No Is Not Enough
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James H. Marsh, “Japanese Internment: Banished and Beyond Tears,” Canadian Encyclopedia, last edited November 28, 2016, http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/japanese-internment-banished-and-beyond-tears-feature/.
Shock Resistance in the USA
Trump: “ghettos”
Sean Sullivan, “Trump Talks of ‘Ghettos’ in Describing Urban African American Areas,” Washington Post, October 27, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/27/trump-talks-of-ghettos-in-describing-urban-african-american-areas/?utm_term=.fb85e0b410e9.
Women’s marches: 600 cities, 4.2 million people
Sarah Frostenson, “The Women’s Marches May Have Been the Largest Demonstration in US History,” Vox, January 31, 2017, http://www.vox.com/2017/1/22/14350808/womens-marches-largest-demonstration-us-history-map.
Grandmother in Hawaii: “I think we should march”
Laila Kearney, “Hawaii Grandma’s Plea Launches Women’s March in Washington,” Reuters.com, December 5, 2016, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-women-idUSKBN13U0GW.
Women’s march mission statement: “This march is the first step…”
Women’s March, “Mission & Vision,” WomensMarch.com, accessed April 18, 2017, https://www.womensmarch.com/mission/.
Demonstrators: “we are all Muslims” and “let them in”
Stephanie McCrummen, “New Citizens Take the Oath in Trump’s America,” Washington Post, January 29, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/amid-the-turmoil-surrounding-the-immigration-ban-new-citizens-take-the-oath/2017/01/29/957da00e-e64c-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html?utm_term=.4bc80143f72e.
Bodega strike: closed over a thousand businesses
Jamiles Lartey, “Yemeni Bodegas Close in New York in Protest at Trump Travel Ban,” Guardian, February 2, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/yemeni-grocery-stores-close-new-york-protest-travel-ban.
Islamic organizations: raised more than $160,000 in funds for Jewish cemeteries
“Campaign: Muslims Unite to Repair Jewish Cemetery” (crowdfunding campaign), LaunchGood.com, 2017, https://www.launchgood.com/project/muslims_unite_to_repair_jewish_cemetery#/.
National Public Radio, “Muslim-Led Fundraiser to Help Vandalized Jewish Cemetery Be Repaired. Morning Edition,” NPR.org, February 22, 2017, http://www.npr.org/2017/02/22/516582971/muslim-led-fundraiser-to-help-vandalized-jewish-cemetery-be-repaired.
January 2017 Mosque shooting: death toll
“Quebec City mosque shooting victims include businessman, professor and fathers of young children,” CBC.ca, January 30, 2017, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-city-mosque-shooting-victims-1.3958191.
Hundreds of cities and counties: “sanctuaries”
Jasmine C. Lee, Rudy Omri, and Julia Preston, “What Are Sanctuary Cities?” New York Times, February 6, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/02/us/sanctuary-cities.html.
American Civil Liberties Union: raised nearly $80-million
Larry Neumeister and Michael R. Sisak, “ACLU Is Seeing a Trump-Era Surge in Members and Donations,” AP.org, February 12, 2017, http://bigstory.ap.org/node/13364934.
ACLU: one thousand communities
ACLU, personal communication with author or her research assistants, April 19, 2017.
Day Without Immigrants organizer: “We want to make sure…”
Dan DiMaggio and Sonia Singh, “Tens of Thousands Strike on Day without Immigrants,” Labor Notes, February 23, 2017, http://www.labornotes.org/2017/02/tens-thousands-strike-day-without-immigrants.
Twelve restaurant workers fired in Oklahoma: offered jobs
Ethan Hutchins, “Claremore restaurant offers jobs to fired employees from “IDC” bar and grill,” KTUL.com February 20, 2017, http://ktul.com/news/local/claremore-restaurant-offers-jobs-to-fired-employees-from-idc-bar-and-grill.
The Revenge of Reality
White House: deleting scientific information
Victoria Herrmann, “I Am an Arctic Researcher. Donald Trump Is Deleting My Citations,” Guardian, March 28, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/arctic-researcher-donald-trump-deleting-my-citations.
White House: de facto ban on talking about climate change
Valerie Volcovici and P.J. Huffstutter, “Trump Administration Seeks to Muzzle U.S. Agency Employees,” Reuters.com, January 24, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-epa-idUSKBN15822X.
Internet Archive: hundreds of billions of webpages, set up a backup server in Canada
Amy Goodman, Brewster Kahle, and Laurie Allen, “Facing Possible Threats under Trump, Internet Archive to Build Server in Canada,” Democracy Now!, December 29, 2016, https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/29/facing_possible_threats_under_trump_internet.
“Data rescue” events
Lisa Song and Zahra Hirji, “The Scramble to Protect Climate Data under Trump,” Inside Climate News, January 20, 2017, https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19012017/climate-change-data-science-denial-donald-trump.
“Hackathon” at UC Berkeley: two hundred data defenders
Megan Molteni, “Diehard Coders Just Rescued NASA’s Earth Science Data,” Wired, February 13, 2017, https://www.wired.com/2017/02/diehard-coders-just-saved-nasas-earth-science-data/.
Jane Goodall: “a trumpet call”
David Smith, “Jane Goodall Calls Trump’s Climate Change Agenda ‘Immensely Depressing,’ ”Guardian, March 29, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/28/jane-goodall-trump-climate-change.
March for Science: six hundred marches across the USA
Oliver Milman, “March for Science Puts Earth Day Focus on Global Opposition to Trump,” Guardian, April 22, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/22/march-for-science-earth-day-climate-change-trump.
Stanford biologist: “If we cannot discuss facts openly…”
James Dyke, “Scientists Are Planning to March on Washington. Here’s Why,” Guardian, January 27, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/jan/27/scientists-are-planning-to-march-on-washington-heres-why.
Chant: “What do we want? Evidence-based research. When do we want it? After peer review.”
March for Science, tweet, posted by @march4scienceLA, April 7, 2017, https://twitter.com/march4sciencela/status/850212220294225920?lang=en.
Banner: “Climate, jobs, and justice.”
Peoples Climate Movement, website, accessed May 3, 2017, https://peoplesclimate.org.
Harvard Resistance School: over fifty thousand people signed up
“Resistance School: How to Mobilize and Organize Our Communities with Sara El-Amine,” Harvard College website, accessed April 18, 2017, https://college.harvard.edu/college-events/resistance-school-how-mobilize-and-organize-our-communities-sara-el-amine.
Resistance School, Facebook post, April 11, 2017, https://www.facebook.com/ResistSchool/posts/1716095658687493.
Over seven thousand “Indivisible” chapters
Doug Criss, “What Is Indivisible? Political Group Hopes to Be Flip Side of Tea Party,” CNN.com, February 11, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/11/politics/indivisible-profile-trnd/.
Indivisible organizer: “not just a political community, but a community that cares…”
Kate Aronoff, “Indivisible: The Left Group Shaking Up Congress from the Grassroots,” In These Times, February 13, 2017, http://inthesetimes.com/article/19871/indivisible-trump-resistance-left-tea-party; and personal communication with author, n.d.
Planned Parenthood: 260,000 donors in the month after the election
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, “Donations Pour into Planned Parenthood Thanks to Mike Pence,” CBC.ca, December 8, 2016, http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/�
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Mike Pence: “to the ash heap of history”
Jeremy Scahill, “Mike Pence Will Be the Most Powerful Christian Supremacist in U.S. History,” TheIntercept.com, November 15, 2016, https://theintercept.com/2016/11/15/mike-pence-will-be-the-most-powerful-christian-supremacist-in-us-history/.
United Resistance: “to take action to support one another…”
United Resistance, website, accessed April 18, 2017, http://www.unstoppabletogether.org.
Greenpeace, “More than 50 Organizations Launch United Resistance Campaign as Trump’s Cabinet Hearings Begin,” press release, January 10, 2017, http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/50-organizations-launch-united-resistance-campaign-trumps-cabinet-hearings-begin/.
Angela Davis: “The next 1,459 days of the Trump administration will be…’ ”
Lyndsey Matthews, “Here’s the Full Transcript of Angela Davis’s Women’s March Speech,” Elle, January 21, 2017, http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a42337/angela-davis-womens-march-speech-full-transcript/.
Letter from group of law professors: “reflect the very bigotry, xenophobia and nativist…”
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, “UNB Law Profs Urge Immediate Action against Trump’s Refugee Policies,” CBC.ca, February 1, 2017, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/law-professors-unb-refugees-trump-1.3961450.
Mexico: tens of thousands of people protest Trump’s immigration policies
British Broadcasting Corporation, “Mexico Protesters March against Trump’s Immigration Policies,” BBC.com, February 13, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38952359.
UK: nearly two million people signed an official petition
“Prevent Donald Trump from Making a State Visit to the United Kingdom,” UK government petition, accessed April 18, 2017, https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/171928.
Trump: a ride in the golden royal carriage
Francis Elliott and Fiona Hamilton, “Trump Demands Gold-Plated Welcome,” Times (London), April 15, 2017, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trump-demands-gold-plated-welcome-xjnffdq32.
…and around the World
Barcelona: 100,000 people marched
Agence France-Presse, “Protesters in Barcelona Urge Spain to Take In More Refugees,” Guardian, February 18, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/18/protesters-in-barcelona-urge-spain-to-take-in-more-refugees.
Theodoros Karyotis: “endured five years of austerity shock treatment…”
Theodoros Karyotis, “Criminalizing Solidarity: Syriza’s War on the Movements,” Roar, July 31, 2016, https://roarmag.org/essays/criminalizing-solidarity-movement-refugees-greece/.
Germany: proposals for housing migrants
Dagmar Breitenbach, “Creative Housing for Refugees—but a Cemetery?” Deutsche Welle, January 21, 2016, http://www.dw.com/en/creative-housing-for-refugees-but-a-cemetery/a-18996041.
“Airbnb for refugees”
Aza Wee Sile, “This Non-profit Wants to Use the Sharing Economy to Ease Europe’s Refugee Crisis,” CNBC.com, August 18, 2016, http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/18/refugees-welcome-aims-to-use-sharing-economy-to-ease-europe-immigration-crisis.html.
Refugees Welcome, website, accessed April 1, 2017, http://www.refugees-welcome.net/.
New York Times: “the world’s most personal resettlement program”
Jodi Kantor and Katrin Einhorn, “Canadians Adopted Refugee Families for a Year. Then Came ‘Month 13.’ ” New York Times, March 25, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/world/canada/syrian-refugees.html.
Jesse Klaver: “Don’t try to fake the populace. Stand for your principles…”
Peter Foster and Senay Boztas, “Dutch Elections: Prime Minister Mark Rutte Calls for a ‘Stand against Geert Wilders’ Populism’ as Netherlands Goes to the Polls,” Associated Press via Daily Telegraph (London), March 15, 2017, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/15/dutch-prime-minister-calls-stand-against-populism-netherlands/.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon support and results
Ingrid Melander and Marine Pennetier, “French Left Must Agree a Candidate for Presidential Election—Hollande’s Party Chief,” Reuters.com, February 18, 2016, http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-france-politics-hollande-idUKKCN0VR1QN.
Seán Clarke and Josh Holder, “French Presidential Election: First Round Results in Charts and Maps,” Guardian, April 23, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2017/apr/23/french-presidential-election-results-2017-latest.
French election results
Gregor Aisch, Matthew Bloch, K.K. Rebecca Lai, and Benoît Morenne, “How France Voted,” New York Times, May 7, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/07/world/europe/france-election-results-maps.html?_r=0.
CHAPTER 11
When No Was Not Enough
Street slogan: “We will not pay for your crisis!”
Amy Schrager Lang and Daniel Lang/Levitsky, Dreaming in Public: The Building of the Occupy Movement (Oxford: New Internationalist Publications, 2012), 43.
US: lost almost two million jobs
US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “The Employment Situation: December 2008,” press release, January 9, 2009, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_01092009.pdf.
US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “The Employment Situation: January 2009,” press release, February 6, 2009, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_02062009.pdf.
Obama: “the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street…”
“Obama’s Speech in Canton, Ohio,” New York Times, October 27, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/us/politics/27text-obama.html.
Obama: pledged to put a price on carbon and to create five million green jobs
“Create 5 Million ‘Green’ Jobs,” Politifact, updated November 14, 2016, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/439/create-5-million-green-jobs/.
Barack Obama: “Remarks in Janesville, Wisconsin: ‘Keeping America’s Promise,’ ” February 13, 2008, The American Presidency Project, accessed May 18, 2017, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=77032.
Obama: “the planet began to heal”
“ ‘America, This Is Our Moment’: Sen. Barack Obama Clinches Democratic Nomination,” Democracy Now!, June 4, 2008, https://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/4/america_this_is_our_moment_sen.
When the Banks Were on Their Knees
Stimulus plan: $800 billion
Jackie Calmes, “House Passes Stimulus Plan with No G.O.P. Votes,” New York Times, January 28, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29obama.html.
Stimulus plan criticized for being too small
Paul Krugman, “How Did We Know the Stimulus Was Too Small?” New York Times, July 28, 2010, https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/how-did-we-know-the-stimulus-was-too-small/.
The Jobs Revolution That Wasn’t
German government: created 400,000 jobs
Yi Xu, “Fact Sheet: Jobs in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency,” ed. Laura Small, Environmental and Energy Study Institute, December 23, 2014, http://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-jobs-in-renewable-energy-and-energy-efficiency-2014.
Germany: 30 percent of energy comes from renewables
US Energy Information Administration, “Germany’s Renewables Electricity Generation Grows in 2015, but Coal Still Dominant,” Today in Energy, May 24, 2016, https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=26372.
Howard Zinn: “The really critical thing isn’t…”
Howard Zinn, Terrorism and War (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002), 110.
Remembering When We Leapt
1911 fire at the Tri
angle Shirtwaist Company in New York City: death toll
“The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire,” Occupational Safety and Health Administration website, accessed April 18, 2017, https://www.osha.gov/oas/trianglefactoryfire-account.html.
When Utopia Lends a Hand
Gilded Age strikers: “cooperative commonwealth”
Alex Gourevitch, From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/history-culture-society-workshop/files/introduction_and_chapter_4.pdf.
Robin D.G. Kelley: “black-led biracial democratic, populist, and radical movements”
Robin D.G. Kelley, “Births of a Nation,” Boston Review, March 6, 2017, http://bostonreview.net/race-politics/robin-d-g-kelley-births-nation.
Upton Sinclair: 900,000 votes
Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1934), x.
Milan Kundera: “the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999), 4.
Trapped in the Matrix
Junot Díaz: “Those of us whose ancestors were owned…”
Junot Díaz, “Under President Trump, Radical Hope Is Our Best Option,” New Yorker, November 21, 2016, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/21/under-president-trump-radical-hope-is-our-best-weapon.