Greetings.... the Sept DSA meeting will be at 12pm on Sunday the 15th.... at George and Dro's Place 707 NW10th Street... there will be coffee, tea bring a some snacks if you like... the agenda might be "what are we doing?, the homeless struggle! and the coming climate strike on the 20th!.... Solidarity, George

So, Who really hates America and who should leave?

Trump on Reps. Omar, AOC, Tlaib, and Pressley: "If you hate our country, or if you are not happy here, you can leave."...

Trump on the US: "The United States has become the laughing stock and a whipping post for the rest of the world....We don't have enough strength in our country....Our country has no spirit, our country has no gravitas....We're a debtor nation....We're broke....We don't know what we're doing as a country....You think our country's so innocent?...Rusted-out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape....And the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs....Poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad....We're a foolish country. We're a dumb country....How stupid are the people of the country?...Our military is going to hell....Our infrastructure is terrible, our roads, our bridges, our tunnels, our schools, our hospitals -- we're becoming a Third World country....We don't have a country any more....We're dying. This country is dying....The American Dream is dead."....

..... Carlos Castaneda

Weds the 17th July 6:30 at (Paul's house) 509 NW 11th Street the People's History group is discussing Chapter 7. 

This chapter  is tied "As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs.  Its about how the US grew as a colonial power and how that's still with us. Like with the previous chapters this is written with the perspectives of those below the power structure in mind. Its written giving respect to indigenous people's perspectives much like the previous chapters were written through the cultural eyeglasses" of the slaves, indentured servants, women and the working classes. 

In our discussions we're talking about the formation of the present day American mind set, the origin of many ideas, habits and attitudes included in our acculturation. Much of what we and our various people have been taught or condition to believe so much hasn't even been though through, has become so much the norm that its not even questioned. At least that's what some of us are starting to recognize. 

-- george

ps we still have an extra book and can send you a pdf version

REMEMBER The People's History gathering will be this coming Wednesday July3rd 6:30 at george & dro's place 707 NW10th St. We will be talking about Chapter 6 The Intimately Oppressed. Previous chapters were about the early interaction between the indigenous peoples, the propertied vs the working classes, slaves and indentured servants. This chapter works in how women, brown and white fit in to the making of what Chapter 5 called a kind of revolution that  allowed the colonial elite to break off from the British Empire and build an empire of their own.  -- geroge

Progressives Call for Mobilization as Koch Brothers Open Their Pockets to Protect Corporate Democrats

It's important to support progressive candidates because the oligarchy will be financing the establishment Democrats. See this story in the Common Dreams, a nonprofit independent news center based out of Portland, ME. 

Thanks for reading this.

-pd

HI EVERYONE THE PENDLETON DSA MEETING HAS CHANGED from the 16th to Sunday 23June at 2pm at 707 NW 10th street.  Hopfully we will be joined by some Walla Walla DSA sisters and bothers. The rest of the proposed agenda will be sent out soon.  

The next people's history gathering will be 6:30 Wednesday 19th at 707 NW 10th. We will be discussing chapter five A Kind Of Revolution about how indians, slaves, women, indentured servants, the rest of the working classes fit into the formation of this country and its legacy to this moment.  

-- george

HI EVERYONE THE PENDLETON DSA MEETING HAS CHANGED from the 16th to Sunday 23June at 2pm at 707 NW 10th street.  Hopfully we will be joined by some Walla Walla DSA sisters and bothers. The rest of the proposed agenda will be sent out soon.  

The next people's history gathering will be 6:30 Wednesday 19th at 707 NW 10th. We will be discussing chapter five A Kind Of Revolution about how indians, slaves, women, indentured servants, the rest of the working classes fit into the formation of this country and its legacy to this moment.  

-- george