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Trump Executive Orders Derail Wildfire Recovery + Spark Protests
Thorn West: Issue No. 224
State Politics
- Amid fears that his administration will withhold federal aid, Governor Newsom met with President Trump in Washington DC.
- Newsom announced that Casey Wasserman, currently serving as chair of the Olympics Committee, will also lead a private-sector wildfire recovery program, known as “LA Rises,” along with Magic Johnson and Dodgers owner Kevin Walter. In Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass appointed Steve Soboroff, former chair of the police commission, to lead the recovery effort in Pacific Palisades. It isn’t yet clear how the multiple city and state efforts will be coordinated.
City Politics
- At a press conference with Mayor Bass and other local leaders, President Trump demanded that Pacific Palisades residents who had lost their homes be immediately allowed to begin the process of rebuilding, before they could be safely cleared of toxic debris. His subsequent executive order implemented an “unprecedented” short time frame for debris removal.
Health Care
- Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles to demand that the hospital reverse its recent decision to stop offering gender-affirming care to transgender youth. The hospital’s decision was a capitulation to an executive order from President Trump threatening to derail federal funding to medical institutions that provide this form of health care.
Immigration
- A week of protests at City Hall, as well as student walkouts, all in opposition to the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies, gained media attention after protestors briefly shut down the 101 freeway.
- A leaked document obtained by the LA Times indicates that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning a “large scale” flood of “immigration enforcement actions” this February in Los Angeles.
Environmental Justice
- Video evidence strongly implicates Southern California Edison equipment as the cause of the Eaton fire. Spokespeople for the private utility company initially denied responsibility, and even attempted to shift blame to a nearby encampment, but have now acknowledged irregularities with their equipment at the time of the fire.
- Rain earlier in the week caused debris flows in the burn scar of the Palisades fire, triggering a weeklong shut down of a stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway. Heavier rain is expected this week.
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Bodily Autonomy Working Group
Bodily Autonomy Working Group
If you’re interested in getting involved, please fill out our interest form.
We fight for queer, trans, and feminist liberation and against systems of patriarchal capitalist oppression that devalue women and LGBTQIA+ people, under the guidance of Reproductive Justice. We organize for the democratization of domestic and care work, political and social liberation for all genders, full bodily autonomy for all, and the end of state recognition of the gender binary. We fight for material improvements in the lives of working class people who are marginalized on the basis of gender and sexuality, including reproductive justice, access to gender-affirming and LGBTQIA+ competent healthcare, affordable housing, legal protections for all gender identities, especially transgender children and BIPOC trans comrades, sex work decriminalization, and an end to state interference and police harassment. In short, we demand nothing less than power over our own lives.
Reproductive justice and trans liberation are the front lines of the fight against the far right and their agenda of christofascism. As socialists, it is our duty to organize for total control of our own bodies as a fundamental right. Our demands for the community go beyond mere acceptance, pushing for nothing less than total liberation and full participation in society and democratization of the labor of social reproduction. It is imperative that we protect what progress we have obtained through decades of struggle and build upon the history of organizing for queer, trans, and women’s liberation. An injury to one is an injury to all and none of us are free until all of us are free!
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please email bawg@mdcdsa.org
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Email: bawg@mdcdsa.org
Slack: #bodily-autonomy
Resources: mdcdsa.org/abortion-access
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CBS 58: Restore Sam Kuffel to her meteorologist post
The struggle of working people for an equitable society free from injustice and oppression has sharpened in recent months, taking center stage through headlines on everything from the devastating climate catastrophe to anti-immigration raids. As that fight shows its face in Milwaukee, we must say no to the elements of hatred and division, even when our institutions appear to embrace them.
Milwaukee Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and our allies are calling on CBS 58 and their parent company, Weigel Broadcasting, to restore former meteorologist Sam Kuffel to her position.
We’ve launched a petition Monday rallying their supporters behind Kuffel and against the notion that a stand against fascism should cost someone their employment. Can you sign?
The people of Milwaukee deserve local reporting that is unafraid to challenge the rising tide of far-right hatred instead of running cover for its leading figures. As we reflect this year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, it is important that we recognize and fight the forces behind historical atrocities as we see them in the present.
Sign the petition online. View the chapter calendar.
In solidarity,
Milwaukee DSA