Voting
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No Kings
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. Thomas Paine Very early Saturday morning, a misguided MAGA follower assassinated a Minnesota state legislator and her husband and severely wound another legislator and his wife. Both legislators were Democrats. After a gunfight from which the killer escaped, the police found a Continue reading
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The Man With the Bag / The ICE Man Cometh
Eating chocolate cake in a bag. John Lennon I have an interesting background. Mom and Dad were born in the coal-mining area of Pennsylvania. Dad’s parents emigrated from Poland and Mom’s grandparents came from Poland (grandfather) and Czechoslovakia (grandmother). I was born and raised in Arizona and became an amalgamation of the American Southwest, Eastern Continue reading
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Still Marching After All These Years
I think there’s a weapon of cynicism to say, ‘Protest doesn’t work. Organizing doesn’t work. Y’all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn’t do anything,’ because, frankly, it’s said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez I have been to a lot of rallies over the Continue reading
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This I Shout Loudest: Scenes From the Resistance
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight. Bob Marley In Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell sang, “You don’t know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone.” Although she was singing about the environment, she could have just as easily written the song about our American Continue reading
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Inauguration Day
Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political, or economic changes. In this sense power is not only desirable but necessary in order to implement the demands of love and justice. One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love Continue reading
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Blessings Abound
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to Continue reading
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Believe Him
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamedlet it be that great strong land of lovewhere never kings connive nor tyrants schemethat any man be crushed by one above Langston Hughes Tomorrow is voting day here in The United States and I am still trying to make sense of the Trump voter. How is it Continue reading
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That Vote Was Mine
America’s democracy is not guaranteed. It is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it. To guard it, and never take it for granted and protecting our democracy takes struggle. It takes sacrifice. But there is joy in it. And there is progress. Because we the people have the power to build a Continue reading
Can You Hear Me Now 