{"id":35426,"date":"2017-01-31T01:30:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T06:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=35426"},"modified":"2017-01-30T18:19:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T23:19:22","slug":"todays-resisttrumptuesdays-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/todays-resisttrumptuesdays-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s #ResistTrumpTuesdays Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/after-the-march-your-next-action-is-tomorrow\/\" target=\"_blank\">new passion for activism<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/29\/us\/politics\/white-house-official-in-reversal-says-green-card-holders-wont-be-barred.html\" target=\"_blank\">rattling the regime<\/a>. Keep it up with #<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/resisttrumptuesdays\" target=\"_blank\">ResistTrumpTuesdays<\/a> and spend your lunch hour at a rally to &#8220;Stop Trump&#8217;s #SwampCabinet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/act.moveon.org\/event\/joinjan31\/search\/\" target=\"_blank\"><center>FIND A LOCAL RALLY THROUGH MOVEON&#8217;S WEBSITE.<\/center><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, hundreds of people &#8212; including me &#8212; went to New York&#8217;s senators&#8217; offices despite driving rain.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"7\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC\/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5\/P8\/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo\/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI\/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf\/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BPp4atehvIx\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">People out in the rain for this #resisttrumptuesdays  protest against the #swampcabinet<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A photo posted by Wendy Brandes (@wendybrandes) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2017-01-24T16:49:00+00:00\">Jan 24, 2017 at 8:49am PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Both Chuck Schumer&#8217;s and Kirsten Gillibrand&#8217;s staff came down to meet with organizers and acknowledge the crowd. My senators are Democrats, so you might be thinking, &#8220;What&#8217;s the use?&#8221; Well, as activist leaders point out, your elected officials can always work harder for you. Let them know you&#8217;re a very demanding boss! Schumer, for instance, has opposed many Trump nominees but <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/floor-action\/senate\/316867-schumer-announces-opposition-to-top-trump-nominees\" target=\"_blank\">caved on four of them<\/a> &#8212; having apparently failed to learn the lesson of eight years of hard-core Republican obstructionism that resulted in President Obama being unable to fill a Supreme Court seat, among other things. NO APPEASEMENT is acceptable! History has taught us that negotiating with tyrants is only a winning move for the tyrants.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"7\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC\/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5\/P8\/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo\/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI\/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf\/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BPqBQqvh6LU\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">Signs of the times. #womensmarch #ResistTrumpTuesdays #wewillrememberinnovember<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A photo posted by Wendy Brandes (@wendybrandes) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2017-01-24T18:06:16+00:00\">Jan 24, 2017 at 10:06am PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in New York, <a href=\"https:\/\/act.moveon.org\/event\/stop_trump_jan31\/6662\/signup\/\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the information about the lunchtime rally<\/a>. If lunchtime doesn&#8217;t work for you, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1325709684156082\/\" target=\"_blank\">this 6 p.m. rally outside Schumer&#8217;s Brooklyn apartment building<\/a>. That will be different!<\/p>\n<p>Again, for all of you non-New Yorkers, click <a href=\"https:\/\/act.moveon.org\/event\/joinjan31\/search\/\">here<\/a> to find a local rally.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your new passion for activism is rattling the regime. Keep it up with #ResistTrumpTuesdays and spend your lunch hour at a rally to &#8220;Stop Trump&#8217;s #SwampCabinet.&#8221; FIND A LOCAL RALLY THROUGH MOVEON&#8217;S WEBSITE. Last week, hundreds of people &#8212; including me &#8212; went to New York&#8217;s senators&#8217; offices despite driving rain. People out in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/todays-resisttrumptuesdays-action\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,143],"tags":[1116,1118,984,1117,1097],"class_list":{"0":"post-35426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-in-the-news","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-resisttrumptuesdays","9":"tag-chuck-schumer","10":"tag-never-trump","11":"tag-resistance","12":"tag-swamp-cabinet","13":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35428,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35426\/revisions\/35428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}