Barack Obama

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.

As US Attacks Libya Again, Peace Group Tells Obama: ‘Stop the Bombing’

August 7, 2016 Lauren McCauley and Jon Queally, www.commondreams.org Resist! Barack Obama, Syria, Wars and Militarism

By Lauren McCauley and Jon Queally for Common Dreams. Citing the disastrous bombing campaign in 2011 that pushed the nation into political chaos and bloody violence, anti-war groups are calling for an immediate end to a new wave of airstrikes on Libya approved by U.S. President Barack Obama. "The world needs a peace movement now more than ever, as Obama continues to drop bombs all over the Middle East and we prepare for the next US president." —CodePinkIn an online petition sent out Tuesday, the U.S.-based peace group CODEPINK declared: In the last seven years, Nobel Peace Prize-winning President Obama has bombed seven countries. Tell President Obama it's time to stop endless bombing across the Middle East! We, the undersigned, call on President Obama to end the bombing campaign in Libya and across the Middle East. We agree with Congresswoman Barbara Lee when she said that "there is no military solution to this crisis" with [the Islamic State or ISIS]. We ask that the administration instead take steps to form a comprehensive regional approach that addresses political, economic, humanitarian and diplomatic challenges that allow [ISIS] to commit violence.

Obama Commutes 214 Prison Sentences, Largest In One Day Ever

August 5, 2016 Leon Neyfakh, www.slate.com Create! Barack Obama, Prison

By Leon Neyfakh for Slate - President Obama has used his clemency power to shorten the prison sentences of 214 federal inmates doing time for drug offenses, it was announced on Wednesday. It’s Obama’s third time this year issuing commutations, a move that reflects his administration’s belief that too many people are serving overly harsh prison sentences because of a criminal justice system that is too tough on nonviolent crime. Wednesday’s batch of commutations brings the total number of people whose sentences Obama has shortened to 562—more than the previous nine presidents combined, according to the White House.

Obama Broadens Use Of ‘Climate Tests’ In Federal Project Reviews

August 4, 2016 John H. Cushman Jr., www.insideclimatenews.org Educate! Barack Obama, Climate Change

By John H. Cushman Jr. for Inside Climate News - Strengthening the hand of advocates for action on the climate crisis, the Obama administration issued final guidance calling on federal agencies to fully consider greenhouse gas emissions, global warming, and the costs they impose on society in deciding on major projects. The action this week by the White House's Council on Environmental Quality has been under intense discussion for six years. It could significantly affect how the government decides, for example, whether to approve major infrastructure projects, how to manage national forests, and how much to charge for leases of coal on public lands.

Obama Admin. Brokered More Weapons Sales Than Any Other Since WWII

August 1, 2016 William D. Hartung, www.thenation.com Educate! Barack Obama

By William D. Hartung for The Nation - When American firms dominate a global market worth more than $70 billion a year, you’d expect to hear about it. Not so with the global arms trade. It’s good for one or two stories a year in the mainstream media, usually when the annual statistics on the state of the business come out. It’s not that no one writes about aspects of the arms trade. There are occasional pieces that, for example, take note of the impact of US weapons transfers, including cluster bombs, to Saudi Arabia, or of the disastrous dispensation of weaponry to US allies in Syria, or of foreign sales of the costly, controversial F-35 combat aircraft.

Obama Prepares To Reinforce Militarized Police Occupation Of Black America

July 29, 2016 Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Barack Obama, Militarized police

By Glen Ford for Black Agenda Report - Barack Obama is “responsible for the biggest escalation in the history of the one-sided war against Black America. He increased militarization of local police 24-fold before banning some kinds of Pentagon weapons transfers, but is now preparing to send more battlefield weaponry to the streets of our cities. “Clinton or Trump will surely build on Obama’s lethal legacy.” Black activists confronted police terror on the cops’ own turf, last week, with actions at the Washington, DC, lobbying offices of the Fraternal Order of Police and the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association headquarters in New York City.

Nancy Pelosi Declares Opposition To Obama’s TPP Trade Deal

July 27, 2016 Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Barack Obama, TPP

By Michael McAuliff for The Huffington Post - WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has come out in opposition to the massive Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal as it’s currently written, putting her on the same page as newly minted vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine. Pelosi (D-Calif.) made the declaration in a letter late last week to several groups that protested outside her offices in San Francisco and delivered her more than 200,000 petition signatures opposing the TPP.

Is The Trans-Pacific Partnership President Obama’s Vietnam?

July 26, 2016 Dean Baker, www.truth-out.org Educate! Barack Obama, Free Trade, TPP, Trade Deal, Vietnam

By Dean Baker for Truthout - The prospects for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are not looking very good right now. Both parties' presidential candidates have come out against the deal. Donald Trump has placed it at the top of his list of bad trade deals that he wants to stop or reverse. Hillary Clinton had been a supporter as secretary of state, but has since joined the opposition in response to overwhelming pressure from the Democratic base. As a concession to President Obama, the Democratic platform does not explicitly oppose the TPP.

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