10-30-23 Newsletter

 

YEA! Lots of Good News Of Late - A reminder of what we’ve learned in the last few weeks:  GDP growth In The Third Quarter Was 4.9% - A huge encouraging number, another sign of the strength and vitality of the American economy despite it all This Month’s Jobs Report Exceeded Expectations, Again - Under Biden lowest unemployment rate since the 1960s, lowest uninsured rate ever New Inflation Date Released Today Shows Inflation Continues to Fall The Wealth of Americans Jumped 37% from 2020 to 2022 - As we like to say here, we are better off today due to Joe Biden and the Democrats When Voters Are Informed About What Biden Has Done, His Numbers Go Up - another in a long line of polls show that by informing voters of what Biden has done his approval goes way up. This can and will be done next year by the campaign Gas Prices Are Lower Than They Were A Year Ago - despite Russia and Saudi Arabia trying to raise gas prices, the price of gas keeps tumbling Murder and Violent Crimes Rates Came Down in 2022, and Continue to Fall in 2023 American Has Experienced An Explosion of New Black and Hispanic Small Businesses Lots of New, Encouraging Data About Our Transition From Fossil Fuels to Cleaner Forms of Energy -- -- Simon Rosenberg, Hopium Chronicles, Substack, October 27, 2023 Enjoy another long list of more good news from Jessica Craven's "Extra, Extra!" October 29 newsletter. A lot of it was accomplished thanks to the work of activists like you. US ECONOMY "STRONGEST IN THE WORLD" Historian Health Cox Richardson continues to provide context and accurate news about current events. INCO enthusiastically recommends subscribing to her Substack newsletter, Letters from an American. This excerpt is from her October 28 edition: "A recent stunning jobs report, showing that the economy continues to add jobs at record rates—more than 13.9 million since President Joe Biden took office—along with yesterday’s stunning report that U.S. economic growth grew at an annual pace of 4.9% in the third quarter of this year, puts the U.S. economy at the forefront of most of the world. And inflation is back in the range that the Federal Reserve prefers—it’s at 2.4%, close to the Fed’s target of 2%. "The U.S. is outperforming forecasts made even before the pandemic began for where the economy would be now, even as other countries are worse off.  "And yet, Rampell notes, Americans are about as negative about the economy today as they were during the Great Recession after 2008, when mortgage foreclosures were forcing people out of their homes and unemployment rested at about 9%, more than twice what it is today. In contrast, consumers give high marks to the Trump years, when average growth before the pandemic was 2.5% and the U.S. added only about 6.4 million jobs. "There is a crucial divorce here between image and reality. Americans think our economy, currently the strongest in the world, is in poor shape. They mistakenly believe it was better under Trump." YIKES! -- Simon Rosenberg, Hopium Chronicles on Substack, October 26, 2023 REMEMBER TO VOTE BY NOVEMBER 7 This election affects those registered to vote within the city limits of City of Warrenton, in the Cannon Beach Rural Fire Protection District, and in the Mist-Birkenfeld Rural Fire Protection District.  Every election matters, and every vote counts. Jessica Craven, author of Chop Wood, Carry Water on Substack, is guest speaker at the next COINversation. If you're not already registered for COIN meetings, register here to get the meeting link and submit a question for Jessica. If you are already registered, you can re-register if you want to submit a question. That's also election night, so we're extra excited to have Jessica with us as we wait for some important results around the country.   INVESTING IN AMERICA The US has launched the first phase of the Regional Innovation and Technology Hub Program (Tech Hubs Program). The CHIPS and Science Act. Heather Cox Richardson details how these 31 hubs in 32 states and Puerto Rico will  innovate, create jobs, and protect our supply chains. It's an exciting program worth reading about here. -- Swing Left, October 25, 2023 THE GOP: "A MASS OF SELF-INTEREST" "The current Republican Party is not a coherent political entity. It’s not even a consortium of interest groups. It’s a toxic mass of self-interest, thriving in a right-wing media ecosystem and driven by a mix of fealty and fear toward an erratic, undisciplined, untethered, and egotistical would-be autocrat. What could go wrong? Obviously, a ton." -- Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner, Steady newsletter, October 24, 2023 "Conversations of a different sort are going on among the Republican members of the House of Representatives, but they are unwilling to talk to their Democratic colleagues, who have repeatedly offered to work with those Republicans who reject MAGA extremism." -- Heather Cox Richardson, historian, Letters from an American, October 24, 2023 HOW TO SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY You can support pro-democracy candidates and issues: • Tell  Senators Wyden and Merkley and Congresswoman Bonamici the issues and programs that matter to you. Contact information is at www.incoregon.org. • Get active with pro-democracy organizations. In Clatsop County, the most effective political party is the Democrats. Clatsop Democrats meet monthly on the 4th Monday via Zoom. For information on meetings, upcoming events and getting involved, go to www.clatsopdems.org.  Have a question?  Contact secretary@clatsopdems.  • Start thinking about your friends and neighbors who could run for local or state office next spring or in November, 2024. INCO INSIGHTS "“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Indivisible defends democracy by opposing authoritarianism, bigotry, and corruption. Comments, news, and photos to INCO at incoregon@gmail.com.  Resources and other information at www.incoregon.org and www.indivisible.org. Encourage others to sign up for the INCO newsletter at our website or here. Look for the INCO column in Hipfish Monthly. We're on Facebook, too. INCO Weekly Newsletter   October 30, 2023 Website Email Twitter Copyright © 2023 INDIVISIBLE North Coast Oregon, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website or signed up at a community group meeting. Our mailing address is: *|766 Lexington Avenue, Astoria, OR 97103:HTML|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

10-23-23 Newsletter

 

"GLEAMS OF GOLD IN THE DARKNESS" "Nevertheless those who create, who nurture, who produce music or paintings or poems or novels, who produce treatments and even cures for deadly diseases, who are scholars, artists, naturalists, scientists, those who love in the face of hate, who do the right thing when the wrong thing would be so much easier---what they produce is not hope, but life itself: a reason to live and to persevere in spite of all the horrors, and with no guarantee that anything will get better. "Without those remarkable people, human existence would be, perhaps, entirely  unbearable. Because of them, there are gleams of gold in the darkness." -- Willoughby, reader's comment, Steady newsletter, October 15, 2023 RESISTANCE AND RENOVATION We must resist the sense of helplessness that comes with tracking the news. Suggestions for staying engaged and hopeful: • Check out Chop Wood, Carry Water every Sunday for good news from around the world, and note how citizen activists helped achieve success. Yesterday's edition is here. • Stay informed. Current polling on many issues reveals that many Americans don't have accurate information. Social media is a hotbed of misinformation, much of it created and spread by Russia. Check out reputable news sources, preferably more than one. • Activate your inner activist. Many effective grassroots groups are working to elect progressive candidates, support important ballot issues, and defeat the spread of Trump-allied propaganda and candidates. Those groups need you for essential pro-democracy work. Sign up to work or donate. • Stay in touch with your elected leaders at various levels of government. City, county, state, and federal contact info is at www.incoregon.org. Most elected officials welcome phone calls, postcards, and emails. "In other words, democracy renovation is underway all over the country. And a lot of people are passionate about it."  -- Danielle Allen, The Washington Post, October 19, 2023.  You can read more about democracy renovation here. AMERICAN IDENTITY "But “American” is not an ethnic identity. It is a choice, a bond to the Constitution and its ideals. America is not a defense compact or a customs union. It is a statement: Human beings have rights that can never be taken away, and our nation values and defends those rights." -- Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, October 16, 2023 -- The Lincoln Project INCO INSIGHTS "As journalists have occasionally said, What is there that will happen next that you can't even imagine?" -- Paul Lauterbur, Nobel Prize for Medicine, 2003 Indivisible defends democracy by opposing authoritarianism, bigotry, and corruption. Comments, news, and photos to INCO at incoregon@gmail.com.  Resources and other information at www.incoregon.org and www.indivisible.org. Encourage others to sign up for the INCO newsletter at our website or here. Look for the INCO column in Hipfish Monthly. We're on Facebook, too. INCO Weekly Newsletter   October 23, 2023 Website Email Twitter Copyright © 2023 INDIVISIBLE North Coast Oregon, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website or signed up at a community group meeting. Our mailing address is: *|766 Lexington Avenue, Astoria, OR 97103:HTML|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

10-16-23 Newsletter

 

CHOP WOOD, CARRY WATER "It’s critical for us to remember that all isn’t lost right now. Many things are tough—ghastly, even—but many other things are trending in the right direction. Two things can be true at once. "Remember: despair is the enemy. Hope is our ally." -- Jessica Craven; Chop Wood, Carry Water, October 15, 2023 Jessica is the author of the Chop Wood, Carry Water newsletter (on Substack) and describes herself as an organizer, activist, climate hawk and mom, based in California. Her newsletters are hopeful, filled with examples of successes and simple things we can all do to make a big difference.  If you are not already registered for COIN meetings, you can register for the COINversation and submit your question for Jessica here. STAY IN TOUCH How will your elected leaders know what you want if you don't tell them?  Contact info for city, county, state, and federal elected leaders is on the INCO website, here. It's easy to call. Your Members of Congress want to hear from you! Senator Ron Wyden: 503-326-7525 Senator Jeff Merkley: 503-326-3386 Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici: 503--469-6010 INCO INSIGHTS "Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth" -- Gerald Edelman, Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1972 Indivisible defends democracy by opposing authoritarianism, bigotry, and corruption. Comments, news, and photos to INCO at incoregon@gmail.com.  Resources and other information at www.incoregon.org and www.indivisible.org. Encourage others to sign up for the INCO newsletter at our website or here. Look for the INCO column in Hipfish Monthly. We're on Facebook, too. INCO Weekly Newsletter   October 16, 2023 Website Email Twitter Copyright © 2023 INDIVISIBLE North Coast Oregon, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website or signed up at a community group meeting. Our mailing address is: *|766 Lexington Avenue, Astoria, OR 97103:HTML|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.