These photos are from Ohio's American Indian Movement (AIM):

American Indian Movement of Ohio's album.

Ted Nugent Protest (162 photos)

On August 9, 2014 the American Indian Movement of Ohio, AIM Indiana/Kentucky and AIM of Central Texas and other supporters from the region and California converged on the small town of Riley, Ohio to protest Ted Nugent because of his continued racist comments about Native Americans. With a total of twenty three protesters in attendance we made our feelings known. We did have many people coming up to us asking why we were protesting him. When telling them why they were surprised because they did not know that he was saying these thing about the people. It felt great to educate these people and they too seemed grateful to learn. There were a few people flipping us the bird but what was really shocking was as one car passed us, a very young boy was video taping us and flipping us off at the same time. This to us is not only disturbing but physical proof that racism is something that is taught and learned. it is perpetuated by ignorant adults and parents. It is my personal view that this is actually a form child abuse.
  

 On a side note, please report these photos to the Oxford Police Department and report this tea party Nugent empathizer for breaking traffic laws.  

You can report the lawbreaker in the following ways:

By emailing the Chief: 

Chief Robert Holzworth

Phone:  (513) 524-5240

By twitter:

https://twitter.com/OxfordOhioPD

By mail: 

City of Oxford Police Dept. 11 S. Poplar St. Oxford, OH 45056

We have the Republican Party to blame with their abuse of tax payer monies in the billions and rising gasoline prices during our summer vacation time affecting millions of single parent women and women voters in general. According to Money News, gas prices climbed nearly 43 cents per gallon between Feb. 7 and May 2, 2014. 

On March 29 2012, Republicans voted 51 - 47 to protect oil subsidies (or oil corporate welfare handouts).  Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic measure championed by President Barack Obama to end tax breaks for the major oil companies.  These Republicans voted in support of corporate welfare for oil companies despite a WSJ poll that revealed most Americans were against oil subsidies. 

We are not sure why Republican Speaker John Boehner has been a staunch advocate of XL Pipeline considering drilling our own oil is causing American gasoline prices to rise. The billions of dollars Republicans give to oil companies do not drive our gasoline prices lower and our tax dollars are being wasted. 

This NBC News report, as Fortune explains, the U.S. is now an exporter of refined petroleum products, but Americans aren’t getting reduced prices because the oil companies are now pricing the fuel according to European metrics:

The U.S. is now selling more petroleum products than it is buying for the first time in more than six decades. Yet Americans are paying around $4 or more for a gallon of gas, even as demand slumps to historic lows. What gives?

***

Americans have been told for years that if only we drilled more oil, we would see a drop in gasoline prices.

***

But more drilling is happening now, and prices are still going up. That’s because Wall Street has changed the formula for pricing gasoline.

Women and independent voters will be deciding the outcome of the 2014 elections.  Indeed  NPR’s Mara Liasson says unmarried women are the single most important demographic in this year’s elections, with a quarter of the entire electorate overall are single women. As marriage rates decline, the numbers of single women are growing. 

"The current Congress has an average 9.2 percent approval rating and 84.2 percent disapproval rating. ... These numbers point to a grave problem: the House of Representatives is utterly unrepresentative."  

Vote the do-nothing GOP-led House of Representatives out of office.  Women and independent voters are fed up with oil corporate welfare handouts and rising gasoline prices Republicans protect and it's time to #DumpTheTea.

 “I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.” -- George Washington

"I don’t think the Republican party is a party full of the almighty God nor is the Democratic party. They both have weaknesses … And I’m not inextricably bound to either party." -- Martin Luther King Jr. 

It appears Speaker Boehner and immigration policy wonk aide via Becky Tallent want to leave with a legacy that will tax immigrants without representation.  Essentially taxation without representation undoes what the Boston Tea Party Revolution stood for.  Yet, Speaker Boehner ignores the billions of dollars immigrants pay into federal and state tax coffers every year. 

 According to the Tax Lawyer, a paper published by Section of Taxation, American bar Association with the assistance of Georgetown University Law Center: 

"...each year undocumented immigrants add billions of dollars in sales, excise, property, income, and payroll taxes—including Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment taxes—to federal, state, and local coffers. Hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants file annual federal and state income tax returns..."

The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that it violated their rights as Englishmen to "No taxation without representation," that is, be taxed only by their own elected representatives and not by a British parliament in which they were not represented.    

Today's modern day resistance are registered independent voters who surpass registered Republican and Democratic voter blocks on a national basis. According to the Gallup, "Forty-two percent of Americans, on average, identified as political independents in 2013, the highest Gallup has measured since it began conducting interviews by telephone 25 years ago. Meanwhile, Republican identification fell to 25%, the lowest over that time span. At 31%, Democratic identification is unchanged from the last four years but down from 36% in 2008." 

Somos Independents -- a group led by women and Mexican American / Latina(o) independent registered voters refuse to support taxation without representation ideas mentioned in Speaker Boehner's proposal.    Our group does not consist of naive politically undereducated undocumented DREAM Act students who have been splintered by the GOP, and in fact we know there are some undocumented DREAM Act student immigrants who are willing to take less not knowing the political consequences due to being in desperate situations.  Speaker Boehner knows that introducing taxation without representation ideals chip away at what sparked our American Revolution.

People who are taxed ought to be represented, and we must not support an underclass.

"The current Congress has an average 9.2 percent approval rating and 84.2 percent disapproval rating. ... These numbers point to a grave problem: the House of Representatives is utterly unrepresentative. 

There is too much extremism in San Diego, and we are pulling for moderate David Alvarez to win the San Diego Mayoral race.  

According to 10 News, this will be a close race!

A last-minute surge for David Alvarez has propelled him to within one point of Kevin Faulconer for San Diego Mayor.  

Results of the latest 10News/U-T San Diego pollhave Faulconer with 47 percent and Alvarez with 46 percent.  Seven percent of likely San Diego voters are still undecided.

Can Alvarez pull it off?  “He did in the general election,” explained pollster Jay Leve.  “You have to be struck by the resilience of Alvarez and his followers.”

Compared to an identical 10News/U-T San Diego poll released two weeks ago, Faulconer is down two points, Alvarez is up two points.

According to the 10News/U-T San Diego poll, Latino voters now break 2:1 for Alvarez, whose support can no longer be characterized just as "young." Alvarez leads today, though modestly, among voters age 64 and younger. Faulconer's statistically insignificant 1-point advantage in the contest comes entirely from voters age 65+, among whom he leads by 17 points.

Women have broken sharply, late, for Alvarez. In three earlier polls, women divided evenly between the two candidates; now, newly, Alvarez leads by nine.

Upper-income voters have moved to Alvarez. One month ago, Faulconer led among the wealthiest San Diegans by 24 points. Today, Faulconer trails by two, a 26-point swing to Alvarez

Independent voters have begun to take a 2nd look at Alvarez. He had trailed among Independents by 23 points, now by 10.

Alvarez has closed the gap among moderates: at one point he had trailed by 21, now trails by five.

The contest is now even among those have started college and among those who have finished college. Both of these findings are improvements for Alvarez.

READ MORE | Detailed poll results

 

Alvarez, Faulconer meet in runoff election on February 11
Copyright 2014 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Somos Independents (a Get Out The Vote Group)  has stated repeatedly how we do not support taxation without representation ideas the Tea Party GOP has been offering.  It is un-American and is a dangerous slippery slope to introduce a heinous idea. 

Both the Chicano / Latino voting leaders as well as Asian leaders are against (R-CA) Rep. Darrell Issa's immigration plan that is essentially a way for the GOP to track immigrants so they can kick them out 6 years later.  

Susan Pai gives us the pulse of the Asian voting community. She is also an immigration lawyer and here is an excerpt from her blog:

The Outrages In The Issa Memo

Issa’s proposal is that all undocumented immigrants need to register and cooperate with the Department of Homeland Security within six months…but of course, not all immigrants are eligible.

There are two outrageous shockers in Issa’s Alien Accountability Act memo. Immigrants who Issa says aren’t allowed to participate and must leave immediately include:

• Relatives of participating aliens
• Aliens with a pending deportation case

The ‘relative of participating aliens’ proposal creates an immediate and obvious problem; a race among immigrant relatives to see which family member cooperates with the DHS first. The winner of this Amazingly Cruel Race gets to (possibly) stay in America while everyone else in their family become The Biggest Immigration Losers.

Excluding “aliens with a pending deportation case” isn’t merely cruel but unconstitutional and borderline insane.

The idea here must be that the people in immigration proceedings already are the low hanging fruit: the people already out of the shadows with names and addresses on file, so they are easy to detain and deport.

Sure, it throws out the U.S. Constitution and the right to due process but it gives Issa an easy way to say he deported half a million people or so who’d put their faith in the American legal systerm.

While this manuver might bring cheers from the Republican base who imagine Mexican and Central America immigrants currently in deportation proceeding being tossed over the fence and back south of the border, conservatives would do well to remember that the immigrants Issa’s plan would kick out include every immigrant, not just the brown skinned people who cut your lawn and who built your home.

Darrell Issa mandates that if you’re in an immigration proceeding, back you go. That means everybody goes back; from Castro-hating Cubans seeking a better life to pale skinned Brits who fell in love with an American to Iranian Christians fearing religious persecution.   FULL STORY>>>>

 

 

 

According to IVN:  "The current Congress has an average 9.2 percent approval rating and 84.2 percent disapproval rating. ... These numbers point to a grave problem: the House of Representatives is utterly unrepresentative."

Independent voters are committed to voting out the Tea Party Republicans.  As a get out the vote organization (where we put emphasis on Mexican-Americans, Latinos, women while organizing the growing independent registered voters) we have been successful in creating stronger coalitions with but not limited to the African-American community, the Asian community and Native Americans.  We anticipate the Republican Party submitting an immigration bill that is reasonable and will not create an underclass or taxation without representation before the November 2014 elections.  The more the GOP puts off a CIR bill, the more it will drive us to the polls out of righteous political anger reminiscent of the 2012 elections that cost the Republican Party the White House.