5: In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, students face unsafe spaces at schools and universities.
Donald Trump pledged to be a “president for all Americans” during his victory speech Tuesday evening. Three days later, the country appears more divided than ever.
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in a wave of protests across the country to assert that Trump is “not their president.” Reports of racist incidents and hate crimes have emerged in the days following the election. Few places have felt this divide more sharply than school and university campuses.
Vice News
As protests against President-elect Trump continued for a second night in cities across the United States, there are increasing reports of threats against Latinos, Muslims, African Americans and members of the LGBTQ community, that many feel are a result of Trump’s rhetoric. We discuss the reaction by activists and organizers to Trump’s victory with Becky Bond, longtime progressive activist and former senior adviser on volunteer mobilization for the Bernie Sanders campaign. Her new book is “Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything.” We also go to the Facing Race conference in Atlanta, Georgia, where we are joined by Chicana feminist Jodeen Olguín-Tayler, social movement strategist and vice president at Demos. She helped organize protests here in New York at Trump Tower. She has helped organize protests in New York City leading up to and after the election, and helped to coordinate the #Our100 campaign’s letter to the nation with the co-founders of Black Lives Matter.
Democracy Now
3: RECKONING WITH A TRUMP PRESIDENCY AND THE ELITE DEMOCRATS WHO HELPED DELIVER IT
THE UNITED STATES has been plunged into a state of purgatory following the election of Donald Trump. In all political quarters, people are engaged in their own post-mortem analysis of how this happened and what it means, not only for the future of this country, but for the world. Trump ran on a pledge to engage in mass deportations, denying Muslims entry to the US, the stripping of abortion rights and threats to “bomb the shit” out of ISIS. Although Trump has staked out conflicting positions on a wide range of issues over the past several years, his campaign centered on an overtly nativist agenda. And his running mate, Mike Pence, is one of the key leaders of the radical religious right contingent of the Republican Party.
While many Democrats are pointing fingers outside their own ranks to make sense of the stunning defeat of Hillary Clinton, few are willing to examine how their choice of nominee and the campaign they ran shaped the result. In this podcast, Intercept editor-in-chief Betsy Reed and co-founders Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill break down how we got here and what a Trump presidency means for civil liberties, surveillance, war, abortion rights, and other issues.
The Intercept
2: Netanyahu calls for restraint after Donald Trump win
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for ministers to refrain from commenting on Donald Trump’s presidency after right-wing politicians said his election win put an end to a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
Netanyahu has been cautious in his comments since Trump’s stunning US presidential victory on November 8, simply sending his congratulations and pledging to work with him.
But other right-wing politicians have used Trump’s win to promote their cause, with some calling for the end of the idea of a two-state solution with the Palestinians, the basis of years of negotiations.
Aljazeera
1: Donald Trump’s immigration plans: start by deporting 3 million ‘criminals’
President-elect Donald Trump has said he plans to deport as many as 3 million people once he accedes to the Oval Office, and that fencing will form part of his promised wall on the border with Mexico.
In an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, set to be broadcast Sunday, Trump said: “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate.”
“But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally.”
The Guardian
