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<p>“We cannot depend on our institutions to guarantee that our votes will determine the next president” is what <a href='https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/afl-cio-schedules-then-cancels-union-confab-on-election-outcome'>a leaked National AFL-CIO PowerPoint stated this week.</a>  The AFL-CIO had a meeting planned with State Federations and union leaders from around concerning a Trump Coup - yes, and we mean Coup - and <a href='https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/10/donald-trump-coup-elections-unions-strikes?fbclid=IwAR39QR2ypoQnbh5__K1slSvLbWa2CS3JTHP-_7nhzWBCS6Eg2PzaTff7eIA'>how unions will mobilize in the days after the election</a>.  However, that meeting was canceled after the slideshow was leaked to the press.  </p> <p>Randi Weingarten - President of the American Federation of Teachers - told Bloomberg: “There’s many of us that have talked about how we need to count every vote, how we are very concerned that the president - that you take his words seriously when he says he's not sure he’d agree to a peaceful transfer of power. And the labor movement is of the community that needs to prepare.”</p> <p>Activists around Pennsylvania are planning for massive protests if there is widespread efforts to disrupt the election or if Trump seeks to remain in power with the help of his appointments to the Supreme Court. <a href='https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/philadelphia-election-progressive-activists-working-families-party-philly-we-rise-20201022.html'>The Philadelphia Inquirer reports</a> that activists, clergy, unions, and liberal advocates are signing on to “<a href='http://phillywerise.com/blog/count-every-vote-pledge/'>Nobody Comes for Philly</a>,” a pledge to vote then “not rest until our state counts every vote.” </p> <p><a href='https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/21/family-separation-parents-border-covid/'>At least 545 children who were separated at the border</a> under Trump’s brutal immigration policies are still without their parents. Worse, immigration advocates say th