right to speak out against issues that have become a major problem in this country. He's not doing it to disrespect our military or any of the sort. He is doing it to make a very valid point. 

Police brutality is a very big problem especially among our African American communities. Some people are more upset about what Kaepernick is doing than all of the people that are being killed by police on a daily basis, and that is part of the problem. He's tired of it. He's fed up with police getting away with murder and then being put on paid leave. He's had enough and is taking a stand against it. 

People keep saying that he can protest a different way, but why? He has millions of people talking about this, about why he's doing what he is doing. That's exactly what he wanted. He wanted you to see. He wanted you to question it. You protest to make a point, to fight for something, you protest for people to hear you. And people are listening and people are watching. 

His protest is absolutely brilliant. How else would he be able to get his protest to have such an impact on millions of people? Kaepernick has an out to use his voice that a lot of people do not have. How can you be angry with someone for standing up for what they believe in, for standing up for what is right? Why are you so upset that a man is sitting down during a song? Are you not at home sitting on your couch while it plays? Do you stand every single time the anthem is played? Practice what you preach. Don't be a hypocrite.

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All week long, Trump has been attacking professional athletes on Twitter, simply because they choose to use the national anthem as a way to protest against racial injustice, police brutality, and systemic racism in America. He’s even used soldier Pat Tillman’s death to smear the protesting football players — against the wishes of Tillman’s family. 

Today, we want to make sure these athletes — and people of color all across America know — know that we will ALWAYS kneel alongside them.

Will you add your name today and link arms with the protesters? Together, as one cohesive, democratic socialist movement, let’s send a message that DSA will always #TakeAKnee for justice.

Add your name »

Here’s the thing: these protests are NOT about the flag, or the anthem, or those who serve in the military. Saying that Colin Kaepernick and his league mates are “protesting the anthem” is like saying the March on Washington was protesting traffic.

This movement is about fighting for justice and equality. Period. Much in the same way that a march on the U.S. Capitol is impossible to ignore, so is a mass demonstration during the national anthem of a primetime football game.

We support these actions with all our hearts, and if you agree, please add your name to our petition today and tell these NFL players that we have their backs.

Thank you for being a continued part of our movement. We couldn’t do this without you.

In solidarity,

Democratic Socialists of America

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From Color of Change:

Once again, 45 has proven that Black people are nothing more than property to him. In response, athletes and individuals around the league and our country united to fight back. Now, we’re calling on owners to reject Trump’s words by doing more than linking arms with players but actually working to protect their safety, rights, and freedoms both on and off the field.

Tell the NFL: Support Player's Platform & Plan for Racial Equality

On Friday night in Alabama, Donald Trump reaffirmed his disdain for Black people by referring to any NFL player who peacefully protests racial inequality during the pregame national anthem as a “son of a bitch” who should be forced off the field. During his rambling speech, Trump also took the time to criticize the NFL for implementing rules to promote player safety because those efforts impact his personal entertainment. This came about a week after Trump went after sports journalist Jemele Hill and tried to publicly strongarm ESPN into firing her for comments made on her personal social media.

Perhaps he was feeling emboldened by NFL buddies like Dan Snyder (Washington), Shad Khan (Jaguars), Bob McNair (Texans), Robert Kraft (Patriots), Woody Johnson (Jets) and Stan Kroenke (Rams), all of whom each contributed $1 Million to his inauguration. Kraft even gave him a Super Bowl ring. Or perhaps he had the consent of the league itself, as their marketing department contributed $100,000. Either way, Trump feels way too comfortable demanding the NFL be nothing more than a league of modern day gladiators whose sole purpose is to destroy their bodies for entertainment.

 Now it’s time for Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL owners to choose which side they’re on.

The NFL can’t have it both ways: either support the people who are the reason the league exists or continue to cower to a bigot. 

Earlier this year, a group of players and a former player, Malcolm Jenkins, Michael Bennett, Torrey Smith and Anquan Boldin, met with Goodell and NFL officers to discuss the Player's Coalition's activism in their local communities. They delivered a recently publicized memo calling on the NFL to declare November a month of social activism to advance racial justice causes, including criminal justice reform, to elevate the issue in the same way the NFL does with Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. The request is detailed and includes an ask for owners and league officials to attend player-led visits to local prisons and meetings with formerly incarcerated people and their family. It also makes clear that the request is not for permission but financial support and genuine collaboration.

Demand the NFL listen to players and designate November an official month for racial justice activism. 

After Trump’s Friday night tirade, several NFL owners rushed to release statements condemning his words.¹ But we need action- not more words. To this day Colin Kaepernick remains blackballed by league owners, despite public acknowledgment from elite quarterbacks around the league from Cam Newton to Tom Brady that Kaepernick is more talented that numerous QBs who have jobs today. Equivocation and calls for unity from the league are no longer acceptable.

Now that several NFL owners claim to support of their players’ rights, it is time for Commissioner Goodell to declare November a “month of unity.” NFL rosters are 70% black, and the league owes it to its players to recognize the heroes who have stood up to racial intolerance in America.² Soccer leagues around the world are working to stand up to racism;³ it is past time for the NFL to do the same. As DeMaurice Smith, the president of the players’ union, said on Saturday, “We will never back down. We no longer can afford to stick to sports.”⁴

Tell the NFL: Support Player's Platform & Plan for Racial Equality

Until justice is real, 

-- Brandi, Rashad, Arisha, Evan, Jade, Anika, Corina, the rest of the Color Of Change team.

References:
1. "NFL Owners Are Closing Ranks Against Trump — Here's What They're Saying," Fortune, 24 September 2017. http://act.colorofchange.org/go/9019?t=10&akid=7939%2E3399430%2Ex8sJ3z 
2. "White House doubles down on ESPN attacks, cites previous 'suspension' as reason Jemele Hill should be fired," The Undefeated, 26 April 2017. https://act.colorofchange.org/go/9020?t=12&akid=7939%2E3399430%2Ex8sJ3z 
3. "FIFA is finally stepping up its anti-racism measures in soccer," Quartz, 15 June 2017. https://act.colorofchange.org/go/9021?t=14&akid=7939%2E3399430%2Ex8sJ3 
4. DeMaurice Smith, 23 September 2017. https://act.colorofchange.org/go/9022?t=16&akid=7939%2E3399430%2Ex8sJ3z

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Add your name: Tell Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress to aid our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico immediately, including rapid, just, and comprehensive relief and recovery legislation.

We’ve asked our members living in Puerto Rico to share their experience — Elia Cadilla wrote back the following message a few days ago and asked us to share it with you. -- Brad & RL

I am in Puerto Rico. Going through Maria was a horrible experience, but the aftermath is even worse. Bridges have collapsed or are close to doing so, apartments exploded, rivers merged with hurricane tides and covered large areas, houses included. No power anywhere: downed trees, lamp posts, power lines. I already know of people who lost ALL they had.

But neighbors are out, helping other neighbors; yesterday a crew of young people cleared our street and 2 neighboring ones from all the debris that blocked it. My son is right now taking drinking water to a friend, several miles away, who hasn't had water or power since Irma. A neighbor cooked with a little portable stove yesterday and shared it with other neighbors. Some very small areas have running water: a weak and somewhat turbid flow, but a blessing just the same.

We will not know the extent of the damages for quite some time. How many dead, homeless, jobless people are now, perhaps we won't be able to ascertain for quite some time. The state and municipal governments are very active in their efforts to help and save lives and property, but this is a task beyond present resources.

Why do so many people have to pay so much for electricity while municipal stadiums and churches get subsidies and some people pay only nominal fees? This must be revised. Why do we depend so much on fossil fuels when there are other alternatives?

We also worry because we were the center of help for Caribbean hurricane victims; we are still helping those who are here as refugees and, knowing our nature, will continue to help them as best we can, sharing whatever resources we have left.

I directed an environmental education campaign for several years. It's rather heartbreaking to see that the consequences of global warming, etc., I talked about in conferences are happening. That is one thing I wouldn't have liked to be accurate about.

Unfortunately it is what we call "crònica de una muerte anunciada", which translates to "chronicle of a death foretold."

Whoever can help, please do so.

Your fellow climate hawk,

Elia Cadilla

Add your name: Tell Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress to aid our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico immediately, including rapid, just, and comprehensive relief and recovery legislation.

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After months of organizing during the Summer for Progress, Our Revolution's People's Platform has more than 60 new cosponsorships in Congress, 25 of whom signed on to at least six of the eight bills included in the document. This is all thanks to more than 100 meetings and hundreds of calls you took action on, and we are not letting up now.

The People's Platform is a declaration of our progressive values. These are the same values the Democratic Party establishment must adopt if it is to represent the interests of all people, no matter their race, gender, socioeconomic status, or where they live. An inclusive vision that guarantees Medicare for All, college for all, full reproductive rights for women, a $15 living wage, an end to private prisons, automatic voter registration, tax fairness, and a bold transition to sustainable energy transcends the red state-blue state divide and brings everyone together for a common purpose.

Grassroots movements must take power back from the corporate oligarchy in control of our government and offer Americans a bold, progressive vision to build a brighter future.

As Senator Bernie Sanders so often tells us, change does not come from the top down—it always comes from the bottom up. Our Revolution's efforts, along with allied grassroots organizations and supporters like you, have not only moved House Democrats to sign on to these progressive values, but Democrats as a whole. Senator Sanders' Medicare for All bill has sixteen more cosponsors than when he introduced it two years ago, and states across the country are taking action to implement the ideas enshrined in the People's Platform.

Our ideas are winning, but we cannot let up now. The forces conspiring against us—Wall Street, the fossil fuel lobby, the pharmaceutical and insurance industries—will not go quietly. Power concedes nothing without pressure, and we must be ready to overcome the stores of dark money they will pour into campaigns of disinformation and cynicism.

Change does not happen overnight, but in the last several months we have made extraordinary strides towards justice. Thank you for all that you have done to make this so.

In solidarity,

Nina Turner
President
Our Revolution