The conversation around paid sick days for railroad workers can spark healthy discussion.

https://us.engagingnetworks.app/page/email?mid=b7aba53e5a934016b326dd692eec4d32    —

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https://twitter.com/_B___S/status/1598062000952991745            –This man was forced to give his dog to the Humane Society due to undergoing lengthy hospital stay. This nurse found out and immediately went to the shelter and adopted his dog. She brings him to visit daily and will return him as soon as the man is released!

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With boundless respect for those who heed the intentional practice that supports a healthy life, this is offered—–https://www.treehugger.com/laura-prepon-interview-plant-based-diet-vitalite-6832251?hid=4246be665c7c525806e26d15079d974213d256e7&did=880561-20221202&utm_campaign=treehugger-daily_newsletter&utm_source=treehugger&utm_medium=email&utm_content=120222&cid=880561&mid=103462293045&lctg=196461004         –“I have spent years trying to figure out how to give these beautiful nourishing meals to my kids while also being present to enjoy it with them,” she says. 

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Food prep and consumption must be one facet that is vital and wonderful, in pursuit of remembering joy.  One contrasts this with the ongoing dust-up on the topic of railroad-worker sick days.  The connection is that the reminder that workers cannot both be a widget in the works of an economy that answer only to the stock market, and also a respected participate in what can be called We The People, or perhaps humanity with retention of human rights.

The economy includes We The People, and lifestyle that is healthy.  The economy under capitalism has come to be nothing other than market performance, and the best worker system is slavery., as pertains to hierarchical profiteering. This is only one person’s opinion, but the topic seems relevant for discussion.

The conversation from leecamp seems to be ideas to streamline and improve the experience of workers in a capitalistic system.  Some people see this as tilting at windmills.  The notion of free markets which seem integral to precepts in the US Constitution, have nothing to do with capitalism in which hierarchy has as its first responsibility, increase in market-share value, not free market principles.  This is a reason notions in socialism, if an ism must be named for the sake of understanding by many,  A healthy economy would support sole proprietors or co-ops.  Worker-owned business would change the conversation to something compatible with human rights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en0S2d6nqIo      —

Government Secrets w/ Lee Camp Ep 105

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It has come to the attention of some people that the warnings from many Native Americans over hundreds of years, have proven true.  —  https://mronline.org/2022/12/01/the-world-now-faces-the-challenges-our-people-foretold/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-world-now-faces-the-challenges-our-people-foretold&mc_cid=4326e0084d&mc_eid=2833cdb99b     —My heart has not changed, and my intentions have not changed. The love and faith I have in our future generation has not changed.

All the world now faces the same challenges that our people foretold regarding climate damage being caused by people who take more than they need, dismissing the teachings of our fathers, and the knowledge of countless generations living upon the earth in harmony.

I may sound a bit dramatic and sensitive, but after all these years and the 78 journeys around the sun, I often feel and think that I should speak my mind and heart to whomever I can whenever I can, because at my age, you never know if you are going to live another 20 years or 20 minutes.

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Not surprising is the integrity of traditional Native American lifestyle, since the Haudenosaunee are said to be the impetus for precepts in the US Constitution.

https://www.history.com/news/iroquois-confederacy-influence-us-constitution#:~:text=In%20around%201722%2C%20the%20Tuscarora,’%20thinking%2C%20says%20Donald%20A.  –The Iroquois Confederacy was in no way an exact model for the U.S. Constitution. However, it provided something that Locke and Montesquieu couldn’t: a real-life example of some of the political concepts the framers were interested in adopting in the U.S.

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Is it laughable or miserable that in Upstate NY, recognition of the contribution of original people who are the Haudenosaunee, and live currently among us, to our benefit, seem struggled against by politicians and bureaucrats who seem fearful of said recognition.  Meanwhile politicians and bureaucrats uphold the celebration of colonizers.  Can we do better?

From lakotalaw  —  It’s been a big couple days for Indian Country in Washington, D.C. For the first time in six years, tribal representatives from across Turtle Island gathered together with U.S. leaders for the White House Tribal Nations Summit. After a four-year hiatus during the Trump presidency, President Joe Biden revived the event last year, but that was held virtually because of the pandemic. This year, a delegation from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe joined many other tribal citizens, making the trip to the nation’s capital to discuss the Biden administration’s promising agenda for Native America.

The administration made historic pledges of money and resources to tackle issues like infrastructure and climate. It also committed to protecting Spirit Mountain — a site sacred to several Native nations in and around so-called Nevada — and promised a new “respect for Indigenous knowledge and tribal consultations.”

In his opening remarks, Biden said monetary allocations to tribal nations will include a mandatory $9.1 billion for the Indian Health Service (IHS) and $135 million to help relocate 11 at-risk tribal communities. Specifically, the Department of the Interior, led by Secretary Deb Haaland of the Pueblo of Laguna, will provide $25 million each to three tribes on the frontlines of the climate crisis in Alaska and Washington State.

Of course, you know as I do that Indigenous populations — and other communities of color — suffer the effects of the climate emergency disproportionately. That’s not acceptable, whether it’s a majority-Black or Latinx neighborhood adjacent to a poisonous chemical plant, Standing Rock dealing with the existential threat of the Dakota Access pipeline, or the Quinault Indian Nation endangered by rising sea levels.

The money will help, as will enhanced agency cooperation and assistance. Still, to really solidify Native sovereignty, the government will need to make good on its promise to listen to tribal nations and gain consensus. While I would prefer to see the U.S. firmly adopt the standard of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) set forth in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, I’m optimistic that we’re a step closer toward governmental recognition of the self-determination we deserve when it comes to our people and our homelands.

Wopila tanka — thank you for standing with us!
Chase Iron Eyes
Co-Director and Lead Counsel

The Lakota People’s Law Project–end of lakotalaw ibnfo–

****As one who would be perfectly contented to retain the Senate if they adhered to Oaths of Office more than to Citizens United campaign donations, one is interested in a topic raised as to the reason we maintain the US Senate—-

 This is a reminder of how much we don’t know.  This brings one around to Howie Hawkins, who continues to impress with original thought.  We also could acknowledge Hawkins often speaks to censored information.
One such topic about which one would never have even considered, is whether the USA needs The Senate.  Apparently The Senate is little other than expensive window dressing, promoting hierarchical interests, and too often placed in positions of power by big-money via Citizens United.  But the public gets to fund this curiosity of pompous supremacy.  Who knew?
The Democratic Branch of the Republican/Democratic Duopoly are especially functional in voter suppression—–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNbdkuU1edw          —#GreenSocialist Notes #76
Howie Hawkins brings up the concept of whether the USA needs the Senate.  Apparently according to some people, the Senate isn’t necessary.  This brings up the blockage from the Senate of many bills that would benefit We The People.  Combined with Citizens United that promotes big-money interest choice of Senators, in which laws are passed that benefit big-money interest rather than We The People, and that We The People support economically, the members of the Senate, this seems a good topic for discussion.
The US Constitution doesn’t seem to sanction elections run by political Parties, and to permit control of political debates by political Parties seems equally corrupt.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ7kn2-GEmM       —

Ross Perot in 1992 on NAFTA and the “Giant Sucking Sound”

Centralization is the lifeblood of the R&D duopoly.  It’s the way to enforce capitalism onto workers in 2022.———————–We can do better———-

That “we are a 2-Party system” is a fabrication of the Republican/Democratic duopoly and spread by MSM.  In FACT the majority of voters aren’t either registered Democratic or Republican.  The censorship about this info must be envied by bureaucrats of the Former USSR and their simplistic style of 1-Party elections.  

Regardless of which character sits in the Oval Office, We The People have work to do to maintain principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic.  Several items to challenge—*We need the integrity of ranked-choice voting so voters won’t feel compelled to “hold your nose and vote”*Censored debates must be stopped.  The Democratic/Republican duopoly pretends to legitimate debates in what is nothing other than another campaign show.  Independent debates run by uninterested sponsors such as The League of Women Voters, must be restored.  (Access www.debates.org to understand the extent of duopoly control).  The so-called Debate Commission is a corporation to promote the Democratic corporation and Republican corporation, not to inform We The People*Challenge and stop gerrymandering that is a trick especially of the Republican branch of the duopoly.*Stop voter suppression by political Parties, and especially confront and stop Party suppression, which is the over-arching approach to voter suppression.  Party suppression seems to have been the responsibility of the Democratic corporation*Promote by law ranked-choice voting, so we won’t be told again, by D&R duopoly, to “hold your nose and vote”
If these issues are handled, our next elections can be honorable. 
*******************************************************************https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx—-Political Party affiliation of voters.
    https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud–LEAGUE REFUSES TO “HELP PERPETRATE A FRAUD”

WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FROM FINAL PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE–end of lwv info–Murray Bookchin, who founded social ecology, a theory that strongly influenced early Green Socialist thought, strongly advocated the discussion and study group as the first step of any revolutionary movement. A group of individuals meets to expand their knowledge of radical thought and form a radical intellectual community; through the give and take of discussion, can eventually form ideas for next steps in organizing and political activity. According to Bookchin, study groups help create solidarity and a shared language — with a shared coherent vision — for building a mass, organizing, political movement!