Posts Tagged ‘ Standing Rock ’

Protest and Persist: Why Giving Up Hope is Not an Option

March 16, 2017
Protest and Persist: Why Giving Up Hope is Not an Option

REBECCA SOLNIT - I began talking about hope in 2003, in the bleak days after the war in Iraq was launched. Fourteen years later, I use the term hope because it navigates a way forward between the false certainties of optimism and of pessimism, and the complacency or passivity that goes with both. Optimism...

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Posted in March 2017, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

A 10-point Plan to Stop Trump and Make Gains in Justice and Equality

February 10, 2017

GEORGE LAKEY - I was among the 100,000 who marched in San Francisco’s Women’s March the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration. While enthusiasm for the struggle seemed high, an important question was looming: What’s the strategic plan, as we head into the Trump era? Although there’s no simple answer, I offer this 10-point plan...

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Introducing the New Pledge of Allegiance

December 30, 2016

ROBERT kOEHLER - The challenge presented by Trump requires something more than resistance. I believe it requires reaching for, and pledging our allegiance to, a much larger, more compassionate and peace-oriented country than the one we have now. It requires pledging allegiance to the planet and the future.

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Posted in Analysis, December 2016 | No Comments »