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Is Anti-Racism Teacher Eric K. Ward Tasked with Dividing Our Community Against Itself? A post by reader Patti Munter  shares Following my post from yesterday about the Dream Defenders video, around the same time, Eric K. Ward, a Portland-based self-described member of ANTIFA, and community organizer slash punk rocker, quietly co-founded Funders For Justice (a project of the Neighborhood Funders Group), organized funding conferences for BLM, and attended the BLM convening conference. Here is...

Today brings news of a colossal collision. You may be familiar with famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. One of his best-selling books: A few selections: The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously mal...

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Episode of his show. he defended the harvard universitys mens soccer team. the "new york times" reported on quite a list of this. in 2016 for ravnking the sex appeal of students on a scale of 1 to 10. he basically dismissed it as, this is sort of what happens. this isnt ancient history, its recent. you also have, for instance, the governor of california backs bernie sanders saying, this is not what we want. we dont want bernie sanders supporting this person. >> there are a lot of progressives wh...

Far right or the far left would be in this category of domestic -- pure domestic terrorism organizations. so going forward that might be something that needs to be examined, whether its in legislation or some kind of executive order or other kind of executive branch sort of guidance that can law enforcement, the intelligence community do more against these types of groups and individuals and movements in the united states, so that to me is a big thing that potentially needs to be looked at. >> l...

Speech. it is not free speech, it is hate speech. we as the people of this city are not going to take it. >> what do you intend to do about it today. >> they know every time they come here, theyre going to get the response they want, but its not going to be a violent one, were going to march them out of this city until theyre gone, were not going to stand for it. >> why portland? >> theyre targeting us because its a liberal city with progressive values. they vilify us on the internet and make us...

Ahead with the event and im told that the message conveyed to him from trump associates ill read it to you. this is a paraphrase. stay strong, its not going to be that bad. >> wow. >> quite a message. >> a message of solidarity. we got you. >> a lot of confidence going into this thing. >> heres the irony in this because you have some people who i remember when nike came out with their ads people were saying boycott nike, and people are saying, dont boycott his businesses. it kind of underscores ...

Democrats and a major issue for everybody, really. impeachment was an important topic at this weekends california democratic party convention. >> cnn kyung lah has details. >> a day after the virginia beach shooting, many of the 2020 presidential candidates speak to reporters about their sentiment on gun violence but senator cory booker made it part of the passionate speech he delivered here at the california democratic party convention. >> it is important for us. >> reporter: the isnt who recei...

Cnn is at that gathering of presidential contenders in san francisco. >> reporter: the day after the virginia beach shooting, many of the 2020 presidential candidates did speak to reporters sharing their thoughts about the shooting and gun violence. but it was senator cory booker that made gun violence the centerpiece of his speech that he delivered to california democrats. >> it is time for us as a nation not to normalize the violence and the carnage of gun violence. >> reporter: the candidate ...

About it. both topics this weekend center stage at their california state convention. we were at the gathering of presidential contenders and filed this report from san francisco. >> the day after the virginia beach shooting, many of the 2020 presidential candidates did speak to reporters sharing thoughts about the shooting and gun violence. but it was senator cory booker that made gun violence the centerpiece of his speech that he delivered to california democrats. >> it is time for us as a nat...