Ideas and suggestions post

[tanaqui]

Please use this post to leave any links you'd like us to include in future link round-ups or to make suggestions for topics you think we should cover.

Feel free to comment on any existing posts with relevant new links as well.

And don't forget – you can also make your own posts at any time.

Topics we're planning on covering currently include:

• Inspiration


• Donate


• Reproductive Health


• Ally-ship


• Racism


• Antisemitism


• Trump Plans


• Love meme


• Supreme Court


• Personal


• Suicide Hotlines


• LGBTQA+


• Organize


• Internet Safety


• Lessons from Autocracies


• Voting Rights


• Climate Change


• Environment


• Electoral College


• Where Trump Voters are Coming From - Economics of the Midwest we can't ignore

Comments

[rydra_wong]

If it's not been posted yet -- a new Trump-related news round-up:

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/

[tanaqui]

Hey, sorry for the belated response. In case you haven't seen them yet, snickfic posted a couple of links in one of the the link roundups:

Bill in Congress - currently in three House committees -- Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Armed Services -- so a chance to contact representatives on those committees.

Senate Committee on Homeland Security taking calls on Bannon's Appointment

[tanaqui]

I just made a post about this and have asked Tassoss to add it to the What's Next? post - thanks for the link.

[tanaqui]

I just made a post about this and have asked Tassoss to add it to the What's Next? post - thanks for the link.

[tinny]

I saw this on twitter this week, and I think it's important to keep in mind that he does have at least this one agenda: to make us afraid. We must not let him shape our view of the world.

Link:
https://twitter.com/robwijnberg/status/828986630564364289/photo/1

Picture in case the link vanishes:

[kyrielle]

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/sd-utbg-trump-military-deport-fletcher-20170224-story.html

The Trump administration has ended the policy whereby immediate family (parents, spouse, children) of active-duty members of the military were not to be deported (provided no criminal conviction existed).

Because, you know, keeping our promises doesn't matter. Neither does keeping our active-duty military focused on their jobs and not worrying about their family....

URGENT call -- or, URGENTLY call? for 2/27-2/28

[monanotlisa]

Can I suggest an urgent post?

Please make the phone calls to out of state reps on the Judiciary Committee and share this action with friends:

According to reports, House Republicans are going to try to bury a resolution that could expose the president's ties to Russia and his business conflicts of interest.

The "Resolution of Inquiry," sponsored by Jeff Nadler of New Jersey, "demands that Attorney General Jeff Sessions hand over to the Hill any document, record, memo, correspondence or other communication' pertaining to 'criminal or counterintelligence investigations' related to Trump, White House staff or his business."
This resolution SHOULD get a vote on the House floor, but it WON'T if the Judiciary Committee kills it next week.

We need to pressure the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee. Call and demand that they NOT KILL the Resolution of Inquiry when it comes to them Tuesday.

Sample Script: Hi, my name is ______ and I’m a constituent from (City/Zip). I’m calling to express my support for Congressman Nadler’s Resolution of Inquiry. In light of House chief of staff Reince Priebus’ improper request to the FBI, and reports that the Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chairmen of the Senate and House intelligence committees, had already begun speaking to reporters to challenge the story about a Russia connection to the Trump campaign, it is imperative that the Justice Dept. now releases all information regarding the Trump investigation to congress.

Will _________ support Nadler's Resolution of Inquiry? Thank you for all your hard work answering the phones.

Call the House Judiciary Committee (202) 225-3951
And call the members of the committees:
Chairman Bob Goodlatte (VA-06)
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. (WI-05)
Rep. Lamar Smith (TX-21)
Rep. Steve Chabot (OH-01)
Rep. Darrell Issa (CA-49)
Rep. Steve King (IA-04)
Rep. Trent Franks (AZ-08)
Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01)
Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-04)
Rep. Ted Poe (TX-02)
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (UT-03)
Rep. Tom Marino (PA-10)
Rep. Trey Gowdy (SC-04)
Rep. Raúl Labrador (ID-01)
Rep. Blake Farenthold (TX-27)
Rep. Doug Collins (GA-09)
Rep. Ron DeSantis (FL-06)
Rep. Ken Buck (CO-04)
Rep. John Ratcliffe (TX-04)
Rep. Martha Roby (AL-02)
Rep. Matt Gaetz (FL-01)
Rep. Mike Johnson (LA-04)
Rep. Andy Biggs (AZ-05)

Re: URGENT call -- or, URGENTLY call? for 2/27-2/28

[tanaqui]

Posted as a separate post - thanks for the tip.

Rep. Goodlatte has tabled a substitution amendment that on first glance still seems to call on Sessions to give up the documents, but I haven't compared the two versions in detail - do you have any information on what the difference is?

[teaotter]

Do you think it would be useful to have a post on strategies for talking with more conservative friends and relatives?

I've been having a lot of luck with mine, lately, after years of us more or less agreeing to disagree. So I'd be happy to share what's working for me, get advice from others on what they've tried, and maybe encourage other people to give it a shot.

In the long run, I think that bridging the communication divide in a human way is going to be important for building more support for progressive policies in red states. But I know that there's a LOT going on right now, and I don't want to overwhelm anyone by just posting random advice.

[tassosss]

I think that would be very helpful. Family can be one of the most daunting groups to talk to as well because it can be complex.

I'd say go for it.

[kyrielle]

Well, unless President Trump refuses to sign the bill, the regulation keeping our ISPs from selling our browsing history is going down.

Minnesota is moving to handle it on a local scale; maybe those of us in other states should be reaching out to our state government to add similar local legislation?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/isp-privacy-rules-could-be-resurrected-by-states-starting-in-minnesota/

[tassosss]

Thanks for the link. I'll post this. It's good to know the state actions on these things.

VPN pages

[ninja007]

Hi, since they've decided they're going to sell our internet web browsing history and IP addresses to the highest bidder, a friend suggested we start using VPN's.

Here's an excellent link: https://qz.com/945261/how-to-get-a-personal-vpn-and-why-you-need-one-now/

Re: VPN pages

[tanaqui]

Great suggestion - I'll make a post about it. And agreed, that's an extremely helpful link.

[watersword]

I don't have time to do a write-up atm, but the EPA is soliciting public comment on the plan to roll back environmental regulations; they're required by law to take comments into account when deciding next actions.

[tanaqui]

Thanks for pointing this out. I'll do some digging around and try to put a post together.

[watersword]

Rep. Ted Lieu (D - CA) has introduced a bill to ban conversion therapy (aka abusing queer people to make them not-queer) nationwide: HR.2119 - Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act of 2017. There's a companion bill in the Senate, S.928 - Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act of 2017. People can contact their reps or senators to thank them for co-sponsoring (the list of cosponsors is available at those links), or urge them to vote for the bills if and when they get out of committee (I'm not 100% clear on how that would happen).

[tanaqui]

Thanks for the heads up on this -- I'll make a top-level post about it.

[percygranger]

On the organizing front, I just discovered this:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/105476246/pocket-revolution-app

[alexseanchai]

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/06/22/1674147/-Police-literally-drag-people-away-from-McConnells-office-as-protests-break-out-over-GOP-bill

Police are literally dragging people away, including those who are disabled or in wheelchairs, leaving the hall of the Senate offices streaked with blood.

Ways to help those people. The protestors whose blood. HELP. I, this, I, what is coherence and what are spoons?

[alexseanchai]

Net neutrality protest Jul 12 because we as online activists cannot afford, in multiple senses of the word, to lose net neutrality.

[kyrielle]

Not sure if this is too tangential, but - 20 million people facing famine and it's not making the news cycles I see, mostly. And writing our folks in Congress might help, since aid and the budget are part of the concern.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/no-one-is-paying-attention-to-the-worst-humanitarian-crisis-since-world-war-ii/2017/06/25/70d055f8-5767-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.368d3dbc0a7e

[labrys_kotwica]

https://gofile.io/?c=e7j4wM

Here you can download the first issue of And My Axe, an anti-fascist zine that we intend to release every two weeks. I hope you'll boost the signal.

I see you're recording IP addresses, so a modly type should be able to identify me from my previous comments on this comm—in fact I suggest a modly type do that, because I expect you would trust a download link from a handle you recognize a lot more than from this ten-minute-old handle—but for the love of fuck don't identify me where people can see. We are planning for the possibility that the creators of this zine will be explicitly targeted because of this zine, so we are being very careful anonymice.

[teaotter]

I was looking for some kind of get-out-the-vote tag, but we don't seem to have one. Could one be made? I'd be happy to tag my latest post with it.

[redbird]

You've got it. (PM'ing me is generally faster than posting here, by the way.)