A Strategy to Defeat Donald Trump : New York Times , May 1, 2025

 NYT call for a united front to defend democracy.

There Is a Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump’s Power Grab. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/opinion/trump-100-days-opposition.html?smid=nytcore-android-share 

The Trump Strategy

  

 

Trump’s efforts

 

Just days into his presidency, Donald Trump has unleashed an unprecedented number of extreme executive actions—from pardoning violent January 6 insurrectionists to unilaterally attempting to end birthright citizenship to withdrawing from global climate agreements. His strategy is clear: overwhelm us with outrage after outrage until we feel powerless to fight back.

But we're already stopping Trump's authoritarian actions. Our public outrage today forced Trump to rescind his sweeping order freezing federal funding for everything from schools to veterans’ health care, though he appears determined to fight in the courts to push the cuts through, undermining our families and communities to line billionaires' pockets.¹ Also, last Thursday, a federal judge blocked his attack on birthright citizenship, calling it "blatantly unconstitutional."²

These early victories show that when we stand together and fight back strategically through the courts and with sustained public pressure, we can defeat Trump's most dangerous overreaches.

We've been here before—and won. When Trump was in the White House and Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress in 2017 and 2018, MoveOn members and allies successfully blocked major parts of his agenda. Together, we:

• Saved the Affordable Care Act
• Forced Trump to end family separation at the border
• Prevented some of his most extreme policies from being implemented
• Protected key democratic institutions through sustained resistance

Now, with Republicans holding only a razor-thin majority in the House and by using every political and legal tool at our disposal, we can again stop Trump's most dangerous plans to undermine our freedoms, pollute our planet, and empower his billionaire friends at our expense. But we must act swiftly and strategically, showing Trump and MAGA forces that:

• There will be immediate, highly visible public opposition to any attempt to take away our freedoms
• Our movement will not be distracted by Trump's chaos and misdirection
• We can focus our collective power where we have the most leverage

 

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A Transition Economy- for Workers

A Superfund for Workers

http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2015/1115brecher.html

Author: 

Jeremy Brecher

Date of Source: 

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Dollars and Sense

When the Dominion Corporation proposed, On April 1, 2013, to build a liquefied natural gas export facility at Cove Point, Md., right on the Chesapeake Bay, seven hundred people demonstrated against it and many were arrested in a series of civil disobedience actions. But an open letter endorsing the project maintained it would “create more than 3,000 construction jobs” most of which would go “to local union members.” The letter—on Dominion letterhead—was signed not only by business leaders, but also by twenty local and national trade union leaders.

Similarly, in the struggle over the Keystone XL pipeline, pipeline proponents were quick to seize on the “jobs issue” and tout support from building trades unions and eventually the AFL-CIO. In a press release titled “U.S. Chamber Calls Politically-Charged Decision to Deny Keystone a Job Killer,” the Chamber said President Obama’s denial of the Keystone permit was “sacrificing tens of thousands of good-paying American jobs in the short term, and many more than that in the long term.”

The media repeat the jobs vs. environment frame again and again: an NPR headline on Keystone was typical of many: “Pipeline Decision Pits Jobs Against Environment.” A similar dynamic has marked the “beyond coal” campaign, the fracking battle, and the struggle for EPA regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

Is there a persuasive answer to the charge that climate protection policies are job-killers? A common environmentalist response has been that environmental protection produces far more jobs than it eliminates. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson explained, “environmental protection creates jobs—1.7 million of them as of 2008.” It is true that, on balance, environmental policies usually create jobs (see box, “Jobs: Clean Energy vs. Fossil Fuels”); unfortunately, this is of little comfort to the small number of workers in fossil-fuel producing and using industries who are likely to lose their jobs as a result of climate protection policies, including coal miners, power-plant workers, and oil refinery workers. And such workers can rapidly become Fox News poster children for the threat posed to workers by climate protection.

Fortunately, a strategy has been emerging to protect workers and communities whose livelihoods may be threatened by climate protection policies. Protecting those who lose their jobs due to necessary environmental policies has often been referred to as a “just transition,” a phrase popularized by labor and environmental leader Tony Mazzocchi of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers union (now merged with the Steelworkers) in the 1990s. (More recently, the term “just transition” is often being used in a broader way to include not only justice for workers and communities adversely affected by environmental policies, but the inclusion of broader social justice objectives within environmental policies.)