#Democratic Party (United States)

[ngdrb]

[reasonsforhope]

"California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed a first-of-its-kind state law Monday aimed at protecting LGBTQ+ students from having their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression revealed by schools without consent.

The SAFETY Act prohibits schools from enforcing policies that forcibly out a student and shields teachers and other school staff from retaliation if they refuse to obey such policies. 

The new law makes California the first state to ban outing policies, according to the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus.

Chris Ward, a San Diego Democrat who first introduced the bill in the California Legislature, said in a statement Monday that the SAFETY Act combats a rise in politically motivated attacks on queer and transgender students nationwide. 

"While some school districts have adopted policies to forcibly out students, the SAFETY Act ensures that discussions about gender identity remain a private matter within the family,” Ward said. “As a parent, I urge all parents to talk to their children, listen to them, and love them unconditionally for who they are."

The law’s enactment came nearly a year after Tony Thurmond, the state superintendent of public instruction, said he was forcibly removed from a local school board meeting where he was opposing a district's proposed outing policy, which was eventually blocked in court. 

“Our teachers can now focus on teaching the critical academic skills that our students need to succeed, not on policing the gender identities of children,” Thurmond said in a statement Monday."

-via USA Today, July 16, 2024

[directactionforhope]

"Starting this month [June 2024], thousands of young people will begin doing climate-related work around the West as part of a new service-based federal jobs program, the American Climate Corps, or ACC. The jobs they do will vary, from wildland firefighters and “lawn busters” to urban farm fellows and traditional ecological knowledge stewards. Some will work on food security or energy conservation in cities, while others will tackle invasive species and stream restoration on public land. 

The Climate Corps was modeled on Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps, with the goal of eventually creating tens of thousands of jobs while simultaneously addressing the impacts of climate change. 

Applications were released on Earth Day, and Maggie Thomas, President Joe Biden’s special assistant on climate, told High Country News that the program’s website has already had hundreds of thousands of views. Since its launch, nearly 250 jobs across the West have been posted, accounting for more than half of all the listed ACC positions. 

“Obviously, the West is facing tremendous impacts of climate change,” Thomas said. “It’s changing faster than many other parts of the country. If you look at wildfire, if you look at extreme heat, there are so many impacts. I think that there’s a huge role for the American Climate Corps to be tackling those crises.”  

Most of the current positions are staffed through state or nonprofit entities, such as the Montana Conservation Corps or Great Basin Institute, many of which work in partnership with federal agencies that manage public lands across the West. In New Mexico, for example, members of Conservation Legacy’s Ecological Monitoring Crew will help the Bureau of Land Management collect soil and vegetation data. In Oregon, young people will join the U.S. Department of Agriculture, working in firefighting, fuel reduction and timber management in national forests. 

New jobs are being added regularly. Deadlines for summer positions have largely passed, but new postings for hundreds more positions are due later this year or on a rolling basis, such as the Working Lands Program, which is focused on “climate-smart agriculture.”  ...

On the ACC website, applicants can sort jobs by state, work environment and focus area, such as “Indigenous knowledge reclamation” or “food waste reduction.” Job descriptions include an hourly pay equivalent — some corps jobs pay weekly or term-based stipends instead of an hourly wage — and benefits. The site is fairly user-friendly, in part owing to suggestions made by the young people who participated in the ACC listening sessions earlier this year...

The sessions helped determine other priorities as well, Thomas said, including creating good-paying jobs that could lead to long-term careers, as well as alignment with the president’s Justice40 initiative, which mandates that at least 40% of federal climate funds must go to marginalized communities that are disproportionately impacted by climate change and pollution. 

High Country News found that 30% of jobs listed across the West have explicit justice and equity language, from affordable housing in low-income communities to Indigenous knowledge and cultural reclamation for Native youth...

While the administration aims for all positions to pay at least $15 an hour, the lowest-paid position in the West is currently listed at $11 an hour. Benefits also vary widely, though most include an education benefit, and, in some cases, health care, child care and housing. 

All corps members will have access to pre-apprenticeship curriculum through the North America’s Building Trades Union. Matthew Mayers, director of the Green Workers Alliance, called this an important step for young people who want to pursue union jobs in renewable energy. Some members will also be eligible for the federal pathways program, which was recently expanded to increase opportunities for permanent positions in the federal government...

 “To think that there will be young people in every community across the country working on climate solutions and really being equipped with the tools they need to succeed in the workforce of the future,” Thomas said, “to me, that is going to be an incredible thing to see.”"

-via High Country News, June 6, 2024

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Note: You can browse Climate Corps job postings here, on the Climate Corps website. There are currently 314 jobs posted at time of writing!

Also, it says the goal is to pay at least $15 an hour for all jobs (not 100% meeting that goal rn), but lots of postings pay higher than that, including some over $20/hour!!

[sher-ee]

Cult 45

[lasttarrasque]

Hard choice

[tmcphotoblog]

Kamala Harris knew Biden was unfit and led him to failure, now seizing his position. She's a ruthless, power-hungry individual willing to sacrifice America for her ambitions.

[phoenixyfriend]

I think a lot of political discourse for the US would be easier to process if we treated the Dems less as a single party and more as a wide and unusually strong coalition of all parties left of center.

It's hard to think of AOC or Cori Bush as being in the same party as Joe Manchin or Josh Gottheimer... but if you think of them as belonging to rather tightly allied parties within the democratic coalition, things might make some more sense.

[state-of-minnesota-official]

BOUTTA BE THE UNITED STATES OF MINNESOTA BABEYYYYYYY

[toshtoshtosh]

“Migrants” have been abducting, assaulting, r*ping and murdering American women with near impunity for years.

A group of “migrants” tried to board school buses full of children in California and do God knows what with them this week.

Violent “migrant” gangs from South America have taken over an entire neighborhood Aurora, Colorado.

Americans are supposed to be a violent people, correct? We “love” our guns? We’re the “mass shooting capital of the world”? We were “founded on warfare and violent white supremacy”, yeah? Then ask yourself why we haven’t gone full Red Dawn on these illegal aliens who have no right to be here, no protection under our laws, no right to a speedy trial, and no right NOT to be executed for the crimes and atrocities that they’ve committed and continue to commit.

Around the world, tourists disappear every day, women leave their homes not knowing if they’ll ever come back, and children’s lives are ruined through human trafficking. But, somehow, millions of untraceable adult men are allowed to terrorize a land that is not their own and keep their lives? The answer is “yes”—but it doesn’t have to be.

[ministerforpeas]

Saw this on TikTok so now you all have to see it too.

[ngdrb]

[madamepestilence]

Gutpunch reminder that both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party in the United States are right-wing parties

The Republican Party realized that they no longer need to use euphemisms and can explicitly be fascist because bigots are now the base

The Democratic Party realized that they no longer need to advocate against genocide and just need to use public relations to mask fascism because neoliberals are now the base

The government of the United States of America is a fascist government and needs to be replaced

[sher-ee]

[lasttarrasque]

Time to pressure Kamala!

Now that vice president Kamala Harris looks to be the next democratic presidential candidate, it is time to remind her how unequivocally pro Palestine her voter base is. We need an email campaign and we need a protest campaign, we need to apply pressure in every single way.

Below is the Email information for contacting Kamala Harris, every single American (non Americans also can’t hurt) who gives a fuck about Palestine needs to send an email to Kamala Harris. Please reblog this so as many people can see this as possible. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[tmcphotoblog]

Polled less than 1% among democrat voters in the 2019 primary, has accomplished absolutely nothing since. Never won the nomination for this office. Was selected to be VP choice. And now she's running for president! Wild ride.

[skf-fineart]

INDECLINE, Art Collective

Naked Trump (The Emperor Has No Balls), 2016

Resin cast sculpture on plaster base, 78 1/2 in. | 199.4 cm.