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https://eowyntheavenger.tumblr.com/post/620399800577343488/what-have-the-protests-accomplished

What have the protests accomplished? A LOT! And it's far from over.

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we shouldn't have to march
for equal treatment
for voting rights
for civil rights
for education
for food and shelter
for justice
for the right to not be put away forever
the right to stay above the ground


these are not simple things
but they aren't so hard

we shouldn't still have to march
but we do

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Marched today (OK, I rolled); ran into old friends I haven't seen lately. UUs were everywhere in the crowd. Whoever that law student who spoke was, she gave a powerful speech. Why was I there? Thank Global Warming!

More senseless murders in the name of tribalism

Nothing especially profound to say about the three Muslim students murdered this week in my country. My goal is nobody murdered, ever. We do have to think about why it happens, because no one should grow up thinking this is their best option. Maybe we could have an interim goal: speak up for somebody different from you who needs a hand.

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A comment on part of a wonderful sermon I didn't hear


closing women's clinics condemns
young women to poverty & despair
it arrogates to bigots
decisions that should be personal
it murders dreams
it murders women
it is not the worst thing
it is not genocide

the bar is that low

at least our neighbors
legislators in Montgomery
legislators in Mississippi
legislators in Texas
are not actually ordering genocide
they're righteously doing
the next best things

kicking poor women when they're down
blocking their futures
stealing their choices
any way they can

so, this poem sucks
no lie
but it doesn't condemn thousands
to lives of pain
and despair
it doesn't presume
to tell you what to do
it won't even vote against you
hypocrites come November
but I will