Mijente campaign of voter mobilization

 

There are 66 days left until the election, and we’re putting in every effort to mobilize voters on the frontlines of demographic change against Trump and the MAGA movement. At Mijente, the majority of our members, hub organizations, audiences and staff come from family histories and countries with civil unrest, economic inequality, and mass exploitation. And we come from peoples who have organized countermovements in resistance to authoritarian rule.   This is the energy we’re leaning into this fall, as we make sure to turn back Trump from a second term – and we need your support to reach voters in new and innovative ways. That’s exactly why we’ve been hitting key cities across the country with our Chisme 2024 tour. The tour is bringing more people into the conversation by using music, art, and culture to have meaningful discussions about the threat of another Trump presidency, the hope that we see in our local organizing, and how we build the future we want for our families.

We will not stand on the sidelines and clear a path to victory for Trump and the party that seeks to advance a disastrous agenda. Mijente Political Director Tania Unzueta shares it best saying: “In order to be able to expand the people that are involved in what’s happening in the country at the moment, we need to use different strategies. That’s the idea even behind the name of chisme, the idea that politics can look very different ways.”

Defeat Trump : Defeat Racism Campaign - California

Mi Familia Vota!

Donald Trump is dangerous.  His campaign mobilizes right wing – anti immigrant forces.  Trump’s campaign is not just racism- it's a strategy  to magnify racism to win the election -and we must defeat it !

We need to develop strategies to defeat Donald Trump.  Trump has shown he can and will mobilize extreme right-wing racists forces in our society.  He is anti Mexican, anti immigrant, and anti Muslim.

We develop this campaign as a specific effort to implement Talking Point #2 as listed by the DSA NPC in their May meeting.

“2. Organize against a Trump victory 

DSA believes that a Donald Trump presidency would represent a victory for the most reactionary nativist, misogynist, Islamophobic and racist forces in the country. A Trump administration would bring immediate harm to many people and would create conditions hostile to organizing for progressives. Therefore, DSA will work with the emerging labor, immigrant, and anti-racist-led “Dump Trump” movement. For this reason, we do not endorse the #BernieOrBust tactic, though we understand the sentiment behind it. Our perspective can best be summarized as: “Dump the Racist Trump: Build the Left from the Grassroots Up.” 

See the complete  list here: http://www.dsausa.org/talking_points_for_dsa_s_electoral_work_dl

The Latino Vote Must Take Down Donald Trump !

Others Will Not Do This

By Duane Campbell,

Mexican American Digital History Project.

Trump’s Racially Divisive Politics Must Be Exposed and Opposed !

The intolerant agitation promoted by Republican Donald Trump and support of its substance by most Republican candidates is a call to the “silent white majority” and a demand that 11 million immigrants be deported.  This campaign is a dangerous and divisive racial message.  It must be vigorously opposed.

We know these campaigns to be dangerous. It is not only the ranting of a fringe right.

If you cannot vote, you can still campaign for candidates and assist opposing campaigns  with literature distribution.  One of the most effective things you can do is to work with campaigns and to talk with your friends, neighbors, and families.

Trump’s popularity among Republican voters has dramatically risen in the polls.    He leads the Republican Party campaign for president and determines the terms of the debate .  Cruz  and Rubio  have  a similar policy on immigration,  Build walls, deport people.  This fear mongering political message has found a very receptive base within our society among xenophobic and angry conservative sectors.

Koch Brothers Extremists Reach Out for Hispanic Votes

Ashley Parker. New York Times.

MIAMI — The crowd that lined up around a megachurch here last week — largely Hispanic and mostly poor — came for the Saturday services, but also for the free flu shots that were being offered in the church, and for the Thanksgiving turkeys being given away just outside.

   But before they received their turkeys, those in line were asked to answer a few questions: Were they more likely to vote for a Republican or a Democrat in the 2016 presidential election? And did they feel that the government should increase or decrease federal spending in order to improve the economy?

Volunteers, holding clipboards and speaking mainly in Spanish, collected the names, telephone numbers and email addresses of everyone who showed up.

The approach — a free Thanksgiving turkey in exchange for some personal information — captures the mission of Libre, a multimillion-dollar effort financed by the conservative billionaire Kochs and devoted to winning over Hispanics, with the message that economic freedom and smaller-government principles will yield opportunity and prosperity.

Read the entire piece here. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/26/us/politics/libre-backed-by-the-kochs-aims-to-raise-gop-standing-with-hispanics.html?_r=0

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Republicans seek to throw out ballots in Latino heavy district in Arizona

Lawyers for Arizona Republican congressional candidate Martha McSally's campaign are moving to throw out provisional ballots of voters in Pima County, which has a large Latino population.

McSally is the Republican running against incumbent Rep. Ron Barber (D-AZ) in Arizona's 2nd Congressional District, one of the tightest races that still hasn't been called. Right now, McSally is leading Barber by a slim margin of 341 votes according to the Arizona Daily Star. But about 9,000 provisional ballots have not been counted yet, according to Tucson Weekly. 

McSally's lawyers suggested that they could go to court in an effort to stop some of the provisional ballots from being processed. McSally's campaign, in particular, is focused on six precincts in Pima County, five of them happen to be in the 2nd Congressional District, according to the Tucson Sentinel. Notably, Pima County is 35 percent Hispanic or Latino, according to the United States Census Bureau. Five of those Pima County precincts went for President Barack Obama over Mitt Romney in the last presidential election.

Disinterested Voters, Is It Apathy or Manipulation and Gridlock?

by Jimmy Franco Sr.  Latino Point of View.

The November mid-term elections are now approaching and a political debate and divide is developing among many disgruntled voters as to whether to cast a ballot to support the continuing gridlock in congress and the governmental inaction that has resulted from this situation or abstain. California’s recent June electoral primary had the lowest proportional turnout ever as only a quarter of the voters even bothered to cast a ballot. For many Latinos who are disillusioned with the unprincipled Democrats and their disrespect and empty promises, a decision must be made whether to continue

A Latina activist ponders whether to support Democrats who retreated on immigration reform

following them in a slavish manner after being continually taken for granted or simply sit this one out. Many elitist pundits and die-hard Democratic Party loyalists lament the low rate of voter turnout at election time and tend to label and fault the voters as being either apathetic of even worse lazy and not caring. In reality, the majority of working-class voters, minorities and women do care about their jobs, wages, children’s education, rights and the continual rise in consumer prices. What these frustrated and angry voters have experienced and still observe is a government that takes their taxes while talkative politicians continue to break their campaign promises by not enacting any concrete laws to improve economic and social conditions for middle-class and lower-income people. This is particularly true at the federal level and even locally within the Los Angeles Unified school District where chaos and dysfunction dominate an educational system that is run by incompetents. Distrustful voters have witnessed a situation of ongoing political gridlock among the US Congress and the president for close to four years now. This legislative stalemate, name calling and inaction on pressing issues is what creates cynicism and non-voting among the electorate especially those who are low-income, minority and young. People no longer want to hear rhetoric, but want to see real changes occur within the real world in which they live. During the 2008 presidential election a ‘messianic’ Obama campaigned as the people’s anti-war candidate and he preached and enthralled voters with his idealistic messages about hope and peace, a new type of government with real representation, a reduction in military conflicts and nuclear weapons, and an improvement in the well-being of working people’s lives. This type of revivalist campaign talk and lofty beliefs particularly inspired the hopes of the young, minorities and women and energized them to turn out in large numbers to support and vote for his promise of change and the building of a new society.

California Voters prefer to shelter migrant kids

Republicans- not so.

Source. Field Poll. Sept. 3, 2014

Latinos reach plurality in California population.

 http://latinocaucus.legislature.ca.gov/sites/latinocaucus.legislature.ca.gov/files/LatinosInCA.pdf

From 2000 to 2011, California’s Latino population increased by 3.4 million (31%), nearly ninety percent of the state’s total population growth (3,820,264), during that time.  By July, 2013, Latinos have reached parity with whites with regard to their share of the state’s general population. Latinos will comprise nearly 39%

of the state’s total population - 14.8 million. (California Department of Finance).  In 2014 the Latino population will become the plurality, but not the plurality of voters.

    Latinos share of California’s vote is currently  not  representative compared to their share of the state’s overall population, nor is it equal to their share of the state’s citizen voting population —those who are eligible to vote. At 19.7%, the 2012 Latino share of California’s overall vote remains far below the 26.3% (6,199,264) Latino share of the state’s 2012  eligible voters  and far below the 39% Latino share of the state’s total population.  (Center for Regional Change. U.C. Davis.  May 2013.)

Changing Political Tides.  Report 6.

http://regionalchange.ucdavis.edu/ourwork/publications/ccep/ucdavis-ccep-brief-6-impact-of-ca-latino-vote