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In The Age Of Trump, Peaceful Revolt Is Our Only Option

January 11, 2017 By Kevin Patrick Kelly 7 Comments

For those who are not already aware, this will be my last column for MyMPN. The Mint Press News reader blog will be closing down as the website prepares to restructure their resources.

Still, I wanted to use this final column to offer some advice for all activists and to announce my future plans.

I know that there is a great sense of despair and dread as we prepare to watch Donald Trump’s inauguration in nine days. The fear is heightened for those who are African American, Latino, a member of the LGBT community, etc. That is why it’s important to not only donate to organizations that support those who will be targeted by a Trump administration, but also to have viable social movements that challenge all forms of political and corporate power.

Filed Under: Elections, National News Tagged With: activism, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, journalism, Millennial Revolution

Why One ‘Remain’ Voter Now Supports A Hard Brexit

January 5, 2017 By Tara Lighten Msiska Leave a Comment

As a “Remain” voter, making the best of this Brexit situation means negotiating a deal with the EU which leaves the U.K. as a member State in all but name. But with Theresa May seemingly going for a “hard” Brexit, this doesn’t look likely — at least at this point in time.

So if we’re stuck with a hard or at least non-“soft” Brexit, what should we do? We should look not to the U.S. or trade agreements with other countries for a solution, but instead no further than Scotland.

If another independence referendum is held, Scots may want independence so that Scotland can rejoin the EU or negotiate a deal which would award it de facto EU membership.

Filed Under: Elections, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Brexit, England, Scotland, Scottish independence, Theresa May, UK

The Trumperium: Building Resistance Movements In The Time Of Donald Trump

December 16, 2016 By David Seaton 5 Comments

We are now entering the “Trumperium,” a sinister, unethical and amoral wasteland, where a kleptocrat and his cronies from around the world, will be allowed to cavort among the ruins of every value that progressive politics have always held dear.

The “upside” of all of this, if you could call it that, the “lemonade from lemons,” is that progressive Americans now have a chance facing the Trumperium to create a vibrant, “take it to the streets” left like the one that accompanied Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and resisted the war in Vietnam, or like the one that energized Roosevelt’s New Deal.

The question being, who are going to be the “Freedom Riders,” or the Panthers? Who is going to write and sing the fighting songs, now that Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize? What will the be the “We Shall Overcome” of the anti-Trumperium underground?

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Elections Tagged With: activism, Chile, Donald Trump, Human Rights, South America

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