Barack Obama

Obama Should Stop Dakota Access Pipeline Once And For All

November 21, 2016 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! #NoDAPL, Barack Obama, Dakota Access Pipeline, Standing Rock

By John Zangas for DC Media Group - Washington, DC — It was not business as usual when a delegation of indigenous people from Standing Rock Reservation and thousands of allies shut off access to the General Accounting Office (GAO) on Tuesday during a sit-in. They were there to pressure the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE), whose offices are housed there, to deny the final permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline. Its parent company, Energy Transfer Partners, needs an easement to finish the pipeline by drilling under the Missouri River at Lake Oahe.

Obama Halts Arctic Oil Leases; Undoing It Won’t Be Simple For Trump

November 20, 2016 Phil McKenna, www.insideclimatenews.org Create! Arctic drilling, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Oil

By Phil McKenna for Inside Climate News. By writing a five-year plan with no leases for oil drilling in the Alaskan Arctic, President Obama—and market forces—provide roadblocks for Trump to change. No new offshore oil and gas leases will be offered in the Alaskan Arctic through 2022, according to a new five-year plan for offshore drilling released Friday by the Obama administration. President-elect Donald Trump could overturn the ban, but that could take years and may not draw much industry interest if oil prices stay low. The Interior Department's five-year plan laid out all of the proposed auctions for drilling rights on the outer continental shelf of the United States. It allowed for no leases between 2017 and 2022 in the Beaufort or Chukchi seas, Arctic waters north and west of Alaska.

Army Corps Halts Dakota Access Pipeline, Pending Review

November 16, 2016 Phil McKenna, www.insideclimatenews.org Educate! #NoDAPL, Barack Obama, Dakota Access Pipeline, Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines, Protests

By Phil McKenna for Inside Climate News - The Obama administration gave the Standing Rock Sioux tribe a partial victory on Monday, by declining to grant a final easement for a disputed section of the the Dakota Access pipeline that would skirt its ancestral land. It called, instead, for "additional discussion and analysis." Under sharp pressure from tribal and environmental activists, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of the Interior said further consultation is "warranted in light of the history of the Great Sioux Nation's dispossessions of lands...

Obama’s Last Stand Against War On Syria

November 5, 2016 Joe Lauria, www.consortiumnews.com Educate! Barack Obama, Syria, Wars and Militarism

By Joe Lauria for Consortium News - For five years, President Obama has resisted neocon/liberal-interventionist pressure to go to war against Syria, but – as his departure grows near – the hawks see more “regime change” wars coming into view, says Joe Lauria Through five years of war in Syria, President Obama has been in a constant internal struggle with hawks in his administration who want the U.S. to directly intervene militarily to overthrow the Syrian government.

Obama Should Pardon All Leakers And Whistleblowers

October 3, 2016 Peter Maass, www.theintercept.com Create! Barack Obama, Pardons, Whistleblowers

By Peter Maass for The Intercept - But this story is not about the excellent reasons for thanking rather than locking up the two most famous whistleblowers of the post-9/11 era. Plenty of people are already calling for that in powerful ways. A new petition on Snowden’s behalf has been signed by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey as well as Steve Wozniak, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Aragorn (also known as Viggo Mortensen).

As Obama’s Presidency Enters Final Months, Thousands Hope For Clemency

September 28, 2016 Victoria Law, www.truth-out.org Organize! Barack Obama, Prison

By Victoria Law for Truthout - As Obama's presidency enters its final months, thousands of people imprisoned on federal drug sentences fervently hope he will grant them clemency. But family members, loved ones and those who have spent time behind bars are determined to help push as many people as possible out the prison doors before Obama leaves the Oval Office. In August, their effort got two significant boosts. On August 3, 214 people in federal prisons across the country were called into their case managers' offices.

Justice For Chelsea Manning And Edward Snowden

September 21, 2016 Scott Tucker, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Barack Obama, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Pardons, Socialism, Whistleblowers

By Scott Tucker for Popular Resistance.org. Manning’s situation in prison is indeed urgent, we can expect the corporate state and career politicians to respond to such cases with miserly pardons and small portions of charity. In the last days of his presidency, Obama has been pardoning some deserving people, and he could easily include both Manning and Snowden (among other honorable whistleblowers like John Kiriakou) with the stroke of a pen. But this president only finds his “courage” on a dwindling timeline, and is stingy as a banker in spending political capital. Why would this Nobel Peace Prize winner pardon citizens who have already paid a heavy price in exile and prison for their own sacrifices on behalf of peace and democracy? To ask the question is to answer it. Under Obama’s “progressive” administration, we have witnessed a vast expansion of state surveillance and of bombing by drones. Of course, we should still support any public campaign urging holders of high offices to show more courage. But let’s also be honest. We are talking about the kind of courage that could end careers in the capitalist parties. A fraction of the ruling class does become class conscious, and sometimes will take just such risks. The exceptions prove the rule. The drive toward war and empire is bipartisan and corporate.

Triumph Of Truth: African American History Museum Opens

September 18, 2016 David Smith, www.theguardian.com Educate! African-Americans, Barack Obama, Racism, Slavery

By David Smith for the Guardian. From Harriet Tubman’s hymn book to a slave cabin from South Carolina, from Muhammed Ali’s boxing gloves to Carl Lewis’s gold medals, from a metal bucket used to bathe the feet of Martin Luther King to tiny shoes worn by Sammy Davis Jr as a child dancer, the museum is a tour de force of more than 3,000 artifacts with a mission statement to “tell the unvarnished truth”. Emotions run high in the slavery and freedom gallery, located underground, and there will be signs advising parents on whether the material is suitable for children. “What’s been the important thing to me, or one of the most moving things, is seeing the journalists walk through and on their personal level you can see their faces go, ‘OK, wow!’,” said Elliott. “That’s been really exciting to see. To remove that veil and see the person who actually is looking at it.” For Elliott, one of the most powerful objects is an auction block, “a site of fear, humiliation and uncertainty” where slaves were bought and sold and separated from their loved ones for life. In a nearby display case is a whip used to punish slaves.

Did Obama Just Avoid War With Great Sioux Nation?

September 12, 2016 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! #NoDAPL, Barack Obama, Indigenous Peoples, Sioux

By Anne Meador for DC Media Group - The Obama administration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today made a stunning announcement which nullified a much-anticipated federal court ruling regarding a pipeline opposed by Dakota Native American tribes. A U.S. District Court decision removed a major barrier to construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which would deliver Bakken shale oil from North Dakota to Illinois.

Erased By False Victory: Obama Hasn’t Stopped DAPL

September 12, 2016 Kelly Hayes, www.transformativespaces.org Educate! #NoDAPL, Barack Obama, Dakota Access Pipeline, Indigenous Peoples

By Kelly Hayes for Transformative Spaces - All Native struggles in the United States are a struggle against erasure. The poisoning of our land, the theft of our children, the state violence committed against us — we are forced to not only live in opposition to these ills, but also to live in opposition to the fact that they are often erased from public view and public discourse, outside of Indian Country. The truth of our history and our struggle does not match the myth of American exceptionalism, and thus, we are frequently boxed out of the narrative.

Obama’s TPP Would Widen The Divide

September 6, 2016 Manuel Pérez-Rocha, www.inequality.org Educate! Barack Obama, TPP

By Manuel Pérez-Rocha for Inequality - After the November election, all eyes will be on President Obama to see if he will follow through on his vow to push for a vote during a lame-duck session of Congress on the wildly unpopular Trans-Pacific Partnership. In a previous interview with Inequality.org, AFL-CIO deputy chief of staff Thea Lee explained why the U.S. labor movement strongly opposes the trade pact. She described the TPP as yet one more deal that would put downward pressure on U.S. labor conditions by further opening up the U.S. market and giving additional protections for U.S. corporations looking to move jobs offshore.

President Obama Grants 111 Additional Commutations

September 1, 2016 Breanna Edwards, www.theroot.com Create! Barack Obama, Commutations

By Breanna Edwards for The Root - On Tuesday, President Barack Obama granted commutations for an additional 111 federal inmates, bringing the total number of grants offered up to 325 in the month of August alone—the largest number of commutations ever granted by a president in a single month, the White House reports. Earlier this month, the president had granted more commutations in a single day than any other president, reducing the sentences of 214 federal inmates.

Flood-Ravaged Gulf Coast Residents Ask President Obama…

August 26, 2016 Julie Dermansky, www.desmogblog.com Resist! Barack Obama, Offshore Drilling

By Julie Dermansky for Desmog - During President Obama’s visit to a flood-ravaged area near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this week, a group of environmental activists delivered a petition to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) protesting the planned leasing of more of the Gulf of Mexico for oll and gas drilling. They gathered 184,000 electronic signatures over just six days calling for the President and BOEM to cancel its lease auction — scheduled to take place today, August 24.

Why Is Obama Administration Keeping Toddlers Behind Bars?

August 18, 2016 Joshua Holland, www.thenation.com Resist! Barack Obama, Detention Centers

By Joshua Holland for The Nation - Twenty-two mothers who have been interned with their children for up to a year in a for-profit immigration detention facility entered the ninth day of a hunger strike on Wednesday. Neither the mothers nor their children have committed any crimes, nor have they been charged with any. They have no idea when they will be released. Advocates and attorneys representing the women tellThe Nation that their children are suffering, they feel that they’ve been lost in the system and their desire for freedom has become desperate.

Obama Transfers 15 Guantanamo Prisoners To The United Arab Emirates

August 16, 2016 Jessica Schulberg, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Barack Obama, Guantanamo Bay

By Jessica Schulberg for The Huffington Post - WASHINGTON ― The Pentagon announced the transfer of 15 prisoners out of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility on Monday evening, marking the largest single exodus of detainees from the infamous prison in Barack Obama’s presidency. The 15 men are being transferred to the United Arab Emirates, a country that accepted five Yemeni detainees last year because the U.S. ruled out repatriating them to their unstable home country.

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