<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Let me speculate: This proposed US law may be a strategy to disable the influence of civil society in the US. First, the law would split organizations (<b>universities, nonprofit newspapers, NGOs)</b> into the group that is being attacked (like the ACLU and CAIR) and those that aren't--weakening the whole sector. It would encourage self-censorship from those groups not yet affected. It would also allow an excuse for extra surveillance of the "terrorist-supporting" groups--<b>and most importantly allow Trump to shut them down.</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I find it that plays into the pro-Israel factions in US Congress (because it will demonize pro-Palestine groups) and seems to be about losing tax-exempt status--but it is probably about something way worse. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><b>It's not too late to call Congress:</b> <a href="https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-on-hr9495">https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-on-hr9495</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">-Katie</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 4:41 AM Arzak Khan <<a href="mailto:arzak@innovationforchange.net">arzak@innovationforchange.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">This is frightening, we have so many precedents from Global South of organisation especially non profits being declared as terrorists. <br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Arzak Khan<br>Hub Manager<br>Innovation For Change (I4C) South Asia<br><a href="http://www.innovationforchange.net" target="_blank">www.innovationforchange.net</a></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 at 11:43 PM, Kate Krauss <<a href="mailto:katiephr@gmail.com" target="_blank">katiephr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Do you know someone who works for a US nonprofit organization with which Trump might disagree? Or do you just agree with a nonprofit like that? The ACLU, the Tor Project, EFF, CAIR, etc.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">There's a vote happening today in Congress on a bill that would allow Trump to target nonprofits he doesn't like and deems "terrorist."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Call a member of Congress here (calling works best and this is your moment): <a href="https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-on-hr9495" target="_blank">https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-on-hr9495</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">("Vote no on HR 9495")</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Here's a list of groups that oppose it from an Amnesty International letter: <a href="https://www.aclu.org/documents/civil-society-letter-to-congress-opposing-hr-9495" target="_blank">https://www.aclu.org/documents/civil-society-letter-to-congress-opposing-hr-9495</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><i><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:PublicoText,Georgia,"Publico Text","Times New Roman",Times,Baskerville;font-size:22.5px"> It would </span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/11/10/trump-nonprofit-tax-exempt-political-enemies/" style="box-sizing:border-box;outline:none;text-decoration-line:none;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:PublicoText,Georgia,"Publico Text","Times New Roman",Times,Baskerville;font-size:22.5px" target="_blank">give the U.S. Treasury unilateral authority</a><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:PublicoText,Georgia,"Publico Text","Times New Roman",Times,Baskerville;font-size:22.5px"> to strip tax-exempt status from nonprofits deemed “terrorist supporting organizations.” That’s a frightening prospect given Trump’s previous </span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-says-he-will-designate-antifa-terrorist-organization-gop-points-n1220321" style="box-sizing:border-box;outline:none;text-decoration-line:none;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:PublicoText,Georgia,"Publico Text","Times New Roman",Times,Baskerville;font-size:22.5px" target="_blank">attempt to designate antifascist protesters as “terrorists,”</a><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:PublicoText,Georgia,"Publico Text","Times New Roman",Times,Baskerville;font-size:22.5px"> his classification of pro-Palestinian protesters as </span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/trumps-plan-quell-protests-deport-hamas-radicals-rcna166168" style="box-sizing:border-box;outline:none;text-decoration-line:none;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:PublicoText,Georgia,"Publico Text","Times New Roman",Times,Baskerville;font-size:22.5px" target="_blank">“pro-Hamas radicals,”</a><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:PublicoText,Georgia,"Publico Text","Times New Roman",Times,Baskerville;font-size:22.5px"> his open </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/13/trump-military-enemies-within/" style="box-sizing:border-box;outline:none;text-decoration-line:none;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:PublicoText,Georgia,"Publico Text","Times New Roman",Times,Baskerville;font-size:22.5px" target="_blank">desire to quell dissent with violence</a><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:PublicoText,Georgia,"Publico Text","Times New Roman",Times,Baskerville;font-size:22.5px">, and his frequent classification of those who disagree with him as the </span><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-suggests-hell-use-the-military-on-the-enemy-from-within-the-u-s-if-hes-reelected" style="box-sizing:border-box;outline:none;text-decoration-line:none;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:PublicoText,Georgia,"Publico Text","Times New Roman",Times,Baskerville;font-size:22.5px" target="_blank">“enemy from within.”</a> - <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/nonprofits-bill-trump-house-republicans-terrorism-rcna180696" target="_blank">MSNBC</a></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Katie Krauss</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Liberation Tech</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div>
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