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Arnie Arnesen
Donald Trump has demolished a portion of the White House with the help of his billionaire supplicants, and some of America’s leading corporations. The obliteration of hallowed and historic grounds is a despicable act that stands apart as one of the most profoundly corrupt acts in American history.
While the government is shuttered, American troops are pointing weapons at American civilians, and a masked secret police force is abducting American citizens, Donald Trump has decided to build a ballroom that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. It will stand as a monument to greed, graft, corruption, incompetence and nihilism.
The design is grotesque, but perfectly in keeping with the aesthetic Trump prefers — Liberace-meets-Albert Speer-meets-DJ Jazzy Jeff.
Tacky, appalling, ugly and hideous don’t begin to describe the ruination of the people’s house. The Democratic Party should make clear that Donald’s defacements, vandalisms and constitutional arson will not stand.
The ‘Billionaire Ballroom’ has to go.
The full restoration of the majesty of the White House must be the first commitment made by a Democratic nominee for president to the American people.
MAGA has many delusions, but perhaps the most depraved of all is the notion that the American people will tolerate the obliteration of 1600 Pennsylvania by its loathsome tenant.
During these troubled times it is easy to become dispirited by the constant insanity, imbecility and epic abuses being committed against America by a gangster regime where Nazis, imbeciles, weirdos and corrupt hacks seem to find a new way to insult patriotism, simple decency and the concept of duty.
Don’t be.Be grateful.The Rose Garden will be restored, and ‘Predator Patio’ will be broken up and pulverized to dust.
There is no chance that Donald Trump’s monument to corruption can be handed down to our children and grandchildren.
This issue is no small thing.
Every single Democrat who wants to be president should understand the deep meaning and greater opportunity at hand.
Defiance is a good thing for a party mostly beset with appeasers and weakness that is not meeting the moment, or matching the mood of the American people. They are fed up with Trump, the collaborators who serve him, and the appeasers who refuse to stand up against him.
Destroying Trump’s gilded ballroom will mark the beginning of national recovery and redemption.The monuments in Washington, DC, that endure are built to celebrate freedom, not indulgence or fascism. The fight over the ballroom will signal the fate of the United States.
If it exists at all 10 years' from now, it will mean that the country was lost.Should it be gone, then MAGA will be too. Let us pray that it is.
The Global Labor Movement: Unity in Diversity
Democrats Abroad Norway Rally speaker for Democrats abroad
Liv Tørres is International Secretary in The Norwegian Conferation of Trade Unions (LO) with over 1 million members. She has been Executive Director of the Nobel Peace Center, Secretary General of the Norwegian People's Aid, Research Director at the social science foundation FAFO, and has held many other academic and leadership positions (New York University, University of Oslo, Wits University in South Africa, Norwegian Research Council and more). Her PhD was on the trade union movement and political change in South Africa.
Liv Tørres will speak on how basic workers' rights are under attack by right-wing parties in many countries, not least the U.S. She will report from visits in the U.S. where she met a labor movement standing up for their rights through demonstrations and by going to court. Only by standing together can the labor movement be a strong force for workers' rights in Norway and globally
in depth bio: Liv Tørres is a Non-Resident Fellow at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC) and currently the International Secretary of the Norwegian Confederation of Labour – LO Norway. Tørres was formerly the Director of the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies program. The Pathfinders is a group of UN member states, international organizations, global partnerships, civil society, and the private sector working to accelerate the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals’ targets for peace, justice and inclusion (SDG16+). She has worked on international humanitarian, peace, and development issues, as both a scholar and practitioner, for three decades. Before joining Pathfinders, she was the executive director of the Nobel Peace Center. She previously served as the secretary general of Norwegian People’s Aid, a humanitarian, development, and disarmament organization operating in over 40 countries, after several years of leading its International Department.She has also worked for many years on labour issues, as a political advisor for Norway’s Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion, the manager of the first National Labour Force Survey in South Africa, and with several publications on trade unionism, labour relations and labour market issues. She was also a member of the Norwegian Labour Party´s International Committee for nearly 10 years.Her academic background includes positions such as senior advisor leading development research at the Research Council of Norway, and associate professor at the University of Oslo. In the 1990s, she established and managed Fafo South Africa, an international policy research center, where she also served as managing director for several years. More recently, since 2017, she has served as a visiting professor at Wits University in Johannesburg. She is currently the chair of the portfolio board on Global Development and International Relations research at the Research Council of Norway.
Tørres holds a PhD in political science from the University of Oslo. She is an active commentator whose expertise is in demand in fields including peacebuilding, conflict resolution, justice and equality, inclusive societies, development policy, labour issues, and democratization.
part two:What the First Amendment doesn’t protect when it comes to professors speaking out on politics. https://theconversation.com/what-the-first-amendment-doesnt-protect-when-it-comes-to-professors-speaking-out-on-politics-266128
Neal H. Hutchens is a University Research Professor at the University of Kentucky, where he serves as a faculty member in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation. His research focuses on the intersections of higher education law, policy, and practice, with much of his scholarship centered on issues of free speech and academic freedom in higher education. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in education policy and a J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law.
Among his publications, Hutchens is a member of the author team for The Law of Higher Education: Essentials for Legal and Administrative Practice, a leading legal treatise on higher education law. Along with his academic writing,
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