Here’s a question to start our week off… how many knew Kamala wrote a children’s book? I know I didn’t runs and dives towards the exit...
It’s called Superheroes Are Everywhere and would be a great gift for someone you love. What an incredible message for children — I also think it’s great encouragement for us old folks, too 😃
“This [book] offers a solid message: a superhero could be anyone, including you.” —Booklist
h/t to community member Dee for suggesting this for today’s roundup! It’s also because of her mad screen capture skills that we have that beautiful title pic this morning! Gracias hermana 🧡
From Penguin Random House
Before Kamala Harris became a district attorney and a United States senator, she was a little girl who loved superheroes. And when she looked around, she was amazed to find them everywhere! In her family, among her friends, even down the street–there were superheroes wherever she looked. And those superheroes showed her that all you need to do to be a superhero is to be the best that you can be.
In this empowering and joyful picture book that speaks directly to kids, Kamala Harris takes readers through her life and shows them that the power to make the world a better place is inside all of us. And with fun and engaging art by Mechal Renee Roe, as well as a guide to being a superhero at the end, this book is sure to have kids taking up the superhero mantle (cape and mask optional).
Click here to purchase
Back to the campaign trail… again we get to hear Kamala in her own words!
Here’s a clip I think you’ll really like from last night’s Cuyahoga County Democratic Party’s Annual Dinner in Cleveland 😃
*You can watch the entire speech in Denon Fraser’s Kamala diary from last night. I hope you’ll follow Denon and go by his diary and leave him a tip and a rec. Let’s support one another and continue building our community of Kamala supporters!
Here’s a behind-the-scenes peek from last night by Kamala’s traveling press secretary, Kate Waters...
Lily Adams is Kamala’s Communications Director, and here’s one of her overnight tweets…
Lily’s a communications alum of Hillary, Tim Kaine, Ted Strickland and the DNC… but, did you know she’s also the daughter of the equally wonderful and amazing Cecile Richards? Well, now you know!
h/t to community member moondanc for bringing this to us this morning! 🧡
3 Major Activists Launch New Group To Get Women Involved In Politics
Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood, Ai-jen Poo, executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and Alicia Garza, a cofounder of Black Lives Matter, are launching a new women's political action group called
Supermajority on Monday in order to train and mobilize women to make change around the issues that impact their lives.
What's in the name? "Women are the majority of voters and the majority of activists," Richards told Refinery29 in an interview on Saturday. "And yet they continue to be treated as a side issue and a special interest group. It's time that women get the credit and the encouragement — and we begin to amplify the extraordinary work that women are doing."
Women are marching, running for office, donating to and advocating for causes and campaigns, and voting in record numbers. We can be the most powerful force in America—if we do the work together.
We’re building a Supermajority of women* who are organizing for gender equity. Sign up to be a founding member and be part of this from the beginning.
*And everyone who shares our values!
I hope everyone will support Supermajority and the home they’ve created for Women’s Activism as we move forward in this historic campaign season!
and now back to our regularly scheduled programming...
In her own words
“We must all speak out… no form of hate should go without a collective response,” after Chabad of Poway tragedy...
The Maternal CARE Act Senator Harris has more than “plans”, she has legislation!
We’ve all heard the non-stop smears against Senator Harris, "she’s a cop!”… as far as I’m concerned, with the criminal that’s currently in the White House, a “cop” is exactly what we need! Not to make light of her critic’s tantrums, I think we all should become as informed as possible on her time as DA and California’s Attorney General. Convincingly refuting Kamala’s critics will be an important part of this campaign. She’s battled these very same attacks in her runs for AG and Senator, so let’s go back to 2011 with her own words on truancy...
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I hope you enjoyed today’s roundup, now on to another great Community Gathering in the comments! If you’d like to volunteer to host one of our Kamala 2020 diaries, please leave your comment in the Volunteer thread 🧡
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Group Guidelines
The Kamala2020 community group has been created to positively support Senator Kamala Harris, and not to engage in negativity towards other community members or any other Democrats running in the 2020 primaries.
Daily Kos is a huge community and there are fellow members and readers alike who do not share in our support of, or enthusiasm for, Kamala’s campaign — all should be made to feel welcomed here.
What’s not welcomed here is petty bickering over any of our preferred candidates, or personal attacks on fellow Democrats. We’re not responsible for the actions of others who may offend, insult or attempt to sow discord and disunity —
that’s on them.
What we are responsible for are our own words and actions —
that’s 100% on us.
From the deepest part of my heart, I’d like to ask all group members, as well as all those dropping in who support or are interested in Kamala’s historic bid for the nomination, that we not respond to negativity with negativity... though at times over the course of the next year+ it may be increasingly difficult. Let’s do better than our best and respond with love and respect, or hold our peace. I believe we’re all familiar with the following ageless wisdom —
if we don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all 🤐
🧡🧡🧡 hope you have a beautiul Monday, let’s make a joyful noise 🧡🧡🧡
*This production was from the episode “Transitioning”… and it’s performed by a transgender choir led by the character, Unique (Alex Newell). One of my favorite performances of the series :o)