Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker
The US Senate returned to work this week after a two-week vacation during which COVID-19 exploded and the economy imploded. The moment of truth has now arrived. Will the House and Senate now bring forth a Covid relief package adequate to the Covid health and economic crises?
The last six months of the pandemic and economic collapse show that the two governing parties are presiding over a failed state. Most other organized societies have test, contract trace, and quarantine programs that have suppressed community spread of the virus and enabled a safe reopening of businesses and schools. The two major parties in the US have continued their dogmatic faith that private enterprise alone can deliver health care and economic recovery. It has been a dismal failure.
With 4% of the world’s population, the US has 25% of the world’s Covid deaths, more than 140,000 deaths so far, with public health experts predicting as many as 800,000 deaths by the end of the year.
Trump gave up. Covid won. Trump is a loser. But where is Biden? He lives within commuting distance of the White House press corps. He can command their attention as the presumptive Democratic nominee. Why isn’t he holding press conferences to pound away on the need for a test, trace, and quarantine program to suppress the virus and safely reopen the economy? He has only done one press conference with questions and answers since he became the presumptive nominee four months ago.
Meanwhile, the economy is now in a depression, with over 35 million unemployed, over 32 million receiving unemployment benefits, and six million dropping out of the labor force entirely since February. With tax revenues collapsing, the failure to provide federal funding to state and city governments risks the jobs of 22 million public sector workers. As of May, states and cities needed nearly $1 trillion in federal aid by this summer to keep operating without big layoffs of public workers.
The last COVID-19 bailout, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), turned into a feast of corruption by members of the Trump administration, Congress, and their families, donors, and political cronies. The disgrace was made worse because one-third of the people could not make their rent payments. 14 million children went hungry in June, three times the number of children who went hungry during the Great Recession, according to an analysis of Census data. The US government is infested with corporate crooks and flunkies. The next COVID-19 relief package must put in place protections against the theft of government funds by politicians, government insiders, and their confidants
Direct federal payments to individuals and small businesses are urgently needed if the US is to prevent long-term job loss by the destruction of Main Street small businesses, which accounted for nearly half of all jobs going into the COVID-19 economic lockdown.
The impact of the economic collapse will hit even harder next week because the temporary weekly increase of $600 in unemployment benefits ends on July 25, as does the federal moratorium on evictions from federally-subsidized housing. The Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey found 30 percent of renters had little or no confidence that they could meet housing payments in August. 28 million people could face eviction by September. An estimated 27 million people have lost their employer-linked health insurance.
In April we put forward an urgent agenda to address COVID-19 and the economic collapse. The health and economic crises have only deepened since. This updated agenda for the duration of the crises needs to be enacted by Congress now.
- Medicare to Pay for COVID-19 Testing and Treatment and All Emergency Health Care
- Defense Production Act to Rapidly Plan the Production and Distribution of Medical Supplies and a Universal Test, Contact Trace, and Quarantine Program to Suppress the Virus so the Economy and Schools Can Be Safely Reopened
- An OSHA Temporary Standard to Provide Enforceable PPE Protection for Workers
- $2,000 a Month per Individual (Including Children) Making Less Than $120,000 a Year
- Loans to All Businesses and Hospitals for Payroll and Fixed Overhead, To Be Forgiven If All Workers Are Kept on Payroll
- Moratorium on Evictions, Foreclosures, and Utility Shutoffs
- Cancel Rent, Mortgage, and Utility Payments; Federal Government Pays Those Bills; High-income People Pay Taxes on this Relief
- Continue the expanded unemployment benefits that provide $600 to the amount received when people receive benefits.
- Suspend Student Loan Payments with 0% Interest Accumulation
- Federal Universal Rent Control
- Aid to State and Local Governments Sufficient to Keep Essential Services Running
- Emergency Funding to Cover US Postal Service Revenue Shortfalls Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Universal Mail-in Ballot Option for the 2020 General Election
The housing crisis is becoming more acute. Even before the economic collapse, US cities suffered from chronic homelessness for hundreds of thousands of people. The homes for all program in the Hawkins/Walker Ecosocialist Green New Deal is a 10-year, $2.5 trillion program to build 25 million units of public housing to ensure that every person has access to affordable housing within a decade. The private housing market has never provided affordable housing for all.
Direct support to people must increase. Hawkins/Walker supports Senator Bernie Sanders’ Monthly Economic Crisis Support Act that would provide a monthly $2,000 check to every person, children included, making less than $120,000 a year. This support must continue until the US achieves economic recovery.
With consumer demand depressed, private investors are not risking job-creating new investments. Economic recovery requires public investment, with an immediate investment on the order of $4 trillion and a long-term public investment of the same yearly scale to sustain an economic recovery and to address the looming economy-killer in the background, the climate emergency.
Hawkins/Walker have called for the Green New Deal to be the engine of the recovery. The 10-Year, $42 Trillion budget for an Ecosocialist Green New Deal would create 38 million new jobs by rebuilding all our production systems for zero-to-negative greenhouse gas emissions, zero-waste recycling, and 100% clean renewable energy by 2030 in order to reverse the climate crisis and other environmental problems. It will employ public enterprise and planning, particularly in the energy, transportation, and manufacturing sectors, in order to make the clean energy transformation in a decade. The Economic Bill of Rights in the program will end poverty and economic insecurity through a job guarantee, a guaranteed income above poverty, Medicare for All, and doubling of Social Security benefits to provide a secure retirement for all seniors.
The COVID-19 health and economic crises are devastating. But they also present us with the opportunity to institute economic justice, public health, and climate protection measures that will build a sustainable prosperity for our future.
Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker are the Green Party candidates for president and vice president.
Howie is the Green Party candidate and, as long as he runs a real campaign, I'll be voting for him this November. I am a Green.
If Democrats want my vote? They should have nominated Bernie Sanders. He's the only Democrat that ran that I would have even thought of voting for.
I'm a Green Party member and my parents are as well. I was raised a Green. I will never vote for anyone who supported the Iraq War, sorry. That's always going to be a deal breaker and how sad that the Democrats refuse to run a ticket, all these years later, without at least one person who supported the Iraq War on it.
2004? John Kerry and John Edwards were on the ticket -- the two toilets both voted for the war.
2008 and 2012? Barack and Joe -- Joe voted for the war (Barack wasn't in Congress in 2003).
2016? Hillary voted for the war. (Who was her forgettable running mate?)
And now Joe again.
The worst policy decision of this century and that party can't build a ticket without people who supported it?
Disgusting.
This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Friday, July 24, 2020. In Iraq, a kidnapping victim is freed while in the US the race for the presidency continues.
Howie Hawkins shared a blog post he wrote about non-voters, describing them as alienated rather than apathetic. He highlighted turnout rates among working-class voters.
Jo Jorgensen released a digital campaign ad,
“War Is Over,” focused on foreign policy and national security. “We
need to have a strong military defending our shores, but there’s no
reason for us to be defending the rest of the world. It only makes
things worse. We’ve got to come home,” Jorgensen says in the clip.
Starting with news out of Iraq, Hella Mewis who was kidnapped earlier this week.
She has been freed. Thirsty Works Tweets:
Foreign Minister Maas is "very relieved": Iraqi security forces have freed the kidnapped German cultural mediator Hella Mewis. She was then taken to the German embassy in Baghdad.
Who is Hella? DEUTSCHE WELLE explains:
The German national has lived in Baghdad for several years, promoting the work of young Iraqi artists.
Mewis is a prominent figure in the Iraqi art scene and a known supporter of the widespread demonstrations that erupted last year against the Iraqi government, which some critics accuse of being corrupt and too close to Iran.
Her abduction sparked concern among other foreigners and activists living in the country and authorities have not given any information about who was behind her disappearance.
Mewis is a prominent figure in the Iraqi art scene and a known supporter of the widespread demonstrations that erupted last year against the Iraqi government, which some critics accuse of being corrupt and too close to Iran.
Her abduction sparked concern among other foreigners and activists living in the country and authorities have not given any information about who was behind her disappearance.
And while it is great news, note that no one is being held responsible. AP explains:
Hella Mewis was freed at 6:25 a.m. local time (11:25 p.m. Thursday)
in an operation southeast of the capital Baghdad in which security
forces raided a location based on intelligence they obtained regarding
her whereabouts, a security official said. A second security official
said she had been found blindfolded.
[. . .]
Iraqi security forces comprised of Interior Ministry personnel, intelligence officials and the federal police had worked to free Mewis by monitoring surveillance footage, among other methods, a statement from the Interior Ministry said.
Brig. Khaled Al-Muhanna, a spokesman for the ministry, said the kidnappers had not been arrested. The statement said an investigation was under way to bring the perpetrators to justice.
[. . .]
Iraqi security forces comprised of Interior Ministry personnel, intelligence officials and the federal police had worked to free Mewis by monitoring surveillance footage, among other methods, a statement from the Interior Ministry said.
Brig. Khaled Al-Muhanna, a spokesman for the ministry, said the kidnappers had not been arrested. The statement said an investigation was under way to bring the perpetrators to justice.
They monitored security footage, did they?
Why
didn't they just ask the Iraqi police? It was already noted in
multiple press accounts that she was kidnapped in broad daylight and
that the police saw it happen and did nothing.
For example, Helen Holmes (OBSERVER) noted: "Additionally, according to the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, police officers in Baghdad witnessed Mewis’s kidnapping but did not intervene."
Why would they do nothing? For the same reason that her kidnappers are not being arrested.
German national Hella Mewis, kidnapped in Baghdad on 20 July, has been rescued. Most kidnappings in Iraq are perpetrated by organised criminals for ransom, some are political, usually to blackmail, influence or to deliver a warning. Hella's kidnapping was political.
It was political.
Why was she targeted? One reason is noted by EURONEWS, "She is said to be an ardent supporter of recent mass anti-government
protests across the capital and the country's south, which is mostly
Shia."
The protests ousted the previous prime
minister. Though the current prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, has
promised to bring to justice the members of the security forces who
injured and killed protesters, nothing has been done and protesters
continue to be targeted.
That is only one of many possible reasons Hella was targeted.
In
the United States, a presidential election is scheduled to take place
in November. Presumptive Republican Party nominee is Donald Trump, the
current president. Emily Aubert (BALLOTPEDIA) reports, "Donald Trump raised $20 million during the campaign’s first virtual
fundraiser. Joe Biden launched a $15 million advertising campaign across
six battleground states." Joe Biden is the presumed presidential nominee for the Democratic Party.
The
election will take place in November. Presumably, these two people and
the parties they represent want Americans to vote for them. But with
an election only months away -- less than four full months away -- they
offer nothing to We The People.
And they offer
nothing in the midst of a global pandemic. Not only are they offering
nothing, they're now working -- united -- to reduce unemployment
benefits. Patrick Martin (WSWS) reports:
Behind the various proposals by the White House and congressional
Republicans and Democrats is a common class purpose. American
capitalists regard the $600-a-week supplemental unemployment
compensation as a major barrier to their campaign to force millions of
workers to go back to their jobs, regardless of the dangers from
coronavirus.
Corporate executives have complained that for many workers, the average of nearly $1,000 a week in state and federal unemployment payments combined represents a pay raise compared to the miserable wages they previously received for working 40 hours a week in warehouses, factories, fast-food restaurants and retail stores.
The business magazine Forbes carries a headline on its web site today: “Potential Unemployment Plan Means Huge Income Cut For Tens Of Millions Who Can’t Afford It.” For the financial oligarchs, that is not an indictment, but rather the purpose of the plan. These workers, they calculate, will have no choice but to take any job on offer, no matter how dangerous in terms of COVID-19 and no matter how low the pay.
In addition, big business wants to ensure that, like the CARES Act, the lion’s share of any new federal outlays will go to corporate America, both in large-scale loans and grants, and the so-called “small business” funds in the Paycheck Protection Program, much of which has gone to large companies and those with political connections to members of Congress.
Official Washington is fully conscious of the tidal wave of mass suffering and deprivation that the ending of federal extended benefits will unleash. The Trump administration has quietly extended for 30 days a moratorium, first enacted in the CARES Act, on evictions from federally backed housing. The White House wants to make the necessary preparations—particularly in bolstering local police and sheriff’s departments—before it begins to move against the estimated 12.3 million households who are now in arrears on rent and will face eviction after September 1.
The scale of the impending social collapse is indicated by a Washington Post report Thursday that as many as one million families in a single state, North Carolina, “have fallen behind on their electric, water and sewage bills, threatening residents and their cities with severe financial hardship unless federal lawmakers act to approve more emergency aid.” Duke Energy alone has more than 130,000 customers who are 60 days behind on their electric bills.
The American ruling class and its two corporate-controlled parties are planning to stage an election campaign over the next three months that will unfold against the backdrop of an unprecedented social calamity. Neither the fascistic Trump nor Democrat Joe Biden, the favored candidate of Wall Street and the CIA, offer anything to tens of millions of working people.
Corporate executives have complained that for many workers, the average of nearly $1,000 a week in state and federal unemployment payments combined represents a pay raise compared to the miserable wages they previously received for working 40 hours a week in warehouses, factories, fast-food restaurants and retail stores.
The business magazine Forbes carries a headline on its web site today: “Potential Unemployment Plan Means Huge Income Cut For Tens Of Millions Who Can’t Afford It.” For the financial oligarchs, that is not an indictment, but rather the purpose of the plan. These workers, they calculate, will have no choice but to take any job on offer, no matter how dangerous in terms of COVID-19 and no matter how low the pay.
In addition, big business wants to ensure that, like the CARES Act, the lion’s share of any new federal outlays will go to corporate America, both in large-scale loans and grants, and the so-called “small business” funds in the Paycheck Protection Program, much of which has gone to large companies and those with political connections to members of Congress.
Official Washington is fully conscious of the tidal wave of mass suffering and deprivation that the ending of federal extended benefits will unleash. The Trump administration has quietly extended for 30 days a moratorium, first enacted in the CARES Act, on evictions from federally backed housing. The White House wants to make the necessary preparations—particularly in bolstering local police and sheriff’s departments—before it begins to move against the estimated 12.3 million households who are now in arrears on rent and will face eviction after September 1.
The scale of the impending social collapse is indicated by a Washington Post report Thursday that as many as one million families in a single state, North Carolina, “have fallen behind on their electric, water and sewage bills, threatening residents and their cities with severe financial hardship unless federal lawmakers act to approve more emergency aid.” Duke Energy alone has more than 130,000 customers who are 60 days behind on their electric bills.
The American ruling class and its two corporate-controlled parties are planning to stage an election campaign over the next three months that will unfold against the backdrop of an unprecedented social calamity. Neither the fascistic Trump nor Democrat Joe Biden, the favored candidate of Wall Street and the CIA, offer anything to tens of millions of working people.
Martin also notes:
The Socialist Equality Party and its candidates in the 2020—Joseph
Kishore for president and Norissa Santa Cruz for vice president—say that
the working class is not responsible for the crisis caused by the
incompetent and homicidal policy of the American financial elite. We
demand an end to the premature and unsafe back-to-work and
back-to-school campaigns, full wages and benefits for all workers
sidelined by the pandemic, and a safe workplace and hazard pay for
essential workers who remain on the job.
Joseph Kishore Tweeted yesterday about the madness coming out of the corporate controlled system:
This is incredible. With the #COVID19 pandemic raging out of control, the auto companies are so determined to keep production going that they forced workers to work in the dark after a power outage at Chicago Ford. Photo from a worker in the article.
Joseph
is one of the non-corporate duopoly candidates. Gloria La Riva is
another. She is the US presidential nominee for the Party of Liberation
and Socialism. The Minneapolis chapter of the PSL Tweets:
Only a socialist system, in which the productive powers of society are brought under democratic control, can protect our planet! Help put socialism on the ballot in Minnesota by signing the ballot access petition for Gloria La Riva and Leonard Peltier at tiny.cc/PSL2020MN!
12:43 AM · Jul 24, 2020
And the PSL's newspaper LIBERATION carries this statement from candidate Gloria:
I strongly condemn Israel’s planned annexation of much of the West
Bank and I demand an end to U.S.aid to the state of Israel. I also call
for an immediate end to the annual gift of $3.8 billion in military aid
to Israel, an highly militarized state, the only one in the Middle East
that possesses nuclear weapons. The U.S. government also provides Israel
with billions more in loan guarantees and assistance.
In the midst of a deadly pandemic, tens of millions of people have lost jobs, housing, health care and more. While severely cutting food stamps at a time of rapidly growing hunger, the Trump administration is sending billions to fund the brutal occupation and repression of the oppressed Palestinian people.
Trump, while promoting the worst neo-Nazi, racist and anti-Semitic elements, simultaneously pretends that his support for Israel is based on sympathy with Jewish people! Through the backing of Israel’s annexation of Syrian land in the Golan Heights, the moving of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, and the so- called “Deal of the Century,” the Trump administration had given a green light to Israel to seize much of the West Bank. The worldwide uprising against racism, however, caused the administration to block Israel – at least temporarily – from annexing 30% or more of the West Bank.
As despicable as Trump and his cohorts are, it would be wrong to see the support for Israel and its anti-Palestinian apartheid system as just a Republican project. In fact, going back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 and the driving out of most of the Palestinian population, the Democratic Party has been the main supporter of vast military, economic and diplomatic support for Israel.
Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic candidate for President supported every form of aid to Israel in his 36 years as a U.S. Senator and eight years as vice-president.
Neither the Democrat nor Republican leaders’ support for Israel has anything to do with sympathy for Jewish people. They view Israel as a vital extension of U.S. military power in a key strategic region of the world. Israel’s wars against Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian people were also proxy wars against countries and movements viewed as enemies by Washington.
My campaign, the La Riva for President 2020 Campaign, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, we express our full solidarity with the people of Palestine, and the various ongoing movements to bring mass attention to their struggle for emancipation, such as the international call for BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions). My campaign calls for no annexation and supports true self-determination for the Palestinian people including the right of return to their stolen homeland for all Palestinian refugees.”
In the midst of a deadly pandemic, tens of millions of people have lost jobs, housing, health care and more. While severely cutting food stamps at a time of rapidly growing hunger, the Trump administration is sending billions to fund the brutal occupation and repression of the oppressed Palestinian people.
Trump, while promoting the worst neo-Nazi, racist and anti-Semitic elements, simultaneously pretends that his support for Israel is based on sympathy with Jewish people! Through the backing of Israel’s annexation of Syrian land in the Golan Heights, the moving of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, and the so- called “Deal of the Century,” the Trump administration had given a green light to Israel to seize much of the West Bank. The worldwide uprising against racism, however, caused the administration to block Israel – at least temporarily – from annexing 30% or more of the West Bank.
As despicable as Trump and his cohorts are, it would be wrong to see the support for Israel and its anti-Palestinian apartheid system as just a Republican project. In fact, going back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 and the driving out of most of the Palestinian population, the Democratic Party has been the main supporter of vast military, economic and diplomatic support for Israel.
Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic candidate for President supported every form of aid to Israel in his 36 years as a U.S. Senator and eight years as vice-president.
Neither the Democrat nor Republican leaders’ support for Israel has anything to do with sympathy for Jewish people. They view Israel as a vital extension of U.S. military power in a key strategic region of the world. Israel’s wars against Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian people were also proxy wars against countries and movements viewed as enemies by Washington.
My campaign, the La Riva for President 2020 Campaign, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, we express our full solidarity with the people of Palestine, and the various ongoing movements to bring mass attention to their struggle for emancipation, such as the international call for BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions). My campaign calls for no annexation and supports true self-determination for the Palestinian people including the right of return to their stolen homeland for all Palestinian refugees.”
Third party and
independent candidates face many hurdles. There is a disinterested
corporate media that either ignores them or mocks them. And let's stop
saying corporate media on that. Howie Hawkins was declared the Green
Party's presidential candidate two weeks ago. Not only has Amy Goodman
refused to invite him on DEMOCRACY NOW! since then, she hasn't even
included a headline about the Green Party's national convention or about
Howie securing the nomination. In addition to the media hurdle, there
is also the hurdle of ballot access -- getting their names on the ballot
so that Americans can vote for them. "Write them in!"" Sure, but in
some states, a write in vote only counts if the candidate has been
approved as a write in candidate.
Benjamin Cox (WLDS) reports on Illinois state':
In the U.S. Presidential race, the most notable name to file
yesterday was hip-hop star Kanye West. West, who is originally from
Chicago, was joined by some less notable names filing on Monday.
According to some sources, 3178 signatures appear to have been accepted
from West’s 4120 that were turned in. West’s campaign petitions have an
address for a vacant lot and out building that West owns in Cody,
Wyoming.
Leonard Peltier a federally imprisoned Native American activist in Florida filed as a Vice Presidential candidate on the Party for Socialism and Liberation. He previously ran for president in 2004. Peltier is one of the longest serving political prisoners in the world, as he has spent 43 years in prison. In a controversial 1977 trial, Peltier was convicted of aiding and abetting the murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He is not scheduled for parole until 2024. Peltier is the running mate to long-time socialist activist Gloria La Riva. This is La Riva’s 10th consecutive presidential or vice presidential candidacy.
Brian Carroll of Visalia, California and Amar Patel of Lombard, Illinois filed with the American Solidarity Party as president and vice president.
Signatures on petitions will be allowed to be contested until July 27th. Ballots will be finalized late next month.
Leonard Peltier a federally imprisoned Native American activist in Florida filed as a Vice Presidential candidate on the Party for Socialism and Liberation. He previously ran for president in 2004. Peltier is one of the longest serving political prisoners in the world, as he has spent 43 years in prison. In a controversial 1977 trial, Peltier was convicted of aiding and abetting the murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He is not scheduled for parole until 2024. Peltier is the running mate to long-time socialist activist Gloria La Riva. This is La Riva’s 10th consecutive presidential or vice presidential candidacy.
Brian Carroll of Visalia, California and Amar Patel of Lombard, Illinois filed with the American Solidarity Party as president and vice president.
Signatures on petitions will be allowed to be contested until July 27th. Ballots will be finalized late next month.
If the media would cover fairly, most voters would be aware that there's probably a candidate for everyone. For example?
Maybe
you hate soldiers. Not the military system, mind you, but just
soldiers. If you hate soldiers, Dario Hunter is the candidate for you.
As Ann notes in "Was Casey Sheehan a War Criminal?"
he participated this week in a conversation with Cindy Sheehan where
the two discussed how the American men who served in Vietnam were War
criminals -- in their minds. All of them. They weren't talking about
any War Crimes, actual ones, they were just saying that if you were an
American and you served in Vietnam, you were a War Criminal.
So if you're someone who hates American soldiers, Dario Hunter is the candidate for you.
Dario
ran for the Green Party's presidential nomination. Well . . . he
walked for it. A little. He lost to Howie Hawkins because he ran a
s**ty campaign but, since losing, he's gone on various podcasts to tell
America a big conspiracy theory about how he was denied the nomination
and the Greens just wanted Howie all along.
Green Party members certainly wanted Howie. That's how he secured the nomination.
That's Howie and his running mate Angela Walker.
Remember
how we were saying there's a candidate for everyone? Well maybe you
don't hate all American soldiers. Maybe you're someone who thinks the
president of the United States should be someone who served in the
military? If that's your requirement, Howie's your guy. He's the only
nominee this year who served in the military.
Howie
served in Vietnam. That's how Cindy Sheehan and Dario Hunter brought
up Vietnam. I mean, it's 2020 for goodness sake. And Cindy can't even
be bothered with talking about Iraq anymore -- for years now, in fact.
So why was she talking Vietnam? Because she and Dario wanted to trash
Howie as a War Criminal.
And you thought it only got ugly with Biden and Trump?
Here's Jo Jorgensen discussing COVID.
Jo Jorgensen is the US presidential candidate representing the Libertarian Party. Laura Burrows of the Los Alamos chapter of the Libertarian Party notes:
On August 8 at 10:30 a.m., protesters are gathering in the first
nationwide #LetHerSpeak driving protest in counties all across the
nation. The Los Alamos Libertarian Party will lead a group of local
community members in a COVID-safe demonstration, driving convoy style
down Trinity Drive, and Diamond and Central (see google maps specific
route plan). They will be decorating their cars parade-style and will
“go live” together on their social media channels.
This is a coordinated effort across the nation to protest the Commission on Presidential Debates continued decision to silence the Libertarian Nominee for the United States President, Dr. Jo Jorgensen, and all third parties are who are listed on the presidential ballot.
One hundred years ago this year, women were taking to the streets to protest the government to recognize their rights as sovereign citizens, and their right to be heard in elections, led by the Women Voters Coalition. The WVC also created the first presidential debates to give American voters a greater understanding of all their presidential candidates. In 1987, the Commission on Presidential Debates was formed to take over sponsorship of the debate and boxed the WVC out.
The CPD created polling restrictions to not allow third-parties in the debate by selecting random polls to determine who is polling above 15%. The catch? Most of these polls do not even mention a 3rd party candidate. In 2012, the minimum to participate was 10%, but when Gary Johnson got 12%, the CPD raised the polling requirement to 15%. Voters are being left in the dark with systemic voter manipulation.
We demand polling restrictions are changed to quantifiable results that cannot be manipulated by the CPD. Third parties who are listed as options on American ballots shall be allowed to debate so that Americans can properly compare their choices.
It’s been 100 years since the 19th amendment was passed, and Dr. Jo Jorgensen, the only female candidate (who is highly qualified), is still being silenced by the CPD. Dr. Jo Jorgensen has her Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology, is a Senior Lecturer at Clemson University, is an accomplished entrepreneur, and has a pristine record. The Libertarian Party is one of the only parties in the U.S. that has secured ballot access for presidential candidates in all 50 states. She is an educated and articulate woman with fresh ideas, and with as divided as the American public is, she deserves to be heard.
“Government is too big, too bossy, too nosy, and, worst of all, often hurts the very people it intends to help. The government doesn’t work; liberty and freedom do” – Dr. Jo Jorgensen
We invite all local press to participate in this grassroots event and meet us at the Ashley Pond Parking Lot on 20th Street and Trinity Drive on August 8 at 9:45 a.m. for a short rally before the convoy begins and “go live” with this historic event!
All participants will be wearing masks and be staying with their cars.
This is a coordinated effort across the nation to protest the Commission on Presidential Debates continued decision to silence the Libertarian Nominee for the United States President, Dr. Jo Jorgensen, and all third parties are who are listed on the presidential ballot.
One hundred years ago this year, women were taking to the streets to protest the government to recognize their rights as sovereign citizens, and their right to be heard in elections, led by the Women Voters Coalition. The WVC also created the first presidential debates to give American voters a greater understanding of all their presidential candidates. In 1987, the Commission on Presidential Debates was formed to take over sponsorship of the debate and boxed the WVC out.
The CPD created polling restrictions to not allow third-parties in the debate by selecting random polls to determine who is polling above 15%. The catch? Most of these polls do not even mention a 3rd party candidate. In 2012, the minimum to participate was 10%, but when Gary Johnson got 12%, the CPD raised the polling requirement to 15%. Voters are being left in the dark with systemic voter manipulation.
We demand polling restrictions are changed to quantifiable results that cannot be manipulated by the CPD. Third parties who are listed as options on American ballots shall be allowed to debate so that Americans can properly compare their choices.
It’s been 100 years since the 19th amendment was passed, and Dr. Jo Jorgensen, the only female candidate (who is highly qualified), is still being silenced by the CPD. Dr. Jo Jorgensen has her Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology, is a Senior Lecturer at Clemson University, is an accomplished entrepreneur, and has a pristine record. The Libertarian Party is one of the only parties in the U.S. that has secured ballot access for presidential candidates in all 50 states. She is an educated and articulate woman with fresh ideas, and with as divided as the American public is, she deserves to be heard.
“Government is too big, too bossy, too nosy, and, worst of all, often hurts the very people it intends to help. The government doesn’t work; liberty and freedom do” – Dr. Jo Jorgensen
We invite all local press to participate in this grassroots event and meet us at the Ashley Pond Parking Lot on 20th Street and Trinity Drive on August 8 at 9:45 a.m. for a short rally before the convoy begins and “go live” with this historic event!
All participants will be wearing masks and be staying with their cars.
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