Tonight’s 7 o’clock general membership meeting of the Culver City Democratic Club (in the Rotunda Room at the Vets Auditorium) will be the first time I will be chairing as your new Club president.
Our meeting will deal with the topic of how Democrats can defend the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) from attempts by President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress to eliminate health coverage for 32 million Americans.
The Affordable Care Act is very important to these people who were without health coverage and who are now covered including adults and children.
As an R.N. and a social worker, I have seen how low-income people have had to go to the Emergency Room of hospitals to get care — that is now covered.
The Culver City Democratic Club now has a call to action: We need to work together with other Democrats to see that programs like the Affordable Care Act will continue, and not be changed.
I also want to bring to our members’ attention an article I saw on Huffington Post about “Women Who Are Leading the Resistance Against Trump.”
Former acting Atty. Gen. Sally Q. Yates sent a letter to top attorneys at the Dept. of Justice instructing them not to defend President Trump’s executive order banning immigration from the Muslim-majority countries of Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Libya and Syria.
Within hours, Ms. Yates was removed by Mr. Trump. An official White House statement said that she had “betrayed the Dept. of Justice.”
U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly was the first to rule on a lawsuit filed in opposition to President Trump’s executive order. During an emergency hearing in Brooklyn, the judge granted a temporary nationwide stay, ordering the government not to deport immigrants who were being detained at U.S. airports.
Within an hour after Judge Donnelly issued her Order, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema from New York, issued a ruling in Virginia. The Brinkema temporary restraining order blocked deportation of green card holders who were being detained at Dulles International Airport.
Judge Brinkema also ruled that lawyers must be allowed access to the Dulles detainees.
U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs and Magistrate Judge Judith Dein issued a seven-day restraining order from Massachusetts blocking the executive order. According to the Boston Globe, “Burroughs found that Trump’s order violated immigrants’ constitutional rights to due process and equal protection and would cause irreparable harm.”
The ruling not only prevents the deportation of detainees, but also the detention of approved refugees, as well as visa and green card holders from the seven countries specified by President Trump’s executive order.
Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour, Bob Bland and Carmen Perez, the four co-chairs of the Women’s March on Washington, have transformed a march into a movement.
Not only did millions of people around the world march in solidarity with American women and their allies on Jan. 21, but Mallory, Sarsour, Bland and Perez have kept the momentum the march created going through their 10 Actions, 100 days’ campaign.
Remind us …who runs the world ?
In conclusion, I look forward to helping to see our Club begin to start in a new direction — to empower all people, to show that President Trump does not speak for the majority of Americans.
Let’s get moving together !!!!!
Ms. Cherness may be contacted at President@CulverCityDemocraticClub.com