Guns N’ Roses Invites Mexico Fans Onstage to Destroy Trump Piñata
On November 30, in the middle of a song they were performing at Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, the band Guns N’ Roses cut the music and brought a giant piñata of Donald Trump onstage. According to an online TIME magazine report, Axl Rose, the band’s front man, said, “Let’s bring up some […]
Undocumented in Trump’s America
By Jose Antonio Vargas, November 20 On election night, while making my way through a crowd gathered outside the Fox News headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, a white man wearing a Mets cap patted my back and said through the noise: “Get ready to be deported.” Rattled, I made it inside the green room and waited to […]
Architect Resigns from Association for Pledging to “Play Nice” with Trump
Two days after Trump’s election, Robert Ivy, the CEO and executive vice president of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), sent a memorandum to the organization’s members saying, “The AIA and its 89,000 members are committed to working with President-elect Trump to address the issues our country faces, particularly strengthening the nation’s aging infrastructure. … […]
An abortion doctor on Trump’s win: “I fear for my life. I fear for my patients.”
By Warren M. Hern, November 11 As I’ve headed to work in recent days to see abortion patients in my office, I have felt bereft: All the premises of my life, work, education, and future were gone. Something very profound in the meaning of the America I know has been destroyed with the election of Donald […]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: “We cannot let justice be denied by waiting. History has shown us over and over what horrors that leads to.”
In a December 1 article for the Washington Post online edition, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar calls for resistance against Trump. Writing from his viewpoint of protecting this country’s “most sacred values,” Abdul-Jabbar criticizes others and their “hide-beneath-the-bed tactic”—like Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, who says “we should take a look-and-see approach” and Black Entertainment […]
Center for Biological Diversity: “Lash Out at the Darkness and Fight Like Hell”
In the November 10 issue of their online newsletter “Endangered Earth,” the Center for Biological Diversity included a statement saying, “We’re only thinking about one thing right now: stopping Donald Trump from destroying the planet.” The statement goes on to say, “If President Trump carries out the disastrous promises he made while campaigning, the Environmental […]
Irish Senator Aodhán Ó Riordáin
In a November 10 speech in the Irish Parliament, Senator Aodhán Ó Riordáin made a strong speech denouncing Donald Trump as a fascist—and condemning the Irish government’s conciliatory response. This Irish politician just said what many American leaders are too scared to say about Trump pic.twitter.com/Q2MeB815jz — NowThis (@nowthisnews) November 17, 2016
Jewish historians speak out on the election of Donald Trump
Hostility to immigrants and refugees strikes particularly close to home for us as historians of the Jews. As an immigrant people, Jews have experienced the pain of discrimination and exclusion, including by this country in the dire years of the 1930s. Our reading of the past impels us to resist any attempts to place a […]
Andrew Sullivan: “The Republic Repeals Itself”
Andrew Sullivan is a well-known conservative writer and online commentator, currently a contributing editor to New York magazine. On November 9 an article by Sullivan titled “The Republic Repeals Itself” was published. Sullivan made important points worthy of reflection. Read Andrew Sullivan’s piece here.
1,500 Past and Current Fulbright Scholarship Recipients:
1,500 Past and Current Fulbright Scholarship Recipients: “The consequence [of Trump becoming president] could be dire for both international cooperation and peace” The Fulbright Program, funded by the U.S. government and private sources, gives prestigious scholarships to about 8,000 recipients yearly—for students, academics, artists and others in the U.S. to study and do research abroad […]