Wednesday, October 19, 2016

The Wall

As Las Vegas prepares for Wednesday's third and final presidential debate, the Culinary Workers Union is protesting GOP nominee Donald Trump on his own turf by forming a "wall" of taco trucks outside his hotel Tuesday.

"We did not come up with the idea for the wall, Donald Trump came up with building the wall," Yvanna Cancela, political director of the Culinary Workers Union 226, told NBC News.

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The protest is a dual reference to Trump's call to build a wall along the border with Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants and to a statement by Latinos for Trump founder Marco Gutierrez if Democrat Hillary Clinton wins, "you're gonna have taco trucks on every corner."

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The taco trucks are being used to help register potential Latino voters in Nevada. But they also are aimed at drawing attention to an ongoing labor dispute between the union and Trump International Las Vegas hotel. [Trump has allegedly refused to bargain with workers after they unionized].

  News Max
Brilliant.

You couldn't pay me enough to be in Las Vegas tonight. Well, you COULD, but you don't have that much money.


There's an interestingly timed documentary currently streaming on Netflix about the 1968 contentious primary debates that included ABC coverage with equally contentious debates between William F. Buckley Jr and Gore Vidal:  Best of Enemies.  


Catch it if you have Netflix.  (h/t She)  Here's the trailer if you can't:


And here's the full recording of their most contentious (and debatably - pardon the pun - most interesting) debate on the evening of the police/protest clash in Lincoln Park, which is presented in a short clip in Best of Enemies:


On a related topic, a couple years ago I saw a good documentary on the trial of the Chicago 7, which I thought might have been a Netflix offering.  I don't see that now, streaming or otherwise, and I searched YouTube for it to no avail.  There are a number of videos about the events of the '68 convention, but I don't see what I'm looking for.  If you're young enough to not have been aware of that piece of our history, I recommend you check out some of those videos anyway.  

We're still trying to become a democracy.  Keep at it, and keep a safe distance from Las Vegas tonight.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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