"I don't know if Charlottesville has agreed to really create a community of true belonging, which means you have to have all the components of fairness and justice. They have not agreed to create a just community."
-- Nikuyah Walker, from a recent interview we did
As the tributes to Jesse Jackson pour in, I think of Julian Bond’s remarks about Jackson’s two presidential campaigns: In 1984, Jesse Jackson had been the candidate of Black America; in 1988, he became the Black candidate of disaffected and alienated America -- unemployed meat packers and 1/
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Maybe. I need to do a research project because I have to believe that it is possible to plow without this result.
I'm a creative so you know
Options options options
I'll report back if I find some!
Also, I don't know if I think the city should do more, exactly. Or at least I don't expect them to do more right away.
Isn't there a way to talk about plowing as:
First do no harm.
Like, not more maybe just different?
Love it. Thank you, Steven!
(and yes to paying for what we need!)
If we're making a list, don't we have to, regretfully, put city government at the top? Plowed ice walls are on every street & impede every crossing. They trap pedestrians who can't safely scale them (hi me!).
I believe they so work hard & mean very well, so maybe no shame. But this is a BIG problem.
If you read me as presenting fallacies, maybe we're not talking about the same thing anymore. Which is a good time for me to pause.
Thanks for your time responding!
On a corporate level--agreed.
I don't see good movement orgs being risk averse. Quite the opposite.
They are disciplined though.
Press didn't help 1960s civil rights orgs on their own unless folks were already activists. They needed to be educated & earn trust in the work.
I see that as still true
I do appreciate this topic and conversation. Thank you for raising it!
I love the idea of learning about the press and movements. It's part of my professional work.
What I would add is that press support of the 1960s movement, for ex, happened through organizers being dedicated media liaisons who cultivated relationships, messaging, and trust. It wasn't spontaneous.
NONE of these prices are accurate. Mist especially he is paying service workers *terribly.* I agree with others pointing that out.
or a 24-year-old
nice
This is the best news I've seen all year! 🌟@dem8z.bsky.social 🌟
Thank you for your service! Let us know if we can contribute to the hot cocoa fund!
Gaaaaaah. So frustrating!!
Competence and consent are good considerations for retirement.
Age is not.
Professor, no one will be surprised to learn that I have never worked for a more expert director.
As to selfish, that premises the college re-fills roles. We all know they don't.
In sum: Thank you for your service!
I want to agree.
But graceful would have been: "I'm honored to receive this appointment and, out of love for this university, I respectfully decline until the people's choice of leaders have been sworn in."
Graceful... she has left the building.
The pace.
It feels like the whole town should be in a bar watching on big screens.
The poem is so, so beautiful.
OTD in 1940 Horace Julian Bond was born. Social activist, co-founder of SNCC, legislator and professor, Bond shared in this 1975 letter—on the eve of its bicentennial—his hopes for the future of democracy in the United States.
It may be too much to hope that Americans can begin to treat each other equally, or that they can develop a political and economic system that will equitably distribute the goods and resources this wealthy nation has in abundance.
I believe it can be done.
Sincerely,
Julian Bond"
"February 21, 1975
Dear Mr. Burke:
My hopes for the United States in the future are simple.
If we could begin to actively uphold the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence, we would be a far different and far better people. 1/
Mamdani is going to implement Maria law. We will all feel pretty.
I can
I can
It takes a lot of courage to organize. It also takes a lot of humility. To say, I can’t solve this problem or challenge this system by myself and I gotta work with others. And we don’t know if this is gonna work, but it’s worth trying.
Hall & Oats never went by "Hall & Oats."
All of their albums say "Daryl Hall and John Oates."
We can't go for that (no can do).
