Today’s Supreme Court decision barring Affirmative Action in college admissions is an unfortunate step backward in America’s commitment to social justice. But the deeper problem is that such programs should have ever been necessary to begin with. 1/2
BREAKING: braving air we cannot breathe we just TOOK OVER State Street in Chicago, feet away from Biden’s meal with millionaires.
The President just shoved down our throats a 2,000,000,000 cubic foot per day fracked gas pipeline.
This cannot stand. This will not stand.
TODAY, Wednesday, June 28th, at 3pm PT / 6pm ET, my #FirelightChat with @Maebe_A_Girl on TRANSGENDER IN AMERICA.
Streaming on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Marianne2024.com.
Abolitionists, suffragettes, early labor organizers, civil rights workers— surely they too felt hopeless by the enormity of their challenges. But they rose to the occasion - and so can we. #Marianne2024
Tomorrow, Wednesday, June 28th at 6pm ET / 3pm PT, our latest #FirelightChat with Congressional candidate @Maebe_A_Girl on Transgender in America.
Streaming on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and at Marianne2024.com.
Stand firm for what we believe in, yes - and not be anybody’s fool - but we must free ourselves from the default perspective of us versus them, the reactive and oppositional mentality that inevitably leads to conflict.
Our goal should not be how to counter each other but rather how to collaborate with each other. From nuclear bombs to climate crisis to AI, the most critical issues must be faced together.
We need to begin a new era. The world is too dangerous a place for major powers to always be thinking in terms of “countering” each other. We share this planet.
The White House says Indian PM Modi’s visit is part of an effort to counter China. That is exactly the wrong mentality - similar to our attitude toward Russia that helped provoke the war in Ukraine.🧵