Despite the decades and distance, the rise in attempts to ban and censor books in America in 2022 looks an awful lot like what South African censors did during apartheid.
“You cannot do business with these people and claim to represent all Pennsylvanians. If you embrace antisemites and racists and homophobes and xenophobes, then you are one of them,” said state Rep. Dan Frankel, D-Allegheny.
Pennsylvania has a system that is “inadequate, it’s inequitable, it’s illogical.”
‘We love it when they find their one true love,’ U.S. Rep. Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson said in a reception speech.
Now that states are deciding on their own abortion laws, young voters’ ballots in gubernatorial and other state and local races may be especially critical in such places as Pennsylvania and Georgia, where new abortion restrictions are a possibility depending on election results.
Though GOP leaders deny claims of white supremacy and extremism within their party, their actions tell another story.
Perhaps we need to witness the dead once again.
The Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat also demanded the prosecution of “gun dealers whose weapons routinely wind up at crime scenes.”
Bucks County Beacon contributors Barbara Simmons and Steve Nolan tackle this question for what for many will be a somber Independence Day.
What’s next? Labelling them Antifa. Local voters must deport this MAGA sheriff from his office on Nov. 4 to end his ICE 287(g) agreement once and for all, writes Editor Cyril Mychalejko.
“We are all looking for some kind of hope; for someone who has been successful in taking on the far right,” said Barbara Simmons, executive director of The Peace Center in Langhorne.
PA FIRE’s goal is to create “a groundbreaking, statewide initiative to protect immigrant rights, expand vital services and drive long-term systems change across the commonwealth.”
“Families are feeling the pressure, and so are the systems meant to support them,” said Elizabeth Zbinden, Food Program Manager with Bucks County Opportunity Council.
Our crime? Journalism.
