If you are a Disney shareholder, let the company know that you do not like its CEO teaming up with Trump for tax cuts for the rich while attacking the rights of blacks, Mexicans, Muslims, and immigrants. They too have families.
Consumer protests work. Do not go to see Disney’s latest movie. Do not buy its products. Use your buying power to say no to Hate.
Iger seems to think he can cozy up to Trump and reap the benefits of tax cuts while distancing himself from divisive issues like the Muslim ban, the Republican gutting of health care and ICE’s expedited deportation of immigrants. Even as Iger seeks exclusive access to the President, he expects the public to believe Disney is above the political fray.
Under a normal administration, it might be possible for a company to pick and choose what elements of a president’s policy agenda to support, and how to collaborate around a fixed set of issues. But this isn’t a normal administration. Right now, there are no sidelines. President Trump poses an unprecedented threat to our democracy and to the American people, and even corporations have to decide whose side they are on.
What Iger and his business analysts don’t seem to have factored in yet is that Disney’s customers, workers, and shareholders have the power to stop the company’s wagons and hold Disney to account.
People’s Action is leading a coalition that has already collected more than 511,000 signatures on a petition calling on Iger to resign from Trump’s board. People’s Action alone collected 76,922 signatures. Those signatures will be presented at a rally outside of the shareholder meeting to highlight the public outcry over Disney’s collaboration with President Trump. You can follow the rally on social media using the hashtags #BadMickey and #LetHimGo.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Thanks for the heads up. Disney should get out Trump’s orbit as fast as it can. Signed the petition.
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Speaking of not being family friendly, the current Republican medical insurance plan, which we should call “Trumpcare”, is so bad that even the conservative American Medical Association opposes it because it will be harmful to patients and America’s health in general.
Trumpcare, the details of which have now been revealed, will deprive more Americans of affordable medical care than Obamacare left out, and especially harm the poor and seniors under 65.
Trumpcare is also a tax break to all the rich from what they had to pay under Obamacare. No surprise. That is why the Republicans want it to replace the deeply flawed ACA/Obamacare, which at least did cover more Americans than before, though not everyone.
But the Democrats’ hypocrisy about Trumpcare is sickening. They had the chance to get us Medicare for All in 2009, with Democrat majorities in both the House & Senate & Obama riding a wave of election popularity (Remember “Hope and Change”?).
Instead, Obama had insurance industry people craft his adaptation of Romneycare, which was itself a version of the conservative Heritage Foundation’s health insurance plan. Then Speaker Nancy Pelosi took Medicare for All off the Congressional discussion table.
I was personally involved in this struggle, visiting my then-Congressman, “liberal” Democrat Gary Ackerman, at his Bayside, Queens office with public health nurses and single-payer advocates. Ackerman simply refused to support a Medicare for All bill. The best he would do is vote for one IF it ever came up for a vote, knowing Pelosi had ended that opportunity.
So the hypocritical Democrats are to blame as much as the greedy Republicans for us not having Medicare for All, the only sensible, humane, efficient, cost-saving system which would also give affordable health care (not “insurance”) to EVERY American.
John Conyers, the Democrat from Michigan, has again introduced H.R. 676, a Medicare for All bill, in the House. I called my Congressman, Tom Suozzi, and urged him to co-sponsor H.R. 676. I also called Senators Gillibrand and Schumer last week to urge them to introduce a Senate version of 676, but they have not done so. The Insurance Industry is very powerful.
Call your Congressman and tell her/him to co-sponsor H.R. 676, and call your two Senators and urge them to introduce a Senate version of H.R. 676, now that we know how harmful Trumpcare will be.
We must DEMAND Medicare for All and settle for nothing less!
Members of Congress who do not co-sponsor and support Medicare for All do not give a damn about us, and deserve defeat in the next election, whether they are Democrats or Republicans.
Ed
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Time for a petition?
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Ed Ciaccio
You had me confused for awhile, I had to think back to what happened to Ackerman, who I knew before he entered politics in the 60’s . They must have redistricted after the 2000 census when Steve Israel took over my part of Akerman’s district .
So you are describing the cancer that affects the heart of the Democratic Party . Check the donors and I am sure you will find that is the reason that Akerman was not receptive.
Israel not much different voted against fast track when the fix was already in. But he would not commit to a position on TPP after he announced his retirement. So who was his top donor ? Pharma .
Souzzi will be holding a Town Hall on March 18 th. I plan on confronting him about the Democrats choosing between Main st and Wall st. After 42 years of voting D, if I wind up with Trump because of their corruption . I might as well vote Green . I will hit him on obstructing everything and putting forth the Bernie/ Conyrers plan as an alternative to the Repubs .
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Don’t know whether you’ve seen this yet from ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/these-for-profit-schools-are-like-a-prison?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter
I’m an appreciative fan of your blog.
Patricia Dow frenchcats@gmail.com
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Diane Ravitch’s blog wrote:
> dianeravitch posted: “If you are a Disney shareholder, let the company > know that you do not like its CEO teaming up with Trump for tax cuts for > the rich while attacking the rights of blacks, Mexicans, Muslims, and > immigrants. They too have families. Consumer protests work. ” >
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I guess my family won’t be taking the trip to Disneyland we had been planning for this spring.
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TOW,
Let them know why.
I canceled my LL Bean account because a family member on board was big Trumpsupporter
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I’m not surprised at all. Mind your TV news and other viewing habits as well, please. I’m thinking of a broadcasting company that spent recent years on the bandwagon, attacking public education. Guess what company owns ABC, the American Broadcasting Company. Hint: it’s a real Mickey Mouse organization… Disney owns ABC.
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How can you boycott Disney when the clown show cast of characters in the White House consists of the Big Bad Wolf ,Pinocchio,,Captain Hook and Maleficent.
While in Congress the Republican crows(I know) are circling their prey , the working class .
Disney is in your face everyday .
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Joel,
You make a good point. Why pay to see Disney characters when we have them on display in DC every day?
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Even as a little kid, for some weird reason, I resented Disney’s characters; I have always been more of a Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies kind of guy. So this boycott causes me no pain. Indeed, it brings me perverse pleasure.
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