Cartoon: What Trump wants

by Joe Kandra, Pat Daniel, Kathie Malley-Morrison

Voting in 2020 is at risk. If you value freedom and democracy, act now, while you still can.

Starting gate question: Are you registered to vote?

Even if you think you’re registered, double check–things may not be what you assume. For example,

1. Voter rolls have been and are still being purged in many states; see here or here .

2. If you moved recently, your polling place is likely to have changed and you may need to register again in your current community. See here and here .

3. If you are not registered yet, get a move on. Deadlines are rapidly approaching for voter registration. Check them out in your state here and now and do it.

Followup question: Do you know how to outfox voter suppression efforts by the power mongers?

As you may have heard, in order to suppress voting by people who aren’t part of the current power structure–particularly poor people and people of color–illegal politically-based efforts are being made to interfere with the popular vote. 

Solution: Fight back by voting early. Mail-in voting (and depositing ballots in official drop boxes) has already begun in some states. Take advantage of these opportunities and vote early—but, please, please, please, not often. Disregard any evil advice to vote twice. (That’s a violation of federal law and another effort at destroying our democratic system.) For more about early voting, see here and here .

The biggest question: Do you want what Trump wants? You know what that is–the death of democracy. If you’re not in the market for authoritarianism and facism, exercise your Constitutional rights.

DEMOCRACY WANTS YOU to do everything you need to do to vote–and have it count!

Quotes from Courageous Anti-Authoritarians, Anti-Imperialists, Anti-Corporatists, Anti-Militarists and Anti-Fascists through History

Protest outside the Guildhall with War on Wantand others . Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Author: Peter Taylor.

Compiled by Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service

This collection of quotes is intended to be read, taken to heart and made good use of by all good-hearted folks who are working hard to expose the massive injustice, corruption, discrimination, environmental degradation, heartless price-gouging, etc. that is coming from the world’s inanimate corporations that have been unjustly granted “personhood” AND their “human” wealth- and power-hungry leaders who have relinquished their “humanity” through their incessant inhumane actions, which are making the planet uninhabitable.

These quotes are intended to inspire and give courage to the cloud of witnesses who are seeking justice, peace and prosperity and environmental and human rights for the impoverished, the outcasts, the bullied, the displaced, the victimized and the enslaved. Use them early and often. — GK

“Globalization is but another name for colonization — nothing has changed but the name. And, just as the East India Company was the instrument for colonization, today’s corporation is the instrument for globalization.  And, corporatization is but another name for Fascism.” — Urban Kohler

“Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property. Corporate personhood is the legal fiction that property is a person.” — Anonymous

“It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions – you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.”  — Noam Chomsky

“We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.” — Ernesto Che Guevara

“Corporations are the opposite of good citizens. They bribe politicians to write laws that cheat society on a mammoth scale, most significantly by allowing them to avoid paying many of the very real costs incurred in conducting their businesses.“ Such very real costs ”include the social and environmental costs of destruction of valuable resources, pollution, the burdens on society of workers who become injured or ill and receive little or no health care, the indirect funding received when companies are permitted to market hazardous products, dump wastes into oceans and rivers, pay employees less than a living wage, provide substandard working conditions, and extract natural resources from public lands at less than market prices. Furthermore, most corporations are dependent on public subsidies, exemptions, massive advertising and lobbying campaigns, and complex transportation and communications systems that are underwritten by taxpayers; their executives receive inflated salaries, perks, and “golden retirement parachutes” which are written off as tax deductions.” — John Perkins, author of “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” and The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World”

“An ignorant population does not look to see the greater way, never questions authorities or understands rights and therefore provides little opposition to a dictatorship. If we want to grow as a race we must start educating ourselves. Be able to learn to discern. Recognize when the media is trying to manipulate us. Whatever it is we’re subjected to in the media, beware of the hidden ulterior motive. Perhaps it would be better to boycott this propagandist pap altogether and instead of being listless or unresponsive, do something worth-while; campaign for the truth.” Paul A. Philips

“State sovereignty is a goner. Bankism and Military Capitalism rule the world in all respects now.” — Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor of TRANSCEND Media Service.

Originally published on TRANSCEND Media Service, August 19, 2019.