Greylock Together Resources

Browse through the collection of fact sheets and research papers to arm yourself with solid, current intel to help with your activism.

Net Neutrality

On Nov. 21, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a plan to dismantle Obama-era regulations that ensure equal access to the Internet. This opens the door for Internet service providers (ISPs) to control the content we see, give more weight to big players, and monetize the Internet in a new ...
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DACA: Key Points

DACA's Under Threat What’s Happening? The White House announced on Tuesday, Sept. 5, that President Trump has ordered an end to DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), the Obama-era program that protects from deportation more than 800,000 young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.

GT Book List

Download the full book list here: Book List Greylock Together (1) Fiction Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick (288 pp) Now a t.v. series, this award-winning sci-fi novel takes place in 1962 America. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In ...
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LGBTQ+ Community and the Trump Administration: Key Points

Overview American society continues to make progress on LGBTQ+ issues, with the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on marriage equality being a major victory. However, members of the LGBTQ+ community still face significant discrimination. Research shows that approximately 20% of hate crime victims are targeted because of their sexual orientation or ...
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It Will All Be Okay

It Will All Be Okay is a blog that focuses on effective resistance -- putting events in context, explaining the details of process, and understanding which actions can be effective.  It is written by Alexander Davis, a political obsessive and activist with Greylock Together ...
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Trump: A Daily Chronicle

Muckraker Farm is a website that has a feature entitled "Trump--A Daily Chronicle: Keeping Track (of some things), Staying Outraged (it is possible), and Resisting (it's essential)." This chronicle begins on 20 January 2017 and is compiled by Mary Alcott Ferger, a member of Greylock Together ...
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New Attack on Obamacare: Key Points

by Chip Joffe-Halpern 4-23-17 The White House is pressuring House GOP leaders for another showdown vote on repealing Obamacare soon, possibly this week (April 24). From what we know so far, the latest proposal would include allowing states to apply for "limited waivers" that would undermine Obamacare's protections for pre-existing conditions ...
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Republican Tax Plans: Key Points

KEY POINTS ON REPUBLICAN TAX PLANS, drawing on our session with Bill Gentry, Professor of Economics at Williams and expert on tax policy.                                                                    Jim Mahon 4/21/17 Background:  Tax economists think about three things when evaluating policy, while most of the rest of us think about one of these ...
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Budget Breakdown: Nineteen Agencies Cut by Trump Budget

Budget Breakdown Prepared by the Bullet-point Team, for Greylock Together EC/DB/AD 4-13-17   . . Here are the 19 agencies CUT by Trump's budget:
  1. Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  2. National Endowment for the Arts
  3. National Endowment for the Humanities
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Internet Security: Key Points

Prepared by the Research Team, for Greylock Together DB/AWB/AD 4-5-17; Updated 4-13-17 THE ISSUE: In early April President Trump signed a bill that will remove basic protections of our privacy on the Internet. Background In 2016, under President Obama, the FCC passed a “landmark” law that governed how Internet service ...
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