[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: THIS SATURDAY: March to demand Trump's taxes!]

[nlnelson at mcn.org]

I have not heard - anyone planning to mobilize SAT in FB or Mendo???

Nancy Wallace Nelson


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Subject: THIS SATURDAY: March to demand Trump's taxes!
From:    "Joseph Huff-Hannon - Avaaz" <avaaz at avaaz.org>
Date:    Thu, April 13, 2017 9:51 am
To:      "nlnelson at mcn.org" <nlnelson at mcn.org>
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Dear friends,

Donald Trump is the first president in 40 years to refuse to release his
tax returns. We have no way of knowing how tangled his conflicts of
interest are until we get full transparency. This tax day let's demand
it!

The good news is we don’t even need Trump to willingly turn them over,
Congress has the oversight authority to get the administration to release
them. That’s what House Democrats have been pushing for since February,
but Republicans have been shutting them down.

It’s ridiculous! And it’s why this Saturday, with Congress in recess
and our representatives back in their home districts, we’re marching in
towns and cities across the country and in DC in an epic April 15 Tax
March, to demand Trump release his taxes to the American people:

https://secure.avaaz.org/TaxMarch

Both Trump and top aide Kellyanne Conway have said only the press cares
about his taxes. They're wrong -- a recent ABC poll says 74% of the public
want the president to release his returns.

We literally have no information right now about how much our president is
in debt to banks or lenders, foreign or domestic. And even though Trump
and his top aides are under investigation by the FBI, for possible
collusion with Russian operatives during the election, we don’t even
know how much of his financing, if any, comes from Russian banks or
oligarchs. What is he hiding??

Like the Women’s March in January, the Tax March started out as an idea
on social media, and quickly took on massive momentum, with dozens of
groups piling on and over 120 marches planed across the country, from DC
to NYC to Los Angeles to Trump's weekend getaway at Mar-a-Lago! We’re
marching in the middle of Congress’ Spring recess to tell our
representatives and especially the GOP the obvious: Trump doesn’t work
for the Republican Party, he works for all of us.

It’s a huge moment to show up with a clear question for our lawmakers,
the Trump administration, and the media: Who pays Donald Trump? This
Saturday we march to find out:

https://secure.avaaz.org/TaxMarch

In 2014 the Avaaz community helped make the People’s Climate March the
biggest climate mobilization the world had ever seen, and last year many
of us joined the Democracy Spring money out of politics mobilizations,
making headlines as the biggest civil disobedience action in decades. Step
by step, march by action, our collective momentum is making history.

With hope and grit,

Joseph, Dalia, Nick, Andrew, Iain, Emma and the whole Avaaz team

P.S. If you live in the D.C. area and want to volunteer to help make the
march as awesome as possible, sign up here
(https://docs.google.com/a/avaaz.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehlLmAYW5rMdbHfqVdVtgcmNlasqtZoMokFRvdH2sC4nKjHA/viewform).

More information:

Activists Plan 'Tax Day' Marches Calling For Release Of Trump's Taxes (NPR)
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/06/522823827/activists-plan-tax-day-marches-calling-for-release-of-trumps-taxes

After Trump Promised To Release His Tax Returns, Aide Says He Won’t
Because ‘People Didn’t Care’ (Huffington Post)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-tax-returns_us_5884e7cfe4b070d8cad32f89

Donald Trump’s Conflicts of Interest: A Crib Sheet (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/donald-trump-conflicts-of-interests/508382/



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