The present crisis is stifling and demoralizing, but surviving it and discovering a more decent world begins with a simple realization: we can make a better future
Wow, Jared, beautiful. I feel inspired to take your suggestion. I’m in Santa Rosa CA, and if anyone locally is of a similar mind and wants to start conversing, my twitter address is Ella3793.
“Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent.”
― Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
We must not let the fascist reactionaries drag us into past. They do not have our consent and they never will. Never Again.
"...our political and economic systems have been largely corrupted and co-opted by an increasingly wealthy group of power brokers hellbent on growing their wealth and power at any cost, including the destruction of the Earth and total dismantling of liberal democracy."
Totally agree Jared, but with respect, when you say 'you' (that is presumably Americans), are not alone, that is true. What 'you' are on the front-lines of, is a systemic, global phenom which can only be addressed that way. The fate of 'our' world depends on the actions of Americans. I financed and led a four year project involving almost 1,000 people from 35+ countries to devise and test the scaffolding to support such a global movement.
Religious extremists have taken over. Without religious myths and teachings the right wing agenda is hollow. Everything from slavery to the women being kept out of the Constitution is based in the patriarchal Christian belief men are inherently superior, i.e. more godly than women.
I've been wrestling with this question a lot over the past year and a half while making a podcast about ballot initiatives called When the People Decide. I'm inspired by work that organizations like the Fairness Project, Democracy Policy Network, and the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center are doing at the state and local level to fight for civil rights and economic issues — and win. They're holding a forum called Statehouse Futures next week that's free and open to all. https://hopin.com/events/statehouse-futures-22-a-progressive-policy-and-strategy-summit-for-a-new-generation-of-leaders
Wow, Jared, beautiful. I feel inspired to take your suggestion. I’m in Santa Rosa CA, and if anyone locally is of a similar mind and wants to start conversing, my twitter address is Ella3793.
“Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent.”
― Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
We must not let the fascist reactionaries drag us into past. They do not have our consent and they never will. Never Again.
"...our political and economic systems have been largely corrupted and co-opted by an increasingly wealthy group of power brokers hellbent on growing their wealth and power at any cost, including the destruction of the Earth and total dismantling of liberal democracy."
Totally agree Jared, but with respect, when you say 'you' (that is presumably Americans), are not alone, that is true. What 'you' are on the front-lines of, is a systemic, global phenom which can only be addressed that way. The fate of 'our' world depends on the actions of Americans. I financed and led a four year project involving almost 1,000 people from 35+ countries to devise and test the scaffolding to support such a global movement.
https://www.boombigideas.com/p/do-you-think-the-world-needs-a-plan
Religious extremists have taken over. Without religious myths and teachings the right wing agenda is hollow. Everything from slavery to the women being kept out of the Constitution is based in the patriarchal Christian belief men are inherently superior, i.e. more godly than women.
I've been wrestling with this question a lot over the past year and a half while making a podcast about ballot initiatives called When the People Decide. I'm inspired by work that organizations like the Fairness Project, Democracy Policy Network, and the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center are doing at the state and local level to fight for civil rights and economic issues — and win. They're holding a forum called Statehouse Futures next week that's free and open to all. https://hopin.com/events/statehouse-futures-22-a-progressive-policy-and-strategy-summit-for-a-new-generation-of-leaders