Political Activist | Social Justice Advocate
Political Activist | Social Justice Advocate
Here are some tips from Jessica Valenti who writes about abortion every day. Most Americans don’t actually know what republican legislatures are up to. We get numb to how horrible republican lawmakers are trying to pass abortion bills. Our job…
“To our knowledge, this is the biggest faith-related campaign in history.” And that, is the misguided focus of the Jesus ad run during the 2023 Super Bowl. White evangelical Christian groups are behind the commercial. The same groups that are…
Here’s a partial reprint of Jessica Cravens’s incredible newsletter Chop Wood, Carry Water. Good news all around so I thought I’d reprint some of it here. Make sure you subscribe to her newsletter to get the rest, it’s way worth…
Here are excerpts from Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches outlining what his dream would look like economically. It’s much easier to integrate a lunch counter than it is to guarantee a livable income and a good, solid job. It’s much…
Are we a country that fights FOR racism with more ferocity than we fight against racism? We’re a country that sends police officers to block black people from crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge. We’re a country where in 2022, police…
Excerpts from President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Tyre Nichols. Public safety depends on public trust, but too often that trust is violated. As many of you personally know, there are no words to describe the heartache…
This happened last week. The REPUBLICAN majority in the Mississippi State House killed every single Medicaid expansion bill without even debating it. These are bills that would’ve provided healthcare primarily to the working poor. 80% of Mississippians favor Medicaid expansion,…
Politics and Politicians They are not beholden to their constituents, they are beholden to the money that backs them. And that money is increasingly from small groups of right-wing billionaires supporting republican lawmakers. Politics has become a reality TV show.…
Here’s a powerful speech given by U.S. House Representation Jamaal Bowman in response to the college board stripping down its A.P. curriculum for African-American studies. Here’s the transcript of the speech: “Black history is American history and I wanna speak…
There’s a phenomenon that happens in the United States that doesn’t get too much attention. And it’s not unique to the United States. The phenomenon is that people are begging and pleading in colder months and really hot months, to…