Creating A Better World
For over 45 years, I have been a progressive activist. I won't be controlled by corporations and big money interests. I will always be outspoken for truth & the interests of the people.
In the recent March primary, I received 7.4% with 15,697 votes. However, only the top two candidates in the open CA primary system can continue on to the November General election. The corporate Republican and Democratic Parties encouraged voters to pass this warped election process several years ago which has effectively eliminated Third Party participation in the General elections. Thus, as the top Green Party candidate for Congress in the 11th District, I am unable to continue as a candidate during the November General election.
None the less, I still plan to continue to participate in the election, this time as a individual, in order to further speak to the many progressive issues that will be ignored by both the Republican and Democratic candidates.
Big money and corporations control our mainstream media and most of our government officials. Their interests are maximizing profits and not the interests of the average person. I will be a bullhorn for alternative viewpoints that place the interests of the people first.
My prime focus will be on creating and promoting this website as an easy source for information on the many progressive issues ignored by the corporate media and both the corporate controlled Republican and Democratic Parties. I hope to do a great deal more outreach that I was unable to do during the shortened primary election.
The spirts willing, I intend to continue as a progressive voice against corporate and big money misinformation. I hope you will join and support me in that effort. I especially welcome your endorsement and help in promoting this campaign with your family and friends.
We have so little time to save Humanity and Mother Earth!
With Peace & Justice, Michael E Kerr
Our Emergency
Scientists now give us 10 years to prevent a runaway Climate Catastrophe.
Our Health Care System is an inhumane disaster!
Wealth Inequity is destroying our Society!
Billionaires would like to make our existence meaningless!
The Military-Industrial-Prison Complex would enslave us!
Trump, Biden and their respective Corporate Political Parties just don't care!
Congress guranteeded unlimited COVID-19 Stimulus help to Big Business rather than the People
What Next for Progressives
Bernie Sanders has inspired a new generation to join the Progressive Movement!
I supported the election of Bernie Sanders for President, because Bernie deserved our full support. He was our best hope for survival! We were disappointed by his suspended campaign, but now we must move on without him as a Presidential candidate.
Bernie's Special Message - While the Campaign Ends, the Struggle for Justice Continues
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Bernie has always said it wasn't about him, but about us and a Progressive Movement! We have Bernie's Progressive Issues Platform! We the foundations of a powerful Progressive Movement in the thousands of Progressive Individuals, Organizations and Alternative Media that have worked tirelessly for many decades. We just need to unite in a common effort to educate and motivate the public masses that there is a better way than the ruthless oligarchic rule of rich corporate elite!
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Support Organizations and their Vetted Progressive Candidates
Please become active with organizations promoting Progressive Candidates
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Don’t Just Swallow “for profit” Corporate Media Information!
Keep up with Progressive News and Opinions!
Support Progressive Organizations
These are some of the organizations trying to make the world a better place for all!
The Green Party is a Progressive Alternative to the Corporate Parties!
Registering Green is your best way to send a message to the corporate Democratic Party leaders that your time is about up!
Every Bernie Sanders Progressive should sign up as a Green Party member in CA and other States that have already held their primaries. Voting in the November General election is not effected by your Party registration!
Further, Joe Biden (or even a dead dog) will win California by a large margin against Trump in November. There is no excuse for active progressives and Bernie supporters to not vote for the Green Party Presidential candidate in November, because unfortunately, there just aren't that many of us. Every vote for the Green Party matters. Achieving 5% of the vote nationally would grant the Green Party easier ballot access in many states and open up public funds to our campaigns.
For decades, there have been two competing stratagies, those who want a progressive third party and those who want to transform the Democratic Party from within. No reason we can't strategically do both! Supporting an actual functoning progressive national political party such as the Green Party* actually helps those who want to transform the corporate Democratic Party from within! We just shouldn't put all our eggs into one basket!
Please read the Open Letter below from the Green Party!
An open letter to Bernie Sanders supporters
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Informative Website Links
Support Progressive New Sources
We cannot be effective Progressives without our Progressive News Sources! Corporate Media is everywhere with seemingly unlimited resources! Over 90% of Americans get most all their news and information from the Corporate Media.
We need to help support and promote Progressive News Sources to counter the distortions, omissions and lies of Corporate Media that benefit Multi-National Corporations and the super-rich against the interests of the people!
Please think about subscribing to one or more this year! Most have yearly subscriptions for less than $25.
Special Appeal for your Support: We have an important Progressive Listener sponsored Pacifica Radio Network with 5 stations across the country all of which are accessible from the Internet. The 71-year-old flagship station KPFA -94.1FM from Berkeley, CA is one of my primary information sources with the radio on all day!
Progressive Media is supported as you have supported Bernie Sanders and other Progressive candidates: one individual donor at a time! Without Progressive Media there cannot be effective Progressive Politicians or individuals!
Trump Death Clock
The ‘Trump Death Clock’
In January 2020, the Trump administration was advised that immediate action was required to stop the spread of COVID-19. According to NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, “there was a lot of pushback” to this advice. President Trump declined to act until March 16th. Epidemiologists now estimate that, had mitigation measures been implemented one week earlier, 60% of American COVID-19 deaths would have been avoided.
Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) Statistics and Research
Check the maps for COVID-19 deaths and cases for any country. We fail by any measure in our country's response. We have about 28.5% of the world's deaths with only 4.29% of world population! Almost every other industrialized country has long ago flattened the curve, but not the USA. Especially Australia, China, Taiwan, South Korea among others have put us to shame! USA intelligence knew about COVID-19 as early as late December and publicly in early January, yet Trump refused to react until mid-March and not even then in reality by his own public statements that it was fake, a hoax, a conspiracy! PPE supplies and testing are still in short supply because of his inaction and lack of competence & leadership!
Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) Statistics and Research
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The ‘Trump Death Clock’ Shows the Toll of Coronavirus Inaction.
When it comes to fighting coronavirus, the states are on their own. At least according to Donald Trump. At a press briefing in mid-March, he angrily told reporters, "Governors are supposed to be doing a lot of this work," adding, "the federal government is not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items, and then shipping. We're not a shipping clerk. As with testing—the governors are supposed to be doing it." In one Twitter thread from early April, he claimed that any states that aren't getting enough supplies are lying for political reasons, then pivoted, acknowledging that shortages are real but it's the states' fault. He wrote, "Some have insatiable appetites & are never satisfied (politics?). Remember, we are a backup for them. The complainers should have been stocked up and ready long before this crisis hit."
White House adviser Jared Kushner—who, as head of the government's coronavirus response, told Trump governors were exaggerating the impact of the outbreak—is making similar arguments. He told reporters that the federal stockpile of emergency medical supplies wasn't for states and their residents anyway, saying at one press briefing, "The notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile; it’s not supposed to be state stockpiles that they then use." Neither Kushner nor Trump ever clarified who "our" refers to or who the federal stockpile is for if not Americans who live in those states.
And it turns out that even states' own medical supplies aren't for the states either. According to the Los Angeles Times, the federal government, after waiting nearly two months acquire life-saving ventilators and N95 masks, has been seizing equipment from hospitals all over the country, confiscating them with no explanation. A representative for FEMA told the Times that the Department of Health and Human Services had implemented a system that redirected supplies to wherever the need is greatest, but declined to give any more information or say where, exactly, the seized equipment was going. This comes after inconsistent efforts to meet states' needs: Florida, a swing state with an aggressively pro-Trump Republican governor, received everything it requested within three days, while other states like Oregon, Oklahoma, and New Jersey all got less than 10 percent of the equipment they asked for.
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The COVID-19 Tracking Project - U.S. Historical Data
Personally, I say the % of deaths responsible by Trump's incompetence should be much higher, Only 2 1/2 weeks earlier ( Feb 27) from March 16 there were only two known cases and zero deaths in America. The virus was identified on January the 7th. The [genetic] sequence was shared on the 12th with the world." The first know case in USA was discovered January 22. China had 623 know cases at that time. WHO announces COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 after more than 20 000 confirmed cases and there have been almost 1000 deaths in the European Region while China had 81,000 cases and 3160 deaths. South Korea had 60 deaths and the USA 28. South Korea took serious action on Feb24th, 3 weeks before Trump even started his haphazard response on March 16th. !
Michael E Kerr