2016 Elections

Newsletter – Beyond Russia: The Work Ahead

December 18, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter 2016 Elections, Corporate Media, Democracy, Donald Trump, Healthcare, Hillary Clinton, Human Rights, Immigrant Rights, Indigenous Rights, Medicare for all, oligarchy, People's Agenda, Propaganda, Public Banking, Russia, Vladimir Putin

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese. As the day that the Electoral College casts its vote for President draws near, so does the frenzy of accusations that Russians hacked the election to benefit Donald Trump and are spreading 'fake news' full of Russian propaganda. It seems like everyone is jumping on the anti-Russia bandwagon, including past Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and most of the organizations affiliated with the Democratic Party. Many are calling for the Electors to switch their votes to Hillary Clinton. Russian spying image from the Intercept Russian spying image from the Intercept The absurdity of the 2016 Presidential election doesn't seem to have an end. We urge readers not to get drawn into the manufactured distractions of the day. We have real work to do, no matter who is elected, to organize across multiple fronts of struggle.

The Public Evidence On Russia Is Insufficient

December 18, 2016 Sam Biddle, theintercept.com Educate! 2016 Elections, Democracy, Hacking, Putin, Russia

By Sam Biddle for the Intercept. There’s a lot of evidence from the attack on the table, mostly detailing how the hack was perpetrated, and possibly the language of the perpetrators. It certainly remains plausible that Russians hacked the DNC, and remains possible that Russia itself ordered it. But the refrain of Russian attribution has been repeated so regularly and so emphatically that it’s become easy to forget that no one has ever truly proven the claim. There is strong evidence indicating that Democratic email accounts were breached via phishing messages, and that specific malware was spread across DNC computers. There’s even evidence that the attackers are the same group that’s been spotted attacking other targets in the past. But again: No one has actually proven that group is the Russian government (or works for it). This remains the enormous inductive leap that’s not been reckoned with, and Americans deserve better. . . in times of extraordinary risk, with two enormous military powers placed in direct conflict over national sovereignty, we need an extraordinary disclosure. The stakes are simply too high to take anyone’s word for it.

Leaked Audio Energy Transfer Partners: ‘Election Night Changed Everything’

December 17, 2016 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! 2016 Elections, Pipelines

By Steve Horn for Desmog Blog - Shaun King, a writer for the New York Daily News, has uploaded what appears to be a recorded audio file of Energy Transfer Partners' Chief Operating Officer saying that “election night changed everything” for the company as it relates to its embattled Dakota Access Pipeline. King stated on social media and on the SoundCloud page on which he posted the file that a source sent him the file on December 13, hours after Matthew Ramsey — COO of Energy Transfer Partners — gave his speech.

Hypocrisy Behind The Russian-Election Frenzy

December 15, 2016 Robert Parry, www.consortiumnews.com Educate! 2016 Elections, CIA, Russia

By Robert Parry for Consortium News - As Democrats, the Obama administration and some neocon Republicans slide deeper into conspiracy theories about how Russia somehow handed the presidency to Donald Trump, they are behaving as they accused Trump of planning to behave if he had lost, questioning the legitimacy of the electoral process and sowing doubts about American democracy. The thinking then was that if Trump had lost, he would have cited suspicions of voter fraud...

Staying On Battlefield: The Feminist Wire Statement On Election

December 14, 2016 Staff, www.english.thefeministwire.com Resist! 2016 Elections, Feminism

By Staff of The Feminist Wire - The Feminist Wire is an anti-racist, anti-imperial feminist media and publishing company whose vision of justice and equity centers those whose lives, well-being, and bodies are the first to be assaulted under conditions of hyper-militarization, capitalism, patriarchy, ableism, white supremacy, and anti-Black racism around the world. Our work is grounded in a long and rich tradition of Black feminist thought and organizing, which compels us to interpret and respond to the world through an intersectional lens.

What Is Behind Obama’s Investigation Into Russian Hacking

December 11, 2016 Marcy Wheeler, www.emptywheel.net Educate! 2016 Elections, Hacking, Russia

By Marcy Wheeler for the Empty Wheel. Before I start with the substance of the story, consider this background. First, if Trump comes into office on the current trajectory, the US will let Russia help Bashar al-Assad stay in power, thwarting a 4-year effort on the part of the Saudis to remove him from power. It will also restructure the hierarchy of horrible human rights abusing allies the US has, with the Saudis losing out to other human rights abusers, potentially up to and including that other petrostate, Russia. It will also install a ton of people with ties to the US oil industry in the cabinet, meaning the US will effectively subsidize oil production in this country, which will have the perhaps inadvertent result of ensuring the US remains oil-independent even though the market can’t justify fracking right now. The CIA is institutionally quite close with the Saudis right now, and has been in charge of their covert war against Assad.

Call For Bold Mobilization Against Inauguration Of Donald Trump

December 10, 2016 Staff, www.disruptj20.org Resist! 2016 Elections, Donald Trump, Inauguration

By Staff of #DisruptJ20 - On Friday, January 20, 2017, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as President of the United States. We call on all people of good conscience to join in disrupting the ceremonies. If Trump is to be inaugurated at all, let it happen behind closed doors, showing the true face of the security state Trump will preside over. It must be made clear to the whole world that the vast majority of people in the United States do not support his presidency or consent to his rule. Trump stands for tyranny, greed, and misogyny.

Lost Credibility In Fly-Over Country

December 3, 2016 Ben Lilliston, www.iatp.org Educate! 2016 Elections, Food and Agriculture, Health Care, Jobs and Wages, Trade

By Ben Lilliston for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. The power of the so-called fly over states in the election is impossible to ignore. The electoral maps tell the story. A swath of red, often mostly rural, states in the middle and south of the country, bookended by blue states on the coasts. Even within the few Midwest blue states like Minnesota and Illinois, you can see the stark divide between how urban and rural counties saw the candidates. A look back at the 2012 electoral map tells us this divide is not new, but perhaps wasn’t taken seriously by many Democrats because President Obama won. As the Daily Yonder reports, the long-standing urban-rural voting gap is widening. At least part of this voting gap can be attributed to the Democratic Party’s loss of credibility on a number of core issues that affect the lives of rural communities in those so-called fly over states.

Twelve Ideas Post-Election from Front Line Organizers

November 29, 2016 Bill Quigley, www.commondreams.org Strategize! 2016 Elections, Organizing

By Bill Quigley for Popular Resistance - When you find yourself in a suddenly darkened room, what do you do? Some rush blindly to where they think the door might be. Others stand still, let their eyes get adjusted to the different environment, re-orient themselves, then cautiously and sensitively, move forward. Some search out people who might be able to show the way. Post-election, a lot of people are re-assessing and searching for the best way forward.

Did Russia Interfere In The U.S. Presidential Election?

November 29, 2016 Alexander Reed Kelly, www.truthdig.com Educate! 2016 Elections, Russia

By Alexander Reed Kelly for Truth Dig - According to the U.S. government at various points in recent weeks, Russian agents “hacked into the communications of the Democratic National Committee, election-related computer systems in Arizona and Illinois, and the private emails of influential individuals, notably Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta—and then malignly leaked the contents onto the internet,” writes Andrew Cockburn, Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine.

Appeal To The Working Class? Don’t Bother, Says Krugman

November 28, 2016 Jim Naureckas, www.fair.org Educate! 2016 Elections, Workers

By Jim Naureckas for FAIR - In the wake of a disastrous Election Day, does the Democratic Party need to present economic policies that have more to offer the majority of voters? Don’t bother, argues New York Times columnist Paul Krugman (11/25/16). Krugman begins by acknowledging what some have denied—that class played some role in what happened on November 8: “What put Donald Trump in striking distance was overwhelming support from whites without college degrees,” he writes. “So what can Democrats do to win back at least some of those voters?”

The Hate Spiral Of 2016: 701 Acts Of ‘Hateful Harassment’ Since Election Day

November 23, 2016 Staff, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! 2016 Elections, Harassment, Hate, Hate Crime

By Staff of MintPress News - MINNEAPOLIS — There have been at least 361 incidents of anti-Muslim violence and harassment in 2016, an average of more than one incident per day. Even before the election of President-elect Donald Trump, a wave of Islamophobic hate crimes and anti-Muslim incidents throughout the year drew comparisons to the aftermath of 9/11, when many Muslims were afraid to go out in public.

A Dying Mule Always Kicks The Hardest

November 22, 2016 Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, www.billmoyers.com Strategize! 2016 Elections, Donald Trump

By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II for Moyers Company - The reactionary wave that swept across America with the election of Donald Trump is not an anomaly in our history. It is an all-too-familiar pattern in the long struggle for American reconstruction. The story of our struggle for freedom is not linear: Every advance toward a more perfect union has been met with a backlash of resistance. When African-Americans became full citizens of the United States during Reconstruction, a violent backlash arose in the Redemption movement that included both the violence of the Klan and the voter suppression of Southern Democrats.

After The Election: Agitate, Educate, Organize

November 21, 2016 Dan Jones, www.kairoscenter.org Strategize! 2016 Elections, Organize

By Dan Jones for Kairos Center - Below is an interview with Willie Baptist, our coordinator for Poverty Scholarship and Leadership Development. Willie is a veteran of 50 years of poor people’s struggles for dignity and survival, from the Watts uprising to the National Union of the Homeless to the Welfare Rights Movement. In this time of uncertainty and fear, we ask him about the effects of this election and the possible roads ahead.

Brown Students Stage Peaceful Walkout, Citing Post-Election ‘Danger’

November 19, 2016 G. Wayne Miller, www.providencejournal.com Resist! 2016 Elections, Donald Trump, Higher Education, Student Protests

By G. Wayne Miller for The Providence Journal - PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Several hundred Brown University students, most of them wearing black, on Wednesday afternoon staged a peaceful walkout urging school leaders to "protect" all Brown students, as organizers put it — particularly members of the Native American, black, Latino, undocumented, Muslim, LGBTQ and other communities who fear for their safety following the election of Donald Trump as president.

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