Politics

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Western values

 

Western values (fl. 1946- ) are those moral ideas that many in the West say they value most, like freedom and democracy.
The English word “values” only goes back to 1918. It comes from a sociological model of how society works.
The phrase “Western values” did not catch on till the late 1940s during the Cold War. The US opposed the Soviet Union and world communism. So it played up the values that set it apart from communism, like capitalism, democracy and human rights of a particular sort (freedom of speech and religion, say, rather than equality). Men will not die for rubber, tin and oil, but they will die for “freedom” and “democracy”.

 

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Source: abagond.wordpress.com

 

Another on point article by Abagond.

 

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Tweets you must see 1.6 – #NAACPbombing

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Samantha Power

 

Samantha Power (1970- ) has been the US ambassador to the United Nations since 2013, succeeding Susan Rice. She has long been a top adviser to Barack Obama on foreign policy. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her book “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide” (2002). She was a professor at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights.

 

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Source: abagond.wordpress.com

 

Interesting article on the complexities of mixing real world politics and self interest with real world human rights.

 

Reminds me of Dr. MLK’s quote of each of us having both good and bad qualities.

 

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NY Attorney General Asks to Probe Deaths by Police

 

New York state’s attorney general has asked the governor to authorize his office to investigate deaths at the hands of police following the public outcry over the death of Eric Garner on Staten Island.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, in a letter Monday to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said that authority exists under New York law, has been used in the past, and is needed now because of the “crisis of confidence” in law enforcement.

 

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Source: www.wnyc.org

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“It’s a Disgrace” Even U.S. Congressmen are Disgusted with the Grand Jury Decision in Garner Case [VIDEO]

 

New York, N.Y. – A U.S. congressional delegation of Congressmen from New York, representing a broad cross section of ethnicity, held a press conference to express their absolute disgust with the grand jury decision to not indict anyone in the killing of Eric Garner.

“The decision by a grand jury not to indict in the death of Eric Garner is a miscarriage of justice. It’s an outrage, it’s a disgrace, it’s a blow to our democracy and it should shock the conscience of every single American who cares about justice and fair play,” said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.

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Source: thefreethoughtproject.com

 

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

#iCANTBREATH

#SHUTitDOWN

#CANCERofRACISM

 

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Florida GOP official tweets: Use ‘big fire hoses’ to knock those Ferguson ‘thugs’ over

 

Comment by Glenn Robinson

 

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I tried to find the original tweet and it looks like she deleted her Twitter account.

 

Source: www.rawstory.com

Social media has proven that racists are rampant in the U.S.

Even with running the blog OppressionMonitor.us I was still shocked and sickened to see this video of White people harassing Black people who are standing up about being LYNCHED by thug cops.

 

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nation of immigrants

 

President Obama

President Obama

His words do not apply to about 40% of the nation:

  • Not to Native Americans who were wiped out or driven west.
  • Nor to Black Americans who arrived in chains.
  • Nor to Chinese Americans who were killed or driven out of the western US in the late 1800s.
  • Nor to Mexican Americans deported in the 1930s.
  • Nor to the people whose lands the US took over: Native Americans,Northern Mexicans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Puerto Ricans, Guamanians, Palauans, Eastern Samoans, Northern Mariana Islanders or Virgin Islanders.
  • Nor, given the perpetual foreigner stereotype, to Asian Americans.
  • Nor to most British or Dutch Americans, who were not immigrants (people who move to a foreign country) but colonists (people who create an offshoot of their mother country). Calling them “immigrants” would mean they joined Native American societies. They were conquerors and invaders, not “immigrants”.

 

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Source: abagond.wordpress.com

 

All this is why I study the changing policies if (im)migration law. In a country that preaches Freedom and Liberty, it has always been more freedom and more liberty for light skinned people.

 

You can easily see the racism and xenophobia that the U.S. is built on when examining Border politics.

 

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REPORT: DESTRUCTIVE DELAY: THE STATE OF IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AND THE HUMAN COST OF POSTPONING REFORMS

 

Destructive Delay, written by Tania Unzueta and co-authored by B. Loewe, illuminates the inhumane interior Immigration and Customs Enforcement practices that continue unabated while the President postpones action and it highlights the human cost of the delay. The key findings shed light on an agency driven by one calculated mission, to meet a draconian deportation quota, regardless of the costs to public safety, institutional integrity, moral or constitutional considerations.

Through almost three dozen interviews with front-line organizers, legal experts, and people in deportation proceedings, Destructive Delay collects previously disparate and disconnected stories of the lived experience of ICE enforcement activity into a single document. The report provides real-life context for the rhetoric of the debate and gives an inside look into how immigration policy is actually working on the ground.

 

Source: www.notonemoredeportation.com