A group of digital protesters is reportedly plotting to “take down” the White House website on Inauguration Day to protest to swearing in of President-elect Donald Trump.

Last week, the global news distribution service PR Newswire sent out notification of a campaign by Protester.io, a platform for digital protest organizers, to “occupy” and “take down” WhiteHouse.gov in an effort to “defend and revive our democracy.” The campaign is targeted at individuals who want to protest Trump but are unable to travel to Washington, D.C. for the inauguration ceremony.

“On January 20th, hundreds of thousands of Americans are going to Washington, DC to march in protest of the inauguration of Donald Trump. Millions more around the country will be joining the cause from home. If you can’t make it to Washington DC on Inauguration Day, you can still participate by occupying whitehouse.gov online,” the statement read.

According to the protest group’s website, the campaign is called “Occupy WhiteHouse.gov,” a name that recalls the wave of largely meaningless “Occupy Wall Street” drum circles that starting forming in New York and elsewhere in 2011.

The group is urging protesters to “occupy” the White House website by visiting the page and clicking refresh as often as possible in hopes of overwhelming the server and crashing the site. “When enough people occupy www.WhiteHouse.gov the site will go down. Please join us and stand up against this demagogue who is threatening our democracy and our security,” the protest page explains.

PR Newswire originally circulated the release under the headline, “Protester.io Launches Campaign to Take Down WhiteHouse.gov on Inauguration Day,” but eventually removed the release and sent out a modified version under the a different headline: “Protester.io Launches Campaign to Voice Your Opinion at WhiteHouse.gov on Inauguration Day.”

The University of Washington-Bothell and nearby Cascadia College have set up a new program to provide “social justice” training for its librarians. Attending librarians and other staff will learn to learn how to check their privilege, interrupt microaggressions, and learn how to apologize when called out. The program, administered by the library Equity, Diversity and Social Justice Team stretches across six workshops.

In one of the workshops, based on the modern feminist concept of “intersectionality,” staff explore differences in gender, race, and class, and recognize the “everyday power dynamics” that shape their interactions with others. The idea behind “intersectionality” is that no single social category can be understood in isolation to another.

There is also a workshop dedicated to the concept of privilege. In this one, staff must become intimate with the personal lives and history of their colleagues and determine how their privilege plays a part in all of it. They are expected to explore the lives of fellow staff, library users, and where they fit into the “larger structures of society.”

Staff who undergo training in the “Interrupting” workshop will learn how to properly apologize to anyone they may accidentally offend. The workshop offers a document online replete with examples of “good” apologies and “bad” ones.

Another class teaches staff about microaggressions — inoffensive actions and words that are neither overt nor intentional but may have the potential to offend. For example, asking someone about their “exotic” accent is a microaggression, because it makes the person feel like an outsider. The term “exotic,” too, is a microaggression due to the term’s historical connotations in regards to race.


A final class exists to teach staff how to interrupt microaggressions in progress, training them to identify potential offenses and “interrupt oppressive situations.” In other words, librarians are expected to police their colleagues and others in the library.

During the library training, attendees are provided with a list of scenarios to play out— one of which describes a female employee requesting help from a male employee when she realizes he’s being condescending. Another asks employees to deal with a student who reports that an individual “of Middle Eastern descent” has left a suspicious bag and departed the building.

Participants are expected to guide their responses through an intersectional lens, recognizing the privilege of players in the scenario, the presence of microaggressions, and what staff need to do to interrupt them. The training leads one to worry about how the staff’s preoccupation with microaggressions and social justice could prevent them from reporting a serious crime, much less a terrorist attack.

The University says that the workshops are not mandatory, but more than one of the worksheets describes the diversity program as “all staff.”

Ian Miles Cheong is a journalist and outspoken media critic. You can reach him through social media at @stillgray on Twitter and on Facebook.

A race activist referred to a historically black college’s marching band as “coons” for playing at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Tariq Nasheed, a black writer and activist, used a racist trope to describe Talladega College’s marching band.

“So the HBCU [historically black colleges and universities] Talladega College Marching Band has agreed to perform at the Trump inauguration…that’s interesting,” Nasheed wrote, adding a picture of a group of raccoons playing instruments.

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[Is this black turning on black? Probably, judging by his name, it's more a case of Muslim activist turning on black.
Although black performers have claimed to be racially harassed, abused & threatened by other blacks for wanting to perform at the inauguration.]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/barack-obama-shortens-wikileaks-whis...

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has commuted the sentence of former US military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, the White House says.

The outgoing US President shortened sentences for 209 inmates including Manning.

Manning who is serving 35 years in prison for passing classified files to WikiLeaks, last November asked the Obama administration to commute her sentence to time already served.

Her sentence is now set to expire May 17.

She was known as Bradley Manning at the time of her 2010 arrest and attempted suicide twice last year.

Obama is also pardoning 64 people, including retired Gen. James Cartwright, who was charged with making false statements during a probe into disclosure of classified information.



it gets weirder and weirder....

maybe he thinks he a reincarnation of Julius Caesar and has the power of the thumbs up.. or the thumbs down... Hail Caesar oop Obama..

no Assange nor Snowden made  the list..

This is Snoop Dogg, another intellect from the Left . . . .

Marla, I don't understand your bigotry toward an entire state. What's behind that?

I'm not from Texas, but even I know it has produced people like Walter Cronkite, Edie Brickell, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Carol Burnett, Alvin Ailey, Janis Joplin and Gene Roddenberry.

Don't you think it sounds rather bigoted and ignorant, when someone tars and feathers millions of people based on where they live?

AuntieM wrote on Jan 18^th, 2017 at 10:22am:



not to mention Dr Phil.....who is at least saving some of them..

Marla wrote on Jan 18^th, 2017 at 9:58am:


Hey that's Agnes... she not a Trump supporter