Vincent Emanuele is a writer, activist and radio host who lives in the United States. He's a member of Veterans for Peace and the National Writers Union. A former US marine and Iraq War veteran, he spoke to 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Pip Hinman about the first days of the Trump administration and the mass protests that have broken out.
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How would you describe the political atmosphere in the US after the Trump inauguration?
It did not take Donald Trump long to begin the war on immigrants, refugees and Muslims that he promised during his presidential campaign.
On January 27, he signed an executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for at least 90 days and suspending the admission ofallrefugees from any country for at least four months, among other measures.
It also did not take long for many thousands of people to send a loud message in response: No ban, no wall, let them in!
Pressure has mounted on Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May to pull the plug on a planned state visit to Britain by far right US President Donald Trump On January 30, 聽a petition to bar her new pal from Britain sailed past the one million mark.
The petition, which within hours smashed the 100,000 figure required to trigger a debate in Parliament , came as聽May faces a backlash, with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn leading calls for the invitation to be withdrawn.
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The new US administration of President Donald Trump publicly declared it will seek regime change in Venezuela. The call, disguised in 鈥渢ransition to democracy鈥 rhetoric, was made by Trump鈥檚 proposed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
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Protesters have gathered at airports in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Dallas and other cities as immigration authorities begin to block entry to all refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations, has reported on January 28.
In his first week as president Donald Trump has imposed a large number of attacks, from the unbearably cruel (restricting abortion access, closing the borders to migrants聽and refugees from seven nations) to the destructive (restarting the Keystone and DAPL pilelines) to the absurdly聽petty (deleting the White House's Spanish language home page) .
Just two days after millions of people poured into the streets of Washington, D.C., and cities around the world for the historic Women鈥檚 March on Washington, President Trump has reinstated the controversial anti-abortion "global gag rule", which denies US funds to any international health care group involved in聽any activity in support of women鈥檚 rights to choose.聽
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe and supporters have said they will resist US President Donald Trump's to allow construction of the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) that threatens to destroy water supply of the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, as well as Native American sacred sites.
"President Donald Trump wound up fulfilling his promise that his inauguration would break records, just probably not in the way he had in mind," on January 22. "The Women鈥檚 March, an anti-Trump protest aimed at standing up for women鈥檚 rights, is now estimated to be聽"
Video: Democracy Now's full coverage of Donald Trump's inauguration and protests from January 20.
Video:聽 Below: A special broadcast live from the huge Women's March on Washington on January 21.
Workers across the country walked off their jobs and staged actions on January 20 to protest the inauguration of one of the most anti-worker presidents in modern history, Donald Trump.
As he was being sworn in around midday, dining hall workers at Northeastern University walked out. The one-day strike was planned with support from students, some of whom walked with workers in a sign of solidarity.