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heaven05

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17. lol on the "past glory" and
Wed Aug 23, 2017, 07:59 PM
Aug 2017

I feel that. As a man who lived his convictions in dangerous times, such as the courageous warriors in BLM today, I have always applauded that type of total commitment to cause you have shown and no doubt still feel, as I do....I worked diligently on the Free Angela Davis committee at Boston U....that's my claim for cause. And I did see her in New York after she was freed...exciting and satisfying to have gotten her away from the clutches of the types running our government today. Angela Davis, George Jackson, Fred Hampton Mark Clark all are representative, no matter the political leanings, of warriors committed unto death to change a system that has not changed that much from our days in the sun.

We did well to agitate, at that time, for our again eroding human, civil and voting rights, the difference today is so many more americans realize the extreme danger WE ALL are facing with the confederate/nazi coalition running amok in the streets at the behest of the idiot potus and the shadow executive triumverate of bannon, miller and gorka. Bannon is not out of the picture I feel, his so-called 'departure' was window dressing for the RW to point to and the media to play up as something important and of substance. It wasn't.

I appreciate your responses and feel we are not really that far apart when it comes to knowing the danger we are in and what it will take to alleviate that racist RW juggernaut rolling, literally, over the bodies of people opposed to them. It will take people of varying leftist ideologies and courage to defeat the current racist government, from the top to the bottom. We have to try .........that's all I know...peace

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the argument by many [View all] heaven05 Aug 2017 OP
Please follow Greg Palast on Twitter? laserhaas Aug 2017 #1
Greg is the man, for sure. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #2
A man we must get behind, or 2018 & 2020 will be lost laserhaas Aug 2017 #3
++ heaven05 Aug 2017 #8
I have nothing to add to what you have already stated. sheshe2 Aug 2017 #4
I can see it heaven05 Aug 2017 #9
I see it too... sheshe2 Aug 2017 #11
It is so much easier brer cat Aug 2017 #5
++ heaven05 Aug 2017 #10
If I am not reading this correctly GaryCnf Aug 2017 #6
All very fine points, yet heaven05 Aug 2017 #7
May I start by returning the compliment? GaryCnf Aug 2017 #13
lol on the "past glory" and heaven05 Aug 2017 #17
And to you as well my friend GaryCnf Aug 2017 #18
Thinking about my reply to your reply GaryCnf Aug 2017 #15
You mention Cornell West. sheshe2 Aug 2017 #12
As you know GaryCnf Aug 2017 #14
Blog bookmarked heaven05 Aug 2017 #19
West? sheshe2 Aug 2017 #20
I completely agree. cwydro Aug 2017 #16
why do I feel heaven05 Aug 2017 #24
I honestly don't see any other way of reaching more white voters/building multiracial coalitions YoungDemCA Aug 2017 #21
proves a point to me heaven05 Aug 2017 #22
I hope it can be solved. I really pray that it can be solved. Otherwise, how do we move forward? YoungDemCA Aug 2017 #23
if our greed and consumerism is equally slaked, racism will end LanternWaste Aug 2017 #25
too many people heaven05 Aug 2017 #26
I think I'm safe to say this here... qwlauren35 Aug 2017 #27
All I can figure heaven05 Aug 2017 #28
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