Actions for the Week - starting March 14

 Actions coming up in the next week - it's another busy week for democracy!

Democracy and equal rights for everyone.
Poster inspired by a teacher from SW Idaho.

Friday, March 13,  vigil - Democracy at the curb - join your neighbors - 5-6,  Friday eventings, to make it clear to our fellow Cache Valleyites that we support democracy, oppose senseless, lawless wars, and support free and fair elections.  Park strip in front of the County Courthouse https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/907053/. 

March 14,  Saturday, 2 PM, Logan Disability Advocates, Sego Lily Room, Logan City Library

Monday, March 16 - WTP organizing meeting, Aspen Room, 5:00-6:30 pm.  Please email us fo rthe onling link option. Mostly will be about organizing the March 28 No Kings III event. 

Tuesday, March 17 - 6:00 Democratic and Republican precinct caucuses. 

Wednesday, March 18, 5:45,  Our Community Cache Valley at the Logan Library Community Rooms.

March 19, 6:00 PM, Thursday,  Immigrant Support Group/RAICES, Community Room B, Logan City Library.

And please sign up for No Kings III - Saturday, March 28, 10:30-12:30.  https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/902718/.

Resources - in case you don’t have enough to consume, we recommend watching the What’s the Plan With Ezra and Leah  weekly meetings, which are posted on Youtube and as podcasts on Fridays.  Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg are the coleaders of Indivisible, and they have a weekly 1 hour show to cover questions and provide some big picture views of the week's news, and ideas of what to contact our elected representatives about  see - indivisible.org/events/whats-the-plan-with-leah-and-ezra/.

This week they had a great, if sad, discussion with Sara Haghdoosti regarding the current illegal war that Trump started because why, that helps us understand part of the chaos we are being led into.

Knowledge: Iran war is extremely expensive and due to whim

Trump's Epstein war on Iran: BODY COUNT:

• 175 children and teachers killed on day 1 by Trump's Epstein war on Iran

• Wednesday's aircraft crash over Iraq brings the U.S. military death toll to 13, seven of whom were killed by enemy fire. Eight U.S. service members are severely injured, according to the Pentagon.  NPR

• Over a thousand Iranians have died, mostly civilians.  

     

Tens of countries are directly impacted by being attacked by Isreal and Trump for Trump's Epstein-Iran war.

Source:  Al Jazeera March 12, 2026

    Iran;

    Lebanon

• scores of Middle East Countries

USA

13 dead at least 150 wounded

CNN article about Americans opposing Trump Epstein Iran war-polling.

This war, like the previous Iran strikes and the Venezuela operation, is not popular. Across surveys from CNN, Reuters-Ipsos, Fox News, The Washington Post and NBC News, it’s an average of 12 points underwater. CNN article

NPR reports on polling also.

https://newrepublic.com/post/207522/donald-trump-iran-war-russia

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-trumps-iran-war-threatens-to How Trump's Iran War Threatens to Weaken The U.S. Economy Oil prices are surging, markets remain volatile, and global economies prepare for a potential recession, all thanks to Donald Trump's fundamental misunderstanding of relationships and alliances.

- THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali

Read on Substack

Knowledge: Corruption watch

What priorities do spending patterns reveal?: 

Slate article about the waste fraud and abuse that IS Pete Drunk Hegseth

Exposure of corruption of the Trump Crime Cartel. 

Expenses at the Department of Defense in September 2025 were 93 billion dollars.

Such a sum is this:

93,000,000,000 dollars.

That amount of money was NOT spent on the healthcare of Americans

(ACA subsidies were cancelled by MAGA GOP because "there was no money" yet our health care insurance cost only 30 billion dollars) 

That enormous amount of money was NOT spent on feeding hungry children in America, on the homeless, on education, veterans, children, babies, families, clean air, clean water, fighting global warming or all the underfunded needs that ACTUALLY help most American.

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SPENDING BY TRUMP CRIME CARTEL ALWAYS ILLUSTRATES HIS VALUES:

Find out more here

Luxury waste for defense while Americans cannot afford gas, healthcare, education, homes, food etc.  

Humor: MANY clever creators highlight our dire situation with biting commentary

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slyngstad_cartoons is amazing!!!!!!  Thank you!

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Next Weekend Rally: NO Kings Three! March 28

 Announcement page

NO Kings Three 

March, Music, Protest  

in Logan, Utah! 

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No Kings 3 will be on Saturday 

March 28th, 2026.  10:30-12:30.

Both begin at Cache County Historic Courthouse

199 North Main

Logan, Utah

Please email wethepeopleCV@gmail.com with offers to help.

You could be a de-escalators
You could be a chant leader
You could be on the safety team, medical team, press team
You could be a "button pusher" (and make some too)
You could be the snack person, water gal, coffee guy
You could be the clean up crew
You could be a social media helper
You could spread the word in creative ways
You could get group photos of inflatables
You could help count the crowd so the the press does not mis-represent our rally again

YOUR IDEAs HERE and here:

Marching and song, plans in flux.

Please email wethepeopleCV@gmail.com with offers to help.

You could be a de-escalators
You could be a chant leader
You could be on the safety team, medical team, press team
You could be a "button pusher" (and make some too)
You could be the snack person, water gal, coffee guy
You could be the clean up crew
You could be a social media helper
You could spread the word in creative ways
You could get group photos of inflatables
You could help count the crowd so the the press does not mis-represent our rally again

YOUR IDEAs HERE and here:

 

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!

Costumes and smiles are encouraged.

Knowledge: Alert: PROTEST US Concentration Camp in Salt Lake City

 

A German company helps Trump and Miller build a Concentration Camp in Utah

Sl Tribune Article about it:  March 12, 2026

SOURCE. Aerial view of Topaz concentration camp. Courtesy of Manzanar National Historic Site and the Shinjo Nagatomi Collection.

Commentary:  Utah has a dark history of hosting concentration camps.  Topaz camp help Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent, after their livelihoods, homes, businesses were stolen.  Unjustified incarceration continued several years. 

Summary: Japanese Americans were forcibly detained in105] [concentration camps from 1942 to 1946, with most held for nearly three years, as detailed in this Wikipedia article and this National Archives lesson. While many were released after the war ended in August 1945, the last detention camp did not close until March 1946, with some separate Department of Justice internment sites remaining open until 1948. 

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KSL Article:

SALT LAKE CITY

ICE buys Salt Lake City warehouse, sparking concern an immigrant detention center is coming

Mar 12, 2026, 7:30 PM | Updated: 8:37 pm

LSeuths in the community track the owernship down to a German Compa ny.

Remind the sellers that it is a bad look for Germans to help dictators build concentration camps in the United States.

Mayor Jenny Wilson opposes the camps:  /https://www.saltlakecounty.gov/newsroom/mayor-jenny-wilson-opposes-proposed-ice-detention-facility-in-utah--news/

AND her Facebook post with comments by both trolls, bots and many concerned Utahns.

Utah State Senator Nate Bluoin has been leading on this issues too.

His bill to limit Immigration actions to "those that the president promised in his campain" did not pass in the Utah legislature.

ACTION: Knowledge: STAMP ACT: Proposition 4 repeal, late night Republican tricks and conspiracy.

 Utah's Stamp Act-

11th hour trickery by the GOP

Explanation of the STAMP ACT:

ACTION ITEM:  REMOVE fraudulent and ill-gotten signatures from repeal petition, especially in State Senate District 15, Sandy and Midvale SLC

OUT-OF-STATE PAID Signature gatherers at USU.  These two were filmed intimidating BURRN volunteers, threatened one of us with suffocation (a police report was submitted but seemingly nothing was done), swore like pirates, barely spoke a true word about the petition-at least in earshot, and on another day their compatriots called the campus police on volunteers.  Their alleged crimes?  Standing near petitioners and informing the public about the ACTUAL purpose and history of the fair election law. 

The bottom line

• Please check to see if you, or anyone you know, is on the petition to repeal Prop 4 at BURRN.org.  Please follow the steps to remove you signature - or contact us for help.
• The Republicans of the State legislature passed a new law last night that is clearly designed to push their effort to gerrymander over the finish line.  Changing laws midstream is wrong!!!
• Mostly the last minute law makes it harder to remove signatures that people provided to signature gatherers who tricked them into signing, or whose signatures were forged.  
• This law, its tactics, the middle of the night signing by the governor all reveal a GOP conspiracy to mislead the public.  
• IT also indicates that all tactics for power grabs are more important than actually governing for the good of the people. 
• If you know anyone in SD 15 - Cottonwood Heights, Midvale, parts of Sandy and South and West Jordan, please ask them to check and remove. 

The effort to try to repeal the fair districting process, know as Prop. 4, has seen new twists and turns.  Late last week it looked like the state senate districts in southern Davis County would be very close, and BURRN and other groups focused their efforts there;  to get on the ballot, the petitions have to reach a certain number in 26 of 29 state senate districts, AND a bit over 140,000 signatures statewide (which was met, as expected). Early this week about 2000 signatures were 'found' and added enough signatures that they reached the 26 of 29 districts.   

But wait, there is more.  

Last night (Friday, March 6) at about 11 pm, HB 242 was introduced to change the process by which signatures could be removed, and how various signatures can be counted.  Among the law's language is that prepaid postage on first class envelopes is considered a 'bribe', and it will no long be legal to provide a stamp or a prepaid mailer to people who want to take their name off the ballot. The bill passed at 11:19 pm with over 2/3 majorities in both houses, and Governor Cox signed the bill at 2:14 am.  This means the law will be in effect immediately.

KNOWLEDGE: Updating POLLS- PRESIDENT AND EVERY POLICY ARE UNPOPULAR

The dictator, his unelected dangerous "advisors", the GOP, all of their policies are 

WILDLY UNPOPULAR

Updating polls are here.  Snap shot from January 31, 2026

APPROVAL OF TRUMP IS AT AN ALL-TIME LOW.  ONLY RICHARD NIXON WAS LESS POPULAR.  JAN. 31, 2026 SNAPSHOT.  USE TO LINK TO SEE THE CURRENT AVERAGE OF ALL POLLS

G Elliot Morris Trump Approval updating graphics.  This snapshot is March 13, 2026

And updating data are here from G Elliot Morris:

Snapshot from updating polls at https://fiftyplusone.news/polls/approval/president

IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT (ICE) AND CUSTOMS AND BORDER PATROL HAVE BEEN DOCUMENTED KILLING AND ASSAULTING EVERYONE.  !!!!!!! The Majority of Americans NOW FAVOR ABOLISHING the so-called "Department of Homeland Security".  

"Department of Homeland Security" (DHS)
 has been transformed into the 
"Department of Homeland Terror"

Americans are very unhappy with ALL the  POLICIES OF THIS REGIME 

UPDATING GRAPH show how "underwater" each policy is in the polls.  These polls are historically exceedingly low for a new president. G Elliot Morris has a subtack column filled with exceptional information about public opinion.