7-22-24 Newsletter

 

Jerzy Kosinski: "I think she's the only woman I have always loved."* BE INSPIRED In these fraught times, INCO recommends this stirring video by Ken Burns on PBS about the Statue of Liberty - what inspired her, how she was built, who made her happen. It's a lovely reminder of why we and other pro-democracy activists around the world continue to do this challenging and necessary work. *Please note that a caption added by INCO allows mobile phone users to read them more easily. PRESIDENT BIDEN'S ANNOUNCEMENT "It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term."  -- President Joe Biden, July 21, 2024. His entire statement is here. "It’s up to us. No more squabbling. No more dissension. Organize. Donate. Get behind our party and our candidate and work to win." -- Lucian Truscott IV, Substack newsletter, July 21, 2024 -- The Lincoln Project, July 21, 2024 WRITE TO VOTERS TUESDAYS, 3 - 4:30 pm - WineKraft, east end of Pier 11 Mall, 77 11th Street, Astoria  No purchase necessary.   Invite a friend to come with you! INCO provides postcards, scripts, pens, stamps, and Wite-Out. Wow! Twenty-three climate activists, shown in the photo, braved 96+° heat to write 200 Get Out the Vote postcards to Florida voters for their primary August 20, 2024. They were attending a July 14th postcard potluck picnic in Charlottesville, VA.  CLATSOP DEMOCRATS MEET MONDAY Monday, July 22 at 6 pm, via Zoom  Guest speaker: Eileen Kiely, Vice Chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon Register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. ELECT ANDY DAVIS AS STATE REPRESENTATIVE “My interest in running for this race is relatively simple: I think it’s important that the Democrats in the district and left-wing independents have a choice on the ballot.” Andy Davis was selected as the Democratic nominee for state House District 32 on Thursday night. The Astoria city councilor will face state Rep. Cyrus Javadi, a Tillamook MAGA Republican, in the November election. Davis described himself as pro-choice, pro-union and an advocate for housing. Davis works as an analyst for the Oregon Health Authority specializing in health care, -- Thanks to the The Astorian, July 19, 2024, for this information. Thursday, August 1 at 5 pm • Patriot Hall Gym at Clatsop Community College, Astoria  PROJECT 2025: THE GOP'S ANTI-DEMOCRACY BLUEPRINT • No climate research, no free weather forecasts “The preponderance of its climate-change research should be disbanded," says the Project 2025 document. Its backers also plan to end free weather reports and all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Read more in this July 16th Atlantic article by Zoe Schlanger. • "It’s the end of public education as we know it." Project 2025 plans to "end the Department of Education. A big part of its work is to guarantee equal access to quality education. Project 2025 calls for increased privatization of education and an end to programs related to diversity of LGBTQ+ youth." Other goals: more school vouchers, eliminate Head Start, allow public funding of religious education.  -- Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, July 18, 2024 • "Project 2025's extreme vision for the West" Among other jaw-dropping plans, Project 2025 calls for • Expanding oil and gas lease sales onshore and offshore (p.522); • Opening large parts of Alaska to oil and gas exploration and development (pp. 523, 524); • Halting the ongoing review of the federal coal-leasing program -- More about the impact on the West in High Country News, July 19, 2024 LEARN MORE ABOUT PROJECT 2025 • "Project 2025’s extreme vision for the West," in High Country News, July 19, 2024 • Sign up for Joyce' Vance's Substack newsletter for in-depth explanations of Project 2025. • Watch Heather Cox Richardson explain Project 2025 in this Red Wine & Blue video. • Find a topic that interests you in the Project 2025  table of contents.  • The 920-page Project 2025 document is here.  • The July 22nd New Yorker magazine and online, "Inside the Trump Plan for 2025" "And, again, sir, I'm so sorry that I called you America's Hitler, and so relieved that you took it as a compliment." -- cartoon by Paul Noth, newyorker.com INCO INSIGHTS “For the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” — President John F. Kennedy, 1962 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 here. Look for the INCO column in Hipfish Monthly. We're on Facebook, too. INCO Weekly Newsletter  July 22, 2024 Website Email Facebook Copyright © 2024 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.

7-15-24 Newsletter

 

INCO applauds President Biden for his statement about the attack against Donald Trump: "There’s no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it." "Whoever is to blame for the attempted killing of Donald Trump is beside the point.  The shooting of Trump should be condemned.  Gun violence should be condemned.  There is something deeply wrong with America right now.  Trump was a victim today, but we are all the victims of the political violence that has proliferated in rhetoric and now, reality.  The political atmosphere that birthed this attempt on a former president’s life has infected us all.  If it is allowed to continue, we are doomed." -- Lucian Truscott IV, Substack newsletter, July 13, 2024 INSIGHTS FROM THE PAST INCO recommends historian Timothy Snyder's fascinating July 14 newsletter about political violence. He shares his "thoughts about where we are, based on assassinations during the interwar period, the 1920s and 1930s. It is distant enough that perhaps we can attend to the examples without too much emotion, and yet close enough to be useful."  "WE HAVE ONE JOB....TO BEAT DONALD TRUMP." -- President Biden's July 8 entire letter to Congressional Democrats is here.   "So, yes, we will stop Trump. But we will do it with ballots, not bullets." -- Jay Kuo, Status Kuo on Substack, July 14, 2024 Note: Real GDP adjusted for inflation and seasonal fluctuations. Source: US Bureau of Economic Analysis "Write with us to make a difference!"  Lori, Susan, McLaren, Laurie, Dawn, Claudia, and Janet WRITE TO VOTERS TUESDAYS, 3 - 4:30 pm - WineKraft, east end of Pier 11 Mall, 77 11th Street, Astoria  No purchase necessary.   Invite a friend to come with you! INCO provides postcards, scripts, pens, stamps, and Wite-Out. WRITE LETTERS TO VOTERS IN OREGON Letters to Voters from Vote Forward has added CD-05. INCO members can help us Flip the House by working an Oregon campaign! You and other volunteers send heartfelt handwritten letters to unregistered and low-propensity voters encouraging them to participate in our democracy. The letters have been shown to significantly boost voter turnout. GOOD NEWS FOR DEMOCRACY INCO recommends Democracy Docket for its informative newsletters and website.   PROJECT 2025: THE GOP'S ANTI-DEMOCRACY BLUEPRINT "The crucial thing to understand about Project 2025 is that it is not small-government conservatism. It is big-government authoritarianism. While some agencies – the Department of Education and Department of Commerce, for example – would be eliminated, most would be pressed into service to create a Christian Nationalist state in which any non-Christian (or non-conservative-Christian) is rendered a second-class citizen."   -- Jay Michaelson, The Forward, July 11, 2024 INDIVISIBLE'S WARNING "If Trump wins and Republicans control Congress, here are just a few things they plan to do: Fire thousands of government employees and install Trump loyalists Dismantle the Department of Education, turn federal education funding into religious school vouchers, and end civil rights protections Eliminate the National Weather Service Ban abortion and instruct the FDA to reverse its approval of life-saving drugs like mifepristone and emergency contraception End carbon emissions rules and give free reign to big polluters from the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries Abolish same-sex marriage and other LGBTQI+ rights Privatize Medicare And begin mass deportations of millions of people "Speaker Johnson was one of the key players in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election – and he will do everything in his power to turn Trump's extremist wish list into law. "Project 2025 will essentially make our country an autocratic regime at odds with everything the United States embodies – freedom, opportunity, and democracy. It is an outright power grab intent on destroying the separation of powers and undermining checks and balances in government." LEARN MORE ABOUT PROJECT 2025 • Sign up for Joyce' Vance's Substack newsletter to follow her Project 2025 study group. • Find a topic that interests you in the Project 2025  table of contents.  • The 920-page Project 2025 document is here.  INCO INSIGHTS "Optimism isn't a belief that things will automatically get better; it's a conviction that we can make things better." -- Melinda Gates 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 here. Look for the INCO column in Hipfish Monthly. We're on Facebook, too. INCO Weekly Newsletter  July 15, 2024 Website Email Facebook Copyright © 2024 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.