Former senior leaders of uMkhonto weSizwe want a review of the party's constitution and a recommitment to South Africa's Constitution.
Reported by News24 1 hour ago.
News24.com | Review ANC constitution to curb abuse of members and processes – MK veterans
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The Original "Forgotten Americans"
Redemption. The Silent Majority. Trump. If there has been one clear, repeatable pattern throughout American history, it is that any major instance of African American advancement has always been met with a massive white backlash. From Stephen A. Douglas to Donald Trump, in Middle America this reaction has been validated historically through a language of economic displacement, political voicelessness, and cultural marginalization -- a "war" on "real American" values.
The wake of the American Civil War, like the aftermath of all wars, saw the construction of numerous, often contradictory narratives about why the war began, and how and for what it was fought. Some underscored Southern victimhood and downplayed the role of slavery. Others focused on the centrality of emancipation or the righteousness of the Union cause. Each meta-story privileged some events and actors, and relegated others to the commemorative sideline. As David Blight and other scholars of collective memory have asserted, remembering is a selective act, and it always involves some degree of forgetting.
By 1870 a "Lost Cause" mythology, one which inflated Confederate prowess and downplayed the role of slavery in the Civil War, was taking hold throughout the American South. In New England and the Middle Atlantic states, an Eastern version of the Civil War had emerged that emphasized Antietam, Gettysburg, and the paramountcy of the Army of the Potomac. Urban industrialists and Eastern financiers, meanwhile, by way of newfound political influence, increasingly used speculation, monopoly, and new systems of currency and credit to estrange Western farmers, forcing them to bear the brunt of capitalist development. And Reconstruction, in which recently liberated African Americans looked to secure basic citizenship and voting rights, was being violently pushed back in the South and vocally opposed in the Midwest.
Citizens in rural and small town Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois -- who typically referred to themselves not as "Southerners" or "Northerners," but as "Westerners" -- felt they were being hemmed in on all sides.
It was a familiar fear, and one that the region's Civil War veterans regularly pushed back against. Speaking at the Society of the Army of the Cumberland annual reunion in Indianapolis in the fall of 1870, for instance, General Charles Cruft of Terre Haute, Indiana, insisted that "The Grand Army of the West" was the preeminent fighting force of the late civil war. In similar reunions throughout the late nineteenth-century Midwest, the region's wartime military and political leaders recalled fondly how Westerners-turned-citizens possessed unique traits acquired from honest work and the purity of the Western land. Explaining that Western values were American values, southern Illinois General John A. Logan extolled "the loyal character" derived from "the valleys and prairies of the West -- from farms and workshops -- from the varied vocations of civil life." The implication was that, once again, the West was being overlooked, and Western soldiers were in danger of being written out of the story of the Civil War.
This nineteenth-century cult of the Westerner -- of the white rural and small town citizens from Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois who identified neither with minorities, the exotic South, nor the urban East -- was hardly confined to veterans' culture. Again and again in social and political discourse, and in everyday life, landlocked elites repeated the dictum that Westerners were exceptional in their deeds, their customs, and their virtue -- and that they were being wronged by outsiders.
Swaths of the Civil War West had been relatively hostile to Abraham Lincoln's administration, particularly the Emancipation Proclamation, the enlistment of African American soldiers, and the wartime power accrued by Eastern capitalists. As such, Westerners were often -- and overwhelmingly unfairly -- suspected of disloyalty to the Union, owing to their conservative politics. In opposition to newly-empowered African Americans and both culturally alien Easterners and defeated but defiant Southerners -- groups they often defamed as secessionist "fire-eaters" in the South and abolitionist "fanatics" in the industrial North and the urbanizing Great Lakes -- Westerners crafted a victimhood narrative of the late war, rooted in animus toward cultural outsiders and the belief that now-neglected Western soldiers had won the war.
Fast forward nearly 150 years to the Fall of 2016.
We are now in the hangover of a presidential election in which Donald Trump's conception of "forgotten Americans" played a central role. Despite an above average median household income voter base during the Republican primary and a mythical claim to "working class" support during the general election, Trump, aided no doubt by the decision of modern Democrats to move sharply rightward on questions of political economy, claimed to speak for the so-called "forgotten" voters of what outsiders have disparagingly labeled "flyover country."
It worked. Even Charles Cruft's home of Vigo County, Indiana, saw a swing from Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 to Trump in 2016, part of an overall reddening of Middle America.
This appeal to a felt cultural and economic marginalization mirrored a tried-and-true strategy in the American inland. The notion of an especially "real" but "overlooked" bloc in the American interior is an old one, with roots in Thomas Jefferson's agrarian ideal. It was commonplace during the Age of Jackson for white Midwesterners to "normalize" themselves to ward off perceived political and cultural encroachment -- African Americans from the South and "Yankees" from the North and East. They defined themselves as the American default: the "middle," the "border," and the "center," or often as regular "white people." This exclusionary logic continued through the Reconstruction, Populist, New Deal, and Movement Conservative eras, reinforcing the long civil rights opposition of localism and "states' rights" so implicit in Richard Nixon's "silent majority" and Ronald Reagan's "undeserving poor."
Now, although over two and a half million more Americans voted for his opponent, Hillary Clinton, some pundits have cited the decisive role of a "silent majority" in securing Donald Trump's victory (despite the facts that roughly 80% of all Americans live within an hour's drive of the coast). Then as now, the dog whistles and coded appeals to very limited groups of citizens are not subtle. Indeed, Cruft's Westerners and what Sarah Palin once termed "real America" -- "small towns" and "little pockets" of "pro-America" patriots -- have one obvious similarity: their racial uniformity. This "real American" exists in opposition to, well, the "other," ostensibly "not real" America of Barack Obama.
Creators of racist narratives -- even coded ones -- understand the power those narratives vest to those who consume them. Stories we tell about ourselves and about the past reflect and reinforce racial, gender, class, and regional hierarchies. Sometimes such narratives are conscious in the racial exclusivity. Other times, such narratives develop out of nothing more than white people simply pursuing what they perceive as their own best social and economic interests. The not-so-hidden white supremacy behind the suggestion of a more "authentic" or "deserving" American is a byproduct of both. Like its historical forebears, Trump's new "silent majority" is in large part a covert defense against the perceived loss of racial and cultural status -- a resistance in the Heartland that even Charles Cruft would understand.
-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. Reported by Huffington Post 46 minutes ago.
The wake of the American Civil War, like the aftermath of all wars, saw the construction of numerous, often contradictory narratives about why the war began, and how and for what it was fought. Some underscored Southern victimhood and downplayed the role of slavery. Others focused on the centrality of emancipation or the righteousness of the Union cause. Each meta-story privileged some events and actors, and relegated others to the commemorative sideline. As David Blight and other scholars of collective memory have asserted, remembering is a selective act, and it always involves some degree of forgetting.
By 1870 a "Lost Cause" mythology, one which inflated Confederate prowess and downplayed the role of slavery in the Civil War, was taking hold throughout the American South. In New England and the Middle Atlantic states, an Eastern version of the Civil War had emerged that emphasized Antietam, Gettysburg, and the paramountcy of the Army of the Potomac. Urban industrialists and Eastern financiers, meanwhile, by way of newfound political influence, increasingly used speculation, monopoly, and new systems of currency and credit to estrange Western farmers, forcing them to bear the brunt of capitalist development. And Reconstruction, in which recently liberated African Americans looked to secure basic citizenship and voting rights, was being violently pushed back in the South and vocally opposed in the Midwest.
Citizens in rural and small town Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois -- who typically referred to themselves not as "Southerners" or "Northerners," but as "Westerners" -- felt they were being hemmed in on all sides.
It was a familiar fear, and one that the region's Civil War veterans regularly pushed back against. Speaking at the Society of the Army of the Cumberland annual reunion in Indianapolis in the fall of 1870, for instance, General Charles Cruft of Terre Haute, Indiana, insisted that "The Grand Army of the West" was the preeminent fighting force of the late civil war. In similar reunions throughout the late nineteenth-century Midwest, the region's wartime military and political leaders recalled fondly how Westerners-turned-citizens possessed unique traits acquired from honest work and the purity of the Western land. Explaining that Western values were American values, southern Illinois General John A. Logan extolled "the loyal character" derived from "the valleys and prairies of the West -- from farms and workshops -- from the varied vocations of civil life." The implication was that, once again, the West was being overlooked, and Western soldiers were in danger of being written out of the story of the Civil War.
This nineteenth-century cult of the Westerner -- of the white rural and small town citizens from Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois who identified neither with minorities, the exotic South, nor the urban East -- was hardly confined to veterans' culture. Again and again in social and political discourse, and in everyday life, landlocked elites repeated the dictum that Westerners were exceptional in their deeds, their customs, and their virtue -- and that they were being wronged by outsiders.
Swaths of the Civil War West had been relatively hostile to Abraham Lincoln's administration, particularly the Emancipation Proclamation, the enlistment of African American soldiers, and the wartime power accrued by Eastern capitalists. As such, Westerners were often -- and overwhelmingly unfairly -- suspected of disloyalty to the Union, owing to their conservative politics. In opposition to newly-empowered African Americans and both culturally alien Easterners and defeated but defiant Southerners -- groups they often defamed as secessionist "fire-eaters" in the South and abolitionist "fanatics" in the industrial North and the urbanizing Great Lakes -- Westerners crafted a victimhood narrative of the late war, rooted in animus toward cultural outsiders and the belief that now-neglected Western soldiers had won the war.
Fast forward nearly 150 years to the Fall of 2016.
We are now in the hangover of a presidential election in which Donald Trump's conception of "forgotten Americans" played a central role. Despite an above average median household income voter base during the Republican primary and a mythical claim to "working class" support during the general election, Trump, aided no doubt by the decision of modern Democrats to move sharply rightward on questions of political economy, claimed to speak for the so-called "forgotten" voters of what outsiders have disparagingly labeled "flyover country."
It worked. Even Charles Cruft's home of Vigo County, Indiana, saw a swing from Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 to Trump in 2016, part of an overall reddening of Middle America.
This appeal to a felt cultural and economic marginalization mirrored a tried-and-true strategy in the American inland. The notion of an especially "real" but "overlooked" bloc in the American interior is an old one, with roots in Thomas Jefferson's agrarian ideal. It was commonplace during the Age of Jackson for white Midwesterners to "normalize" themselves to ward off perceived political and cultural encroachment -- African Americans from the South and "Yankees" from the North and East. They defined themselves as the American default: the "middle," the "border," and the "center," or often as regular "white people." This exclusionary logic continued through the Reconstruction, Populist, New Deal, and Movement Conservative eras, reinforcing the long civil rights opposition of localism and "states' rights" so implicit in Richard Nixon's "silent majority" and Ronald Reagan's "undeserving poor."
Now, although over two and a half million more Americans voted for his opponent, Hillary Clinton, some pundits have cited the decisive role of a "silent majority" in securing Donald Trump's victory (despite the facts that roughly 80% of all Americans live within an hour's drive of the coast). Then as now, the dog whistles and coded appeals to very limited groups of citizens are not subtle. Indeed, Cruft's Westerners and what Sarah Palin once termed "real America" -- "small towns" and "little pockets" of "pro-America" patriots -- have one obvious similarity: their racial uniformity. This "real American" exists in opposition to, well, the "other," ostensibly "not real" America of Barack Obama.
Creators of racist narratives -- even coded ones -- understand the power those narratives vest to those who consume them. Stories we tell about ourselves and about the past reflect and reinforce racial, gender, class, and regional hierarchies. Sometimes such narratives are conscious in the racial exclusivity. Other times, such narratives develop out of nothing more than white people simply pursuing what they perceive as their own best social and economic interests. The not-so-hidden white supremacy behind the suggestion of a more "authentic" or "deserving" American is a byproduct of both. Like its historical forebears, Trump's new "silent majority" is in large part a covert defense against the perceived loss of racial and cultural status -- a resistance in the Heartland that even Charles Cruft would understand.
-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. Reported by Huffington Post 46 minutes ago.
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Liberals! Breathe.
Cokie Roberts said something in the aftermath of Trump's victory which I consider to be the most insightful analysis yet about the election - I wish I could find it to quote it verbatim. She first painted a picture about the unlikelihood of a Trump candidacy - the lurid past, the horrific demeanor, the blatant racism, the bashing of veterans of war (wow, the bashing of veterans of war); Trump did perhaps a dozen things which would have doomed any other candidacy in recent political history; the serial lying, the childish tantrums, the instability and rudeness - it is an easy picture to paint, as I have done. She observed that, in spite of all of that against him, in spite of a hurricane of political winds against him, much of his own blowhard making, he still won.
Then she said the sacred words: "The people really do govern." That is a direct quote - we can ask her to verify it.
In the aftermath of the revelations about Russia's meddling, Cokie Roberts sounds naïve, doesn't she? That just makes her statement all the more brilliant.
What I take from the hacking revelations is this: It is getting harder, not easier, to hide. We chafe about corruption in politics - and we should - but as people are exposed more and more, it will become apparent which parties are corrupt.
No. It will become apparent that there are zero parties with nothing they might prefer to keep hidden. In the future it will be easy to embarrass people ... until the embarrassment becomes so common that, ironically, it will after that become hard to embarrass people. Human error is ever so common.
But true corruption? Screwing the little people to gain for themselves? How can they hide that? Will they bully us? Will we the people back down?
They - any subversive or seditious party - cannot take away by force our basic liberties: Free speech, free press, our vote. They can only rob us by propaganda and coercion. And, indeed, they might succeed for a time until citizens wake up to yet another morning of more pain requiring drastic change.
Then, as has churned on for centuries, Cokie Roberts' words will again ring true: The people really do govern. There will be more elections. Trump is on a short leash made by our founding fathers.
I suspect Cokie Roberts would disavow my next statement, but I am going to say it anyway. Conservatives pissed on their own good government and democracy when they refused to recognize the legitimacy of the presidency of Barack Obama. It is as if they feel they can take the law into their own hands and remain guiltless. They sowed the wind ... and now they have reaped the whirlwind named Donald Trump. Progressives should not make the same mistake. Indeed, we should not act exactly as conservatives and support their general cause of division and dysfunctional government. Obama - our leader - is exactly correct to support Trump in the transition. We are one team. We should pay attention to Obama. I suspect he understands and knows what he is talking about.
We will vote again. We the people govern. The Bill of Rights is a solid document. We should, of course, watch Trump like a hawk. But we make a huge mistake if we declare him the enemy. Indeed, we play into the hands of conservatives - we commit the unforgivable sin of our political enemies. Worse, we help them, we lend them aid in their vigilante cause against their own democracy. I recommend we yield to the will of the people, unite as much as we can, and more elections follow.
Hope is more than justified.
-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. Reported by Huffington Post 33 minutes ago.
Then she said the sacred words: "The people really do govern." That is a direct quote - we can ask her to verify it.
In the aftermath of the revelations about Russia's meddling, Cokie Roberts sounds naïve, doesn't she? That just makes her statement all the more brilliant.
What I take from the hacking revelations is this: It is getting harder, not easier, to hide. We chafe about corruption in politics - and we should - but as people are exposed more and more, it will become apparent which parties are corrupt.
No. It will become apparent that there are zero parties with nothing they might prefer to keep hidden. In the future it will be easy to embarrass people ... until the embarrassment becomes so common that, ironically, it will after that become hard to embarrass people. Human error is ever so common.
But true corruption? Screwing the little people to gain for themselves? How can they hide that? Will they bully us? Will we the people back down?
They - any subversive or seditious party - cannot take away by force our basic liberties: Free speech, free press, our vote. They can only rob us by propaganda and coercion. And, indeed, they might succeed for a time until citizens wake up to yet another morning of more pain requiring drastic change.
Then, as has churned on for centuries, Cokie Roberts' words will again ring true: The people really do govern. There will be more elections. Trump is on a short leash made by our founding fathers.
I suspect Cokie Roberts would disavow my next statement, but I am going to say it anyway. Conservatives pissed on their own good government and democracy when they refused to recognize the legitimacy of the presidency of Barack Obama. It is as if they feel they can take the law into their own hands and remain guiltless. They sowed the wind ... and now they have reaped the whirlwind named Donald Trump. Progressives should not make the same mistake. Indeed, we should not act exactly as conservatives and support their general cause of division and dysfunctional government. Obama - our leader - is exactly correct to support Trump in the transition. We are one team. We should pay attention to Obama. I suspect he understands and knows what he is talking about.
We will vote again. We the people govern. The Bill of Rights is a solid document. We should, of course, watch Trump like a hawk. But we make a huge mistake if we declare him the enemy. Indeed, we play into the hands of conservatives - we commit the unforgivable sin of our political enemies. Worse, we help them, we lend them aid in their vigilante cause against their own democracy. I recommend we yield to the will of the people, unite as much as we can, and more elections follow.
Hope is more than justified.
-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. Reported by Huffington Post 33 minutes ago.
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FIFA Fines Teams For Honoring WWI's Fallen Soldiers
Watch VideoIs honoring soldiers who gave their lives a political statement? FIFA says yes. The international soccer league fined England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland's programs for displaying poppies during games on Nov. 11 — the anniversary of the end of World War I.
The flower has long been a symbol of lives lost in the war, and for decades, the poppy has been used to raise money for veterans.
But FIFA ruled the poppy is political in nature, and the league has strict rules against any political displays.
If anything, FIFA's rules have gotten stricter. Five years ago, FIFA suggested the English national team wear poppy armbands to get around its ban on political symbols on uniforms. But now those same armbands are worthy of a fine.
*SEE MORE: No Matter The Cause, The NFL Doesn't Budge On Its Dress Code*
A spokesman for the league said he respects the WWI commemorations, but rules are rules. However, others have noted far worse acts have received lighter fines.
In May, seven national teams were fined for discriminatory chants by fans, some of which were homophobic. But only one of those countries got a higher fine than the one England received for its poppy armbands.
American sports leagues have similarly strict rules. While the NFL may allow political speech on the field, it's fined players for altering their uniforms — whether it's to honor fallen family members or promote medical causes. Reported by Newsy 1 day ago.
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Stallone 'Flattered' at NEA Job, But Says No Thanks
Actor Sylvester Stallone says he is "flattered" President-elect Donald Trump would consider him to head up the National Endowment for the Arts, but said he will be more effective continuing his work to help veterans.
Reported by Newsmax 18 hours ago.
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22-year-old injured in hit-and-run in Newark
Newark police are investigating a hit-and-run that occurred Monday afternoon in front of their police station. Police received a report around 1:15 p.m. that a 22-year-old man crossing S. Main Street between Veterans Lane and Apple Road was struck.
Reported by Delawareonline 21 hours ago.
Reported by Delawareonline 21 hours ago.
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Everest Rehabilitation Hospitals, LLC Announces New Hospital in Temple, TX
Everest Rehabilitation Hospitals, announced today their plans to begin construction of a new 36-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Temple, TX.
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) December 19, 2016
Everest Rehabilitation Hospitals, LLC announced today their plans to begin construction of a new 36-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Temple, TX. The hospital will be located on Canyon Creek Drive within proximity to the Temple Medical & Education District (TMED) and the Veterans Administration complex. Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2017.
The approximately 38,000-square-foot hospital will provide comprehensive inpatient physical rehabilitation to patients who have experienced stroke, trauma, brain injury, complex orthopedic conditions as well as other major illnesses or injuries.
"We are proud and privileged to serve the residents of Temple, TX and the surrounding Central Texas region," said Jay Quintana, CEO of Everest Rehabilitation Hospitals, LLC. "Our new hospital will be a state-of-the-art facility that can be expanded to 72 beds. It is comprised of all private rooms, both inpatient and outpatient therapy gyms, and offers cutting-edge rehabilitation technologies."
“This project combines the strengths of a high-quality provider with the local operating platforms and clinical resources to advance rehab into the next chapter of care and will provide residents a state-of-the-art rehab option to receive care closer to home," said Jay Quintana. The Everest Rehabilitation executives have a long history of providing exceptional care in various post-acute settings and plan to leverage that experience in bringing best in class operations to all Everest facilities.
About Everest Rehabilitation Hospitals, LLC
Everest Rehab is a physical rehabilitation hospital company that delivers post-acute healthcare services, offering both facility-based and outpatient services to our communities. Everest Rehabilitation Hospitals, LLC, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is committed to making healthcare remarkable for patients by providing local rehab alternatives. For more information please visit http://www.everestrehab.com Reported by PRWeb 21 hours ago.
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) December 19, 2016
Everest Rehabilitation Hospitals, LLC announced today their plans to begin construction of a new 36-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Temple, TX. The hospital will be located on Canyon Creek Drive within proximity to the Temple Medical & Education District (TMED) and the Veterans Administration complex. Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2017.
The approximately 38,000-square-foot hospital will provide comprehensive inpatient physical rehabilitation to patients who have experienced stroke, trauma, brain injury, complex orthopedic conditions as well as other major illnesses or injuries.
"We are proud and privileged to serve the residents of Temple, TX and the surrounding Central Texas region," said Jay Quintana, CEO of Everest Rehabilitation Hospitals, LLC. "Our new hospital will be a state-of-the-art facility that can be expanded to 72 beds. It is comprised of all private rooms, both inpatient and outpatient therapy gyms, and offers cutting-edge rehabilitation technologies."
“This project combines the strengths of a high-quality provider with the local operating platforms and clinical resources to advance rehab into the next chapter of care and will provide residents a state-of-the-art rehab option to receive care closer to home," said Jay Quintana. The Everest Rehabilitation executives have a long history of providing exceptional care in various post-acute settings and plan to leverage that experience in bringing best in class operations to all Everest facilities.
About Everest Rehabilitation Hospitals, LLC
Everest Rehab is a physical rehabilitation hospital company that delivers post-acute healthcare services, offering both facility-based and outpatient services to our communities. Everest Rehabilitation Hospitals, LLC, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is committed to making healthcare remarkable for patients by providing local rehab alternatives. For more information please visit http://www.everestrehab.com Reported by PRWeb 21 hours ago.
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Satoshi Studios, South East Asia's First Blockchain Incubator, Opens Applications for 1st Batch
GURGAON, India, Dec. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- South East Asia has got it's first Blockchain Incubator mentored/invested by Bitcoin pioneers like Roger Ver, Amit Bhardwaj, Michael Terpin to name a few.
(Photo: http://mma.prnewswire.com/media/450671/PRNE_SatoshiStudios_photo.jpg )
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20161201/444565-INFO )The incubator is very aptly named Satoshi Studios and is inviting applications from entrepreneurs working in the South East Asia region. The incubator has a 3-month intensive residence program in New Delhi India, where the founders will spend time with the other Blockchain startups and receive 50K USD in funding for 8%-15% equity in the company.
Speaking about the same, incubator's co-founder, Sahil Baghla said, "We had been receiving a lot of interest from fellow entrepreneurs seeking feedback on their ideas using the Blockchain technology and some of the entrepreneurs we've met are building some really interesting applications, and we wanted to work with them and see if we could get an opportunity to know and work with more of these geniuses."
Speaking further, Sahil said, "We are proud to be backed by people like Roger Ver (who has single-handedly funded the seed rounds for the entire first generation of Bitcoin businesses), Amit Bhardwaj (who is leading the march for Bitcoin Adoption in India), Michael Terpin (he co-founded BitAngels, the first angel network for investments in bitcoin/digital currency companies) and more Bitcoin pioneers."
Speaking about what else the incubator will be offering to the selected startups, Sahil said, "Startups will get an awesome workspace and living space for 3 months in New Delhi. There will be intensive mentorship sessions by Blockchain veterans (including our backers) which will help startups to reach Product Market Fit quickly."
About Darwin Labs
Darwin Labs is a startup studio based out of India, creating products in Bitcoin, Blockchain, Virtual Reality and Ad Tech. Satoshi Studios is a product of Darwin Labs.*Contact:*
Sanjay Goswami
sanjay@darwinlabs.io
+91-7042817302 Reported by PR Newswire Asia 20 hours ago.
(Photo: http://mma.prnewswire.com/media/450671/PRNE_SatoshiStudios_photo.jpg )
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20161201/444565-INFO )The incubator is very aptly named Satoshi Studios and is inviting applications from entrepreneurs working in the South East Asia region. The incubator has a 3-month intensive residence program in New Delhi India, where the founders will spend time with the other Blockchain startups and receive 50K USD in funding for 8%-15% equity in the company.
Speaking about the same, incubator's co-founder, Sahil Baghla said, "We had been receiving a lot of interest from fellow entrepreneurs seeking feedback on their ideas using the Blockchain technology and some of the entrepreneurs we've met are building some really interesting applications, and we wanted to work with them and see if we could get an opportunity to know and work with more of these geniuses."
Speaking further, Sahil said, "We are proud to be backed by people like Roger Ver (who has single-handedly funded the seed rounds for the entire first generation of Bitcoin businesses), Amit Bhardwaj (who is leading the march for Bitcoin Adoption in India), Michael Terpin (he co-founded BitAngels, the first angel network for investments in bitcoin/digital currency companies) and more Bitcoin pioneers."
Speaking about what else the incubator will be offering to the selected startups, Sahil said, "Startups will get an awesome workspace and living space for 3 months in New Delhi. There will be intensive mentorship sessions by Blockchain veterans (including our backers) which will help startups to reach Product Market Fit quickly."
About Darwin Labs
Darwin Labs is a startup studio based out of India, creating products in Bitcoin, Blockchain, Virtual Reality and Ad Tech. Satoshi Studios is a product of Darwin Labs.*Contact:*
Sanjay Goswami
sanjay@darwinlabs.io
+91-7042817302 Reported by PR Newswire Asia 20 hours ago.
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Nation's first incubator, co-working space for veterans opens in downtown Phoenix
What started as a concept a year ago to help veteran-led businesses launch and scale startups has morphed into the nation’s first incubator and co-working space dedicated to veteran-run startups. The Armory celebrated its grand opening today at the Arizona Center in downtown Phoenix in a 2,300 square-foot, first-floor retail space across from Starbucks. The vet startups are connected with mentors, experts and lawyers, and given a space to work at the Armory, said Phil Potter, the founder and…
Reported by bizjournals 19 hours ago.
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ISL 2016: Kerala Blasters’ mixed season saw them turn around slow start to finish as runners-up
This was a great ISL season for Kerala Blasters to build on, even if they ended runnesr-up. If they can keep the young core of this squad and mix it up with some of the veterans, there is no reason this can’t be a long term project.
The post ISL 2016: Kerala Blasters’ mixed season saw them turn around slow start to finish as runners-up appeared first on Firstpost. Reported by Firstpost 15 hours ago.
The post ISL 2016: Kerala Blasters’ mixed season saw them turn around slow start to finish as runners-up appeared first on Firstpost. Reported by Firstpost 15 hours ago.
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Azabu Value Partners Launch Japan Equity Fund
Tokyo financial industry veterans establish Japan-focused fundamental equity long/short strategy.
Tokyo (PRWEB) December 20, 2016
Azabu Value Partners (Cayman) (“Azabu Value”) announced the launch of the Azabu Value Master Fund, a Japan-focused fundamental equity long/short strategy under the umbrella of Rogers Investment Advisors KK on December 5, 2016.
The Azabu Value Master Fund (“The Fund”) is managed by Mr. June-Yon Kim and Mr. Oleg Zuravljov, former Fidelity Japan colleagues with nearly four decades of combined experience in Japanese equities. Mr. Michael O’Flynn, Head of Business Development and a longtime financial markets veteran, serves as Managing Director of Azabu Value Partners (Cayman), the general partner of The Fund.
The Fund employs a fundamental bottom-up strategy, investing in Japanese larger capitalization stocks. The strategy is enhanced by a derivative overlay and seeks to deliver returns not correlated with the underlying market. The key differentiating feature of the strategy is its focus on identifying value opportunities in the context of Japan’s pronounced economic and equity market cyclicality.
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are to serve as prime brokers of the Fund. Operations and risk management functions are provided by the Rogers Investment Advisors platform in Tokyo.
“We believe that our approach, focusing on fundamental bottom-up research enhanced by a top-down assessment of the macroeconomic and market cycles, allows us to take advantage of the significant dispersion of equity returns typical for Japan and to achieve consistent absolute returns regardless of the general direction of the Japanese equity market,” said Mr. Kim.
Mr. Zuravljov added, “Japan is probably the most cyclical developed market in the world. Fundamental stock pickers in Japan often ignore this powerful phenomenon. We believe that looking at individual stocks through the prism of macroeconomic cyclicality creates exceptional opportunities and reduces risk.”
“I think what we are trying to do at Azabu Value is unique,” said Mr. O’Flynn, who for many years served as a Tokyo-based institutional equity salesman to both Mr. Kim and Mr. Zuravljov. “Japan is a deep and liquid developed market with emerging market-like inefficiencies which, when combined with our team’s decades of stock-picking expertise, will offer investors more opportunities to obtain alpha on both the long and the short side, as compared to the far narrower nature of markets across the rest of Asia.”
Mr. Edward Rogers, Chief Executive Officer of Rogers Investment Advisors added, “We are pleased to help launch the Azabu Value Fund on the Rogers IA platform. For quite some time we have seen significant value added by equity long/short managers who base their research effort in Tokyo. Given the exceptional investment pedigrees of both June and Oleg we expect this fund to quickly distinguish itself with superior performance.”
Mr. June-Yon Kim, Portfolio Manager and Chief Investment Officer. June was a portfolio manager of FIL Investments (Japan) Limited (“FIL Japan”) from 2006 to 2015. In this role, he managed the Fidelity Active Strategy (FAST) Japan Fund, a UCITS alternative fund, and long-only funds. Prior to re-joining FIL Japan in 2006, June was a partner at Hachibushu Capital from 2003 to 2005. In this role, he co-managed the long/short fundamental equity portfolio of the Triloka Master Fund. From 1996 to 2003, he was a portfolio manager, research analyst and research intern with Fidelity Investments Japan. June obtained his MBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago in 1997 and his BA in Economics and Asian Studies from Cornell University in 1992.
Mr. Oleg Zuravljov, Portfolio Manager and Head of Research. Oleg was CEO of Shared Research Inc., a pioneering issuer-sponsored research firm he founded in February 2009. From 2003 to 2008, he was a portfolio manager and research analyst at Gartmore Investment Japan, where he managed the AlphaGen Pyxis Fund. From 1998 to 2002, Oleg was with Fidelity Investments Japan which he joined after obtaining his MBA from INSEAD in 1997.
Mr. Michael O’Flynn, Managing Director and Head of Business Development. Mike has been actively involved as a senior executive and private investor in Asia, Eastern Europe, and the United States over his 25-year career with Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers, and Moscow-based UFG Asset Management. He is a 1998 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and received his BA from Dartmouth College in 1991.
About Rogers Investment Advisors (“Rogers IA”)
Rogers Investment Advisors K.K. is an Asia-focused alternative investment asset management and advisory group established by Edward J. Rogers in 2006. It is regulated in Japan (license no. #1159) as a discretionary investment manager and investment advisory company. Rogers provides a best-in-class platform for emerging managers in Japan by providing a top tier support infrastructure including control, compliance and technology, thereby allowing managers to focus on executing their strategies. For more information about Rogers Investment Advisors, please visit http://www.rogersia.com.
About Azabu Value Partners (Cayman)
Azabu Value Partners (Cayman) (“Azabu Value”) is a newly established general partner of the Azabu Value Master Fund, a Japan-focused fundamental equity long/short strategy launched on December 5, 2016.
For more information about the Azabu Value Master Fund, please contact investor relations via info(at)azabuvalue.com.
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Tokyo (PRWEB) December 20, 2016
Azabu Value Partners (Cayman) (“Azabu Value”) announced the launch of the Azabu Value Master Fund, a Japan-focused fundamental equity long/short strategy under the umbrella of Rogers Investment Advisors KK on December 5, 2016.
The Azabu Value Master Fund (“The Fund”) is managed by Mr. June-Yon Kim and Mr. Oleg Zuravljov, former Fidelity Japan colleagues with nearly four decades of combined experience in Japanese equities. Mr. Michael O’Flynn, Head of Business Development and a longtime financial markets veteran, serves as Managing Director of Azabu Value Partners (Cayman), the general partner of The Fund.
The Fund employs a fundamental bottom-up strategy, investing in Japanese larger capitalization stocks. The strategy is enhanced by a derivative overlay and seeks to deliver returns not correlated with the underlying market. The key differentiating feature of the strategy is its focus on identifying value opportunities in the context of Japan’s pronounced economic and equity market cyclicality.
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are to serve as prime brokers of the Fund. Operations and risk management functions are provided by the Rogers Investment Advisors platform in Tokyo.
“We believe that our approach, focusing on fundamental bottom-up research enhanced by a top-down assessment of the macroeconomic and market cycles, allows us to take advantage of the significant dispersion of equity returns typical for Japan and to achieve consistent absolute returns regardless of the general direction of the Japanese equity market,” said Mr. Kim.
Mr. Zuravljov added, “Japan is probably the most cyclical developed market in the world. Fundamental stock pickers in Japan often ignore this powerful phenomenon. We believe that looking at individual stocks through the prism of macroeconomic cyclicality creates exceptional opportunities and reduces risk.”
“I think what we are trying to do at Azabu Value is unique,” said Mr. O’Flynn, who for many years served as a Tokyo-based institutional equity salesman to both Mr. Kim and Mr. Zuravljov. “Japan is a deep and liquid developed market with emerging market-like inefficiencies which, when combined with our team’s decades of stock-picking expertise, will offer investors more opportunities to obtain alpha on both the long and the short side, as compared to the far narrower nature of markets across the rest of Asia.”
Mr. Edward Rogers, Chief Executive Officer of Rogers Investment Advisors added, “We are pleased to help launch the Azabu Value Fund on the Rogers IA platform. For quite some time we have seen significant value added by equity long/short managers who base their research effort in Tokyo. Given the exceptional investment pedigrees of both June and Oleg we expect this fund to quickly distinguish itself with superior performance.”
Mr. June-Yon Kim, Portfolio Manager and Chief Investment Officer. June was a portfolio manager of FIL Investments (Japan) Limited (“FIL Japan”) from 2006 to 2015. In this role, he managed the Fidelity Active Strategy (FAST) Japan Fund, a UCITS alternative fund, and long-only funds. Prior to re-joining FIL Japan in 2006, June was a partner at Hachibushu Capital from 2003 to 2005. In this role, he co-managed the long/short fundamental equity portfolio of the Triloka Master Fund. From 1996 to 2003, he was a portfolio manager, research analyst and research intern with Fidelity Investments Japan. June obtained his MBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago in 1997 and his BA in Economics and Asian Studies from Cornell University in 1992.
Mr. Oleg Zuravljov, Portfolio Manager and Head of Research. Oleg was CEO of Shared Research Inc., a pioneering issuer-sponsored research firm he founded in February 2009. From 2003 to 2008, he was a portfolio manager and research analyst at Gartmore Investment Japan, where he managed the AlphaGen Pyxis Fund. From 1998 to 2002, Oleg was with Fidelity Investments Japan which he joined after obtaining his MBA from INSEAD in 1997.
Mr. Michael O’Flynn, Managing Director and Head of Business Development. Mike has been actively involved as a senior executive and private investor in Asia, Eastern Europe, and the United States over his 25-year career with Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers, and Moscow-based UFG Asset Management. He is a 1998 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and received his BA from Dartmouth College in 1991.
About Rogers Investment Advisors (“Rogers IA”)
Rogers Investment Advisors K.K. is an Asia-focused alternative investment asset management and advisory group established by Edward J. Rogers in 2006. It is regulated in Japan (license no. #1159) as a discretionary investment manager and investment advisory company. Rogers provides a best-in-class platform for emerging managers in Japan by providing a top tier support infrastructure including control, compliance and technology, thereby allowing managers to focus on executing their strategies. For more information about Rogers Investment Advisors, please visit http://www.rogersia.com.
About Azabu Value Partners (Cayman)
Azabu Value Partners (Cayman) (“Azabu Value”) is a newly established general partner of the Azabu Value Master Fund, a Japan-focused fundamental equity long/short strategy launched on December 5, 2016.
For more information about the Azabu Value Master Fund, please contact investor relations via info(at)azabuvalue.com.
### Reported by PRWeb 13 hours ago.
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AsSeenOnTV.pro Launches DRTV Campaign with OptiScoop
AsSeenOnTV.pro and its Product Managers announce the DRTV campaign launch with OptiScoop.
St. Petersburg, Florida (PRWEB) December 20, 2016
Kevin Harrington, one of the original Sharks from hit reality series Shark Tank, and the Product Managers of AsSeenOnTV.pro are pleased to announce the launch of a new DRTV campaign with OptiScoop.
Featuring a slender design, the OptiScoop makes scooping powders easier than ever. Say goodbye to unnecessary messes! The OptiScoop makes things clean and efficient when pouring powders into water bottles and shakers alike. Use OptiScoop for protein powder, milk powder, sports drinks, and even baby powder. OptiScoop works on the go, whether kept in a bag or used with a water bottle. Whatever the mixture, if drinking powders is a regular part of life, make life easier with OptiScoop.
As part of its DRTV campaign with AsSeenOnTV.pro, OptiScoop will be appearing in 30 and 60 second spots set to air nationwide and feature the original Shark himself, Kevin Harrington. AsSeenOnTV.pro is comprised of an award-winning team of producers, writers, videographers, and editors as well as industry veterans dedicated to finding the latest, most innovative products and ideas, and putting them on the DRTV map.
About Kevin Harrington
As the inventor of the infomercial, founder of As Seen on TV, and one of the original Sharks on Shark Tank, Kevin Harrington has worked with some of the world’s biggest celebrities and launched some of the best-selling DRTV campaigns in history. Since producing his first 30-minute infomercial in 1984, Harrington has been involved in over 500 product launches that have resulted in over $5 billion in sales. Now, in his latest venture with AsSeenOnTV.pro, Harrington is on the hunt for the best new products and ideas, bringing them to homes everywhere through personalized DRTV campaigns featuring the Shark.
About AsSeenOnTV.pro Headquartered in South Florida, AsSeenOnTV.pro is a full-service production, branding, and marketing company that specializes in direct response television, short- and long-form commercials, and brand building. Based out of a 25,000+ sq ft, state-of-the-art studio, the company’s creative team handles every aspect of production from script to screen to airing. For nearly two decades, AsSeenOnTV.pro’s veteran staff of writers, producers, videographers, and editors has amassed more than 50 Telly Awards, thousands of prestigious clients, and over $20 million in television placements.
For more information on OptiScoop, please visit http://www.Optiscoop.com. Reported by PRWeb 13 hours ago.
St. Petersburg, Florida (PRWEB) December 20, 2016
Kevin Harrington, one of the original Sharks from hit reality series Shark Tank, and the Product Managers of AsSeenOnTV.pro are pleased to announce the launch of a new DRTV campaign with OptiScoop.
Featuring a slender design, the OptiScoop makes scooping powders easier than ever. Say goodbye to unnecessary messes! The OptiScoop makes things clean and efficient when pouring powders into water bottles and shakers alike. Use OptiScoop for protein powder, milk powder, sports drinks, and even baby powder. OptiScoop works on the go, whether kept in a bag or used with a water bottle. Whatever the mixture, if drinking powders is a regular part of life, make life easier with OptiScoop.
As part of its DRTV campaign with AsSeenOnTV.pro, OptiScoop will be appearing in 30 and 60 second spots set to air nationwide and feature the original Shark himself, Kevin Harrington. AsSeenOnTV.pro is comprised of an award-winning team of producers, writers, videographers, and editors as well as industry veterans dedicated to finding the latest, most innovative products and ideas, and putting them on the DRTV map.
About Kevin Harrington
As the inventor of the infomercial, founder of As Seen on TV, and one of the original Sharks on Shark Tank, Kevin Harrington has worked with some of the world’s biggest celebrities and launched some of the best-selling DRTV campaigns in history. Since producing his first 30-minute infomercial in 1984, Harrington has been involved in over 500 product launches that have resulted in over $5 billion in sales. Now, in his latest venture with AsSeenOnTV.pro, Harrington is on the hunt for the best new products and ideas, bringing them to homes everywhere through personalized DRTV campaigns featuring the Shark.
About AsSeenOnTV.pro Headquartered in South Florida, AsSeenOnTV.pro is a full-service production, branding, and marketing company that specializes in direct response television, short- and long-form commercials, and brand building. Based out of a 25,000+ sq ft, state-of-the-art studio, the company’s creative team handles every aspect of production from script to screen to airing. For nearly two decades, AsSeenOnTV.pro’s veteran staff of writers, producers, videographers, and editors has amassed more than 50 Telly Awards, thousands of prestigious clients, and over $20 million in television placements.
For more information on OptiScoop, please visit http://www.Optiscoop.com. Reported by PRWeb 13 hours ago.
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AsSeenOnTV.pro Launches DRTV Campaign with Snoozeenie
AsSeenOnTV.pro and its Product Managers announce the DRTV campaign launch with Snoozeenie
St. Petersburg, Florida (PRWEB) December 20, 2016
Kevin Harrington, one of the original Sharks from hit reality series Shark Tank, and the Product Managers of AsSeenOnTV.pro are pleased to announce the launch of a new DRTV campaign with Snoozeenie.
The original concept of Snoozeenie was a friendly pillow partition for a married couple with different sleeping habits. One partner was a light sleeper who used her tablet or smartphone to pass the time when she couldn’t sleep; the other had a propensity for loud breathing. In their efforts to block the tablet’s glare and to stifle sound by building a wall with flimsy pillows, the idea of Snoozeenie was born. As the idea of a Snoozeenie grew, they also noted that a partition would be excellent for times when one partner is sick and coughing all night. School-age children use the partition for privacy when sharing rooms with siblings, sleep-overs, or to help calm nighttime fear of the dark. Snoozeenie also provides privacy in dorm room settings or when sharing a bed when travelling - whether in hotel room or in the spare bedroom of friends and family. Snoozeenie is also perfect for camping and cruise vacations. Instant privacy on demand is a valuable commodity.
As part of its DRTV campaign with AsSeenOnTV.pro, Snoozeenie will be appearing in 30 and 60 second spots set to air nationwide and feature the original Shark himself, Kevin Harrington. AsSeenOnTV.pro is comprised of an award-winning team of producers, writers, videographers, and editors as well as industry veterans dedicated to finding the latest, most innovative products and ideas, and putting them on the DRTV map.
About Kevin Harrington
As the inventor of the infomercial, founder of As Seen on TV, and one of the original Sharks on Shark Tank, Kevin Harrington has worked with some of the world’s biggest celebrities and launched some of the best-selling DRTV campaigns in history. Since producing his first 30-minute infomercial in 1984, Harrington has been involved in over 500 product launches that have resulted in over $5 billion in sales. Now, in his latest venture with AsSeenOnTV.pro, Harrington is on the hunt for the best new products and ideas, bringing them to homes everywhere through personalized DRTV campaigns featuring the Shark.
About AsSeenOnTV.pro
Headquartered in South Florida, AsSeenOnTV.pro is a full-service production, branding, and marketing company that specializes in direct response television, short- and long-form commercials, and brand building. Based out of a 25,000+ sq ft, state-of-the-art studio, the company’s creative team handles every aspect of production from script to screen to airing. For nearly two decades, AsSeenOnTV.pro’s veteran staff of writers, producers, videographers, and editors has amassed more than 50 Telly Awards, thousands of prestigious clients, and over $20 million in television placements.
For more information on Snoozeenie, please visit http://www.snoozeenie.com. Reported by PRWeb 12 hours ago.
St. Petersburg, Florida (PRWEB) December 20, 2016
Kevin Harrington, one of the original Sharks from hit reality series Shark Tank, and the Product Managers of AsSeenOnTV.pro are pleased to announce the launch of a new DRTV campaign with Snoozeenie.
The original concept of Snoozeenie was a friendly pillow partition for a married couple with different sleeping habits. One partner was a light sleeper who used her tablet or smartphone to pass the time when she couldn’t sleep; the other had a propensity for loud breathing. In their efforts to block the tablet’s glare and to stifle sound by building a wall with flimsy pillows, the idea of Snoozeenie was born. As the idea of a Snoozeenie grew, they also noted that a partition would be excellent for times when one partner is sick and coughing all night. School-age children use the partition for privacy when sharing rooms with siblings, sleep-overs, or to help calm nighttime fear of the dark. Snoozeenie also provides privacy in dorm room settings or when sharing a bed when travelling - whether in hotel room or in the spare bedroom of friends and family. Snoozeenie is also perfect for camping and cruise vacations. Instant privacy on demand is a valuable commodity.
As part of its DRTV campaign with AsSeenOnTV.pro, Snoozeenie will be appearing in 30 and 60 second spots set to air nationwide and feature the original Shark himself, Kevin Harrington. AsSeenOnTV.pro is comprised of an award-winning team of producers, writers, videographers, and editors as well as industry veterans dedicated to finding the latest, most innovative products and ideas, and putting them on the DRTV map.
About Kevin Harrington
As the inventor of the infomercial, founder of As Seen on TV, and one of the original Sharks on Shark Tank, Kevin Harrington has worked with some of the world’s biggest celebrities and launched some of the best-selling DRTV campaigns in history. Since producing his first 30-minute infomercial in 1984, Harrington has been involved in over 500 product launches that have resulted in over $5 billion in sales. Now, in his latest venture with AsSeenOnTV.pro, Harrington is on the hunt for the best new products and ideas, bringing them to homes everywhere through personalized DRTV campaigns featuring the Shark.
About AsSeenOnTV.pro
Headquartered in South Florida, AsSeenOnTV.pro is a full-service production, branding, and marketing company that specializes in direct response television, short- and long-form commercials, and brand building. Based out of a 25,000+ sq ft, state-of-the-art studio, the company’s creative team handles every aspect of production from script to screen to airing. For nearly two decades, AsSeenOnTV.pro’s veteran staff of writers, producers, videographers, and editors has amassed more than 50 Telly Awards, thousands of prestigious clients, and over $20 million in television placements.
For more information on Snoozeenie, please visit http://www.snoozeenie.com. Reported by PRWeb 12 hours ago.
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Mapping the White Working Class
This article appears in the Winter 2017 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.
In the wake of the 2016 election, a long-standing debate within progressive circles has been reignited: Whatever shall we do with the white working class? The question arises because for the past two decades, white working-class voters have marched steadily to the right. What was a competitive constituency for Democrats in the 1990s—and had once been its foundation—has emerged as a strong base of support for the Republican Party.
Progressives have had a sharply polarized response. On one side are those who maintain that we must redouble our efforts to win white working-class support. Even though its share of the electorate is in decline, the white working class remains too large for any movement seeking majority support to ignore. These progressives counsel a healthy dose of economic populism to win back these voters’ allegiances.
On the other side are those resigned to losing them. Whether motivated by disgust with these voters’ allegedly retrograde social views, or just world-weary pragmatism in the face of an apparently unstoppable trend, this camp argues that progressives should give up on winning back white non-college-educated voters and make other plans. They look instead to the “rising American electorate” of millennials, people of color, and highly educated whites to produce a progressive majority.
At first blush, the 2016 election seems to provide clear vindication for the don’t-give-up camp, as the white working class took another decisive step—more of a leap, really—to the right. Supporting Trump by a massive 39-point margin nationally, they clearly played a decisive role in delivering Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin to Donald Trump. In electoral terms, the urgency of reversing at least some of this erosion is clear. However, the scurrilous nature of Trump’s campaign, and its obvious appeals to racial resentment and xenophobia, only hardened suspicions by many progressives that seeking support in the white working class is implausible, unprincipled, or both. So the debate continues, with lines drawn perhaps even more sharply. Wooing the white working class is mathematically necessary, but also hopelessly immoral—or just plain hopeless.
To escape from this box, progressives must recognize that the white working class is not a monolith, but contains a wide diversity of political views. About half of non-college-educated whites identify as conservatives, and nearly all of them have become reliable Republican voters. On the other end of the spectrum is a small group of liberals, who regularly vote for Democrats. Consequently, most working-class whites are either completely unavailable to progressive candidates or (less commonly) already in the progressive camp.
In between is a critically important subset of potentially persuadable voters, the white working-class moderates, or “WWCMs.” About 35 percent of working-class whites have moderate or “middle of the road” political views, which means WWCMs represent about 15 percent of the overall electorate, or approximately 23 million registered voters. While Trump won the working class conservatives by an overwhelming 85 points (Clinton got a mere 6 percent), he had a much smaller 26-point margin among the WWCMs. That margin is double Mitt Romney’s 13-point edge in 2012, and this swing had a decisive impact. If Clinton had performed as well as Obama with those moderates, it would have doubled her national popular vote margin from 2 percent to 4 percent. Even if she had just lost ground among these voters at the same rate she did among white working-class conservatives, she would almost certainly have won Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
Several months before the election, I conducted a deep study of these moderate working-class white voters on behalf of Americans for a Fair Deal. We convened eight focus groups with these voters in Montgomery, Alabama; Nashville, Tennessee; Appleton, Wisconsin; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Rather than focusing on the presidential candidates, we held broader discussions about the nation and its political system, and explored both the barriers and opportunities that progressives face in working-class communities. Sadly, I cannot report that these sessions “solved” the puzzle of the white working class. But the research findings confirm the real possibility that progressives could make inroads with these voters in the future, and take an important first step forward in identifying strategies for reaching them.
Most progressive explorations of the white working class’s rightward shift frame it as a baffling mystery: How can these non-wealthy Americans vote against their obvious (to us) economic self-interest? The usual explanation is that conservatives’ mastery of “hot button” culture war issues and racial anxiety serve to distract and divert the white working-class voters from recognizing their “true” interests. The obvious solution, then, is to somehow increase the salience of economic issues, perhaps by offering a sharper contrast to conservatives’ economic agenda.
However, our focus-group conversations suggest that it would be a mistake to project this familiar ideological template onto these moderates. In fact, they are considerably less culturally conservative than the stereotype suggests. White working-class moderates do perceive a decline of moral values in our nation, but the values these working people fear losing include progressive values as well as conservative ones. Many are disturbed by what they perceive as a rise in selfishness and lack of concern for others, calling for more “compassion” and more support for those who need it, especially veterans and the disabled. The issues traditionally at the center of the nation’s “culture wars”—abortion, homosexuality, drugs—come up only sporadically, while many express a “live and let live” attitude toward America’s changing social mores.
Survey data confirm that these voters have a very different cultural outlook than conservatives. For example, 67 percent of white non-college conservatives report being very concerned that “many government programs violate my personal moral values,” but just 25 percent of the moderates share this concern.
If the moderates are not as culturally conservative as usually assumed, then why aren’t they already in the progressive camp? It would seem that without that roadblock, their economic self-interest would naturally lead them to the left. But that is not what we see.
The fundamental problem is that white working-class voters do not perceive progressives (or Democrats) to better represent their economic concerns. Polling showed that voters overall divided fairly evenly on whether Donald Trump (46 percent) or Hillary Clinton (42 percent) would do a better job of dealing with the economy, yet Trump enjoyed a 27-point advantage (57 percent to 30 percent) on this question among non-college whites, and an enormous 42-point advantage among non-college white men. This result cannot be explained by Trump’s intermittent economic populism. In 2015, by 73 percent to 27 percent, white working-class voters said that the federal government, far from helping them, had made it harder for them to achieve their goals, and by a 4-to-1 ratio said that the federal government’s economic impact was negative.
So the presumption that the cultural or religious values of white working-class voters are superseding their economic priorities fundamentally misrepresents the reality. In our focus groups, few moderates articulated any sense that Democrats have an economic agenda or philosophy that would help them, or are animated by concern for people like them. While they didn’t trust Republicans either, we heard nothing suggesting that Democrats are even seeking to improve economic conditions or economic opportunities for them, or that those outcomes would result if only Democrats could just implement their agenda. Even if white working-class voters agreed to base their votes entirely on economic concerns, it is not at all clear Democrats would prevail.
AP Photo/Claire Galofaro
Terry Wright, a 59-year-old retired union painter, adjusts the U.S. flag on his porch in Portland, a white, working class neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday, November 1, 2016.
To be clear, we saw no evidence that these voters have rejected a progressive economic policy agenda. As confirmed in numerous polls, many elements of that agenda—higher taxes on the wealthy, reining in Wall Street, ensuring paid leave for workers—are popular. But these voters’ somewhat abstract desire for more progressive economic policies is undercut and overwhelmed by their deeply negative view of government, which includes a strong aversion to spending and government intervention in the economy. While they are economic progressives, in important respects they are also fiscal conservatives.
Given that Democrats are seen as the party of government and Republicans the reverse, the reflexive aversion among working-class moderates to “government spending” has real political consequences. Indeed, our participants’ single greatest worry about the Democrats is that they “favor too much government spending,” eclipsing by far the number who feel that Democrats “don’t respect my values” or that Democratic economic policies “don’t help me.” As some of our focus group participants commented:
“I think that government should run their government like we have to run our household. We all have to live under a budget. There’s only so much money to go around.”
“You guys should all be happy Congress is not getting anything done, for the simple fact that it won’t affect you when they pass regulations that cost people money. I mean, when they make laws, it costs somebody money down the road.”
While progressives need to confront the reality that working-class white moderates’ economic outlook is less progressive than usually assumed, there is a silver lining: these anti-government views do not reflect a philosophical embrace of conservative free-market ideas. These voters have no principled objection to government intervening in the economy on behalf of working people; on the contrary, they would welcome it. They simply have no confidence that Democrats (or anyone else) would make this happen in the real world.
At the root of this skepticism is their profound distrust of, and alienation from, the political system. Overwhelmingly, they believe that the nation’s political leaders are not serving the country well, and the notion that politicians of either party might care about their economic situation feels inherently implausible (if not laughable). Their distrust of government makes them susceptible to conservative attacks on progressive proposals that invariably rely on government action. To a disturbing extent, these working-class voters have rejected politics as a meaningful way of improving their communities or nation.
It would be hard to overstate the disconnect WWCMs feel from current politicians, whom they see not only as greedy and self-interested, but also as out of touch with the people they are supposed to represent. The principal political division perceived by these working-class voters is not between Democrats and Republicans, but between politicians and ordinary people.
“They have millions and millions of dollars. They don’t know that I live off of, like, a very low amount. You know, I live paycheck to paycheck. They don’t give a crap about me. They don’t give a crap about none of you.”
These voters agree that the economic system is “rigged,” as populists like Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders like to say, but with a crucial difference: It is not rigged only to the advantage of those at the top. They complain that the rich and poor both get taken care of today, while those in the middle get left behind. Many report that their families have at times been unable to receive needed help because they “make too much.” Doubtless some of these stories would fall apart upon close inspection, but this perception of an advantaged poor is widespread and powerful. Progressives must find a way to speak to this sense of a forsaken middle and to signal that they do care about providing opportunity and help to those who earn a bit too much to qualify for public assistance.
“Sometimes I feel that there’s too much focus on the very rich and the very poor, where I feel that most Americans fall somewhere more in the middle. And I think the very rich are going to be OK, ultimately, and the poor, I’m okay with helping them. … But, I think just focus on the middle class.”
Progressives often wonder how white working-class people can vote Republican despite believing that the GOP is the party of the rich. The mystery is solved if we understand that “the party of average people” is not the only possible alternative to the party of the rich. They see Democrats as working on behalf of a series of interest groups rather than the public interest. In their view, the allocation of government benefits reflects political calculation, not any moral or economic principles, with both parties lavishing benefits on their respective constituencies. The GOP version (handouts for the wealthy) may be less attractive, but from the white working-class perspective both stories translate into “not for me.”
There can be no doubt that a sense of racial resentment and grievance lies behind some of these comments, as well as a failure to recognize or acknowledge the reality of continuing racism. At the same time, it was striking what we did not hear said on the topic of race. People did not rail against affirmative action, blame African Americans for crime, or claim that white people faced more discrimination than people of color—all of which were staples of discussions with working-class whites 20 years ago (and likely would be today in sessions held with conservatives). In a survey my firm conducted on the eve of the election, 53 percent of white working-class conservatives said the nation’s increasing racial and ethnic diversity was a negative change for the nation, but just 36 percent of moderates felt the same way (only slightly higher than white voters overall).
Progressives clearly must not pander to or ignore racism as a strategy for reaching the white working class. Fortunately, they don’t have to. Boosting white non-college moderates’ support for Clinton by just 5 percent or 6 percent would have delivered her the presidency. Democrats can lose the votes of every one of the 36 percent who are uneasy with America’s increasing diversity, and still make the progress required to win elections. Progressives must not make the error of assuming that outreach to white working-class voters implies or requires a diminished commitment to racial justice.
In this context, it’s a mistake to define progressives’ challenge as persuading white working-class voters to ignore or set aside conservative cultural values in favor of pursuing their economic self-interest. Progressives must convince them that government policies really can help them economically and strengthen their communities, and that political engagement is a plausible way to make things better. That will require both offering a compelling economic vision, and patient, on-the-ground organizing.
Encouragingly, our focus group participants rallied around an openly progressive economic vision offered by a hypothetical candidate (which appears below), much preferring it to a conservative small-government appeal:
Too many politicians have given in to the power of corporate lobbyists instead of doing what’s best for our nation’s economic future. CEOs and billionaires keep getting tax breaks, while our bridges crumble and our schools fall behind. Our economy is weakened because politicians put their political career first, instead of making investments that benefit all Americans. We must grow our economy, so we can create the jobs our country needs and improve incomes for average people. We should invest in infrastructure, medical research, and new technologies to create thousands of good-paying jobs and strengthen our nation. We should improve education and training, so American workers can compete in the global marketplace.
Despite their distrust of government, these voters will embrace a progressive message that openly calls for expanded public-sector investment. They have a long list of things they believe government should be doing or doing better: improving education, making health care more affordable, supporting veterans, ensuring that seniors enjoy a secure retirement, and so on. Ultimately, the ideal of “small government” has much less appeal to them than a government that actually acts to strengthen the economy and help average people.
The populist criticism of politicians made by our hypothetical candidate—that they have been captured by wealthy interests—resonated with our participants and helped break through their well-earned skepticism. It spoke to their frustration with current political leaders, while suggesting the possibility of having government truly work on behalf of average people—exactly the change they are looking for. To some extent, politicians are even better targets today than the bankers and CEOs that progressives routinely assail. These voters’ anger is much more directed toward the politicians who sell out than the corporations that buy them. They expect special interests to seek political influence. Elected officials, in contrast, are supposed to serve the public. So these voters feel more betrayed by the elected officials.
The growth-oriented tone of this vision appealed to our participants and helped to make the message feel less “political.” Progressives cannot win over these voters simply by saying, even implicitly, “We will give handouts to white working-class people, too.” These voters are proud of their independence, and the last thing they want is anything resembling a “handout.” A successful appeal must clearly signal that progressives care about those in the middle, not just those at the bottom of the economic pyramid, but it must be done in the language of economic revival and expanded opportunity.
AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File
A worker assembles construction supplies at Northeast Building Products in Philadelphia.
Breaking through these voters’ skepticism and restoring their trust in the political system will be challenging, and will take time. In the short term, it likely means that the conversations progressives have with working-class whites will need to start outside the framework of elections and political parties. Community organizations and non-elected community leaders must be the “tip of the spear” as progressives seek to engage white working-class communities.
To build strength in these communities, progressives will also need to identify specific issues that engage their interest and speak to their economic needs. Ideally, these issues and the campaigns promoting them will also help combat the notion that progressives care only about helping the poor while neglecting the needs of average working people.
There are many progressive policy priorities that might lend themselves to such organizing, including tax fairness, job creation though community investment, and affordable higher education. Let me suggest just one issue that usually receives little attention but illustrates the kind of concrete impact on working-class lives we need. The WWCMs we spoke with strongly embraced the idea of expanding programs that help non-college-bound youth get the skills they need to succeed in the workforce. This issue could really have surprising power as an organizing issue. Many working-class voters (and others) worry that public schools focus exclusively on preparing students for college, while neglecting the equally important task of preparing non-college-bound students for successful transitions into the workforce. They enthusiastically endorse proposals to provide quality vocational education, apprenticeships, and other programs that would expand opportunities for young Americans—including many of their own children and grandchildren—who are unlikely to pursue a four-year degree after high school.
Fundamentally, WWCMs feel that society does not value people who work with their hands. A set of policies aimed at non-college youth would not just meet an important economic need for working-class families, it would also make an important moral statement that these young Americans matter and have contributions to make. It would place progressives more clearly on the side of working families.
“Not everybody is college material, and there’s nothing wrong with that, and that’s what’s wrong with society nowadays. If you don’t have a college degree, we can’t hire you. It shouldn’t be that way.”
Engaging this critical bloc of voters is an enormously challenging project for the progressive movement, and will be the work of years if not decades. Our research did not unearth a magic bullet that will transform white working-class voters into progressives. But we did find clear openings that give progressives a chance for productive dialogue and engagement with the white working class. It is absolutely possible to erode some of the barriers standing between progressives and white working people. If progressives are willing to engage them in a smart and targeted way, they will make significant gains within white working-class communities in the years ahead. Reported by The American Prospect 11 hours ago.
In the wake of the 2016 election, a long-standing debate within progressive circles has been reignited: Whatever shall we do with the white working class? The question arises because for the past two decades, white working-class voters have marched steadily to the right. What was a competitive constituency for Democrats in the 1990s—and had once been its foundation—has emerged as a strong base of support for the Republican Party.
Progressives have had a sharply polarized response. On one side are those who maintain that we must redouble our efforts to win white working-class support. Even though its share of the electorate is in decline, the white working class remains too large for any movement seeking majority support to ignore. These progressives counsel a healthy dose of economic populism to win back these voters’ allegiances.
On the other side are those resigned to losing them. Whether motivated by disgust with these voters’ allegedly retrograde social views, or just world-weary pragmatism in the face of an apparently unstoppable trend, this camp argues that progressives should give up on winning back white non-college-educated voters and make other plans. They look instead to the “rising American electorate” of millennials, people of color, and highly educated whites to produce a progressive majority.
At first blush, the 2016 election seems to provide clear vindication for the don’t-give-up camp, as the white working class took another decisive step—more of a leap, really—to the right. Supporting Trump by a massive 39-point margin nationally, they clearly played a decisive role in delivering Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin to Donald Trump. In electoral terms, the urgency of reversing at least some of this erosion is clear. However, the scurrilous nature of Trump’s campaign, and its obvious appeals to racial resentment and xenophobia, only hardened suspicions by many progressives that seeking support in the white working class is implausible, unprincipled, or both. So the debate continues, with lines drawn perhaps even more sharply. Wooing the white working class is mathematically necessary, but also hopelessly immoral—or just plain hopeless.
To escape from this box, progressives must recognize that the white working class is not a monolith, but contains a wide diversity of political views. About half of non-college-educated whites identify as conservatives, and nearly all of them have become reliable Republican voters. On the other end of the spectrum is a small group of liberals, who regularly vote for Democrats. Consequently, most working-class whites are either completely unavailable to progressive candidates or (less commonly) already in the progressive camp.
In between is a critically important subset of potentially persuadable voters, the white working-class moderates, or “WWCMs.” About 35 percent of working-class whites have moderate or “middle of the road” political views, which means WWCMs represent about 15 percent of the overall electorate, or approximately 23 million registered voters. While Trump won the working class conservatives by an overwhelming 85 points (Clinton got a mere 6 percent), he had a much smaller 26-point margin among the WWCMs. That margin is double Mitt Romney’s 13-point edge in 2012, and this swing had a decisive impact. If Clinton had performed as well as Obama with those moderates, it would have doubled her national popular vote margin from 2 percent to 4 percent. Even if she had just lost ground among these voters at the same rate she did among white working-class conservatives, she would almost certainly have won Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
Several months before the election, I conducted a deep study of these moderate working-class white voters on behalf of Americans for a Fair Deal. We convened eight focus groups with these voters in Montgomery, Alabama; Nashville, Tennessee; Appleton, Wisconsin; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Rather than focusing on the presidential candidates, we held broader discussions about the nation and its political system, and explored both the barriers and opportunities that progressives face in working-class communities. Sadly, I cannot report that these sessions “solved” the puzzle of the white working class. But the research findings confirm the real possibility that progressives could make inroads with these voters in the future, and take an important first step forward in identifying strategies for reaching them.
Most progressive explorations of the white working class’s rightward shift frame it as a baffling mystery: How can these non-wealthy Americans vote against their obvious (to us) economic self-interest? The usual explanation is that conservatives’ mastery of “hot button” culture war issues and racial anxiety serve to distract and divert the white working-class voters from recognizing their “true” interests. The obvious solution, then, is to somehow increase the salience of economic issues, perhaps by offering a sharper contrast to conservatives’ economic agenda.
However, our focus-group conversations suggest that it would be a mistake to project this familiar ideological template onto these moderates. In fact, they are considerably less culturally conservative than the stereotype suggests. White working-class moderates do perceive a decline of moral values in our nation, but the values these working people fear losing include progressive values as well as conservative ones. Many are disturbed by what they perceive as a rise in selfishness and lack of concern for others, calling for more “compassion” and more support for those who need it, especially veterans and the disabled. The issues traditionally at the center of the nation’s “culture wars”—abortion, homosexuality, drugs—come up only sporadically, while many express a “live and let live” attitude toward America’s changing social mores.
Survey data confirm that these voters have a very different cultural outlook than conservatives. For example, 67 percent of white non-college conservatives report being very concerned that “many government programs violate my personal moral values,” but just 25 percent of the moderates share this concern.
If the moderates are not as culturally conservative as usually assumed, then why aren’t they already in the progressive camp? It would seem that without that roadblock, their economic self-interest would naturally lead them to the left. But that is not what we see.
The fundamental problem is that white working-class voters do not perceive progressives (or Democrats) to better represent their economic concerns. Polling showed that voters overall divided fairly evenly on whether Donald Trump (46 percent) or Hillary Clinton (42 percent) would do a better job of dealing with the economy, yet Trump enjoyed a 27-point advantage (57 percent to 30 percent) on this question among non-college whites, and an enormous 42-point advantage among non-college white men. This result cannot be explained by Trump’s intermittent economic populism. In 2015, by 73 percent to 27 percent, white working-class voters said that the federal government, far from helping them, had made it harder for them to achieve their goals, and by a 4-to-1 ratio said that the federal government’s economic impact was negative.
So the presumption that the cultural or religious values of white working-class voters are superseding their economic priorities fundamentally misrepresents the reality. In our focus groups, few moderates articulated any sense that Democrats have an economic agenda or philosophy that would help them, or are animated by concern for people like them. While they didn’t trust Republicans either, we heard nothing suggesting that Democrats are even seeking to improve economic conditions or economic opportunities for them, or that those outcomes would result if only Democrats could just implement their agenda. Even if white working-class voters agreed to base their votes entirely on economic concerns, it is not at all clear Democrats would prevail.
AP Photo/Claire Galofaro
Terry Wright, a 59-year-old retired union painter, adjusts the U.S. flag on his porch in Portland, a white, working class neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday, November 1, 2016.
To be clear, we saw no evidence that these voters have rejected a progressive economic policy agenda. As confirmed in numerous polls, many elements of that agenda—higher taxes on the wealthy, reining in Wall Street, ensuring paid leave for workers—are popular. But these voters’ somewhat abstract desire for more progressive economic policies is undercut and overwhelmed by their deeply negative view of government, which includes a strong aversion to spending and government intervention in the economy. While they are economic progressives, in important respects they are also fiscal conservatives.
Given that Democrats are seen as the party of government and Republicans the reverse, the reflexive aversion among working-class moderates to “government spending” has real political consequences. Indeed, our participants’ single greatest worry about the Democrats is that they “favor too much government spending,” eclipsing by far the number who feel that Democrats “don’t respect my values” or that Democratic economic policies “don’t help me.” As some of our focus group participants commented:
“I think that government should run their government like we have to run our household. We all have to live under a budget. There’s only so much money to go around.”
“You guys should all be happy Congress is not getting anything done, for the simple fact that it won’t affect you when they pass regulations that cost people money. I mean, when they make laws, it costs somebody money down the road.”
While progressives need to confront the reality that working-class white moderates’ economic outlook is less progressive than usually assumed, there is a silver lining: these anti-government views do not reflect a philosophical embrace of conservative free-market ideas. These voters have no principled objection to government intervening in the economy on behalf of working people; on the contrary, they would welcome it. They simply have no confidence that Democrats (or anyone else) would make this happen in the real world.
At the root of this skepticism is their profound distrust of, and alienation from, the political system. Overwhelmingly, they believe that the nation’s political leaders are not serving the country well, and the notion that politicians of either party might care about their economic situation feels inherently implausible (if not laughable). Their distrust of government makes them susceptible to conservative attacks on progressive proposals that invariably rely on government action. To a disturbing extent, these working-class voters have rejected politics as a meaningful way of improving their communities or nation.
It would be hard to overstate the disconnect WWCMs feel from current politicians, whom they see not only as greedy and self-interested, but also as out of touch with the people they are supposed to represent. The principal political division perceived by these working-class voters is not between Democrats and Republicans, but between politicians and ordinary people.
“They have millions and millions of dollars. They don’t know that I live off of, like, a very low amount. You know, I live paycheck to paycheck. They don’t give a crap about me. They don’t give a crap about none of you.”
These voters agree that the economic system is “rigged,” as populists like Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders like to say, but with a crucial difference: It is not rigged only to the advantage of those at the top. They complain that the rich and poor both get taken care of today, while those in the middle get left behind. Many report that their families have at times been unable to receive needed help because they “make too much.” Doubtless some of these stories would fall apart upon close inspection, but this perception of an advantaged poor is widespread and powerful. Progressives must find a way to speak to this sense of a forsaken middle and to signal that they do care about providing opportunity and help to those who earn a bit too much to qualify for public assistance.
“Sometimes I feel that there’s too much focus on the very rich and the very poor, where I feel that most Americans fall somewhere more in the middle. And I think the very rich are going to be OK, ultimately, and the poor, I’m okay with helping them. … But, I think just focus on the middle class.”
Progressives often wonder how white working-class people can vote Republican despite believing that the GOP is the party of the rich. The mystery is solved if we understand that “the party of average people” is not the only possible alternative to the party of the rich. They see Democrats as working on behalf of a series of interest groups rather than the public interest. In their view, the allocation of government benefits reflects political calculation, not any moral or economic principles, with both parties lavishing benefits on their respective constituencies. The GOP version (handouts for the wealthy) may be less attractive, but from the white working-class perspective both stories translate into “not for me.”
There can be no doubt that a sense of racial resentment and grievance lies behind some of these comments, as well as a failure to recognize or acknowledge the reality of continuing racism. At the same time, it was striking what we did not hear said on the topic of race. People did not rail against affirmative action, blame African Americans for crime, or claim that white people faced more discrimination than people of color—all of which were staples of discussions with working-class whites 20 years ago (and likely would be today in sessions held with conservatives). In a survey my firm conducted on the eve of the election, 53 percent of white working-class conservatives said the nation’s increasing racial and ethnic diversity was a negative change for the nation, but just 36 percent of moderates felt the same way (only slightly higher than white voters overall).
Progressives clearly must not pander to or ignore racism as a strategy for reaching the white working class. Fortunately, they don’t have to. Boosting white non-college moderates’ support for Clinton by just 5 percent or 6 percent would have delivered her the presidency. Democrats can lose the votes of every one of the 36 percent who are uneasy with America’s increasing diversity, and still make the progress required to win elections. Progressives must not make the error of assuming that outreach to white working-class voters implies or requires a diminished commitment to racial justice.
In this context, it’s a mistake to define progressives’ challenge as persuading white working-class voters to ignore or set aside conservative cultural values in favor of pursuing their economic self-interest. Progressives must convince them that government policies really can help them economically and strengthen their communities, and that political engagement is a plausible way to make things better. That will require both offering a compelling economic vision, and patient, on-the-ground organizing.
Encouragingly, our focus group participants rallied around an openly progressive economic vision offered by a hypothetical candidate (which appears below), much preferring it to a conservative small-government appeal:
Too many politicians have given in to the power of corporate lobbyists instead of doing what’s best for our nation’s economic future. CEOs and billionaires keep getting tax breaks, while our bridges crumble and our schools fall behind. Our economy is weakened because politicians put their political career first, instead of making investments that benefit all Americans. We must grow our economy, so we can create the jobs our country needs and improve incomes for average people. We should invest in infrastructure, medical research, and new technologies to create thousands of good-paying jobs and strengthen our nation. We should improve education and training, so American workers can compete in the global marketplace.
Despite their distrust of government, these voters will embrace a progressive message that openly calls for expanded public-sector investment. They have a long list of things they believe government should be doing or doing better: improving education, making health care more affordable, supporting veterans, ensuring that seniors enjoy a secure retirement, and so on. Ultimately, the ideal of “small government” has much less appeal to them than a government that actually acts to strengthen the economy and help average people.
The populist criticism of politicians made by our hypothetical candidate—that they have been captured by wealthy interests—resonated with our participants and helped break through their well-earned skepticism. It spoke to their frustration with current political leaders, while suggesting the possibility of having government truly work on behalf of average people—exactly the change they are looking for. To some extent, politicians are even better targets today than the bankers and CEOs that progressives routinely assail. These voters’ anger is much more directed toward the politicians who sell out than the corporations that buy them. They expect special interests to seek political influence. Elected officials, in contrast, are supposed to serve the public. So these voters feel more betrayed by the elected officials.
The growth-oriented tone of this vision appealed to our participants and helped to make the message feel less “political.” Progressives cannot win over these voters simply by saying, even implicitly, “We will give handouts to white working-class people, too.” These voters are proud of their independence, and the last thing they want is anything resembling a “handout.” A successful appeal must clearly signal that progressives care about those in the middle, not just those at the bottom of the economic pyramid, but it must be done in the language of economic revival and expanded opportunity.
AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File
A worker assembles construction supplies at Northeast Building Products in Philadelphia.
Breaking through these voters’ skepticism and restoring their trust in the political system will be challenging, and will take time. In the short term, it likely means that the conversations progressives have with working-class whites will need to start outside the framework of elections and political parties. Community organizations and non-elected community leaders must be the “tip of the spear” as progressives seek to engage white working-class communities.
To build strength in these communities, progressives will also need to identify specific issues that engage their interest and speak to their economic needs. Ideally, these issues and the campaigns promoting them will also help combat the notion that progressives care only about helping the poor while neglecting the needs of average working people.
There are many progressive policy priorities that might lend themselves to such organizing, including tax fairness, job creation though community investment, and affordable higher education. Let me suggest just one issue that usually receives little attention but illustrates the kind of concrete impact on working-class lives we need. The WWCMs we spoke with strongly embraced the idea of expanding programs that help non-college-bound youth get the skills they need to succeed in the workforce. This issue could really have surprising power as an organizing issue. Many working-class voters (and others) worry that public schools focus exclusively on preparing students for college, while neglecting the equally important task of preparing non-college-bound students for successful transitions into the workforce. They enthusiastically endorse proposals to provide quality vocational education, apprenticeships, and other programs that would expand opportunities for young Americans—including many of their own children and grandchildren—who are unlikely to pursue a four-year degree after high school.
Fundamentally, WWCMs feel that society does not value people who work with their hands. A set of policies aimed at non-college youth would not just meet an important economic need for working-class families, it would also make an important moral statement that these young Americans matter and have contributions to make. It would place progressives more clearly on the side of working families.
“Not everybody is college material, and there’s nothing wrong with that, and that’s what’s wrong with society nowadays. If you don’t have a college degree, we can’t hire you. It shouldn’t be that way.”
Engaging this critical bloc of voters is an enormously challenging project for the progressive movement, and will be the work of years if not decades. Our research did not unearth a magic bullet that will transform white working-class voters into progressives. But we did find clear openings that give progressives a chance for productive dialogue and engagement with the white working class. It is absolutely possible to erode some of the barriers standing between progressives and white working people. If progressives are willing to engage them in a smart and targeted way, they will make significant gains within white working-class communities in the years ahead. Reported by The American Prospect 11 hours ago.
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Will GOP Power Seizure in North Carolina Become National Model?
(Photo: Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP)
Community educator Manju Rajendran shouts as she is arrested in the Senate gallery during the North Carolina General Assembly's special session on December 16, in Raleigh.
When community educator Manju Rajendran and her eight-month-old daughter arrived at the North Carolina Legislative Building in Raleigh on December 18, the House visitors’ gallery had just been cleared of spectators and the chamber was doing its work behind closed doors. Seventeen people had been arrested, most of them for interrupting a hastily called special session designed by Republicans to seize power from Democratic Governor-elect Roy Cooper and the new Democratic majority on the state Supreme Court. A reporter covering the session for the progressive NC Policy Watch news site had been arrested, too, for trying to cover the protests.
Rajendran walked into a tense scene. Some demonstrators were holding signs against the glass walls of the gallery, which overlooks the House floor from above. Others had their ears pressed to their phones, trying to listen to the House’s audio feed, which was breaking up and delayed. Activists talked among themselves about their frustrations with a Republican-controlled legislature that—after a few key GOP electoral losses—was trying to consolidate its power by rewriting the laws governing the executive and judicial branches.
The anti-democratic impulses of North Carolina’s lawmakers were familiar to Rajendran, who lives in Durham and works for a social-justice training cooperative. (She also helps run a family restaurant in Chapel Hill.) Since the GOP won control of both legislative chambers in 2010, it has gerrymandered its own district lines—illegally, says a federal court that last month ordered a prompt redrawing—and tried to restrict voting access for African Americans and young adults. In July, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit blocked most of the voting restrictions, on the grounds that they “target African Americans with almost surgical precision.”
Despite a GOP push to make voting more difficult, Cooper, the state’s attorney general, narrowly won the gubernatorial race against Republican incumbent Pat McCrory. And Mike Morgan won a nominally nonpartisan Supreme Court race, flipping the court’s balance toward the Democrats. In response, Republican lawmakers, who were in Raleigh to pass an aid package for victims of Hurricane Matthew, called an additional special session on the heels of the storm-relief session to claw back power from the Democrats.
One bill, which has since become law, dispenses with the long-standing practice of giving the governor’s party a one-vote majority on the state and county election boards. It instead gives those boards a 50-50 split, with the Republicans assuming the chairmanship during even-numbered years when state and federal elections take place. The same bill restores partisan labels to the state Supreme Court races and restructures the judicial process to shift power from the Democratic-majority Supreme Court to the Republican-majority Court of Appeals. It authorizes McCrory to fill a vacancy on the state’s Industrial Commission, which administers workers’ compensation; the governor immediately named the wife of his chief of staff.
A second bill, which McCrory plans to sign, strips the governor’s powers over public education and the university system, transferring them to the state's Republican schools chief and the legislature. It also allows the state Senate to confirm or veto Cooper’s cabinet picks and cuts the number of employees he can hire and fire from 1,200 to 425. Cooper has noted that the bills have real-world consequences in areas ranging from education policy to environmental protection.
“We’ve never seen this kind of hubris on the part of the legislators,” says Rajendran. “They took advantage of a session which gave much-needed hurricane relief to folks in the eastern part of the state, and they unrolled a plan to steal power from the governor [and judges] we elected. People didn’t even have a chance to understand what was being done to us, much less to voice our concern.”
In recent years, North Carolina has developed a counterweight to its legislative majority: the Moral Mondays protest coalition, led by the state’s NAACP chapter, with support from a wide swath of religious and political organizations. Activists have staked their ground inside the Legislative Building, and risked arrest, since 2013, in response to lawmakers’ assaults on public education, social-welfare programs, voting rights, and other civil rights. Last week was no different: Hundreds filled the building, to the chagrin of GOP lawmakers. State Representative Michael Speciale, who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, Military, and Veterans Affairs, described the protesters on Facebook as “a group of malcontent thugs who are likely paid and bused in to disrupt the business of those who represent the people.” In fact, those who showed up did so on their own volition and represented a cross-section of races, ages, and ideologies.
“Fundamentally, the purpose of government is to pass laws to help people. That is not what happened,” says Mark Zachmann, a self-described “Republican one-percenter” who visited the legislature with his Chapel Hill neighbors. “They took advantage of the fact that they have a supermajority and they passed laws to help themselves. That is not why we have a government.”
*THE FOLLOWING DAY,* as the special session continued, Rajendran returned to the Legislative Building with her daughter. She met up with her brother and sister-in-law, who also had a baby in tow. The two cousins said hello.
Outside the chambers, protesters were chanting. Rajendran, who has done community organizing for most of her 35 years, started singing the call portion of a call-and-response “We Shall Not Be Moved.” She noticed how protesters looked away from chant leaders to make it harder for police to identify them. Some wore blue tape over their mouths to symbolize the silencing of their voices.
When the Senate went into session, Rajendran and others filed into the visitors’ gallery. She was bouncing and breastfeeding her daughter during the debate over the bill that would diminish the governor’s influence over public education and the university system.
“Mr. Senator,” she remembers calling over the balcony. “As a resident of North Carolina, I cannot in good conscience allow this rupture of democracy to go on.”
She was shaking, she would later recall, but her own voice carried her over her fears. Police officers approached her and she passed her daughter to a friend.
“Forward together,” she said aloud, starting a chant familiar to those who have attended Moral Monday events.
“Not one step back,” the crowd responded.
Senate leaders emptied the visitors’ gallery. As Rajendran was led away in zip-tie handcuffs, she chanted all the way to the elevator. She sang en route to the jail, where she was held (though not in a cell) for about six hours. It was the longest she had ever been away from her daughter, whom her sister-in-law nursed in her absence. Rajendran was one of at least 39 people arrested that day.
Republican officials have defended the legislature’s actions as the inevitable partisan tussling that takes place no matter who’s in charge. “This is what happens when you have divided power in a state that, since King George’s time, loathes executive power,” the state GOP’s executive director, Dallas Woodhouse, said Friday on Meet the Press. “Wrong is always in the eye of the beholder of whose ox is getting gored.” Woodhouse noted that “just a few years ago, the Democrat legislature stripped the lieutenant governor of every power they had.” He was referring to Jim Gardner, who was denied the right to preside over the Senate in 1989.
Even some prominent Republicans—including former Governor Jim Martin and longtime strategist Carter Wrenn—have criticized their party for its excesses. “I thought the Republicans played right into the image of the nasty politician,” Wrenn, who was closely linked to the late U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, told a reporter for television station WRAL.
North Carolina could become a model for how national Republicans consolidate power. If that happens, Rajendran says she hopes it also becomes a model for how activists respond.
“I hope people are talking about North Carolina all over the country,” she says. “With Trump coming to power, we can expect the terrain to become much more treacherous for democracy. I’m glad to know we’re going to fight back.” Reported by The American Prospect 11 hours ago.
Community educator Manju Rajendran shouts as she is arrested in the Senate gallery during the North Carolina General Assembly's special session on December 16, in Raleigh.
When community educator Manju Rajendran and her eight-month-old daughter arrived at the North Carolina Legislative Building in Raleigh on December 18, the House visitors’ gallery had just been cleared of spectators and the chamber was doing its work behind closed doors. Seventeen people had been arrested, most of them for interrupting a hastily called special session designed by Republicans to seize power from Democratic Governor-elect Roy Cooper and the new Democratic majority on the state Supreme Court. A reporter covering the session for the progressive NC Policy Watch news site had been arrested, too, for trying to cover the protests.
Rajendran walked into a tense scene. Some demonstrators were holding signs against the glass walls of the gallery, which overlooks the House floor from above. Others had their ears pressed to their phones, trying to listen to the House’s audio feed, which was breaking up and delayed. Activists talked among themselves about their frustrations with a Republican-controlled legislature that—after a few key GOP electoral losses—was trying to consolidate its power by rewriting the laws governing the executive and judicial branches.
The anti-democratic impulses of North Carolina’s lawmakers were familiar to Rajendran, who lives in Durham and works for a social-justice training cooperative. (She also helps run a family restaurant in Chapel Hill.) Since the GOP won control of both legislative chambers in 2010, it has gerrymandered its own district lines—illegally, says a federal court that last month ordered a prompt redrawing—and tried to restrict voting access for African Americans and young adults. In July, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit blocked most of the voting restrictions, on the grounds that they “target African Americans with almost surgical precision.”
Despite a GOP push to make voting more difficult, Cooper, the state’s attorney general, narrowly won the gubernatorial race against Republican incumbent Pat McCrory. And Mike Morgan won a nominally nonpartisan Supreme Court race, flipping the court’s balance toward the Democrats. In response, Republican lawmakers, who were in Raleigh to pass an aid package for victims of Hurricane Matthew, called an additional special session on the heels of the storm-relief session to claw back power from the Democrats.
One bill, which has since become law, dispenses with the long-standing practice of giving the governor’s party a one-vote majority on the state and county election boards. It instead gives those boards a 50-50 split, with the Republicans assuming the chairmanship during even-numbered years when state and federal elections take place. The same bill restores partisan labels to the state Supreme Court races and restructures the judicial process to shift power from the Democratic-majority Supreme Court to the Republican-majority Court of Appeals. It authorizes McCrory to fill a vacancy on the state’s Industrial Commission, which administers workers’ compensation; the governor immediately named the wife of his chief of staff.
A second bill, which McCrory plans to sign, strips the governor’s powers over public education and the university system, transferring them to the state's Republican schools chief and the legislature. It also allows the state Senate to confirm or veto Cooper’s cabinet picks and cuts the number of employees he can hire and fire from 1,200 to 425. Cooper has noted that the bills have real-world consequences in areas ranging from education policy to environmental protection.
“We’ve never seen this kind of hubris on the part of the legislators,” says Rajendran. “They took advantage of a session which gave much-needed hurricane relief to folks in the eastern part of the state, and they unrolled a plan to steal power from the governor [and judges] we elected. People didn’t even have a chance to understand what was being done to us, much less to voice our concern.”
In recent years, North Carolina has developed a counterweight to its legislative majority: the Moral Mondays protest coalition, led by the state’s NAACP chapter, with support from a wide swath of religious and political organizations. Activists have staked their ground inside the Legislative Building, and risked arrest, since 2013, in response to lawmakers’ assaults on public education, social-welfare programs, voting rights, and other civil rights. Last week was no different: Hundreds filled the building, to the chagrin of GOP lawmakers. State Representative Michael Speciale, who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, Military, and Veterans Affairs, described the protesters on Facebook as “a group of malcontent thugs who are likely paid and bused in to disrupt the business of those who represent the people.” In fact, those who showed up did so on their own volition and represented a cross-section of races, ages, and ideologies.
“Fundamentally, the purpose of government is to pass laws to help people. That is not what happened,” says Mark Zachmann, a self-described “Republican one-percenter” who visited the legislature with his Chapel Hill neighbors. “They took advantage of the fact that they have a supermajority and they passed laws to help themselves. That is not why we have a government.”
*THE FOLLOWING DAY,* as the special session continued, Rajendran returned to the Legislative Building with her daughter. She met up with her brother and sister-in-law, who also had a baby in tow. The two cousins said hello.
Outside the chambers, protesters were chanting. Rajendran, who has done community organizing for most of her 35 years, started singing the call portion of a call-and-response “We Shall Not Be Moved.” She noticed how protesters looked away from chant leaders to make it harder for police to identify them. Some wore blue tape over their mouths to symbolize the silencing of their voices.
When the Senate went into session, Rajendran and others filed into the visitors’ gallery. She was bouncing and breastfeeding her daughter during the debate over the bill that would diminish the governor’s influence over public education and the university system.
“Mr. Senator,” she remembers calling over the balcony. “As a resident of North Carolina, I cannot in good conscience allow this rupture of democracy to go on.”
She was shaking, she would later recall, but her own voice carried her over her fears. Police officers approached her and she passed her daughter to a friend.
“Forward together,” she said aloud, starting a chant familiar to those who have attended Moral Monday events.
“Not one step back,” the crowd responded.
Senate leaders emptied the visitors’ gallery. As Rajendran was led away in zip-tie handcuffs, she chanted all the way to the elevator. She sang en route to the jail, where she was held (though not in a cell) for about six hours. It was the longest she had ever been away from her daughter, whom her sister-in-law nursed in her absence. Rajendran was one of at least 39 people arrested that day.
Republican officials have defended the legislature’s actions as the inevitable partisan tussling that takes place no matter who’s in charge. “This is what happens when you have divided power in a state that, since King George’s time, loathes executive power,” the state GOP’s executive director, Dallas Woodhouse, said Friday on Meet the Press. “Wrong is always in the eye of the beholder of whose ox is getting gored.” Woodhouse noted that “just a few years ago, the Democrat legislature stripped the lieutenant governor of every power they had.” He was referring to Jim Gardner, who was denied the right to preside over the Senate in 1989.
Even some prominent Republicans—including former Governor Jim Martin and longtime strategist Carter Wrenn—have criticized their party for its excesses. “I thought the Republicans played right into the image of the nasty politician,” Wrenn, who was closely linked to the late U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, told a reporter for television station WRAL.
North Carolina could become a model for how national Republicans consolidate power. If that happens, Rajendran says she hopes it also becomes a model for how activists respond.
“I hope people are talking about North Carolina all over the country,” she says. “With Trump coming to power, we can expect the terrain to become much more treacherous for democracy. I’m glad to know we’re going to fight back.” Reported by The American Prospect 11 hours ago.
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Industry as a Whole Endorses Demonetisation Move, But Voices Concern Over Mounting Cash Crunch
*Business Wire India*The government’s demonetisation exercise has led to disruptions in daily cash flows, but the industry leaders cutting across the spectrum have given a thumbs up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bold and innovative move aimed at eliminating black money and corruption. At the same time, they feel that the prevailing cash crunch situation demands immediate attention, at the end of the authorities concerned.One of the badly affected industries post demonetisation is the real estate sector, which is witnessing considerable slump in sales and a general sentiment of low spending. However, the leading real estate developers feel that the demonetisation move will benefit all the stakeholders of the industry in the long run.
Elaborating on this point, *Mr. Arjunpreet Singh Sahni, Executive Director, Solitairian Group* said, “Demonetisation is a very bold move which will benefit the real estate sector by eliminating unscrupulous players from the market. Even though the prevailing cash crunch has caused inconvenience for now, the demand in primary market is expected to pick-up, for sure.” He added, “The biggest beneficiaries of demonetisation are going to be the end-users who will be driving the market from here onwards. Moreover, additional liquidity flowing into the banking system, post-demonetisation is expected to pull down the interest rates which will initiate the most favourable scenario for the industry in which consumers will be among the biggest beneficiaries."
“Post-demonetisation, the huge amount of deposits in banks have turned the liquidity in banking system into surplus which may become instrumental in bringing down the home loan interest rates of almost all the leading banks and financial institutions. This coupled with improved transparency and increased confidence of homebuyers on the back of RERA will ultimately lead the sector to achieve sustainable growth,” said *Mr. Pankaj Kumar Jain, Director, KW Group*. He added that such positive scenario will ultimately lead to increased demand for real estate and the organised real estate players will be immensely benefitted for sure. “The expected softening of the home loan rates due to the excess liquidity in the banking system will attract more end-users to the market, as they mostly depend on financing from banks for buying their dream property. Moreover, enhanced confidence of end-users in the market will eventually attract global investors to the Indian real estate market,” said *Mr. Manoj Kumar Singh, **Chairman**, Mangalya Group*.
*Mr. Bharat Aggarwal, Managing Director, Sheetal Group *added*,* *“*Eradicating corruption and black money from the system, demonetisation will create an extremely positive environment for doing business. With online transactions becoming a new way of life, a considerable increase in growth across all the sectors of the economy will be achieved amidst a highly positive scenario.”
While deliberating over the impact of demonetisation on allied industries *Mr. Ashish Baheti, Managing Director, Vectus Industries Limited *said, “Smaller companies in allied industries are understandably very concerned right now because many of them depend on cash transactions and the emerging scenario will also lead to clean-up of unscrupulous players,” adding, “The organized players will have negligible impact of demonetization, with no threat to their overall strength and future growth. Thus, demonetization of big currency notes is going to be beneficial for the overall health of the industry.”
In the meanwhile, bucking the trend amid demonetisation in consumer durable industry, *Mr. Nipun Singhal, Director, Lloyd Electric and Engineering Limited* said, “We have no impact on company by demonetisation, while we understand the market is facing liquidity issues which may have resulted in lower sales, but as far as our company is concerned, we have posted 20% growth over November 2015 in November 2016. This may be due to our initiatives to offer aggressive and innovative finance options with zero down payments.”
Leaders of IT, Digital Printing, and Lighting industries, among others have also expressed that demonetisation may bring about long term benefits for the entire industry. Removing corruption and black money from the system, demonetisation will create an extremely positive environment for doing business. With online transactions becoming a new way of life, a considerable increase in growth across all the sectors of the economy will be achieved amidst a highly positive scenario. However, at the same time, Industry veterans have expressed their cautions optimism as well, as the prevailing cash crunch scenario may affect the overall industrial growth of the country.
*Mr. Lalit Chaturvedi, General Manager, Kyocera Document Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.* said, “Through demonetisation, India is gradually moving towards digital economy and hence digital India no longer seems to remain a distant dream to achieve. Obviously, in the long run demonetisation will positively impact the growth of the entire IT and Digital Printing industry, though practical difficulties on the liquidity front will remain challenging over the short and medium terms.” He added that complete digitisation will also open new avenues of business for the tech companies and the IT industry may expect considerable increase in their growth in just a couple of months.
“As spending has taken a major hit, the current phase is a bit challenging for the entire industry, including the lighting sector, however the organised segment of the industry is set to benefit the most with demonetisation. We expect minimum 10-12% increase in the current growth rate in our retail segment, as unscrupulous players manufacturing dubious quality products are set to be washed away from the market by the giant wave of demonetization,” *said Mr. Rakesh Zutshi, Managing Director, Halonix Technologies Limited.* However, at the same time, Zutshi added that had demonetisation exercise could have been implemented and handled in a better way the daily wage earners and labourers could have been saved from unnecessary suffering. “Of course, the demonetisation exercise should have been executed in a better way. However, with the expected decrease in lending rate due to excess liquidity in the banking system, microfinance sector is expected to witness huge growth opportunities in terms of volume growth. Moreover, tax rate may also come down and the GDP of the country will be enhanced by minimum by 1%,” added* Mr. **Yogendra Pal, Country Head at Ujala Credit Cooperative Society Limited.*
Among various other industries, Handicraft export sector is also bearing the heat of demonetisation. *Mr. Rajesh Kumar Jain, Vice Chairman, Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts* *(EPCH)* said, “It is urgent to take necessary measures immediately, as more than 70 lakh people across the country are dependent on handicraft industry for their livelihood and almost all of them are suffering due to cash crunch situation. We have to procure wooden logs on daily basis for the production of handicrafts, but the traders accept only cash and due to the prevailing cash crunch situation, we are not able to pay them and hence the industry is witnessing a sharp decline in business.” Sharing similar concerns, *Mr. Goldy Nagdev, Managing Director, Hari Darshan Sevashram Pvt. Ltd* added, “As being one of the prominent manufactures of spirituality elevating products in the industry we have to procure raw materials from among the most choicest and quality ingredients from across the country, but due to severe cash crunch situation, we are facing various challenges in meeting our daily production requirements.”
Terming demonetisation as a major change in the mindset of unorganised players,* Mr. Rajesh Gupta, Director, Okaya Power Pvt. Limited* concluded, “Apart from striking a blow to the illegal trade, demonetisation is meant to promote cashless economy which will ultimately change the mindset of the people. With this brilliant move the entire industrial scenario will be immensely benefitted. Particularly in the power tubular battery segment, speedy growth is expected to continue uninterrupted.”*Photo Caption: *Industry as a Whole Endorses Demonetisation Move, But Voices Concern Over Mounting Cash Crunch
Reported by Business Wire India 10 hours ago.
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Colorado Springs Vets Can Now Use GI Bill to Prepare for Cybersecurity Careers
Springs Vets Can Help Meet Burgeoning Demand for Cybersecurity Professionals and Train Using GI Bill Funds; SecureSet Academy’s Bootcamp Prep Classes Start Jan. 7 in Colorado Springs
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (PRWEB) December 20, 2016
SecureSet Academy today announced that it has been approved for GI Bill funds. With the global demand for cybersecurity professionals expected to rise to six million by 2019 (with a projected shortfall of 1.5 million), this represents a major opportunity for Colorado Springs veterans who want to enter a high-demand post-military career field.
SecureSet Academy — the only comprehensive, accelerated cybersecurity education program in the US — is kicking off Bootcamp Prep courses at its new Colorado Springs campus on Sat., Jan 7, 2017. Students who complete Bootcamp Prep are guaranteed admission into the Academy’s CORE Technical Bootcamp Program, a 36-week evening course launching Jan. 30, 2017. CORE classes are limited to 25 students.
“The traditional evolution of a cybersecurity career path — getting certifications on the job and/or committing to four-year degrees — isn’t fast enough to meet the demand,” said Bret Fund, founder of SecureSet Academy. “We can take someone from the gates of a military base to their first job in cybersecurity in six months. Currently, 100% of our students have received job offers, usually before they even complete the CORE program.”
Veterans interested in learning more about the cybersecurity field, training requirements, salary and the nature of the work are encouraged to contact Martha Laughman (martha[at]secureset[dot]com or 800.445.0024, ext. 718).
About SecureSet Academy
SecureSet Academy offers the only bootcamp-style, comprehensive cybersecurity education program in the US — and the fastest route to entry-level careers in the field. The Academy was launched in response to the global shortfall of cybersecurity professionals who will be needed to meet the rise in sophisticated threats worldwide.
SecureSet Academy compresses the time required to achieve necessary skills and certifications from years to months. This intense, hands-on education ensures skills that are immediately applicable in working cybersecurity environments — 100% of our graduates have received job offers. SecureSet Academy has campuses in Denver, Colorado Springs, and will soon launch in Tampa Bay. For more information, please visit http://www.securesetacademy.com.
# # # Reported by PRWeb 8 hours ago.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (PRWEB) December 20, 2016
SecureSet Academy today announced that it has been approved for GI Bill funds. With the global demand for cybersecurity professionals expected to rise to six million by 2019 (with a projected shortfall of 1.5 million), this represents a major opportunity for Colorado Springs veterans who want to enter a high-demand post-military career field.
SecureSet Academy — the only comprehensive, accelerated cybersecurity education program in the US — is kicking off Bootcamp Prep courses at its new Colorado Springs campus on Sat., Jan 7, 2017. Students who complete Bootcamp Prep are guaranteed admission into the Academy’s CORE Technical Bootcamp Program, a 36-week evening course launching Jan. 30, 2017. CORE classes are limited to 25 students.
“The traditional evolution of a cybersecurity career path — getting certifications on the job and/or committing to four-year degrees — isn’t fast enough to meet the demand,” said Bret Fund, founder of SecureSet Academy. “We can take someone from the gates of a military base to their first job in cybersecurity in six months. Currently, 100% of our students have received job offers, usually before they even complete the CORE program.”
Veterans interested in learning more about the cybersecurity field, training requirements, salary and the nature of the work are encouraged to contact Martha Laughman (martha[at]secureset[dot]com or 800.445.0024, ext. 718).
About SecureSet Academy
SecureSet Academy offers the only bootcamp-style, comprehensive cybersecurity education program in the US — and the fastest route to entry-level careers in the field. The Academy was launched in response to the global shortfall of cybersecurity professionals who will be needed to meet the rise in sophisticated threats worldwide.
SecureSet Academy compresses the time required to achieve necessary skills and certifications from years to months. This intense, hands-on education ensures skills that are immediately applicable in working cybersecurity environments — 100% of our graduates have received job offers. SecureSet Academy has campuses in Denver, Colorado Springs, and will soon launch in Tampa Bay. For more information, please visit http://www.securesetacademy.com.
# # # Reported by PRWeb 8 hours ago.
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Healthcare IT Leaders Awarded Contract from GSA for Health IT Services
HIT Special Item Number (SIN) 132-56 Enables Streamlined Purchasing for Hospitals, Government Agencies
Atlanta, Georgia (PRWEB) December 20, 2016
Healthcare IT Leaders, a national IT consulting and recruitment firm for leading healthcare employers, today announced it has been awarded the GSA IT Schedule 70 – Health IT Special Item Number (SIN) 132-56 for Healthcare IT Services (GSA HITS).
Procurement officers, agency contracting officers and other buyers of health IT services will be able to use the new GSA HITS to identify qualified health IT firms, such as Healthcare IT Leaders, with demonstrated experience in delivering high-quality health IT services at a competitive cost.
The base period of the contract (#GS-35F-096GA) is from Nov 30, 2016 – Nov 29, 2021. Healthcare IT Leaders is recognized by GSA as a Small Business vendor for the entire base period of the contract.
Who Can Use SIN 132-56
All U.S. government agencies with health IT requirements can use SIN 132-56 to procure health IT services.
The contract also includes a Cooperative Purchase agreement so that other federal entities, states, counties, municipalities, cities, towns, tribal governments, public authorities, school districts, colleges and other institutions of higher education, council of governments, regional or interstate government entities may buy under the contract.
Academic Medical Centers, Not-for-Profit Health Systems, Health Information Exchanges (HIE), and any hospital or health system that has utilized federal “Meaningful Use” subsidies are among the entities that may be eligible to purchase services with the contract.
“This is a wide-ranging vehicle that offers additional speed, flexibility and electronic purchasing options for governmental entities that use health IT services and other healthcare providers that receive funds from the federal government,” said Bob Bailey, Managing Principal, Healthcare IT Leaders.
Covered Services Under SIN 132-56
The GSA Health IT SIN 132 56 provides for the following services:· Electronic Health Records (EHR)
· Innovative Health IT solutions
· Connected Health Solutions
· Emerging Health IT Research
· Health Information Exchanges
· Health Analytics
· Personal Health Information Management (PHI)
· Health Informatics
· Other Health IT Services (i.e., but not limited to EMR, ERP, CRM, HCM, Training, Analytics and Testing)
Healthcare IT Leaders offers its clients this full suite of health IT services under the Health IT SIN 132 56. Healthcare IT Leaders encourages its industry partners and clients to utilize Healthcare IT Leaders in the support of our nation’s healthcare challenges.
"Our demonstrated experience and vetting by GSA allows our customers to reduce risks and costs traditionally associated with long-term and large-scale IT projects,” said Bailey.
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with GSA as its singular Health IT procurement solution. GSA projects that government agencies, such as DHA and Department of Health and Human Services, and the Veterans Health Administration will spend over $3 billion annually for Health IT services.
To review pricesheet and learn more, contact Keith Marsh, Healthcare IT Leaders, SVP, Public Sector, gsahits(at)healthcareitleaders.com.
About Us
Healthcare IT Leaders is a national leader in IT workforce solutions, connecting healthcare provider and payer organizations with experienced technology talent for consulting and full-time hiring. Areas of focus include EMR, ERP, CRM, and testing. Based in Greater Atlanta, our company is the fastest growing IT staffing company in the U.S., according to Staffing Industry Associates (2016) and has twice-ranked on the Inc. 5000 (2016, 2015). We have also been named a Best Place to Work by the Atlanta Business Chronicle and Staffing Industry Associates. Learn more at http://www.healthcareitleaders.com. Reported by PRWeb 8 hours ago.
Atlanta, Georgia (PRWEB) December 20, 2016
Healthcare IT Leaders, a national IT consulting and recruitment firm for leading healthcare employers, today announced it has been awarded the GSA IT Schedule 70 – Health IT Special Item Number (SIN) 132-56 for Healthcare IT Services (GSA HITS).
Procurement officers, agency contracting officers and other buyers of health IT services will be able to use the new GSA HITS to identify qualified health IT firms, such as Healthcare IT Leaders, with demonstrated experience in delivering high-quality health IT services at a competitive cost.
The base period of the contract (#GS-35F-096GA) is from Nov 30, 2016 – Nov 29, 2021. Healthcare IT Leaders is recognized by GSA as a Small Business vendor for the entire base period of the contract.
Who Can Use SIN 132-56
All U.S. government agencies with health IT requirements can use SIN 132-56 to procure health IT services.
The contract also includes a Cooperative Purchase agreement so that other federal entities, states, counties, municipalities, cities, towns, tribal governments, public authorities, school districts, colleges and other institutions of higher education, council of governments, regional or interstate government entities may buy under the contract.
Academic Medical Centers, Not-for-Profit Health Systems, Health Information Exchanges (HIE), and any hospital or health system that has utilized federal “Meaningful Use” subsidies are among the entities that may be eligible to purchase services with the contract.
“This is a wide-ranging vehicle that offers additional speed, flexibility and electronic purchasing options for governmental entities that use health IT services and other healthcare providers that receive funds from the federal government,” said Bob Bailey, Managing Principal, Healthcare IT Leaders.
Covered Services Under SIN 132-56
The GSA Health IT SIN 132 56 provides for the following services:· Electronic Health Records (EHR)
· Innovative Health IT solutions
· Connected Health Solutions
· Emerging Health IT Research
· Health Information Exchanges
· Health Analytics
· Personal Health Information Management (PHI)
· Health Informatics
· Other Health IT Services (i.e., but not limited to EMR, ERP, CRM, HCM, Training, Analytics and Testing)
Healthcare IT Leaders offers its clients this full suite of health IT services under the Health IT SIN 132 56. Healthcare IT Leaders encourages its industry partners and clients to utilize Healthcare IT Leaders in the support of our nation’s healthcare challenges.
"Our demonstrated experience and vetting by GSA allows our customers to reduce risks and costs traditionally associated with long-term and large-scale IT projects,” said Bailey.
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with GSA as its singular Health IT procurement solution. GSA projects that government agencies, such as DHA and Department of Health and Human Services, and the Veterans Health Administration will spend over $3 billion annually for Health IT services.
To review pricesheet and learn more, contact Keith Marsh, Healthcare IT Leaders, SVP, Public Sector, gsahits(at)healthcareitleaders.com.
About Us
Healthcare IT Leaders is a national leader in IT workforce solutions, connecting healthcare provider and payer organizations with experienced technology talent for consulting and full-time hiring. Areas of focus include EMR, ERP, CRM, and testing. Based in Greater Atlanta, our company is the fastest growing IT staffing company in the U.S., according to Staffing Industry Associates (2016) and has twice-ranked on the Inc. 5000 (2016, 2015). We have also been named a Best Place to Work by the Atlanta Business Chronicle and Staffing Industry Associates. Learn more at http://www.healthcareitleaders.com. Reported by PRWeb 8 hours ago.
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Coder Foundry Offers New Scholarships for New Yorkers Interested in IT Careers
Intensive Coding Training School Helping Fill Employment Gap and Change Students’ Lives with Placement in Coding Career
New York (PRWEB) December 20, 2016
Coder Foundry, an intensive coding bootcamp offering hands-on learning to train students for career advancement in professional web and software development, is offering a total of seven scholarships specifically for its new location in New York City. The bootcamp, located in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, is celebrating its first New York class by engaging with students looking to make a change in their lives with starting salaries ranging from $60,000 to $90,000. This is an average increase of $26,000 compared to students’ annual salaries before attending the course.
Coder Foundry recognizes the lack of women in the technology field and supports equal opportunity and resources. In a November 2016 study by Advancing Women in Technology, it was found that only 25 percent of computing jobs are held by women. To help advance the great contributions females make in the field, Coder Foundry will offer one woman a full scholarship to its January class. The “Women in Tech” scholarship will cover both the Intro to Programming course and the 18-week course, valued at $14,250.
In addition, Coder Foundry is offering six students a scholarship for $3,000 off the January 18-week course. The “NYC Coding Career Scholarship” gives students of all backgrounds the chance to be placed in professional coding careers following course graduation. Past students have come from all walks of life and work experience, ranging from accounting, massage therapy, stay-at-home parent, financial services to fast food workers.
“We are excited to give students a chance to change their lives with a new career,” said Lawrence Reaves, CEO and co-founder of Coder Foundry. “Our courses give students real-world experience and job placement to help find a career they are passionate about. Our scholarships are just one way we can broaden the diversity of the coding world and empower people to take their career, future earning potential and lifestyle in their own hands. We’re thrilled to kick off our first New York City class come January and look forward to guiding these fabulous students to new heights.”
Coder Foundry has offered rapid hands-on training and professional job placement for people who want to start a computer programming career for more than three years. It is the first and only coding class to offer New York-based students training in .NET, one of the most employable coding languages for enterprise IT careers. In addition to teaching .NET and other coding languages, Coder Foundry courses simulate real-world work experience; students are exposed to the same workflow, structure, project types, deadlines and overall expectations they will encounter on the job. This allows them to hit the ground running to make immediately contributions with their new employers after graduation.
Potential students interested in the scholarships need to write a 100-word essay on why they want a coding career. The deadline for all applications is Dec. 31, 2016. For more information and to apply for a scholarship visit coderfoundry.com/newyorkcampus.
About Coder Foundry
Coder Foundry is a coding bootcamp that offers rapid hands-on training and professional job placement for people who want to start a computer programming career. Tech industry veterans Lawrence Reaves and Bobby Davis founded the school in 2014 in an effort to fill the talent gap that currently exists in the technology industry. With three campuses, one in the Triad area of North Carolina, one in Charlotte, North Carolina and the third in SoHo, New York, the school assists its graduates with finding careers nationwide, working with each student to create professional portfolios of enterprise-class web applications. For more information, visit coderfoundry.com.
### Reported by PRWeb 7 hours ago.
New York (PRWEB) December 20, 2016
Coder Foundry, an intensive coding bootcamp offering hands-on learning to train students for career advancement in professional web and software development, is offering a total of seven scholarships specifically for its new location in New York City. The bootcamp, located in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, is celebrating its first New York class by engaging with students looking to make a change in their lives with starting salaries ranging from $60,000 to $90,000. This is an average increase of $26,000 compared to students’ annual salaries before attending the course.
Coder Foundry recognizes the lack of women in the technology field and supports equal opportunity and resources. In a November 2016 study by Advancing Women in Technology, it was found that only 25 percent of computing jobs are held by women. To help advance the great contributions females make in the field, Coder Foundry will offer one woman a full scholarship to its January class. The “Women in Tech” scholarship will cover both the Intro to Programming course and the 18-week course, valued at $14,250.
In addition, Coder Foundry is offering six students a scholarship for $3,000 off the January 18-week course. The “NYC Coding Career Scholarship” gives students of all backgrounds the chance to be placed in professional coding careers following course graduation. Past students have come from all walks of life and work experience, ranging from accounting, massage therapy, stay-at-home parent, financial services to fast food workers.
“We are excited to give students a chance to change their lives with a new career,” said Lawrence Reaves, CEO and co-founder of Coder Foundry. “Our courses give students real-world experience and job placement to help find a career they are passionate about. Our scholarships are just one way we can broaden the diversity of the coding world and empower people to take their career, future earning potential and lifestyle in their own hands. We’re thrilled to kick off our first New York City class come January and look forward to guiding these fabulous students to new heights.”
Coder Foundry has offered rapid hands-on training and professional job placement for people who want to start a computer programming career for more than three years. It is the first and only coding class to offer New York-based students training in .NET, one of the most employable coding languages for enterprise IT careers. In addition to teaching .NET and other coding languages, Coder Foundry courses simulate real-world work experience; students are exposed to the same workflow, structure, project types, deadlines and overall expectations they will encounter on the job. This allows them to hit the ground running to make immediately contributions with their new employers after graduation.
Potential students interested in the scholarships need to write a 100-word essay on why they want a coding career. The deadline for all applications is Dec. 31, 2016. For more information and to apply for a scholarship visit coderfoundry.com/newyorkcampus.
About Coder Foundry
Coder Foundry is a coding bootcamp that offers rapid hands-on training and professional job placement for people who want to start a computer programming career. Tech industry veterans Lawrence Reaves and Bobby Davis founded the school in 2014 in an effort to fill the talent gap that currently exists in the technology industry. With three campuses, one in the Triad area of North Carolina, one in Charlotte, North Carolina and the third in SoHo, New York, the school assists its graduates with finding careers nationwide, working with each student to create professional portfolios of enterprise-class web applications. For more information, visit coderfoundry.com.
### Reported by PRWeb 7 hours ago.
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Tuesday's Morning Email: Germany Declares Berlin Incident A Terrorist Attack
-TOP STORIES-
*12 DEAD, 48 MORE INJURED IN CHRISTMAS MARKET ATTACK IN BERLIN *German Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling the deadly incident, which involved a truck driver plowing into a crowded Christmas market in the country’s capital, a “terrorist attack.” CNN is reporting the suspect may be a refugee from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. Take a look at a map of the truck’s deadly route. [Reuters]
*RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO TURKEY SHOT AND KILLED IN ANKARA *Andrei Karlov was shot and killed by a Turkish off-duty police officer who yelled “Don’t forget Aleppo” and “Allahu Akbar.” Here’s what the assassination means for the already fraught relationship between Turkey and Russia as they negotiate in Syria peace talks. Shots were also fired outside of the U.S. embassy to Turkey after the assassination. And take a look at the wave of terrorist attacks in Turkey this year. [Reuters]
*SURPRISE, SURPRISE: DONALD TRUMP WON THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE *Despite a movement to get electors to break from their states’ voters. Bill Clinton did tear up when casting his ballot for Hillary. [Igor Bobic, Mollie Reilly and Chris D’Angelo, HuffPost]
*CHINA RETURNS U.S. DRONE *No big deal, it was just stolen by a foreign government for a few days. [Reuters]
*ZURICH SHOOTER CONFIRMED DEAD *The gunman shot three people at a Zurich mosque Monday. [Reuters]
*TRUMP REPORTEDLY PLANS TO KEEP PRIVATE SECURITY DURING HIS PRESIDENCY *Which would be an unheard of break with the security protocols for presidents. [Mary Papenfuss, HuffPost]
*3 FAMILIES OF PULSE SHOOTING VICTIMS ARE SUING FACEBOOK, GOOGLE AND TWITTER *For providing “material support” to ISIS. [Rebecca Shapiro, HuffPost]
*FLIGHTS ARE GROUNDED IN CHINA DUE TO THE SEVERITY OF THE TOXIC SMOG *Factories and traffic came to a standstill in northern China due to the blanketing smog. [Rebecca Shapiro, HuffPost]
-WHAT’S BREWING-
*WOMAN KILLED BY FALLING TREE AT WEDDING IDENTIFIED AS MOTHER OF THE BRIDE *Margarita Mojarro was posing for photos at a park when the tree fell on the wedding party. [People]
*THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS COLLECTING LOANS IT PROMISED TO FORGIVE “*The Obama administration has been actively seeking loan payments from thousands of former students eligible for a debt-forgiveness program.” [Bloomberg]
*SYLVESTER STALLONE TURNED DOWN A POSITION IN TRUMP ADMINISTRATION* But signaled he might be willing to take on a role helping veterans. [HuffPost]
*BECAUSE TUESDAYS CAN BE MONOTONOUS* Check out this Google extension that finds Google Map images that match the shapes you draw. It’s oddly mesmerizing and comforting and more interesting than that Excel sheet. Sorry, Bill. [Lines]
*DISNEY IS THE FIRST MOVIE STUDIO TO MAKE $7 BILLION IN A YEAR* Those mouse ears really are magical. [Variety]
*LOOKS LIKE FIFTH HARMONY IS DOWN TO FOUR *The girl group announced via Twitter that Camila Cabello was leaving the group ― and that was only the beginning of all the drama. [HuffPost]
*CONGRATS TO MARGOT ROBBIE *Who reportedly married her filmmaker beau Tom Ackerly. Check out photos of the her new diamond ring. [HuffPost]
-BEFORE YOU GO-~ The New York Times explains the decision to run a photo of the dead Russian ambassador to Turkey and his assassin.
~ Outgoing North Carolina governor signs into law bills that strip powers from his successor.
~ It looks like Andrea Bocelli may not be singing at Trump’s inauguration after all.
~ Six more retailers eliminated “on call” scheduling.
~ The judge in the Brock Turner case has been cleared of judicial misconduct.
~ International Monetary Fund Chief Christine Lagarde has been convicted in France for negligence on a state payout. The board of the IMF is considering whether they will allow her to stay on considering the decision.
~ The trailer to “Blade Runner 2049” is as cool as it sounds.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio and the cast of “Growing Pains” all showed up to pay their respects at Alan Thicke’s memorial.
~ According to a recent study, female doctors are less likely to kill you.
~ Yes, Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard III is as immersive an experience as you’d imagine it would be.
~ We gave up on trying not to cry when reading about this dying police dog’s touching last call.
~ Congrats to Zooey Deschanel, who is reportedly expecting her second child with husband Jacob Pechenick.
~ Of course Kate Middleton is killing the holiday dress game.
~ The celebrity breakups that trampled our hearts in 2016 (seriously, is anyone over Brangelina yet?).
~ Ten times Asian-Americans spoke up in 2016.
~ Red wine hot chocolate is a thing, and we now expect it in our Christmas stocking (seriously, Mom, this is a great idea, just saying).
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*12 DEAD, 48 MORE INJURED IN CHRISTMAS MARKET ATTACK IN BERLIN *German Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling the deadly incident, which involved a truck driver plowing into a crowded Christmas market in the country’s capital, a “terrorist attack.” CNN is reporting the suspect may be a refugee from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. Take a look at a map of the truck’s deadly route. [Reuters]
*RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO TURKEY SHOT AND KILLED IN ANKARA *Andrei Karlov was shot and killed by a Turkish off-duty police officer who yelled “Don’t forget Aleppo” and “Allahu Akbar.” Here’s what the assassination means for the already fraught relationship between Turkey and Russia as they negotiate in Syria peace talks. Shots were also fired outside of the U.S. embassy to Turkey after the assassination. And take a look at the wave of terrorist attacks in Turkey this year. [Reuters]
*SURPRISE, SURPRISE: DONALD TRUMP WON THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE *Despite a movement to get electors to break from their states’ voters. Bill Clinton did tear up when casting his ballot for Hillary. [Igor Bobic, Mollie Reilly and Chris D’Angelo, HuffPost]
*CHINA RETURNS U.S. DRONE *No big deal, it was just stolen by a foreign government for a few days. [Reuters]
*ZURICH SHOOTER CONFIRMED DEAD *The gunman shot three people at a Zurich mosque Monday. [Reuters]
*TRUMP REPORTEDLY PLANS TO KEEP PRIVATE SECURITY DURING HIS PRESIDENCY *Which would be an unheard of break with the security protocols for presidents. [Mary Papenfuss, HuffPost]
*3 FAMILIES OF PULSE SHOOTING VICTIMS ARE SUING FACEBOOK, GOOGLE AND TWITTER *For providing “material support” to ISIS. [Rebecca Shapiro, HuffPost]
*FLIGHTS ARE GROUNDED IN CHINA DUE TO THE SEVERITY OF THE TOXIC SMOG *Factories and traffic came to a standstill in northern China due to the blanketing smog. [Rebecca Shapiro, HuffPost]
-WHAT’S BREWING-
*WOMAN KILLED BY FALLING TREE AT WEDDING IDENTIFIED AS MOTHER OF THE BRIDE *Margarita Mojarro was posing for photos at a park when the tree fell on the wedding party. [People]
*THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS COLLECTING LOANS IT PROMISED TO FORGIVE “*The Obama administration has been actively seeking loan payments from thousands of former students eligible for a debt-forgiveness program.” [Bloomberg]
*SYLVESTER STALLONE TURNED DOWN A POSITION IN TRUMP ADMINISTRATION* But signaled he might be willing to take on a role helping veterans. [HuffPost]
*BECAUSE TUESDAYS CAN BE MONOTONOUS* Check out this Google extension that finds Google Map images that match the shapes you draw. It’s oddly mesmerizing and comforting and more interesting than that Excel sheet. Sorry, Bill. [Lines]
*DISNEY IS THE FIRST MOVIE STUDIO TO MAKE $7 BILLION IN A YEAR* Those mouse ears really are magical. [Variety]
*LOOKS LIKE FIFTH HARMONY IS DOWN TO FOUR *The girl group announced via Twitter that Camila Cabello was leaving the group ― and that was only the beginning of all the drama. [HuffPost]
*CONGRATS TO MARGOT ROBBIE *Who reportedly married her filmmaker beau Tom Ackerly. Check out photos of the her new diamond ring. [HuffPost]
-BEFORE YOU GO-~ The New York Times explains the decision to run a photo of the dead Russian ambassador to Turkey and his assassin.
~ Outgoing North Carolina governor signs into law bills that strip powers from his successor.
~ It looks like Andrea Bocelli may not be singing at Trump’s inauguration after all.
~ Six more retailers eliminated “on call” scheduling.
~ The judge in the Brock Turner case has been cleared of judicial misconduct.
~ International Monetary Fund Chief Christine Lagarde has been convicted in France for negligence on a state payout. The board of the IMF is considering whether they will allow her to stay on considering the decision.
~ The trailer to “Blade Runner 2049” is as cool as it sounds.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio and the cast of “Growing Pains” all showed up to pay their respects at Alan Thicke’s memorial.
~ According to a recent study, female doctors are less likely to kill you.
~ Yes, Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard III is as immersive an experience as you’d imagine it would be.
~ We gave up on trying not to cry when reading about this dying police dog’s touching last call.
~ Congrats to Zooey Deschanel, who is reportedly expecting her second child with husband Jacob Pechenick.
~ Of course Kate Middleton is killing the holiday dress game.
~ The celebrity breakups that trampled our hearts in 2016 (seriously, is anyone over Brangelina yet?).
~ Ten times Asian-Americans spoke up in 2016.
~ Red wine hot chocolate is a thing, and we now expect it in our Christmas stocking (seriously, Mom, this is a great idea, just saying).
The Huffington Post’s Morning Email team aims to get you the top news, along with entertainment, lifestyle stories and other absurdity that you need to get through your workday — all with a dash of signature Morning Email snark.
Like The Morning Email? Send it to a friend! Does somebody keep forwarding you this newsletter? Get your own copy. It’s free! Sign up here.
Check out HuffPost Politics and HuffPost Breaking News newsletters for more of the good stuff.
-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. Reported by Huffington Post 7 hours ago.
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