George and Amal Clooney have announced a partnership with the Southern Poverty Law Center to combat “bigotry and hate” in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The Clooney Foundation for Justice says that it will bestow a grant of $1m to the SPLC in order to assist the civil rights organization in its attempts to combat violent extremism in the US, following the death of counter-protester Heather Heyer at a white supremacist rally in the campus city earlier this month.
“Amal and I wanted to add our voice (and financial assistance) to the ongoing fight for equality,” George Clooney said. “There are no two sides to bigotry and hate.”
“We are proud to support the Southern Poverty Law Center in its efforts to prevent violent extremism in the United States,” the pair added in a statement. “What happened in Charlottesville, and what is happening in communities across our country, demands our collective engagement to stand up to hate.”
Keep in mind that most terrorist attacks in this country are perpetrated by Right Wing extremists.
And since Trump and his cohorts don't seem to believe that terrorism exists unless it is perpetrated by an Islamic person with brown skin I guess that leaves it up to private citizens and liberal Hollywood activists to do the heavy lifting.
They could not have chosen a better group to donate their money too. The SPLC has fought extremism for many years and they've done it the right way, in the courts.
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Terrorism does not exist if violence is to keep women and persons of color in their place and condemned guilty without evidence or their existence displeasing white males in Trump world.
ReplyDeleteWhen Trump rants that all Mexicans are causing our youth to be hooked on drugs I consider drug dealers, distribution, people of all colors and businesses, students who are part of the illegal drug networks. All Mexicans are not the drug cartel.
Trump is a master role model of scapegoating.
Tim Gionet (aka “Baked Alaska”)
ReplyDelete"“It’s ironic that some of these people start off calling themselves libertarian, but they are the antithesis of everything that the libertarian project stands for—which is cosmopolitanism versus parochialism, individualism vs. group identity, and libertarianism or autonomy versus authoritarianism,”
"“The paleo-libertarian seed that Ron Paul, Murray Rothbard, and Lew Rockwell planted in the 1990s has come to bear some really ugly fruit in the last couple of years as elements of the alt-right have made appearances in various libertarian organizations and venues,”
"Ron Paul is the guy who lit the fuse,” Gillespie sees Paul’s legacy as very mixed, as someone who was “simultaneously… positing this very libertarian worldview, but then he’s also speaking to people’s fears and anxieties.”
"ome of these personality types simply enjoy holding outrageous and provocative views, who like to argue and fight with others, who like insult and… shock.” aka JBS
http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-insidious-libertarian-to-alt-right-pipeline
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/every-moment-donald-trumps-long-complicated-history-race/?platform=hootsuite
ReplyDelete"Every moment in Donald Trump’s long and complicated history with race" 1973-2017
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/24/kobachs-watch-kansas-tossed-3-times-ballots-like-sized-states.html
ReplyDelete"Kansas through OUT 3 times as many ballots as other similarly sized states. Experts are worried."
The Insidious Libertarian-to-Alt-Right Pipeline. Is it just a phase they go through—or is there something about libertarianism that attracts, well, uh, you know, racist kooks?
ReplyDeleteLibertarianism has an alt-right problem. Many prominent leaders of the alt-right have, at some point, identified as libertarian. I am curious as to… why? http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-insidious-libertarian-to-alt-right-pipeline
"the tragicomic"
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"as it always does with Trump, follows a pattern. Back in the late 1980s, Trump was trying to build a mega-development on the west side of Manhattan. He blew the deal in part because he got into a needless public brawl with the mayor of New York at the time, Ed Koch."Trump antagonized local residents, planning boards and Koch, raising the ante every time he didn't get exactly what he wanted and publicly accusing Koch of "ludicrous and disgraceful behavior." Koch, noting that he thought Trump was being "piggy, piggy, piggy," warned the young developer not to try to "influence the process through intimidation."
"He doesn't build strong teams, doesn’t cultivate sophisticated partnerships and doesn't do his homework. Instead, he stays locked on fostering his own celebrity and guarding against any perceptions that he's not a "WINner.""He has his money and the whole world's bounteous attention. As long as he has those things, he's willing to forfeit more enduring accomplishments while he fosters the illusion of personal strength. By that standard, defeats feel like triumphs, achievements leave him cold and allies are a waste of time."
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https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-24/mitch-mcconnell-is-trump-s-latter-day-ed-koch
It was almost lunchtime inside the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, on May 12, 2008. The meatpackers, mostly migrants from Guatemala and Mexico, wore earplugs to block out the noise of the machinery and couldn’t hear the two black helicopters hovering overhead or the hundreds of armed federal immigration agents closing in around them until the production line stopped. One worker tried to flee with his knives, stabbing himself in the leg when he was pushed to the ground. “They rounded us up toward the middle like a bunch of chickens,” a 42-year-old Guatemalan worker later recalled. “Those who were hiding were beaten and shackled.”
ReplyDeleteNearly 400 workers were arrested in the bust, which cost $5 million and was then the biggest workplace immigration raid in US history.
AUG. 24, 2017 6:00 AM. "Judge Linda Reade’s husband bought more prison stock five days before one of the nation’s biggest immigration raids"
http://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2017/08/a-federal-judge-put-hundreds-of-immigrants-behind-bars-while-her-husband-invested-in-private-prisons/
God bless
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin's ghost writer wrote the one word 'Wow.'
ReplyDelete'You'll never watch another George Clooney movi...'
'Unreal'
That was before linking to YC Young Conservatives 'George Clooney Donates $1 Million To Ultra-Liberal Southern Poverty Law Center'
Written by Breitbart author Warner Todd Huston (he is not young). They are selling a tee shirt with Reagan 'party like a patriot'. It's rich, Sarah gets a cut whether she has a clue with what is done with her Facebook or not. What a racket, but the suckers must like it.