The radical disparities of wealth and power in America are widening at a devastating rate. A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.
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Adrienne Rich
In her letter to President Clinton refusing the National Medal for the Arts, 1997
I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
Now here is some caroling I can really get behind: the 99% Choir forecloses on Bank of America!
This is the video recap of the 15th annual Jews For Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) Rabbi Marshal T. Meyer Risk Taker Awards, held on Tuesday, December 13th at B’nai Jeshurun in New York City. This was an amazing event. I’m so glad I was there that night, and so proud to be a long-time member of JFREJ.
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
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Thomas Jefferson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Thomas Jefferson
Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers’ struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.
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Rosa Luxemburg
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.
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Emma Goldman
#Occupy Charas. The #Occupy Movement will be working to reclaim public space for the people here in New York City.
Last year I completed a M.A. in International Human Rights. I'm interested in the praxis of human rights, the role of social justice movements and the value of tikkun olam to make the world a better place. I am also interested in international development, humanitarian aid, social justice movements, politics, economics, community organizing and the values of deep and direct democracy. As a queer Jew I care about certain issues, but I strive to push discourse and work for real, meaningful, and lasting progressive change.
This blog is a forum for me to discuss my ideas and analysis and share what I do and think about on the issues that matter to me.
"Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said." - The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
