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Uber CEO, Others Quit Trump’s Council Of Business Leaders After Backlash
Uber CEO has resigned as well as Disney’s CEO, however, Tesla, Wal-Mart And Pepsi CEOs are on Trump’s Business Council.
Protesters At Berkley Turn Violent And Destructive Against Racist
Speaker, Milo Yiannopoulous
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has quit President Donald Trump’s council of business leaders, according to an inter- nal memo obtained by The As- sociated Press.
Kalanick wrote to his em- ployees that he’d spoken with Trump on Thursday to “let him know that I would not be able to participate on his eco- nomic council. Joining the group was not meant to be an endorsement of the president or his agenda, but unfortu- nately it has been misinter- preted to be exactly that.”
His departure came on the eve of the first meeting of the group at the White House, planned for Friday.
Disney CEO Bob Iger won’t attend either; instead he will be at a company board meeting in California, according to a per- son close to Iger who re- quested anonymity to discuss the CEO’s schedule.
White House officials did not respond to requests for com- ment.
Led by Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive of the private equity group Blackstone, the council has about 15 members, including the leaders of Wal- Mart, Tesla, the Cleveland
Clinic and Pepsi. The council is “designed to
provide direct input to the president from many of the best and brightest in the busi- ness world in a frank, non-bu- reaucratic, and nonpartisan manner,” according to a Black- stone press release in Decem- ber announcing its formation.
Yet public outcry about Trump — specifically his exec- utive order suspending the country’s refugee program and halting other aspects of immi- gration — has put some busi- ness leaders in an uncomfortable spot.
Uber, a ride-sharing com- pany popular in urban, largely Democratic areas, has been buffeted all week by boycott campaigns that began when people perceived it as trying to break a taxi strike to and from New York’s John F. Kennedy
Airport that was in re- sponse to the executive order.
Kalanick condemned the executive order and has con- tributed to relief groups, but calls for a boycott had contin- ued.
One woman urging boycotts for all companies tied to Trump said only total resigna- tion from the Trump business forum would satisfy her.
Violence on campus of Univ. of California Berkley by group being called the Black Bloc.
1.8 M Sign Petition To Stop Trump’s Visit To UK
Army Corps Ordered To Complete Dakota Pipeline
Thousands converged to protest the proposed $3.8-billion Dakota Access pipeline, which activists across the country say threatens the water supply and sacred sites of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota, outside the Edward Roybal Federal Building in Los An- geles on Friday.
An online petition calling for Donald Trump to be prevented from making an official state visit to the UK has passed 1.8 million signa- tures.
The petition, on the gov- ernment’s official petitions site, which at one point was being signed by more than a thousand people a minute, quickly reached the 100,000 signatures needed to be con- sidered for a debate in parlia- ment.
However, Downing Street confirmed that Theresa May would not be withdraw- ing her invitation to the U.S. president because it re- mained “substantially in the national interest”.
The petition, which falls short of calling for Trump to be banned from the UK, ar- gues that he should not re- ceive a full state visit, including audiences with the royal family, “because it would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen”.
The petition’s creators said: “Donald Trump’s
Protesters in London against President Trump’s proposed visit.
Swarms of people dressed in black invaded what was supposed to be a peaceful demonstration against right- wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulous on Wednesday evening.
The group tossed smoke bombs, set fires and started fights on the University of California - Berkeley campus where Yiannopoulous was slated to speak. He never would.
The protest's organizers, the Berkeley Against Trump coalition, said the peaceful
acts of the 1,500 demonstra- tors were marred by 50 to 75 anti-fascist Black Bloc pro- testers.
Outside of Berkeley, media outlets have linked Black Blocs to a number of modern protests, most recently in ef- forts opposing President Donald Trump.
The Nation credits a Black Bloc protester with punching alt-right leader Richard Spencer in the face on Trump's inauguration day.
The Washington Post said Black Blocs were involved
Milo Yiannopoulous report- edly planned to publicly name undocumented students at his cancelled Berkeley University event. The Breitbart senior edi- tor, who was one of Twitter’s most notorious trolls until the site permanently banned him in July, was due to speak at the uni- versity on Wednesday but the event was called off due to heated protests.
with violent protests in Washington, D.C. on inaugu- ration day and in Portland following Trump's election win.
The acting secretary of the Army has instructed federal of- ficials to issue the easement necessary to build a controver- sial segment of the Dakota Ac- cess pipeline, members of the North Dakota congressional delegation said Tuesday.
“The Acting Secretary of the Army Robert Speer in- formed us that he has directed the Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with the easement needed to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline,” Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) said in a last Tuesday night statement.
“This will enable the com- pany to complete the project,
which can and will be built with the necessary safety features to protect the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and others down- stream.”
Speer’s order came one week after President Trump signed a directive instructing the Army Corps to quickly issue a construction easement for a stretch of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota.
Hoeven’s statement did not say the Army Corps has actu- ally issued the easement, a step that would allow construction to move forward. An agency of- ficial did immediately reply to a request for comment.
well-documented misogyny and vulgarity disqualifies him from being received by the Queen or the Prince of Wales. Therefore during the term of his presidency Donald Trump should not be invited to the United Kingdom for an official state visit.”
As global condemnation of the ban spread, British Con- servative politicians joined the Labour party and Liberal Democrats in questioning May’s decision to go ahead with a state visit during which Trump would be courted by the government and royalty.
Lawyer That Created Pe- tition To Face Discipline The lawyer who started a
petition calling on the UK Government to cancel Don- ald Trump's planned state visit could be disciplined by the Crown Prosecution Serv- ice.
Graham Guest, who works as a solicitor at the crown prosecutors' West Yorkshire office in Leeds, claimed the U.S. President should not be invited to make an official state visit.
Mr. Guest's petition will be debated in Parliament on 20 February.
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