OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #235, JUNE 16, 2025. Compiled by Dick Bennett
Diana B. Henriques.
The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR's Fight to Regulate American
Capitalism.
Richardson. Democracy
Awakening.
ACLU.
What Did You Do?
Diana B. Henriques. Taming the Street: The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR's Fight to
Regulate American Capitalism.
Random House,
2023. 464.
Publisher’s description:
WINNER
OF THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • A BLOOMBERG BEST
BOOK OF THE YEAR.
With deep reporting and vivid storytelling, Diana B. Henriques takes readers back
to a time when America’s financial landscape was a jungle ruled by the titans
of vast wealth, largely unrestrained by government. Taming the Street describes
how President Franklin D. Roosevelt battled to regulate Wall Street in the wake
of the 1929 stock market crash and the ensuing Great Depression. His deeply
personal campaign to tame the Street is one of the great untold dramas in
American history.
Heather Cox Richardson. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of
America. Penguin RandomHouse, 2023. Paperback 2024 includes a new
Afterword by the author.
Praise
The Washington Post‘s “50 Best NonFiction Books of 2023”
Kirkus Review’s ”2023 Best NonFiction Books of the Year”
“[Democracy Awakening] is the most lucid just-so story for Trump’s rise
I’ve ever heard. It’s magisterial.” –Virginia Heffernan, Washington
Post
“Necessary U.S. history … an excellent primer for anyone who needs
the important facts of the last 150 years of American history – and how they
got us to the sorry place we inhabit today.” –Guardian US
“Heather Cox Richardson’s Democracy Awakening is an important
addition to the burgeoning literature and scholarship on what I have
characterized as America’s Third Reconstruction…she is at her best simply
telling us the story of how we came to be living on the brink of ending our
nearly 250-year democratic experiment.”
–Peniel Joseph, Democracy
The American Civil Liberties Union/ACLU is a
bastion against fascism. It advances equity in all aspects of our society, from anti-racism
to the criminal justice system. The ACLU
employs a staff of attorneys engaged in lawsuits to protect our rights
to vote and have our vote counted, to resist all barriers to voting, to learn
by defending the First Amendment’s stand against censorship, and by promoting
the free dissemination of ideas. It has Affiliates in every state; the
AR Affil. was established mainly by LR and Fayetteville citizens, including me. You ask, What Can I Do against the Trump
oligarchy? Join the ACLU, national and state. Contact Holly Dickson, ACLU of Arkansas, 904 West 2nd Street, Little Rock, AR
72201
Here's the latest on ACLU corralling
Trump and Musk. 2-21-25 --Dick
How the ACLU is responding to DOGE's invasion of privacy. 
Dick,
in just the past week, over 140,000 ACLU supporters like you have written their
members of Congress to condemn DOGE's unrestricted, unaccountable violation of
our privacy – here's what you need to know:
The Trump administration has granted the so-called Department of
Government Efficiency unprecedented access to information
about our finances, health records, and social security data – which DOGE is
reportedly feeding to AI to outsource decisions about devastating funding cuts.
That's
why our community is fighting back at every level: We've filed over 40 FOIA
requests demanding accountability and transparency from DOGE, while pushing
those in power to stop this privacy violation – and that's just the start.
What Did You Do?
I[ am reprinting the
following two days after the NO KINGS demonstration June 14, 2025, all around
the US, the one in Fayetteville two blocks long shoulder to shoulder. –D]
From hieroglyphic
stairway by Drew Dellinger
What Did You Do?
it’s 3:23 in the morning
and I’m awake
because my great great
grandchildren
won’t let me sleep
my great great grandchildren
ask me in dreams
what did you do while the
planet was plundered?
what did you do when the earth
was unraveling?
surely you did something
when the seasons started
failing?
as the mammals, reptiles,
birds were all dying?
did you fill the streets with
protest
when democracy was stolen?
what did you do
once
you
knew?
(Reprinted from Facing
the Anthropocene by Ian Angus.)
END OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #235, JUNE 16, 2025.
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