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Director at Humanity United. Philanthropy and Non-Profit Leader I Human Rights Defender I Systems Navigator
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When the Senate Minority Leader sells you out, the only option is to take back the party & country with grassroots activists in blue and red disricts to stand up for the Constitution and our democracy.

There are a gajillion things to protest right now, so where do you even start? One thing I like about the #TeslaTakedown campaign is how it offers a simple and symbolically powerful A to that Q.

Where is Congress? Also, corruption is now in our national security interest? @cnn.com @contrariannews.org www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Hey @usatoday.com, what he is proposing is a war crime. Text book case. Report better please.

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

Note to All Nazis, Fascists and Klansmen Langston Hughes You delight, So it would seem, At making mince-meat of my dream. If you keep on, Before you’re through, I’ll make mince-meat Out of you.

It's called the Gulf of Mexico. This is not up for debate.

Democracy depends in part on people who refuse to comply with unlawful (and/or unethical) orders.

Some solid lessons for any American that cares about living in a democracy: forgeorganizing.org/article/im-a...

Please have a look at this PPT from Nichols Liu: pubkgroup.com/wp-content/u.... @npr.org

I guess I should share this here.

A convicted felon is now president of the United States.

Read this!

This is not sustainable. 😱

First Bluesky post: sharing insights about a multifaceted, inside-outside strategy for confronting authoritarianism and taking care of each other (solidarity in action) based on lessons from the US and globally. wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/how-...

Thank you Verne Harris and the Nelson Mandela Foundation for taking the time to host an important discussion to help propel social justice initiatives in South Africa and America forward. Amandla!

Excited to launch an activist led and advised fund to support social movements at the National Endowment for Democracy’s World Movement for Democracy in Johannesburg. Special thank you to the Packard Foundation, Ford Foundation, DT Institute, and PartnersGlobal for being with us on this journey.