OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #188, July 31, 2024. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
RIGHT TURN USA: Heritage
Foundation’s Project 2025
Project 2025 Continues The Historic… Fascist
Project
By Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. The right wing
counter-revolution has been going on for more than 50 years. The Powell Memo was a 1971 directive
from soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, instructing the US Chamber
of Commerce how to defeat the “attack on the American free enterprise
system". The Contract with America 1994
outlined Newt Gingrich’s plan for Republican Party control of congress. -more-
Southern Poverty Law Center: Year in Hate and Extremism Report
The extreme right prepares for the end
of democracy.
In
past decades SPLC has done an amazing job of compiling massive amounts of
information on hate groups and their activities. This report is the background
to the scary "Project 2025" summary
by the Heritage Foundation released in June.
Be sure you
are informed about what's happening in our world Omni folks. Democracy is
clearly in danger.
Postcards for Democracy
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you. There's plenty of time to prepare them for mailing in October, but you
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Email omni@omnicenter.org to
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crazy election, we NEED everybody to get out and VOTE!
The Best Counter To Project 2025 Is A
Progressive Project 2025
There are some models to look to for
what to do from Roots Action’s Progressive Hub Team:
Cori Bush, Activist-Politician, Still
Inspires Working People Like Me
And what might happen in AR see Ray
Niblock’s new novel on the right-wing takeover of Arkansas. The Last
Independence Day . ( Also don’t miss Benjamin Hett’s book, The Death of
Democracy on how Hitler did it 1930-33.)
1 comment:
It's hard for me to get excited about Project 2025. It looks to me like just another partisan position paper. Not even Trump endorses it. It seems more of a rallying point for the Dem faction.
I need to check out those new novels. I like alternative histories.
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