Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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The collective resources of a country should belong to its people. The public treasury should not just be a slush fund for the rich.
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Hundreds of years from now when they look back on who the great ones were they’ll remember Prince.
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A most dangerous illusion is the myth of neutrality: “I’m not trying to help anyone but I’m not trying to hurt anyone either.” If we’re not trying to make the world a better place then we’re contributing to make it worse.
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Fundamental change always begins with one small beam of hope, two or more people joined in the thought that something else is possible.
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A dangerous one, at that. Dangerous to justice, dangerous to democracy, and in a very real way dangerous to people
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How does someone with a net worth of $190B justify union busting? It is mind-boggling to me. #SupportAmazonWorkers
NEW: Amazon workers are exposing what's happening in Alabama.
They say Amazon is forcing them into anti-union meetings, texting them up to 5x daily, putting messages in bathrooms, even changing traffic light patterns to harm union organizing.
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How can we spend $1.9T on Covid relief and not include $2000 a month in #DirectCashRelief? I don’t get it.
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I pray we listen to this and bear witness to her agony. Something in our hearts has got to change.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib: ‘On my very first day of orientation, I got my first death threat … I urge my colleagues to please, please take what happened on Jan 6 seriously. It will lead to more death, and we can do better. We must do better’
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4/ The 21st C has brought a reckoning with a worldview so out of alignment with who we truly are, as well as a rebirth of understanding that a purely material explanation of the world will never satisfy either the needs or longings of the human race. It is time for repair & reset
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3/ The attitudinal and philosophical split between humanity and nature has caused extraordinary damage not only to nature but also to ourselves. The industrialized, rationalistic and materialistic perspectives of the 20th C fortified the split and did tremendous collective harm.
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2/ An early dispensation of Christendom destroyed that sacred connection, calling it blasphemous & replacing it with the idea that God had given earth to man to use for his utilitarian purposes. That split was for all intents and purposes the beginning of our environmental crisis
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1/ In pagan cultures, people kept alive a sense of divine partnership between humanity and nature. Rituals were held routinely to fortify the bond between people and trees, rivers, earth and sky.
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“The trees, understory plants, fungi and microbes in a forest are so thoroughly connected, communicative and codependent that some scientists have described them as superorganisms.”nytimes.com/interactive/2020…
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