Letters: ‘No Kings’ real success was in energizing resistance

Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor No Kings real success energizing resistance Re No Kings rallies galvanize region Page A Oct Before the largest part newest No Kings rally on Oct Republican leaders attempted to dissuade and even denigrate the event and its participants calling them anti-American Yet the event produced the biggest civil rallies in the history of this country Related Articles Letters Let s thank and remember the veterans who have kept us free Letters This voting repudiates Donald Trump and his policies Letters We can all come together to help the hungry Letters Democracy looks a lot like California Letters Voters need assurance that Measure A funds will be spent properly Trump s response was Who cares Perhaps the current voting results answer that The American people do It is a rule of thumb that for every person who marches there are to who sympathize That would equate to million to million people as a record million participated While particular complain that these rallies don t do anything they are an essential demonstration of the depth and breadth of popular sentiment and resistance and they serve to hearten and motivate people to engage Phil Rapier Oakland Let s have the courage to rethink how we move Every morning on my way to school I watch cars inch along the freeway engines humming exhaust drifting into the air we all breathe It s not anyone s fault it s just how our cities were built But it doesn t have to stay this way Transportation is one of the largest sources of emissions in California and we feel it in every asthma attack every hazy sunset and every heat wave that keeps us indoors Yet buses are late trains are crowded and biking still feels unsafe If we want people to choose cleaner avenues to get around we need to make them reliable affordable and safe rather than just idealistic Clean air shouldn t be a luxury It should be the baseline for living here The Bay Area has the talent and creativity to lead the nation in situation solutions We just need the courage to rethink how we move Mira Shah Dublin Administration keeps chipping away at rights Re Trump administration speeds up new rules that would make it easier to charge particular protesters Nov My blood is boiling after having read the article reporting Donald Trump s administration once again attacking our rights speeding up laws and rules that make it easier for federal officers to arrest protesters who are near immigration facilities This is something that should alarm not only Californians but Americans as a whole Peaceful protest is a core First Amendment right but now we have rules targeting those who wear masks or cause obstruction We cannot accept a system that is attacking our constitutional rights and freedom of speech The Trump administration has time and time again abused its power and it keeps getting worse Voices are being silenced at a time when we need our voices to be heard more than ever I urge everyone who reads this to oppose these rules and contact their federal representatives and demand they block them Andres Espinoza Union City Apathetic ignorant voters rewarded Trump Donald Trump can thank digital sources and television for his second voting process Americans get their news primarily from TV social networks and digital sources They don t read If Americans still read no doubt they would have stumbled across Project and learned what the Republicans plans were for the country Instead Americans watch sound bites on TV believe inaccurate social posts and vote for personalities Given that you would think they would have known what to expect from a person who relished saying you re fired Now polls show more than higher disapproval than approval of Trump s actions We have the lazy uninformed American voters to thank for the demise of our democracy We brought this upon ourselves Kit Miller Walnut Creek Shutdowns a destructive way to negotiate budget Re Passengers facing delays frustration Page A Nov The shutdown of key parts of the U S regime when allocated funds exceed funds available is a bipartisan challenge We witnessed that solving the complication with a administration shutdown was extortionate in President Trump s first term and we again witnessed that itwas extortionate over the last month This difficulty necessities to be fixed permanently Congress demands to come together and re-legislate the process since having necessary leadership programs cease is a very destructive way to handle budgetary shortfalls And an available alternative increasing the national debt is already available and a well-used procedure True this debt does cause a challenge over the long term A large part of our current spending is paying off the current deficit But this obstacle should be handled at allocation not when the funds become due In short the current process enables societal pain and policy-making extortion at general expense It should be changed Wallace Clark Concord Analysis won t find the beef Re Trump calls for examination of rising beef prices Page A Nov Rising beef prices have been a reality in this country for years During the Bush administration Brazilian meat packers acquired American meat processing companies Through greed-based consolidation and globalization the U S lost control of its ability to regulate beef prices via a competitive arena Neither beef ranchers nor the American inhabitants have benefited from this short-sighted error Having the DOJ investigate this fact will be relatively meaningless as globalization presents meat buyers with a take it or leave it option in a non-competitive marketplace As is typical it provides a convenient presidential talking point distraction but as usual nothing of substance Jon James Pleasanton