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UPDATE: Women's March organizer Linda Sarsour has responded to Tapper, looping him in with her "alt-right" attackers.

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The Women's March, part of the "Resistance" that has emerged in the era of President Trump, has a knack for championing convicted cop killers. The group, which recently went on a 17-mile march in Washington, D.C. against the NRA, declared itslove for Assata Shakur on Twitter.

Shakur, also known as Joanne Deborah Chesimard, is currently on the FBI's Most Wanted list for murdering a New Jersey police officer in 1977. She escaped prison two years later and is now hiding in Cuba. What a perfect person to celebrate!

Condemning cop killers is something upon which I hope both Republicans and Democrats can find consensus. Why, then, CNN's Jake Tapper wondered, aren't any progressives speaking out against the march?

When a social media user challenged Tapper to suggest that most people believe Chesimard to be innocent, he replied with a simple, "nope," and let this FBI document do the talking.

Nevertheless, the Women's March activists are doubling down on their praise of Chesimard. Sophie Ellman-Golan, who serves as the deputy head of socials and outreach for the group, responded to Tapper's tweet with a sarcastic message that read, "Right, because the FBI has a history of being really fair to well-known Black activists." The Women's March Twitter account also defended its initial tweet celebrating Shakur's birthday by sending out a 20-tweet explainer, as documented by the Free Beacon.

Social media users who didn't buy the Women's March's explanation thanked Tapper for exposing the group's radicalism.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) joined Tapper in his outrage. "Unbelievable that anyone would idolize a cop killer. Chesimard belongs in jail, & #Cuba should return her to the US so she can face justice," he tweeted.

Hopefully some of his Democratic colleagues will echo his calls.

Oh, and it's always worth mentioning that Women's March organizer Linda Sarsour once called for jihad against President Trump.

Even The New York Times Noticed the Dems' Obstructionism

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Tapper: Why Aren't Progressives Calling Out the Women's March ... - Townhall

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and his main challenger City Councilor Tito Jackson will attend two separate community conversations in Jamaica Plain this week. And you have the opportunity to ask the candidates questions before the events.

The JP Progressives are hosting the two public conversations: Tito Jackson on Tuesday at 7 pm and Mayor Walsh on Thursday at 7:30 pm. It is free to attend either event, but registration is requested. Please register here for the conversation with Jackson, and register here for the conversation with Walsh. Both events will be at the First Baptist Churchs community room (633 Centre St.).

District 7 City Councilor Tito Jackson announced his candidacy for Boston mayor on Jan. 12, 2017 outside of the Haley House Cafe.

Our neighborhood and our city has an important decision to make: what issues will we prioritize, and what solutions will we work on, over the next four years? said an email blast from JP Progressives about the events. For so many challenges from housing and education to racial and economic justice voting for the mayor of Boston is our biggest opportunity to improve our city.While national politics may dominate the news, the mayors race is just around the corner. On Tuesday and Thursday, its JPs chance to show up and make our voices heard!

Mayor Walsh addresses the audience with JP resident Heidi Schork, director of the Mayors Mural Crew looking on.

And if you have a question for either candidate you can actually post them in advance or support others questions by clicking here using the following codes: #2687 for Tito Jackson and #H599 for Marty Walsh.

By posting your questions and voting for the questions you care the most about, help ensure that we are discussing the issues of most concern to theprogressivecommunity, said the JP Progressives.

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OLEAN In an era of fake news accusations, a group of local progressives are hoping to separate fact from fiction with a film series about issues that cause plenty of debate in the American political landscape.

Citizens Action Network of Southwestern New York plans to show four documentaries this summer that delve into topics such as health care, the environment, voting rights and refugees. The local group, which formed in response to Donald Trumps presidential election victory, also plans to feature a panel of local experts for each film.

I think all the issues being addressed in the films are topics in which a lot of people strongly have either positive or negative feelings and where often the conversations are based on inadequate or entirely false information, said Chris Stanley, a Citizens Action Network organizer and St. Bonaventure University theology professor. And so the idea is to have films where experts who are involved in the issues are presenting facts and data in order to perhaps promote more intelligent conversations and more informed political actions on the issues.

The first film, Now Is the Time, which explains a single-payer health care system and why some feel it is the cheapest and most effective way to deliver medical care in the U.S., will be presented at 7 p.m. July 20 at the African American Center for Cultural Development.

A single-payer health care system is a system in which a public agency like the federal government provides financing for health care, but the care is still provided by private agencies, and all residents receive coverage regardless of income, occupation or health status.

After the film, Upper Allegheny Health System President and CEO Tim Finan, Olean Medical Group CEO Dan Strauch and Athena Godet-Calogeras, chairperson of the Health Care Access Coalition, will speak briefly about a single-payer system and answer questions from the audience.

Wed like to hope that people ... will attend the film and ask the actual medical professionals about what they think is going to work best rather than simply listening to politicians, Stanley said.

Finan, Strauch and Godet-Calogeras participation on the panel doesnt necessarily mean they support a single-payer system, Stanley said, adding he didnt ask them for their opinions when inviting them to the screening.

Were intentionally trying to line up diverse respondents to our films, not necessarily people who will agree with everything thats being said in the films, so that we can promote some honest conversation about issues rather than simply promoting one point of view or one agenda, he said.

The event is free, but audience members can contribute toward the screening costs if they wish. The screening is co-sponsored by the Health Care Access Coalition.

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The other three films, which will address the environment, voting rights and Syrian refugees, respectively, will be shown at two-week intervals after the first screening. Citizens Action Network of Southwestern New York will announce more details about the films at a later date.

The African American Center for Cultural Development is located at 1801 W. State St.

(Contact reporter Tom Dinki at tdinki@oleantimesherald.com. Follow him on Twitter, @tomdinki)

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Too many on the left say progressives should not be focusing on the Russian interference in our democracy. They say it is just an excuse to allow the failure of Clinton and Democratic leadership to offer the public good policies that help people instead of just helping corporations and the rich slide. Some even say it is just old 1950s-style red-baiting.

Criticism of Russia is not related to previous pre-1990s criticisms of communism or socialism. Russia is not that. Today it is a kletocracy run by one guy and a bunch of oligarchs, sort of the perfect Koch/Thiel/Trump/corporate state that Republicans are trying to bring about here.

They Did It

The Trump campaign did do this and the Republican Party is running cover for it, just so they can continue to loot us with tax cuts for the rich and taking away the things our government does to make our lives better.

Its better for progressives if the spectrum of power goes from the left to centrist Dems, instead of from centrist Dems to the far right as it does now. Using Russia to get lots of Rs out of power and move that spectrum left only helps us obtain an environment in which Medicare-for-All, free college and university, allowing everyone to vote, restoring taxation and regulation on corporations, breaking up monopolies, bringing racial and gender justice, ending privatization, finally fighting climate change and all the other things needed to heal the country and planet are possible to achieve.

We need the public to understand that conservative/Republican/corporate rule is anti-democracy and not legitimate. Focusing on Russia helps us get there.

The Russia Story Isnt Going Away

Its not like the Russia story is going to drop from the news, allowing other things to be discussed. So ride the wave instead of fighting the tide.

The Russia story actually gives us an opportunity to talk about good policies instead of policies that hurt the country, by tying that discussion to Russian efforts to hurt us. All the talk about Russia gives us the opportunity to tie Republican anti-government policies to the ways Russia hoped to benefit from their interference in our democracy. Russia helped put them there in an effort to hurt the country and Republican policies hurt the country.

The Russia story delegitimizes Republicans by exposing their lack of legitimacy. (Along with voter suppression, gerrymandering and other ways they are not legitimately in power.) The more they and their policies are delegitimized the more progressive policies fill the vacuum.

Note how Medicare-for-All is being widely discussed, even while the Russia story dominates.

All the talk about Russian interference in democracy offers us a chance to remind people of what democracy means. erference in our democracy.

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Progressives dial up pressure on Republican moderates over Senate health bill Sacramento Bee Moderate Republican senators who opposed the original Obamacare replacement bill will face increased pressure from health care advocates to hold the line next week in a possible vote on the revised legislation. Republican senators who are on the fence ... and more »

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Progressives dial up pressure on Republican moderates over Senate health bill - Sacramento Bee