Leid Stories—Take A Stand! Free Your Mind!—11.10.17

It’s “Free Your Mind Friday” on Leid Stories, our weekly open forum. Join us for healthy discussion and debate on current issues and events, or whatever you think warrants further inquiry. Bright minds are listening and may take you on, but always with great respect. That’s how we roll. Bring us closer to a better understanding. Call 888-874-4888 and free our minds. Download …

SIMON DAVIS-COHEN – Corporate America is Inching Even Closer to a Constitutional Convention

During a Colorado Springs rally on Oct. 18, 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump announced, “The time for congressional term limits has finally arrived.” For many, it was one of Trump’s more moderate proclamations. Term limits don’t sound like such a bad idea. But it’s possible this comment signaled support for a broader, more partisan agenda. Term limits are a central demand …

Nika Knight – Facing Right-Wing Future, Local-Level Resistance to Trump Agenda Swells

Around the country, people who woke up on November 9 shocked and galvanized by the election results are forming new local organizations and networks to resist president-elect Donald Trump’s right-wing agenda. Many of those getting involved on the local level are entirely new to political organizing, testifying to the powerful and frightening shift represented by the ascendance of an administration …