Some bright spots, and boy do we ever need them. I hate sitting down at my desk every morning, because the tide of hatred and bigotry just gets bigger. I’ll be trying to track the resistance as well as all the fascism. I’m sure to miss things, so feel free to let me know about what’s going on.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times).
LAPD’s top cop said on Monday that his department will refuse to work with the administration of President-elect Donald Trump to deport immigrants, reports the LA Times. […] “I don’t intend on doing anything different,” he said. “We are not going to engage in law enforcement activities solely based on somebody’s immigration status. We are not going to work in conjunction with Homeland Security on deportation efforts. That is not our job, nor will I make it our job.”
Via Raw Story.
Planned Parenthood protesters (Shutterstock, Rena Schild).
Women — and particularly low-income women and women of color — are concerned about the impact a Trump administration could have on reproductive rights and access to reproductive health care services.
Now, two New York legislators are responding by working to change the state’s abortion law to match the provisions of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, Politico reports. […] He (Trump) said in the case that Roe is reversed, women living in states where abortion is outlawed will “have to go to another state” for the procedure.
With that in mind, state Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assemblywoman Deborah Glick of New York are pushing the Legislature to pass a bill that would update the state’s abortion law to match the provisions of Roe v. Wade.
Via Raw Story.
Brown University — Brown.edu website.
Brown University faculty and alumni are calling on school leaders to make the campus a “sanctuary” for people who could face deportation under the policies of President-elect Donald Trump. Community members at the Ivy League school in Providence, Rhode Island, are among those at colleges and universities across the country taking action following Trump’s election.
“We have reason to believe that Providence Police officers cannot enter the campus without permission of the University,” says the faculty letter, which employees sent to administration officials on Friday; it was published online in the student newspaper Monday. “Given that many students, staff members and their families are directly affected by this issue, we urge the University to immediately work to develop a protocol for the University serving as a sanctuary campus.” The letter includes 168 faculty member names.
Via Raw Story.
Mike Pence (CBS News).
In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s surprise election victory last week, many people have been wondering what kinds of action they can take and which organizations they should support. For some, the answer is already clear: donating to the women’s health organization Planned Parenthood in the name of the staunchly pro-life vice president-elect, Mike Pence.
Via Raw Story.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that young undocumented people will still be able to go to school and qualify for free community college education (AFP Photo/Chip Somodevilla).
Chicago on Monday joined several major US cities in affirming that it will remain a “sanctuary city” for immigrants, in defiance of President-elect Donald Trump.
Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and San Francisco have made similar affirmations since Trump’s election on Tuesday, vowing to refuse to jail undocumented immigrants in jail for deportation purposes and pledging that public services will continue to be offered regardless of legal status.
“To all the children and all the families who are unsure of their place because of what happened Tuesday,” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said at a press conference.
“You are safe, you are secure and you are supported in the city of Chicago.”
Via Raw Story.
If US is still similar to what I experienced it to be in 1999-2000, illegals are a workforce without whom no construction/cleaning/maintenance would be done at all. Even in those “rural” areas where people are allegedly so proud to be self-sufficient (a dream of golden past that never was really true).
It is good to see people willing to stand up to trumpocracy.
Charly:
Yes, it’s the same. For all those trying to use the “jobs!” excuse for voting Trump in, it will be interesting to see how fast they jump all over those janitorial jobs, become maids and housecleaners, fruit pickers and so on. Because of course, white people don’t think they are above jobs like that, no.
This comment contains mass quantities of sarcasm.
It’s good to see that some people start doing the right thing. Let’s see how much they’ll like “States rights” when they go the other way.
General strike of all those who are not white men. Let’S see how well Trump country does then.
I would suggest that LGBTQ IT specialists start thinking about the best jobs that they can get in order to ream the system from the inside if and when it seems appropriate. A thousand leaks, ten thousand failures, a death of a thousand anonymous cuts.
Many of the things the government wishes to do will rely on the intelligence collection and secrecy that the Bush and Obama administrations foolishly built. They centralized the reins of power when they made it possible to get the dirt on anybody. So: that is one target.
The second is the cops and military. Getting inside those organizations will be crucial, either to cause failures/5th column, or simply to provide intelligence. There’s going to be a lot of new jobs in the new police state; time to start brushing our resumes so we can be absorbed into the new machine, and become long-term abscesses. Knowing their plans is going to be very important. The new police state needs to leak like a sieve and -- by all means -- set your keyboard map to Farsi or Korean.
In terms of strategy: there is a strong anti-government strain in the right wing. They are ripe for being peeled away from the fascist state as it emerges. Divide and conquer! The left needs to adopt a small government/antigovernment (anti-the-current-government) message in tandem with its existing labor-centric message. Remember how the political right took over the tea party? There are still a lot of tea partiers whose sympathies can actually be pried away from the right wing.
For example, I was recently talking with a (loose label:) right wing gun nut and pointed out to him that the surveillance capabilities that the NSA and FBI have built into transaction systems make it a simple “big data” problem to track gun and ammunition sales without having to have a national firearms registry. Holy shit, did that turn my right wing gun nut interlocutor around in a hurry! Then I explained that the deportations will require a vast expansion of rights-infringing searches: checkpoints and vehicle searches, he’d better get out of the habit of carrying his drugs or his illegally configured firearm because even though he’s white (of course) he’s going to get pulled over by cops who’ll have the “right” to search his car.
The right has been winning the meme-war but their own memes are a bundle of two-edged swords.
Caine@#2:
see how fast they jump all over those janitorial jobs
They’d better. Because if they don’t, they ought to expect the brown-colored members of the cleaning crew to be plugging certain USB dongles into the back of certain computers while they’re cleaning under certain desks. And it’s gonna be people like me providing those dongles and the instructions on where and how to plug them in.
See, the problem of trust cuts in both directions.
I wouldn’t want to be a white person wearing a Trump tshirt eating food in any eatery with minority staff. Unless I liked eating spit and jizz with my cheeseburger, I mean.
@Gillell
“Let’s see how much they’ll like ‘States rights’ when they go the other way.”
We’ve already seen their commitment to the rights of states they don’t agree with many, many times. “Activist government” means anything they don’t like.
Marcus @ 4
I wouldn’t limit that to QUILTBAG people.