Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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Fantastic news on the political front. Great progressive champion and former Florida Congressman @AlanGrayson running in the Dem. primary to defeat Marco Rubio in the Florida Senate race next year. No race could be more important. secure.actblue.com/donate/22…
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No generation’s experience is any more or less important than that of any other. At a certain point you will tell those younger than you about things you experienced, and if they’re wise they will learn something from it.
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But I see people like the kids in the Sunrise movement plus so many others of every age who are perceiving and articulating the hints of a new beginning. It’s happening despite the death throes of an old order.
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I don’t know who it was, but in none of those three cases was there ever the sense that we found out definitively who was behind their murders. The sense that justice was never truly done has left a gaping hole in the psyche of this nation.
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Bobby Kennedy was killed on this day in 1968. It’s impossible to describe the collective agony and grief people felt. First JFK in ‘63, then Martin in April ‘68, then Bobby in June. There wasn’t the expression PTSD yet but the country has been in it ever since. Only now emerging.
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Not voting makes no statement here at all, other than those who do not vote are choosing for others to make their choices for them. While in South Africa it might have been an act of power, in America it the ultimate act of powerlessness.
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History doesn’t necessarily move forward. It can be a jagged line. It’s unfortunate but some of the most regressive thinkers on the planet today are young.
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Society never changes because a majority wakes up one day and sees things a different way. It changes when what begins as just a few people, usually considered outrageous radicals at the time, have a different idea and stand by it. As some now stand by hate, we can stand by love.
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Starting in September I would love to get back on tour. If people in Seattle, Portland, Austin, Atlanta, or any other cities that seem like places I should go to have an idea for venues I should rent or organizations that could host me, please let me know.
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No one said anything about regulating love or about what it should look like. Two parents can both love their children but disagree on how they should treat a particular situation. Still, their common love for the child makes all the difference.
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