Planned Parenthood: 260,000 donors in the month after the election
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, “Donations Pour into Planned Parenthood Thanks to Mike Pence,” CBC.ca, December 8, 2016, http://www.cbc.ca/?news/?world/?planned-parenthood-donations-pence-1.3886036.
Mike Pence: “to the ash heap of history”
Jeremy Scahill, “Mike Pence Will Be the Most Powerful Christian Supremacist in U.S. History,” TheIntercept.com, November 15, 2016, https://theintercept.com/?2016/?11/?15/?mike-pence-will-be-the-most-powerful-christian-supremacist-in-us-history/.
United Resistance: “to take action to support one another…”
United Resistance, website, accessed April 18, 2017, http://www.unstoppabletogether.org.
Greenpeace, “More than 50 Organizations Launch United Resistance Campaign as Trump’s Cabinet Hearings Begin,” press release, January 10, 2017, http://www.greenpeace.org/?usa/?news/?50-organizations-launch-united-resistance-campaign-trumps-cabinet-hearings-begin/.
Angela Davis: “The next 1,459 days of the Trump administration will be…’?”
Lyndsey Matthews, “Here’s the Full Transcript of Angela Davis’s Women’s March Speech,” Elle, January 21, 2017, http://www.elle.com/?culture/?career-politics/?a42337/?angela-davis-womensmarch-speech-full-transcript/.
Letter from group of law professors: “reflect the very bigotry, xenophobia and nativist…”
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, “UNB Law Profs Urge Immediate Action against Trump’s Refugee Policies,” CBC.ca, February 1, 2017, http://www.cbc.ca/?news/?canada/?new-brunswick/?law-professors-unb-refugees-trump-1.3961450.
Mexico: tens of thousands of people protest Trump’s immigration policies
British Broadcasting Corporation, “Mexico Protesters March against Trump’s Immigration Policies,” BBC.com, February 13, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/?news/?world-latin-america-38952359.
UK: nearly two million people signed an official petition
“Prevent Donald Trump from Making a State Visit to the United Kingdom,” UK government petition, accessed April 18, 2017, https://petition.parliament.uk/?petitions/?171928.
Trump: a ride in the golden royal carriage
Francis Elliott and Fiona Hamilton, “Trump Demands Gold-Plated Welcome,” Times (London), April 15, 2017, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/?article/?trump-demands-gold-plated-welcome-xjnffdq32.
…and around the World
Barcelona: 100,000 people marched
Agence France-Presse, “Protesters in Barcelona Urge Spain to Take In More Refugees,” Guardian, February 18, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/?world/?2017/?feb/?18/?protesters-in-barcelona-urge-spain-to-take-in-more-refugees.
Theodoros Karyotis: “endured five years of austerity shock treatment…”
Theodoros Karyotis, “Criminalizing Solidarity: Syriza’s War on the Movements,” Roar, July 31, 2016, https://roarmag.org/?essays/?criminalizing-solidarity-movement-refugees-greece/.
Germany: proposals for housing migrants
Dagmar Breitenbach, “Creative Housing for Refugees—but a Cemetery?” Deutsche Welle, January 21, 2016, http://www.dw.com/?en/?creative-housing-for-refugees-but-a-cemetery/?a-18996041.
“Airbnb for refugees”
Aza Wee Sile, “This Nonprofit Wants to Use the Sharing Economy to Ease Europe’s Refugee Crisis,” CNBC.com, August 18, 2016, http://www.cnbc.com/?2016/?08/?18/?refugees-welcome-aims-to-use-sharing-economy-to-ease-europe-immigration-crisis.html.
Refugees Welcome, website, accessed April 1, 2017, http://www.refugees-welcome.net/.
New York Times: “the world’s most personal resettlement program”
Jodi Kantor and Katrin Einhorn, “Canadians Adopted Refugee Families for a Year. Then Came ‘Month 13.’?” New York Times, March 25, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/?2017/?03/?25/?world/?canada/?syrian-refugees.html.
Jesse Klaver: “Don’t try to fake the populace. Stand for your principles…”
Peter Foster and Senay Boztas, “Dutch Elections: Prime Minister Mark Rutte Calls for a ‘Stand against Geert Wilders’ Populism’ as Netherlands Goes to the Polls,” Associated Press via Daily Telegraph (London), March 15, 2017, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/?news/?2017/?03/?15/?dutch-prime-minister-calls-stand-against-populism-netherlands/.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon support and results
Ingrid Melander and Marine Pennetier, “French Left Must Agree a Candidate for Presidential Election—Hollande’s Party Chief,” Reuters.com, February 18, 2016, http://uk.reuters.com/?article/?uk-france-politics-hollande-idUKKCN0VR1QN.
Seán Clarke and Josh Holder, “French Presidential Election: First Round Results in Charts and Maps,” Guardian, April 23, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/?world/?ng-interactive/?2017/?apr/?23/?french-presidential-election-results-2017-latest.
French election results
Gregor Aisch, Matthew Bloch, K.K. Rebecca Lai, and Beno?t Morenne, “How France Voted,” New York Times, May 7, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/?interactive/?2017/?05/?07/?world/?europe/?france-election-results-maps.html?_r=0.
CHAPTER 11
When No Was Not Enough
Street slogan: “We will not pay for your crisis!”
Amy Schrager Lang and Daniel Lang/Levitsky, Dreaming in Public: The Building of the Occupy Movement (Oxford: New Internationalist Publications, 2012), 43.
US: lost almost two million jobs
US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “The Employment Situation: December 2008,” press release, January 9, 2009, https://www.bls.gov/?news.release/?archives/?empsit_01092009.pdf.
US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “The Employment Situation: January 2009,” press release, February 6, 2009, https://www.bls.gov/?news.release/?archives/?empsit_02062009.pdf.
Obama: “the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street…”
“Obama’s Speech in Canton, Ohio,” New York Times, October 27, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/?2008/?10/?27/?us/?politics/?27text-obama.html.
Obama: pledged to put a price on carbon and to create five million green jobs
“Create 5 Million ‘Green’ Jobs,” Politifact, updated November 14, 2016, http://www.politifact.com/?truth-o-meter/?promises/?obameter/?promise/?439/?create-5-million-green-jobs/.
Barack Obama: “Remarks in Janesville, Wisconsin: ‘Keeping America’s Promise,’?” February 13, 2008, The American Presidency Project, accessed May 18, 2017, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/?ws/??pid=77032.
Obama: “the planet began to heal”
“?‘America, This Is Our Moment’: Sen. Barack Obama Clinches Democratic Nomination,” Democracy Now!, June 4, 2008, https://www.democracynow.org/?2008/?6/?4/?america_this_is_our_moment_sen.
When the Banks Were on Their Knees
Stimulus plan: $800 billion
Jackie Calmes, “House Passes Stimulus Plan with No G.O.P. Votes,” New York Times, January 28, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/?2009/?01/?29/?us/?politics/?29obama.html.
Stimulus plan criticized for being too small
Paul Krugman, “How Did We Know the Stimulus Was Too Small?” New York Times, July 28, 2010, https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/?2010/?07/?28/?how-did-we-know-the-stimulus-was-too-small/.