Bernie Sanders made a noble attempt to break through a wall of Democratic/Republican rhetoric.  In FACT, he succeeded.  Some of the American public are tentatively considering democracy.  Sshhh….don’t let Establishment know.  Not yet…..

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1451305292067586089        –I want you all to take a guess. How many lobbyists do you think the pharmaceutical industry has up on Capitol Hill for the 535 members of Congress? Ready for the answer? OVER 1,500. You want to know why we pay the highest prices on the planet for prescriptions? Start there.–end of berniesanders info–
One hears often from capitalistic hierarchy that “we are not a democracy”.  This is a fascinating deflection that is predictable from hierarchy.  The same attitude when applied to human and environmental rights supports violations.  The difference between civil rights and human/environmental rights is that the first is protected by legislative edict and the other two are intrinsic to humanity and nature by right of Creation.  The same may be said about democracy when one remembers that governments don’t do democracy, people do.  Propaganda over decades has clouded this concept.  
Therefore, public participation in our own governance appears to be ensured by the civil document which is the US Constitution, and the public enjoys the responsibility of participation.
Dictatorship is ugly—https://mailchi.mp/nader/gop-senators-reduced-to-mcconnell-mush-34omh4iwx4?e=cfd1bea9b5     — The Republican Senators are obedient automations obeying McConnell’s demands.McConnell is a control freak in the most powerful legislature in the world. He relishes stopping everything for the people while bending over for his corporate paymasters from Wall Street to Houston and to the Koch brothers.
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Received from lakotalaw——-Exciting things are happening at Standing Rock Nation. We wrote to you recently about Janet Alkire’s election as the first chairwoman in more than six decades. Now, Janet — an Air Force veteran and a progressive with two stints as executive director of the tribe — will soon be officially certified and sworn in.    —Watch: In our new video, we discuss the challenge of keeping Native kids in Native kinship care — and the importance of overcoming those challenges. We intend to offer a helping hand at Standing Rock — or wherever Lakota, Dakota, or Nakota children are threatened by those who violate the Indian Child Welfare Act or denigrate Indigenous identity and kinship systems. Please watch our new video, which addresses why many of our foster kids live away from their homelands in non-Native care. We’d like to help Janet and her administration fix this problem.

To accomplish this, we’re willing to leverage our current relationships in DC — including our friendships with U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and NY Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez — to lobby for direct federal funding of foster care and adoption services for Standing Rock. At present, only a handful of tribes throughout the nation receive direct federal funding, an arrangement which can eliminate the waste and abuse that occur when states serve as intermediaries. 

Tribes should be in control of their own Child Protective Services programs; they should not report to state Departments of Social Services which often seem to have an assimilationist agenda. The long practice of removal of our children which began with Indian boarding schools has continued, unabated, through abuses of the foster care system. More than a century of genocide is now writ large in all the tragic headlines about mass graves being discovered across North America. 

Chairwoman Alkire’s leadership at Standing Rock can make the tribe a model of the change we want to see. We’ll continue to stand with Standing Rock, and we hope you’ll stay with us every step of the way. Your continued friendship and support make a better future for our children a very real possibility.Wopila tanka — thank you for all your care and support.
Chase Iron Eyes
Co-Director and Lead Counsel
The Lakota People’s Law Project–end of lakotalaw info–

The infliction of so-called education against Native Americans  by the US government is infamous and criminal.  So much has been lost to those students so impacted, not to mention their parents and relatives.  
C-Span hosted a discussion about our educational system in light of a growing interest by parents in curriculum.  —– OCTOBER 23, 2021 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 10/23/2021

Washington Journal

Open Phones, Part 1

Join us with your calls and comments on social media as we review the latest news headlines out of Washington.—end of c-span info–
Thoughts about the US educational system–*Curriculum promotes compliance to an economic system of capitalism instead of function within a democratic (small d) Constitutional republic*Capitalism thrives by suggestion of parents needing to be in the workforce and so shifting parental responsibilities onto government*School taxes paid by homeowners supports the school system as responsible for caring for children in order that parents can work in capitalistic systems*In the same way chain stores push health care costs of their employees onto the public by paying poverty wages, the public picks up the cost for a large portion babysitting byway of school taxes
A few thoughts about other impacts of capitalism—*Capitalism is confused with free markets when they are not similar*Sole proprietorship endows freedom and self-sufficiency upon the public so participating*Employment suggests compliance to the whims of the employer*This suggests a dictatorship within our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic, but in a protected and hidden level*Vaccine and mask mandates by employers have become a matter of discussion*Employers have the right to mandate almost anything upon pain of losing a job by an employee*Self-employment which seems to be the original intention of free markets would negate this insult
The two thoughts above, one about the educational system and the other about capitalism, and one can see an especially ironclad framework for dictatorship.  And then there’s the Patriot Act to so-called protect the public, which is the bow on top.
Dictatorship so smooth you don’t notice it.
With genuine respect for nurses and teachers, a large number of which are female, the abuse by a capitalistic Establishment system of profiteering is as harmful to the workers as to the public   —     https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?akid=124073.51198.igKjb-&rd=1&t=4&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphoto%3Ffbid%3D237893191710889%26set%3Da.234163838750491To support this post, I want to share info. I heard a wonderful interview on the radio. It was with a rep from the Massachusetts Nurses Assn. There is a hospital in Worcester, MA where they have been on strike for seven months!! I believe it was March 4th that they started. They have apparently won all their demands. Now they are negotiating about the conditions for returning to work. Management kept going with scabs, whothey now want to include in the bargaining, while they are refusing to agree that the experienced nurses will return to their previous positions using their expertise. Imagine staying out for seven months, they are fighting for better conditions for their patients as well as themselves.—end of info received in inbox——–

Received from popularresistance —  https://mailchi.mp/popularresistance/s69zdksxzf?e=1b0a9c0541   –Tulalip Fishermen To Appear In Skagit Court Monday

The Four Layers Of Reality — And Why We’re Only Allowed To Talk About One

Diné Organization Files Petition Against United States, Cites Human Rights Violations

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Human rights protection, like democracy, is intrinsic to people, not to corporations or government.
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To support this post, I want to share info. I heard a wonderful interview on the radio. It was with a rep from the Massachusetts Nurses Assn. There is a hospital in Worcester, MA where they have been on strike for seven months!! I believe it was March 4th that they started. They have apparently won all their demands. Now they are negotiating about the conditions for returning to work. Management kept going with scabs, whothey now want to include in the bargaining, while they are refusing to agree that the experienced nurses will return to their previous positions using their expertise. Imagine staying out for seven months, they are fighting for better conditions for their patients as well as themselves.—-end of inbox info–
Bernie Sanders spoke to the lot of working Americans.  The Democratic/Republican duopoly worked their strategies to manipulate into public office, a litany of capitalistic sycophants.  The integrity of Bernie Sanders seems to have inspired American workers.  This is the difference between civil rights that are endowed by legislators and human/environmental rights that rise from humanity with the honesty bestowed by The Creator in whatever way you see Her/Him/It.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SmVVLYgArk      –“They Must Think We’re STUPID!!” Kamala Harris’s Video Fail
https://www.facebook.com/tracy.carluccio/posts/4481902705225948      –Great news from the court! Critically important cancellation of a wicked Trump attempt at environmental deregulation!
We deserve better.      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!
Along with Climate Change, many people oppose the imperialism of the USA under control of the Republican/Democratic duopoly.  Use of the wealth of our nation should be to enhance quality of life for We The People rather than for imperialism.  Some people vote accordingly.I———————–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.