Barack Obama

Case Dismissed For State Of The Union Activists

June 1, 2016 Joy First, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Barack Obama, Climate Change, Drones, Poverty, Racism, Wars and Militarism

By Joy First for National Coalition for Nonviolent Resistance. As we prepared for trial, we knew that Judge Gardner has jailed activists found guilty in the past, and so we knew we must be prepared for jail time. We also knew that the government prosecutor had not responded to our latest motions, and so we wondered if that was a sign that they were not ready to proceed with atrial. With this uncertainty in mind,for the first time ever I got a one-way ticket to DC, and it was with great sadness that I said goodbye to my family. And what was my offense that brought me there? On the day of Obama’s last State of the Union address, January 12, 2016, I joined 12 others as we exercised our First Amendment rights attempting to deliver a petition to President Obama in an action organized by the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance. We suspected that Obama would not tell us what was really going on, and so our petition outlined what we believed to be the real state of the union along with remedies to create a world we all would want to live in. The letter outlined our concerns regarding war, poverty, racism, and the climate crisis. As about 40 concerned citizen activists walked toward the US Capitol on January 12, we saw the Capitol Police were already there and waiting for us.

Obama’s Hiroshima Visit: Reminder Atomic Bombs Weren’t What Won War

May 28, 2016 Gar Alperovitz, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Atomic Bombs, Barack Obama, Hiroshima, Japan

By Gar Alperovitz for The Huffington Post - U.S. President Barack Obama’s forthcoming visit to Hiroshima offers an opportunity to reconsider some of the myths surrounding the historic decision to use the atomic bomb. Such reconsideration also helps focus attention on how we can avoid any future use of weapons that are now thousands of times more powerful than the ones used in 1945. A good place to start is with an unusual and little-noticed display at The National Museum of the United States Navy in Washington.

Obama Administration Rejects “Keep It In The Ground”

May 27, 2016 Justin Mikulka, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Barack Obama, Climate Change, Energy

By Justin Mikulka for Desmog - “We’re certainly not advocating any strategy for reducing hydrocarbon emissions by keeping oil in the ground…that’s not a position.” This was the response of Christopher A. Smith when he was asked what he thought of the “growing movement of keeping oil in the ground” at the 2016 Columbia Global Energy Summit in April. Since Chris Smith worked for more than a decade for Chevron and Texaco, this answer should not surprise anyone.

Obama Commutes Sentences Of 58 Federal Prisoners

May 6, 2016 Timothy Gardner, www.huffingtonpost.com Create! Barack Obama, Criminal Justice System, Prisoner rights

By Timothy Gardner for Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama has commuted the prison terms of 58 people, nearly a third of whom were serving life sentences, the White House said on Thursday. Most of the convicts who will be freed early were non-violent drug offenders. Obama said in a blog post that “it just doesn’t make sense to require a non-violent drug offender to serve 20 years, or in some cases, life, in prison.”

Top Five Reasons Obama Is Wrong On TPP

May 5, 2016 Paola Masman, www.prosperousamerica.org Educate! Barack Obama, TPP

By Paola Masman for Coalition for A Prosperous America - President Barack Obama penned a Washington Post op-ed yesterday outlining a flimsy case for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal. The TPP is currently on life support due to a voter revolt against trade and global governance deals. Presidents Clinton and Bush also pushed similar trade and global governance agreements with similar arguments. We now have trade deals with 20 countries, we have data, and we don’t have to rely only on projections. The data are not kind to Obama’s optimistic arguments.

Barack Obama Readies For Final TPP Push

April 28, 2016 Ned Resnikoff, www.ibtimes.com Educate! Barack Obama, TPP

By Ned Resnikoff for IBT - President Barack Obama last week renewed his push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, suggesting that it will be easier to pass the deal after the elections are over. The idea is that lawmakers will then be more insulated from political influence. Yet Obama has his own potential incentives to push for the TPP: His presidential foundation has been relying on support from industries that could profit from the agreement.

Family Of Drone Victim FOIA Suit Under FOIA, As Obama Denies Civilian Deaths

April 23, 2016 Staff, www.reprieve.org Resist! Barack Obama, Drones

By Staff of Reprieve - A Yemeni man who lost two civilian relatives in a drone strike has today filed an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the Obama Administration. The appeal in Jaber v Obama comes as Obama officials issue fresh denials of discounting foreign lives, telling the Guardian “it is certainly not the case that lives of a certain nationality are more valuable to us than those of any other.”

President Obama Can Help Save Saudi Youth Facing Beheading

April 22, 2016 Medea Benjamin, www.codepink.org Resist! Barack Obama, Saudi Arabia, Youth

By Medea Benjamin for CODEPINK - One concrete outcome that President Obama could pursue on his visit to Saudi Arabia is saving the lives of three Shia youth sentenced to be executed, most likely by beheading, for participating in nonviolent protests. Sparing their lives could also help ease the Shia/Sunni tensions that have engulfed the region. Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon, and Abdullah al-Zaher are members of the minority Shia community that has, for decades, been demanding equality and full civil rights.

Will Obama Release The Secret 28 Pages About 9/11

April 12, 2016 Ben Mathis-Lilley, www.slate.com Educate! 9/11, Barack Obama

By Ben Mathis-Lilley for Slate - Sunday night, 60 Minutes ran a segment about ongoing efforts to convince the Obama administration to declassify 28 infamous pages in an otherwise public 2002 congressional report which reportedly document allegations that Saudi Arabian nationals in the U.S. and elsewhere materially supported some of the 9/11 hijackers. The “28 pages” have been controversial since the report in which they were supposed to appear was issued and seem likely to stay in the news this year as the 15thanniversary of the 9/11 attacks coincides with the end of Obama's term in office.

Clinton Should Ask Obama To Withdraw The TPP

April 12, 2016 Dave Johnson, www.ourfuture.org Resist! Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, TPP

By Dave Johnson for Campaign For America's Future - Hillary Clinton has a credibility problem when it comes to our country’s trade policies and the resulting enormous, humongous trade deficits that measure job loss – especially with regard to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But Clinton has a chance to shore up her credibility with Democratic voters on this issue. It comes as President Obama, Wall Street and the multinational corporations are preparing to grease the skids for pushing the TPP through Congress in the post-election “lame duck” session.

Obama’s Transparency, Clinton’s Emails, And CIA Going Hollywood

April 8, 2016 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.acronymtv.wordpress.com Resistance Report Barack Obama, CIA, Hillary Clinton, Media

By Dennis Trainor, Jr. for The Acronym Jorunal - The Obama administration has long called itself the most transparent administration in history. But newly released Department of Justice (DOJ) documents show that the White House has actually worked aggressively behind the scenes to scuttle congressional reforms designed to give the public better access to information possessed by the federal government.

Obama Supreme Court Nomination: A Missed Opportunity

April 8, 2016 Bill Mosley, www.dsadc.org Resist! Barack Obama, Supreme Court

By Bill Mosley for President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and a former federal prosecutor, to the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Antonin Scalia was, as the pundits have noted, intended to present the Senate with a non-threatening, noncontroversial candidate to whom it would be hard to object. In the thinking of the president and his advisors, an anodyne figure such as Garland, someone without ideological baggage or a crusader image, would deprive Senate Republicans...

Obama Admin About To Kneecap Own Efforts To Reform Coal Leasing

April 2, 2016 David Roberts, www.vox.com Educate! Barack Obama, Climate Change, Coal Mining

By David Roberts for Vox - Over the past year or so, the Obama administration has shown increasing sympathy toward the new climate activism mantra: "Keep it in the ground." In November, Barack Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, saying, "If we’re going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we’re going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground."

Mothers Of Plaza De Mayo Reject Obama’s Visit To Argentina

March 31, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Argentina, Barack Obama, Mothers

By Staff of Tele Sur - The head of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Hebe de Bonafini, described the visit of President Obama to Argentina as "a mockery of the historical memory of the Argentine people." The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Association called misplaced the visit of US President, Barack Obama, to Argentina during the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the 1976 coup. "I started thinking what country represents Obama and I immediately jumped to mind the Condor Plan...

Protesters Disown Obama’s Visit To Argentina

March 31, 2016 Staff, www.latercera.com Resist! Argentina, Barack Obama, Protest Demonstrations

By Staff of La Tercera - Protesters marched today against the visit of President Barack Obama to Argentina and burned American flags near the US Embassy in Buenos Aires and place of accommodation of the president and his family. Between 1,500 and 2,000 demonstrators staged a protest outside the convention center La Rural in Palermo, where one organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina business meeting was held.

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