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I wrote this as a comment to Watchfuleye diary “Are You Ok Witth This” I thought I would put it out there for everyone to see and maybe we could get something started. If we the people would all write actual letters stating our belief and position that...
by leftoverright
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on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 07:27 PM PST
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Hi all, Some of you may have read my posts and such. I'm a Rural Progressive in Central Pennsylvania, (Centre County). I'm in the county of Pennsylvania that shows up as a blue dot on the map when they show elections in the state. The county itself is...
by RobertZeigler
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on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 05:32 PM PST
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Take a grassroots movement for peace, justice, and a sustainable way of life. Use force, threats, misdirection, and a whole lot of money to split it into pieces. Now you have people who are fighting for peace, or justice, or the environment, but not...
by AliceT4
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on Thu Feb 02, 2023 at 09:10 AM PST
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I think everyone has some year that stands out in their minds. We have such horrid and dismal news this day and time and 1963 was the beginning of lots of troubles in the 60’s, however we did see the beginning of justice and change and if I had to pick...
by Vetwife
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on Sun Dec 11, 2022 at 08:48 AM PST
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As 2022 ramps up into what I expect will be a crazy year for organizing, I wanted to share some of what I know about public speaking with those of you with little to no experience who may find it helpful. I’m going to list out some basic points that...
by Peter Olandt
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on Wed Mar 09, 2022 at 10:33 AM PST
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The election won’t be over on 11/3, but like it or not the focus of all the pumped up Biden supporters islikely to a great extent aimed at a target that is, in their minds, finite: 11/3. Yes there will be all manner of mal- and misfeasance...
by Schauloch74
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on Wed Oct 28, 2020 at 01:26 PM PDT
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A friend who watches live feeds for hours every night has been keeping me posted about the anti-racism protests in Portland, Oregon, which have been taking place daily since the police killing of ...
by AliceT4
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on Thu Sep 17, 2020 at 05:22 PM PDT
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It’s alright to be White It’s alright to be White, and proud to be born free, though a history of Racism and hate creates disparity, disunity, partiality. Don’t perpetuate the hate, don’t deny the lie, of discrimination, denigration, and segregation;...
by Brim4peace
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on Fri Jun 19, 2020 at 05:53 AM PDT
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What an important time it is for us in Lakota Country. A few weeks ago, we had the honor of hosting Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg at the Pine Ridge and Standing Rock reservations. Greta came at the invitation of my daughter, Tokata, who...
by Chase Iron Eyes
16 comments
on Tue Oct 22, 2019 at 08:51 AM PDT
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A little over a year ago, a high school student decided more had to be done to secure everyone’s future. She made a sign, printed some flyers, and sat alone outside her country’s parliament. Since then she’s made a TEDx talk and addressed Davos, the...
by koseighty
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on Tue Sep 24, 2019 at 08:46 AM PDT
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Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, have been awarded the 2018 International Children's Peace Prize for their tireless anti-gun activism in the aftermath of the Valentine’s Day mass shooting that changed their...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Wed Nov 21, 2018 at 02:06 PM PST
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I was feeling cynical and downtrodden with all of the news today, and out of nowhere my wife shared with me a link originally posted by my sister’s boyfriend. Posted by
Dr. T’Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
@IBJIYONGI
threadreaderapp.com/...
A couple...
by c0wfunk
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on Wed Jun 27, 2018 at 03:32 PM PDT
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When the likes of a dried up pedantic mummy such as George Will arises from his crypt long enough to wag his desiccated tongue at a movement he disapproves of. If this young generation wasn’t a potential threat to the established order, they would...
by Merlin1963
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on Sat Mar 24, 2018 at 12:25 PM PDT
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I never stopped to think about how I took the feeling of wind blowing through my hair for granted. It was not until after seeing the brave Iranian women fighting to reclaim the rights to their body and defiantly take off their hijab that I realized how...
by Sofiamo
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on Mon Feb 05, 2018 at 02:13 PM PST
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The idea that the Democratic party can’t seem to rally around any specific leader is lost on me since each one of them, Senator or Congressman, should already be an accomplished leader and orator in order to have been elected in the first place.
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by SamL
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on Tue Jul 04, 2017 at 02:45 PM PDT
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To our netroots relatives:
We want you to know that, despite the raids clearing the frontline camps, our movement to stop the Dakota Access pipeline isn’t over by a long shot. Oil has not yet begun to flow, and new and very disturbing information...
by Lakota Peoples Law Project
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on Thu Mar 09, 2017 at 03:48 PM PST
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As Women’s History Month marches on with social media hashtags and documentary screenings and powerful slogans, the perception can come across as if we’ve won. As if we can stop fighting. As if the battle isn’t worth fighting for anyway. But as many of...
by msjustice
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on Wed Mar 08, 2017 at 06:43 AM PST
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I work for a union. And there are many things I love about my union and the labor movement as a whole. There is a lot to respect about the community and its efforts to improve the lives of workers through better wages and safer working conditions. But...
by msjustice
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on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 08:20 AM PST
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The Democratic Party is FAILING its first tests of leadership against Trump! Democratic senators voting for cabinet picks like Ben Carson and Mike Pompeo is abhorrent, regardless of whatever self-serving political justifications are trotted out. Our...
by Earthmanneil
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on Thu Jan 26, 2017 at 02:36 PM PST
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An important opinion piece appeared in the Guardian yesterday, along with the urgent appeal to journalists, which it parallels in some ways, covered in this diary on Daily Kos. As Keeanga-Kamahtta Taylor notes, some have complained that last Saturday’s...
by scooba
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on Wed Jan 25, 2017 at 10:19 AM PST
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