Today Donald J. Trump nationalized the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of the District of Columbia and called out the National Guard to occupy the city. He did all of this based on a lie: the "rising" rate of crime in the city. Fact: the crime rate in our nation's capital is at a thirty year … Continue reading Occupy Washington
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The Ugliness is the Hope
The Ugliness is the Hope. Yes, it sounds strange, yet it's true. Consider the way images impact and change our world. In 1963 the Birmingham Campaign was stuck. No progress was being made. The nation sat, oblivious to the hate behind Jim Crow. Then high school aged children started to march. Bull Connor turned police … Continue reading The Ugliness is the Hope
The Real Targets
59 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles, fired from two US Navy ships. They hit their Syrian targets, an airbase, where we're told the chemical weapons attack against Assad's own people was launched. No one has said how many have died. We've seen some damage reports, but don't really know if the missiles were effective in damaging the Syrian military. But the attack did serve it's purpose.