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Memorabilia from Colin Kaepernick's protest of the national anthem last year will head to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History as part of its Black Lives Matter exhibit.

Civil rights activist Harry Edwards spearheaded the effort to get Kaepernick items, such as a jersey and shoes, enshrined.

"I said, 'Don't wait 50 years to try to get some memorabilia and so forth on Kaepernick,'" Edwards related. "It should be put right there alongside Muhammad Ali. He's this generation's Ali."

NFL players have followed the quarterback's example of protesting America's anthem as a statement against police brutality towards blacks.

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The Seattle Seahawks' Michael Bennett announced he plans to protest the anthem all season. The Oakland Raiders' Marshawn Lynch sat and ate a banana as everyone else stood during the song at a pre-season game.

"The Colin Kaepernick collection is in line with the museum's larger collecting efforts to document the varied areas of society that have been impacted by the Black Lives Matter movement," said curator Damion Thomas.

Kaepernick is still a free agent, partly because teams balked at signing him after his protests caused a firestorm.

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By Derek Gannon 08.21.2017#North America News Email Share Tweet

Dallas, Texas On Saturday the Dallas-based In Solidarity Movement held a demonstration calledDallas Against White-Supremacy on the grounds of city hall in downtown Dallas. After the horrors of what occurred in Charlottesville the leadership for the In Solidarity Movement wanted to bring people together to denounce white supremacy, neo-nazism, neo-confederates, the alt-right, and any other moniker you may know them by, as well as demand the city take down the Confederate war memorial within the Pioneer Park Cemetery adjacent to city hall.

All religions, nationalities, and creeds were invited to the rally to show their support for the victims of Charlottesville, memorialize the loss of Heather Heyer who was killed after being struck by a vehicle driven into the crowd of counter-protesters by a known white nationalist, James Alex Fields Jr, and to demand the removal of the Confederate statues at the park.

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Derek Gannon A freelance journalist based on the West Coast. Green Beret veteran of the Global War on Terror. He researches and reports on African, and Horn of Africa Terror Networks & News. Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Member, Humanist, and Former Armed Anthropologist that longs of what was, The American Dream. Veteran of 82nd, 173rd, RTB, & "The Legion" 5th Special Forces Group (A/1/5 CIF). Twitter: @derekgannoncm6.

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President Trump is seriously considering pardoning Joe Arpaio, the Arizona sheriff who was convicted July 31 of misdemeanor contempt of court for ignoring a judges order to quit detaining those he suspected of being illegal immigrants.

Is there anyone in local law enforcement who has done more to crack down on illegal immigration than Sheriff Joe? asks Mr. Trump. He has protected people from crimes and saved lives. He doesnt deserve to be treated this way.

Mr. Arpaio is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 5 and could be subject to six months in prison. He hasnt asked for a pardon but says he would take it if offered, because Im 100 percent not guilty.

The left is in a dither about prospects of the pardon because the sheriff, who called himself the toughest sheriff in America, made his reputation enforcing immigration law when the Obama administration wouldnt. Cecilia Wang of the ACLU complains that a Trump pardon for Mr. Arpaio would undo a conviction secured by his own career attorneys at the Justice Department, and predictably adds that it would be an official presidential endorsement of racism.

The prosecution of the sheriff has smelled like politics from the beginning. This started under Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama 60 days after they took office, Mr. Arpaio told a radio interviewer the other day. Here it is, eight, nine years later, and all they can get me for which Im not guilty of is contempt of court.

Mr. Arpaio, who lost a bid for re-election to a seventh term as sheriff in November, recalls that the day before early voting, (the Obama Justice Department) announced they were going to charge me. Two weeks later, they charged me two weeks before (Election Day) so this was a political, political hit job. They got what they wanted. They got rid of me.

Those on the left who are in a snit at the prospect of a Trump pardon for reversing a prosecution of a previous administration did not object when Mr. Obamas Justice Department, under the supervision of Eric Holder, dropped charges brought by the George W. Bush administration against members of the New Black Panther Party. The Panthers were accused of intimidating white voters at Philadelphia polling stations at the 2008 election.

The president can expect an angry reaction if he pardons the sheriff. This is the season of angry reactions in a summer of hysteria. He should not let the ritual cry of racism deter him if he decides that a pardon is the right thing to do.

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DETROIT Andy Thorburn, a health insurance executive who is plugging $2 million into a bid to replace Rep. Edward R. Royce (R-Calif.), is the latest Democrat pushing the party to embrace single-payer health care even in swing districts. In a video announcement, Thorburn paints thecontest as a referendum on health care, between a Republican who voted for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and a Democrat who wants to move, eventually, to Medicare for all.

First-time Democratic candidate Andy Thorburn released an ad embracing single-payer health care, in his campaign to replace Rep. Edward R. Royce (R-Calif.). (Andy Thorburn)

In an interview, Thorburn presented himself as a candidate who could debate health care from a position of total awareness. He ran Global Benefits Group, an international insurance company, until stepping back to the board this year.

The part that really bothered me, when Obama first presented his plan,was my friends and colleaguesstarting their arguments by saying: Hey, we have the best medical system in the world. Why change it? I was like, Look, I cant have a serious discussionwith you if you think that. Its the best system if youre rich. But its clearly not the best for everyone. Yeah, the shah of Iran came here for treatment once thats not the standard!

Progressives, who are stepping up their campaigns to promote single-payer legislation and baiting Republicans into attack ads have struggled with California. The states Democratic-run legislature had passed single-payer legislation during the term of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), knowing it would be vetoed; a new single-payer bill was bottled up by legislators, kicking off months of intraparty infighting.

Thorburn suggested that the Democrats national single-payer debate could start on different terms.

Im aware of the debate, Thorburn said. Look, the tax burden has to go up, but all youre doing is shifting from one pocket to another. And the end of the day, were paying less money for health care, because thats been the experience of every country that went to this system.

Asked about the effect that universal Medicare would have on the private insurance system, Thorburn acknowledged that it would hurt.

Move as quickly as you can, he said. It would have a negative impact on my business, but it would be relatively small. Almost all the countries that have universal insurance also have competitive supplemental insurance industries. Germany has Allianz, one of the biggest insurers in the world.

On Tuesday night in Detroit, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) were holding a town hall meeting to promote specific single-payer legislation in Congress Conyerss HR 676, and Sanderss tbd bill. Thorburn said he would study the bills, suggesting he could cut his own path without undermining anything Democrats were doing.

Im not one of those people who thinks [Nancy] Pelosis terrible, he said, referring to the House minority leader, but Im too much of a novice to think I know who should be speaker.

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A top Democrat on Tuesday stepped up criticism of the Trump administration's review of 27 national monuments by releasing a report charging that the process is being guided by the oil and coal industries instead of public interest.

House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raul Grijalva of Arizona released the report, "Fossil Apostles: Fossil Fuels, the GOP, and the Fate of Our National Monuments," which details the "strong influence" of industry over the monument review process that is slated to wrap up this week. The process could result in recommendations to take the "national monument" designation away from some sites around the country.

The report attempts to show how the review process is unpopular among the public that it purports to give a voice to, and argued the process should be scrapped.

"The public has spoken and these monuments should be left alone," Grijalva said upon releasing the report. "If President Trump and Secretary [of the Interior Ryan] Zinke don't listen, then the courts and the voters will teach them that our public lands are not industry playthings to dispose of as they see fit."

"This administration cries about the importance of history when it comes to Confederate statues and then throws Teddy Roosevelt's legacy out the window as a favor to Big Oil," he added.

President Trump signed an executive order this year directing Zinke to begin a review of monuments that had been modified over the past 20 years by prior presidential directives.

The review included the Bears Ears monument in Utah that former President Barack Obama significantly expanded. Zinke and the administration have argued that the review is necessary to ensure that no group was left out in the decision-making process to expand the monuments.

In many cases, the expanded monuments have come with expanded restrictions on certain activities, such as extraction of fossil fuels and other mineral resources.

"This report demonstrates that the justification provided for the review a desire for robust public input is a diversion meant to obscure the review's true aim: the development by private companies of fossil fuel resources currently off-limits due to monument designations," according to the executive summary of Grijalva's report.

The report documented "extensive Republican efforts to undermine or eliminate public review of federal land management decisions, in direct contravention of the monument review's stated goal," the summary added. "The report goes on to show the enormous influence the fossil fuel industry has over the Trump administration and their congressional allies, as well as the expansive benefits already provided to that industry this year. Finally, the report describes the relatively small amount of fossil fuel resources placed off-limits by the monument designations under review."

The report pointed out that public polling shows a lack of overall support for weakening the monument designations. Across seven western states, public polling has shown that the "greatest support for weakening national monument protections is in Utah, where 60 percent oppose the idea and 30 percent support it," according to Grijalva's office.

The report argued that in addition to being unpopular, weakening the monument designations does not make much economic sense.

"Oil and coal companies are already awash in access to public land," the report reads. "According to a detailed review of Resource Management Plans, the oil and gas industry already has access to 90 percent of the public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the federal agency that manages the most federal land."

"In fact, oil companies are not bothering to produce oil and gas on the public land they have already leased," it continued. "Fifty-three percent of public land acreage that has been leased to oil and gas companies across the U.S. is not in production as of fiscal year 2016. In Utah, that number is 61 percent. In addition, oil and gas companies are hoarding nearly 8,000 approved drilling permits that they are not using."

Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop, R-Utah, which the report criticized for supporting the review, is holding a press call on Thursday to discuss the monument review as it comes to an end. He has been supportive of rolling back the monument designation at Bears Ears and others.

Meanwhile, billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer is pouring money into a campaign meant to malign members of Congress for being "anti-public lands," the pro-market Western Wire reported.

It noted that the League of Conservation Voters began calling on the public to put pressure on "anti-parks politicians," and said the future of several national monuments would be determined by Zinke's review.

"With the futures of Organ-Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument and Rio Grande del Norte National Monument on the line, the League of Conservation Voters is investing $100,000 in a final push to urge Congressman Steve Pearce and other members of Congress to stop attacking our public lands and to ensure the Trump administration hears the overwhelming outpouring of support for our national monuments ahead of the August 24th deadline for its unprecedented monument review,'" the group wrote in a press release targeting Pearce, a Republican from New Mexico.

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