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24 October 2021

TEACHER PENSION FUNDS: Divest from Facebook! 22OKT21


 THERE is nothing good about facebook, their greed makes them one of the most powerful forces of evil today. Please sign this petition to teachers pension funds around the country telling them to divest from facebook now and then share with familes, friends and coworkers.....

 
 

We’ve all seen the news - Facebook’s platforms are a danger to children!

Yet state-run teacher pensions invest $3,000,000,000 in Facebook! 

Instagram is flooding kids' feeds with toxic posts, leaving millions of young people feeling anxious, depressed, and even suicidal. Facebook knows this but chooses profits instead of a fix.

Teachers spend their whole lives caring for kids, yet the managers in charge of investing their retirement money keep bankrolling a platform that’s destroying children's mental health. 

Others like the Los Angeles City Council are debating right now whether to divest from Facebook. Here’s our chance to push these pension fund managers to do the same!

Sign to let them know - Funding Facebook is no way to fund our educators' retirements!

From the Wall Street Journal to Senate hearings, we’ve seen evidence of Facebook hurting kids -- and evidence that when he has the chance to protect them, Mark Zuckerberg refuses.  

At SumOfUs, our own member backed research has shown how Facebook’s Instagram pushes young girls to starvation diets, unnecessary surgery and dangerous skin “whitening.” This is no surprise to Facebook but they do not act. 

We can!

If thousands of us push these pension funds to pull their money out we can send a clear message to Facebook that endangering a whole generation of children comes with a cost.

Teachers’ pension funds are just one of Facebook’s many investors but they are high-profile. If they act, we’ll have the ammunition we need to push others to follow suit -- and then we’ll go from fund to fund persuading them to divest until there’s no one left.

When colleges started divesting from fossil fuels, it caused a snowball effect across the world. Let’s do the same now and show Facebook they can’t keep harming our kids with impunity.

Tell State Funds for Teachers to Stop Investing in Facebook and Protect our Kids!

 SIGN THE PETITION! 

Thanks for all that you do!
Christina and the team at SumOfUs


More information:

Instagram Is Still Promoting Eating Disorders and Unproven Diet Pills to TeensSumOfUs Report on Instagram, Vice, September 30th 2021
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show, Wall Street Journal, September 14th 2021

 
 

 

 



16 March 2017

HANDICAPPED IN CANADA AND AMERICA

OH yes (NOT MY) president drumpf/trump did mock a handicapped reporter, see video below
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Trump mocks reporter with disability

Donald Trump Criticized for Mocking Disabled Reporter

The GOP candidate was claimed to have performed an unflattering impression of Serge Kovaleski, who suffers from a congenital joint condition, at a South Carolina rally.

In November 2015, shortly after a series of coordinated terrorist attacks occurred in Paris, France, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was on the campaign trail in Alabama. Trump referenced the Paris attacks by invoking the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York in 2001, in the process not only repeating the long since debunked claim that crowds of “Arabs” (or “Muslims” or “Palestinians”) were seen in local streets cheering the attack, but claiming that he had personally witnessed the phenomenon:
I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.
Shortly afterwards, defending his remarks during an appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Trump maintained:
There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down. I know it might be not politically correct for you to talk about it, but there were people cheering as that building came down — as those buildings came down. And that tells you something. It was well covered at the time, George. Now, I know they don’t like to talk about it, but it was well covered at the time. There were people over in New Jersey that were watching it, a heavy Arab population, that were cheering as the buildings came down. Not good.
After Trump was widely criticized for attempting to pass off an urban legend as fact, the candidate responded by citing as proof of his claim an 18 September 2001 Washington Post article by reporter Serge Kovaleski that made passing reference to “people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks”:
In Jersey City, within hours of two jetliners’ plowing into the World Trade Center, law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river.
When Kovaleski pointed out that there were never any reports (not even unsubstantiated ones) of “thousands” or even “hundreds” of people celebrating the 9/11 attacks in the New York area, as Trump claimed to have witnessed, Trump countered with a retort in which he criticized the journalist for attempting to “back away” from his previous article and seemingly mocked Kovaleski’s physical appearance.
Serge Kovaleski suffers from arthrogryposis, a condition which limits the movement of joints and is particularly noticeable in Kovaleski’s right arm and hand. After referring to Kovaleski as “a nice reporter,” Trump launched into an impression of him, pointedly flopping his right arm around with his hand held at an odd angle while saying (in imitation of Kovaleski): “Now, the poor guy, you’ve got to see this guy: ‘Uhh, I don’t know what I said. Uhh, I don’t remember,’ he’s going like ‘I don’t remember. Maybe that’s what I said'”:

After Trump then became the center of a second, even bigger controversy for supposedly having callously mocked a disabled reporter in public (that Trump was mocking Kovaleski was undeniable, but whether he was specifically mocking Kovaleski’s appearance and disability was a subject of debate), Trump asserted that the whole thing was just a coincidence — he had no idea who Kovaleski was and thus couldn’t have been aware of his physical condition:
I have no idea who this reporter, Serge Kovalski [sic], is, what he looks like or his level of intelligence. I don’t know if he is J.J. Watt or Muhammad Ali in his prime or somebody of less athletic or physical ability. Despite having one of the all-time great memories, I certainly do not remember him.
I merely mimicked what I thought would be a flustered reporter trying to get out of a statement he made long ago. If Mr. Kovaleski is handicapped, I would not know because I do not know what he looks like. If I did know, I would definitely not say anything about his appearance.
Trump’s claims to non-memory were widely considered to be disingenuous, as Kovaleski had covered Trump extensively while working for the Daily News from 1987 to 1993 and had interviewed and talked to the business magnate numerous times during that period:
Donald and I were on a first-name basis for years. I’ve interviewed him in his office. I’ve talked to him at press conferences. All in all, I would say around a dozen times, I’ve interacted with him as a reporter while I was at The Daily News.
The New York Times, Kovaleski’s current employer, said in a statement that “We think it’s outrageous that [Donald Trump] would ridicule the appearance of one of our reporters.” Trump responded in familiar fashion, issuing a series of tweets in which he admonished Kovaleski to “stop using his disability to grandstand” and repeatedly disparaged the Times:
Somebody at the financially failing and totally biased New York Times said that, over the years, I have met Mr. Kovaleski. Serge Kovaleski must think a lot of himself if he thinks I remember him from decades ago — if I ever met him at all, which I doubt I did. He should stop using his disability to grandstand get back to reporting for a paper that is rapidly going down the tubes.

23 September 2016

TRUMP REVEALED An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power


NOT meaning to insult the book and authors, this sounds a lot like Mein Kampf. Just as hitler laid out his beliefs and politics that lead to the destruction of Germany in stark detail, Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher present truths about donald drumpf that outline his plans for America that, if he is elected president, will lead to the destruction of the American Republic. Here are some of the truths exposed in their book Trump Revealed. From the +Washington Post .....
TRUMP REVEALED
An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power
These stories are based on reporting for “Trump Revealed,” a broad, comprehensive examination of the life of the Republican nominee for president. The best-selling biography, written by Post reporters Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher in collaboration with more than two dozen Post writers, researchers and editors, was published by Scribner on Aug. 23.
Throughout hours of interviews, he was alternately enthusiastic and sternly skeptical.
The real estate mogul once wished for a ‘proper president’ who could save the country. Eventually, he decided he was the perfect person for the job.
‘Trump Revealed’: The reporting archive
 This searchable archive contains more than 400 documents, with thousands of pages of interview transcripts, court filings, financial reports, immigration records and other material. 
‘I think I may have more Indian blood than a lot of the so-called Indians,’ he once said.
Scant number of African American convention delegates underscores challenges for GOP nominee.
“He had a reputation for saying anything that came into his head,” a schoolmate recalls.
Lawyer and adviser Roy M. Cohn was a master of the attack and counterattack.
Despite losing money every year under his leadership, the company compensated Trump handsomely, including a $5 million bonus in the year that shares lost 70 percent of their value.
New interviews and documents show how customers were pushed to spend on pricey programs.
The GOP presidential candidate’s history on taxes collides with his campaign rhetoric.
The GOP candidate said he barely knew Felix Sater, but Sater’s sworn testimony offered a different account.
In what could be the role of a lifetime, the billionaire’s PR man sounds just like him — and for good reason.
The tabloid image the businessman cultivated decades ago emerges as campaign issue.
(Victor J. Blue)
Although the two jousted for decades over Trump’s brand, Icahn has endorsed the Republican front-runner for president.
Residents of Kallstadt would rather avoid talking about their famous distant cousin.
Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in the university's marketing and collection of fees. Still, his conduct has become an issue in the presidential campaign.
The mogul’s reliance on junk bonds helped bankrupt the world’s largest gambling complex.
A 1973 federal lawsuit provided an early look at the hardball tactics the GOP presidential front-runner has employed in business and, more recently, in politics.
“The Apprentice” transformed the GOP front-runner from an easily caricatured Richie Rich into a pop-culture truth-teller and an evangelist for the American gospel of success.
He’s increasingly reliant on selling his name, which lets him avoid traditional real estate investment risks.