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 THE EVIL KNOWN AS NESTLE is surrendering and putting their stolen water business up for sale. BUYER BEWARE, if you plan on running the business the same as nestle and just change the name you will experience the same court challenges, protest and economic boycotts that is causing nestle to give up. Please sign this petition from SumOfUs calling on nestle and the potential buyers  to return control of community water sources to the communities.

Nestlé is about to sell all its bottled water operations in North America. Send a message to Nestlé and the potential buyers that we stand with grassroots communities in their fight against bottled water.  SIGN THE PETITION  It’s happening -- Nestlé just identified the buyers to take on its bottled water operations in North America. Nestlé is getting out of the water business because over the years, SumOfUs members like you have supported 5 grassroots groups in Michigan, Ontario, California, Florida, and Colorado in their decades-long opposition to Nestlé’s efforts to suck small communities dry of all their water. Nestlé is expecting bids from buyers that may include Coca-Cola and PepsiCo next week -- so together with the five grassroots Nestlé fighters, we’re sending a message to Nestlé and its potential buyers to return control to the community now.   Sign the petition asking Nestlé, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and future owners to return its five most problematic water assets back to public control. After decades of profiting off our most precious public resource – our water – Nestlé is seeking one final, massive payout by selling off its entire North American water bottling operations. To Nestlé, these springs and creeks are easy money. But this is where you come in -- as Nestlé pursues this sale, the last thing it wants is for potential buyers to know how much global support these grassroots groups fighting for local water have – so that’s exactly what we’re going to give them. In conjunction with five grassroots Nestlé fighters, we’re going to build up the pressure over the next month leading to a huge international day of action. Nestlé and potential water operation buyers: return California, Florida, Michigan, Colorado and Ontario’s water back to public control. Our collective victories in Oregon, British Columbia, and France against Nestlé is a huge reason that Nestle wants to get out the water business altogether. Now, let’s make sure that Nestlé and its potential buyers get the message that we are not going away ahead of the sale of water operations all across the continent.  SIGN THE PETITION  Thanks for all that you do, Angus, Nick and the team at SumOfUs More information: Nestle kicks off $5 billion sale of Pure Life, other water brands, sources say Reuters, Oct. 15th, 2020

 

 

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ACLU THE DEBRIEF: CBP Wants to Destroy Records of Misconduct. We Can't Let Them, VICTORY: Trump Administration Abandons Policy of Banning Abortion for Young Immigrants, ACLU Investigation: Formerly Incarcerated Nebraskans Incorrectly Told They Couldn't Vote, Facebook's Discrimination Against the LGBTQ Community, We're Calling for a Special, Independent Prosecutor for Police Abuses in Portland, At the Polls, Episode 1: What Will Election Night Look Like in a Global Pandemic?, We Are Not Okay, Congress: Expand Voting Access During COVID-19 12OKT20

CBP Wants to Destroy Records of Misconduct. We Can't Let Them Customs and Border Protection (CBP), America's largest federal law enforcement agency, operates with routine impunity. Now, the agency has asked the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which maintains federal agency records, to approve destruction of internal CBP records of misconduct. An agency rife with abuse should not be allowed to purge its own paper trail of wrongdoing. That's why the ACLU of Texas Border Rights Center, with over 100 partner organizations, has filed a public comment urging NARA to reject CBP's proposal. Read more

FROM THE FRONT LINES

VICTORY: Trump Administration Abandons Policy of Banning Abortion for Young Immigrants As a direct result of the immense courage of our clients and three years of litigation, the Trump administration has officially abandoned its policy of preventing unaccompanied immigrant minors in its custody from accessing abortion care. We are certainly taking a moment to celebrate this hard-earned win, but the battle for "reproductive freedom for all" is far from over – including for others currently in immigration detention. The ACLU will continue to fight for access to reproductive health care for people in federal custody and beyond. Read more ACLU Investigation: Formerly Incarcerated Nebraskans Incorrectly Told They Couldn't Vote When a formerly incarcerated voter in Nebraska received notice that he couldn't vote after waiting out the state's two-year post-sentence time period, he turned to the ACLU. Our Nebraska team then launched an investigation that found the voter was not alone – around 400 formerly incarcerated Nebraskans received the same inaccurate letter. We've stepped in to make sure the Secretary of State corrects these errors before Election Day. Read more (This link brings you to a third-party website, ketv.com) Facebook's Discrimination Against the LGBTQ Community Married couple Unsung Lilly has made music together for the past 8 years, creating empowering music for their fans. The COVID-19 pandemic put the couple in a difficult spot financially, so they turned to their community of fans on Facebook for help. But when they created a sponsored ad – Facebook rejected it, despite taking no issue with a similar ad of a heterosexual couple. Here's an up-close look at the couple's fight against Facebook's unfair and uneven standards and policies. Read more We're Calling for a Special, Independent Prosecutor for Police Abuses in Portland Following another weekend of aggressive policing in Portland, the ACLU of Oregon is pushing for Governor Brown to appoint a special, independent prosecutor to investigate the ongoing police abuses that have occurred in the city over the past several months. Police abuse of protesters, journalists, legal observers, medics, and bystanders must be stopped. Read more (This link brings you to a third-party website, oregonlive.com)

TUNE IN

At the Polls, Episode 1: What Will Election Night Look Like in a Global Pandemic? The ACLU's At Liberty podcast recently launched At the Polls, a weekly mini-series on the 2020 election and all things voting. In this first episode, At the Polls host and ACLU voting rights lawyer and organizer Molly McGrath talks about what to expect this year with election law scholar Rick Hasen and election administrator Rachel Rodriguez. Listen here

WHAT'S NEXT

We Are Not Okay If you are not Black and you're asking yourself, "How can I help my Black friends, family members, and colleagues coping with the daily trauma of racial injustice and violence against Black people?", here is a non-exhaustive list of what you can do today. Read more

TAKE ACTION

Congress: Expand Voting Access During COVID-19 Join us in calling on Congress to expand voting access during COVID 19 by including expanded early voting and no-excuse absentee voting in the next relief package. Take action

 

I THINK, THEREFORE

 

OUR REVOLUTION WEEKLY UPDATE: GOTV ON LINE MEETING 12OKT20, MIDWEST PIVOT COUNTIES CAMPAIGN, OUR REVOUTION NEW YORK, OUR REVOLUTION TEXAS, OUR REVOLUTION THE SQUAD, OUR REVOLUTION CALIFORNIA, OUR REVOLUTION MICHIGAN, OUR REVOLUTION COLORADO, SAVE THE POST OFFICE, OUR REVOLUTION ILLINOIS, OUR REVOLUTION MASSACHUSETTS, OUR REVOLUTION TEXAS, OUR REVOLUTION FLORIDA, OUR REVOLUTION PUERTO RICO, OUR REVOLUTION D.C., OUR REVOLUTION NEW JERSEY 12OKT20

 

Welcome to The Revolution Report — the weekly e-newsletter of our national grassroots organizing network!

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Join our Weekly Organize to Win Meeting on Monday, October 10th at 8:30 PM ET featuring progressive Congressional candidates Jamaal Bowman from New York and Georgette Gomez from California!

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As America votes, Our Revolution members are carrying out our 4-POINT PLAN to fight for a progressive future by #1) Defeating Trump; #2) Electing more progressives to Congress; #3) Building a down-ballot bench; and most critically, #4) Organizing a powerful grassroots movement to win transformative change after the election!

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#1 - We must go all out to defeat Donald Trump by winning back working-class voters in the Midwest.

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Journalist Sarah Jaffe profiled Our Revolution Ohio leader Chuckie Denison, a former autoworker who fought the closure of the GM factory in Lordstown, OH and is now challenging Trump’s lies about America’s economic recovery as part of Our Revolution’s Midwest “Pivot Counties” Campaign - our strategic initiative to win swing areas in swing states.



READ THE STORY ABOUT CHUCKIE'S ACTIVISM

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This week, over 16,000 people tuned into Our Revolution Michigan’s Get Out the Vote” Virtual Rally with US Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), US Rep. Andy Levin (D-MI), and GM auto workers. Teana Dowdell, who lost her job at the now shuttered GM Detroit-Hamtramck plant, called-out Trump for recently declaring: “You better vote for me Michigan. I got you so many car plants.” Teana - noting that the last GM plant in The Motor City closed under Trump - said Trump didn’t lift a finger to stop mass layoffs.



Rep. Levin talked about campaigning with Bernie this week to win Macomb County - a critical “pivot county” that voted twice for Obama-Biden but then flipped to Trump. Under Trump, GM closed its transmission plant there, which impacted thousands of working families. “Trump won Michigan with just 10,700 votes … if we beat Trump in Macomb County, we’ll win Michigan.”



Squad Member Rep. Rashida Tlaib also joined our GOTV rally to fire-up our members to organize to win on Election Day! “Grassroots power has never been so important - it’s not about the names on the ballot, it’s about the issues we care about and it’s about our survival.”

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Donate to our Midwestern “Pivot County” Campaign and help us win back working class voters betrayed by Trump’s false populism!

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#2 - We must elect more progressives to the US House and flip & fix the Senate to advance policies like Medicare for All and a Green New Deal.

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Mondaire Jones, who is poised to become the newest member of The Squad in Congress, headlined Our Revolution / New York Progressive Action Network’s “Get Out the Vote Rally” this week. Jones, who, if he wins, would become the first openly gay Black man in Congress, noted that progressives must be mobilizing to both get Trump out of the White House and demand real, transformative change from Joe Biden — beginning on Day 1. Dana Balter, a progressive running to knock off a conservative Republican in New York’s 24th Congressional District also delivered a powerful message via video saying that our progressive organizing will make 2021 “a year of transformative change.”



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Texas Congressional candidate Mike Siegel is gaining momentum in his bid to beat eight term Republican Rep. Mike McCaul, a co-author of the Muslim ban who recently called the Black Lives Matter movement a “violent riot.” RSVP HERE to watch Mike headline Our Revolution Texas’ GOTV Rally this week!

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FEATURED CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE!



Georgette Gómez, President of the San Diego City Council, has been endorsed by Bernie and Our Revolution HQ in her race to represent California’s 53rd district in Congress. A longtime community organizer, Georgette was born and raised in San Diego to working-class immigrant parents, and this experience has informed her commitment to standing up for her community. She was twice elected unanimously as city council president, where her successes include expanding affordable housing, strengthening protections for low-income renters, and leading on San Diego’s landmark Climate Action Plan. In Congress, she will fight for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun control, and immigrant rights. RSVP NOW for our Monday call to hear from Georgette on how her victory will help us build a progressive Congress!

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Donate NOW to help us get Mike, Georgette, Dana and other progressives over the finish line in November!

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#3 - We must build a bench of down-ballot progressive elected officials and policies to fight for change from the bottom up.

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Over 120,000 joined Tuesday’s California GOTV Virtual Rally - and with ballots having just dropped the day before, our members are ready to mobilize! Former Bernie 2020 co-chair Nina Turner opened the call with a powerful message: “This moment is vitally important — not just for our future but for future generations. And progressives hold the key. We are winning on our ideas, now it’s time to take the power.” In a show of California's progressive strength, 87 candidates from across the state received Our Revolution HQ's endorsement, and six were featured on the call. San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who won a close race last year with the help of Our Revolution/SF Berniecrats, stressed the importance of volunteering in down ballot races. “We would not have won my race but for the tremendous energy we got from people like you. It can make a huge difference in the outcome of local races, and local races make a huge difference in the policies that shape our cities and towns.“



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Eli Savit, our endorsed candidate for Washtenaw County, MI Prosecutor, joined Our Revolution Michigan’s GOTV Rally to talk about bringing equal justice under the law to the rich and poor alike. Savit - who clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg - recently conducted a “Criminal Justice Listening Tour” and announced plans to tackle racial bias in prosecutions.

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Our Revolution Colorado held its Get Out the Vote Virtual Rally this week and announced national endorsements for progressive candidates, including Alexis King who’s running for District Attorney in Jefferson & Gilpin Counties. Alexis is campaigning on a bold criminal justice reform platform that includes creating a “Conviction Integrity Unit” to review prosecutions for innocence and equity.

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Help us build a bench of progressive candidates and policies up and down the ballot!

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FEATURED DOWN-BALLOT POLICY INITIATIVE!



Currently, only eight states and the District of Columbia provide workers with the legal right to paid family leave benefits when they need time off to care for their families. That’s why Our Revolution HQ endorsed the Family Paid Leave Proposition 118 in Colorado - we’re building a movement to ensure that state and local governments put the needs of America’s families first!

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#4 - We must build a movement in the streets and inside the halls of power to win progressive change.

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#SaveThePostOffice!

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“Expansion of vote by mail is terrifying to many Republicans, particularly Trump, since it results in higher turnout.”

Read Our Revolution Chair Larry Cohen's piece on why we need to #SaveThePostOffice

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FIGHT CORPORATE POWER!

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Our Revolution supports the findings of the House Antitrust Subcommittee’s new report - Tech giants are a threat to democracy and must be busted-up.
If we want to reclaim our democracy, we must not only defeat Trump, we must also defeat corporate goliaths like Amazon. Ahead of the report’s release, Our Revolution hosted a virtual town hall on Defeating Corporate Monopolies with Minnesota Attorney General and Our Revolution Board Member Keith Ellison, Law Professor Zephyr Teachout, Open Markets Institute’s Executive Director Barry Lynn, and Our Revolution Executive Director Joseph Geevarghese to lay the groundwork for pressuring Democrats to reverse Reagan-era antitrust policy and break-up the large corporations that dominate nearly every sector of our political economy. As Lynn - who wrote a new book about monopolies - noted, “When the power of government is fused to that of the private corporation, it’s bad for all of us.”

Sign up below to join our new campaign to call on the Biden Administration to fight corporate power on Day 1.



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TAX THE RICH!

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In states across the country, our slate of endorsed candidates for local offices are running on a platform to make the rich pay their fair share in taxes during this time of economic crisis. In addition, Our Revolution HQ has endorsed several citizen-powered initiatives, including California’s Schools and Communities First Proposition, which would provide $12 billion a year to California schools by closing a property tax loophole that allows corporations to benefit from artificially low tax assessments, and the Illinois Fair Tax Amendment, which would raise taxes only on those who can afford it through a graduated income tax system.



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Ahead of Election Day, Our Revolution HQ is holding “Get Out the Vote” Rallies across the country to organize to win at the local, state and national levels.

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UPCOMING “GET OUT THE VOTE” RALLIES!



Ranked Choice Voting is on the ballot! Our Revolution Massachusetts’ GOTV Rally will feature a discussion of how RCV can increase democratic participation with US Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Constitutional law professor, as well as progressive champions like Sen. Ed Markey

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Our Revolution Illinois has an all-star line-up for it’s GOTV Rally - including Marie Newman, who took out an establishment Congressman in the primary, and key members of the Progressive Caucus in the Illinois House!

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Our Revolution Texas is organizing to turn Texas blue in November by running a slate of progressives to serve as justices of the peace, drainage commissioners, district attorneys, and state representatives. Our Texas rally will be a “cattle call” of our endorsed candidates!

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Join Bernie 2020 co-chair Nina Turner for Our Revolution Florida’s Election Rally as we organize to win a statewide $15 minimum wage ballot initiative and build down-ballot progressive power in Florida!

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Our Revolution DC is organizing to win a progressive takeover of the City Council. Join us and our slate of nationally endorsed candidates for our GOTV Rally in the nation’s capital!

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Our Revolution New Jersey’s GOTV Call will feature Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Bernie 2020 Political Director Analilia Mejia, and advocates fighting to legalize marijuana in the Garden State!

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