BULLETIN BOARD: Walk with the NYC Veterans Alliance in the footsteps of Revolutionary War troops!
August is our birthday month, and we’re inviting veterans, family members, and civilian allies to a special event honoring NYC’s military heritage since 1776. Join us Sunday, August 25th for the Battle of Brooklyn Ruck March for Veterans & Families! REGISTER HERE Walk in the footsteps of Continental soldiers in the …
OPINION: If Left Unchecked, Trump Will Obliterate the Right to Asylum
Since his inauguration, Donald Trump has effectuated 600 unilateral changes in immigration policy, more than any president in recent memory. Pursuant to its “zero tolerance policy,” the administration arrested undocumented immigrants who crossed the border, took thousands of their children away, put them in cages and then lost track of them, in violation of the Constitution’s Due Process Clause …
MESSAGE from Shahid Buttar for Congress: US Congress is Under Attack
A racist president enabled by a callous Speaker is attacking the voices in U.S. Congress who best represent our values. This is what Washington Post Global Opinions editor Karen Attiah had to say: You are responding in a big way to these attacks – last week was our biggest fundraising …
The Week In Congress: 2020 Census, Saudi Arabia Relations, and The Wall
Published July 10, 2019 First up: Does adding a citizenship question to the US census create a constitutional problem? The Trump administration has been trying to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census form for months now, even though it was blocked by the Supreme Court. A problem with …
MESSAGE from Shahid Buttar for Congress: “Pelosi says, ‘Do not tweet’”
DailyClout Readers, Our fight is with Trump and his criminal administration, as well as its GOP enablers in the House and Senate. Sadly, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the present Democratic Party leadership stand with them—and against the American people and our principles—on too many issues. Speaker Pelosi refuses to impeach, …
Kamala Harris Has a Distinguished Career of Serving Injustice
Kamala Harris is rising in the polls after dramatically confronting Joe Biden during the Democratic primary debate about his opposition to federally mandated busing for desegregation. The following week, however, Harris backed away from saying that busing should always be federally mandated, calling it just one “tool that is in the toolbox” …
BULLETIN BOARD: Maloney Introduces Bill to Honor Harriet Tubman
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), sponsor of H.R. 1980, the Smithsonian Women’s History Museum Act, today introduced the Honoring Harriet Tubman Act, bipartisan legislation to place a statue of Harriet Tubman in the U.S. Capitol. “Harriet Tubman dedicated her entire life to fighting for freedom and the disenfranchised. …
Calling Trump’s Rationale “Contrived,” Supreme Court Halts Citizenship Question
In a surprise decision, Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by the four liberal members of the Supreme Court — Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor — halted the Trump administration’s plans, at least temporarily, to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The Court thought …
The Week In Congress: Arms Deals, Iran, and Reparations
Published June 25, 2019 First up, we cover a number joint resolutions the Senate passed in response to President Trump’s arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Next, we unpack the Senate’s disapproval of applying the Authority to Use Military Force (AUMF) against Iran, which could have an extreme impact on the middle …
OPINION: I fact checked Naomi Wolf’s new book on gay rights – the mockery she has faced for one error disguises the real outrage we should feel
For a month, critics have attacked Naomi Wolf’s new book, Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love, which explores how 19th-century UK laws persecuted homosexuality around the world and fuelled the gay rights movement. A BBC radio host pointed out on 21 May that the phrase “death recorded” did …
The Week In Congress: Dreamers, Declaring War, and Reuniting Korean-American Families
Published June 4, 2019 Here’s a video recap of the happenings in Congress last week (May 27-31, 2019). First up, two bills, The American Promise Act of 2019 and The Dream Act of 2019 introduced by Rep. Velasquez (D-NY) and Rep. Roybal-Allard (D-CA) respectively, were designed to carve a path to …
Trump’s New Travel Restrictions Harm Both US and Cuban People
Escalating his policy to economically strangle Cuba, Donald Trump has imposed new restrictions on travel to Cuba by U.S. persons. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) will no longer allow the popular “people-to-people” educational travel and they will deny licenses to cruise ships, the most common way people visit Cuba. “While this further …
The Precarious Fate of Roe v. Wade
The Supreme Court doesn’t like to overturn its past decisions. But there’s a way to get around Roe v. Wade without tossing it out completely. In this video we delve into how the Supreme Court makes decisions, the concept of stare decisis, and how other post-Roe cases have created vulnerabilities …
OPINION: Protect our People – or our Guns? The High Price of Ignoring the Facts on Guns and Domestic Violence
It’s August 2, 2017. Ciera Jackson sighs in relief. She’s just been granted a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, Victor Whittier. Eleven days later, Jackson lies dead on her kitchen floor. Whittier, defying the restraining order, shot her four times through her kitchen window. The path that led to Jackson’s …
The Week In Congress: May 20-24, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRU8mcS3cgE First up, Congress introduced 9 bills designed to support our vets in suicide prevention, better compensation for vets with disabilities, and make the transition home smoother. Here are all nine bills: H.R. 2359 – Whole Veteran Act (Rep. Lamb – Veterans’ Affairs) H.R. 1947 – To amend title 38, United States …
Bulletin Board — Mayor de Blasio Cuts NYC Vets Services by $118k, Meets with Las Vegas Vets
This weekend, Mayor Bill de Blasio met with veterans in Nevada–yet he has never held a similar meeting with NYC veterans during his administration, and his current Executive Budget proposes to cut $118,000 from services for veterans and families. This past March, NYC Veterans Alliance members and community partners, including …
US Illegally Evicts Protectors From Venezuelan Embassy
On May 16, law enforcement agents broke into the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C., and arrested the four remaining members of the Embassy Protection Collective. “We denounce these arrests, as the people inside were there with our permission, and we consider it a violation of the Vienna Conventions,” Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos …
“Paycheck Fairness” for Women at Last?
It’s been a long 22 years since Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act to Congress (H.R.7). Originally brought to Congress in 1997, this bill has been re-introduced more than ten times and has failed to pass the Senate four times in the last two decades. While its …
What I Learned When I Ran (and Lost) For Tulsa City Council
There I sat at the end of a long night. It was just my husband and me sitting at a bar in downtown Tulsa. The bartender looked at me sadly and offered a shot. I’m not a shot person, but what the hell? This was a unique situation, and I …
OPINION — Marjorie Cohn: “If Trump Declares a National Emergency, He’ll Be Breaking the Law”
Congress refuses to enact legislation containing the nearly $6 billion that Donald Trump is demanding for an unnecessary wall on the southern US border. In response, Trump is considering whether to declare a national emergency, take money Congress has appropriated for other purposes, and divert it to build his wall. …