Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor at a TV channel in Russia, interrupted a live broadcast with a sign that read “NO WAR. Stop the war. Don't believe the propaganda. They're lying to you here.” She has since been detained. This is an act of incredible courage.
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2/…We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!”
1/ “We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer….
Anyone who is proposing to eliminate gas taxes in order to address spiking prices at the pump is—whether intentionally or unintentionally—serving Big Oil. What’s needed is a windfall profits tax on oil companies that then redistributes money to consumers.
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But Bernie is there, and there are others like him. We just need *more* of them. One thing I'm not is naive about the shenanigans of the party. But I also know how many really good people are in there fighting the good fight every day. We shouldn't abandon the effort to get more.