A Bad Year Ends, a Worse One Begins: What Will You Do With 2017?

[t]   Sunday, January 1, 2017 [t r u t h o u t] [View Recent Newsletters] [Tell a friend about Truthout!] [Donate Today!]   Truthout is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization; donations are tax deductible.   BuzzFlash New Year's Attack on Packed Istanbul Club Leaves 39 Dead [Read the Article at The Associated Press]   US Judge Blocks Transgender, Abortion-Related Obamacare Protections [Read the Article at Reuters]   North Carolina Republicans' "Power Grab" Hits Last-Minute Roadblock [Read the Article at Common Dreams]   Trump Spokesman: We Need to Talk About "Punishing" Clinton for "Trying to Influence the Election" [Read the Article at ThinkProgress]   Obama Just Signed Off on a Shadowy New "Anti-Propaganda" Center That Will Be Handed Over to Trump [Read the Article at AlterNet]   Texas Looks Set to Follow North Carolina With Push for "Bathroom Bill" [Read the Article at the Guardian US]   Trump's Team Draws Target on Federal Regulations [Read the Article at The Hill]     [A Bad Year Ends, a Worse One Begins: What Will You Do With 2017?] William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: The brutality of 2016 is compounded by one brutal truth: 2017 will be worse. So why bother? As Aeschylus wrote, "in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom." When you realize that you are actually capable of helping, your capacity to help will grow exponentially. [Read the Article]  [How Do Republicans Get Away With Voter Suppression?] Mark Karlin, Truthout: There aren't enough white guys to elect Donald Trump, so white nationalist and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach helped him eliminate people of color from voter lists, says investigative journalist Greg Palast in this Truthout interview. It's the only way Trump was able to win Michigan and Pennsylvania. [Read the Interview]  [There Are No Guarantees in History: A Cultural Studies Perspective on the Current Crisis] Lawrence Grossberg, Truthout: Simplified narratives about history as a struggle between two homogeneous camps -- progressives vs. conservatives -- are misleading. Trump's election was not a linear development, but a messy set of struggles around shifting economic, political, cultural, technological and social issues, and a series of attempted compromises. [Read the Article]  [How "Open Source" Seed Producers From the US to India Are Changing Global Food Production] Rachel Cernansky, Ensia: The Open Source Seed Initiative allows farmers who buy seeds from an open-source breeder to cross them with other material to breed their own varieties and save them for future seasons -- two things many crop patents forbid. [Read the Article]  [The Inextricable Link Between Migration and Sweatshops] Dalia Gebrial, New Internationalist: Sweatshops have, from their inception, been inextricably tied to histories of migration. Sweatshops are characterized not just by low pay and poor labor conditions, but of a specific kind of factory-based, outsourced exploitation. [Read the Article]  [Louisiana's Oil and Gas Industry Continues Growing Along the Coast It's Helping Shrink] Julie Dermansky, DeSmogBlog: The Louisiana coast loses a football field's worth of land every 38 minutes. This staggering rate of land loss has been brought on by climate change and coastal erosion accelerated by human activities, including water diversion projects and damage done by the oil and gas industry. [Read the Photo Essay]  [Cyber Security Takes on New Urgency for Groups Targeted by Trump] Sarah Aziza, Waging Nonviolence: With Donald Trump's inauguration rapidly approaching, activists are working to fortify their digital platforms against potential government intrusions. Many fear that a Trump presidency will usher in an age of greater government surveillance and the suppression of civil rights. [Read the Article]  [Can Mayors Actually Rule the World?] Diane E. Davis, Citiscope: In recent years, city governments have pushed for more autonomy and new international forms of collaboration. By doing so, local authorities are fundamentally moving away from the longstanding dominance of the nation-state. How can we ensure that this is for the best? [Read the Article]  [This Week in Speakout:] Ada M. Wilkinson-Lee reports that Trump's election has led to chronic stress symptoms in Latino communities in the US; Four Arrows analyzes the recent shootings at Backwater Bridge in North Dakota; Joseph Gerson examines the many possible meanings of Trump's nuclear tweets; Cathy Breen offers signs of hope in Iraq during these desperate times; and more. [Read the Articles]  [Support Truthout with a tax-deductible donation ] Please add messenger@truthout.org to ensure you receive our messages Truthout is a proud member of the Newspaper Guild/CWA, Local 36047 [Subscribe] | [Unsubscribe] [Privacy Policy]   [The Newspaper Guild]