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Forward Strategy

So I've been worrying about keeping forward momentum whether or not Sanders wins. A significant part of that worry is how highly distributed our movement is right now... distributed enough that it lacks a real focus. There are quite a few sites like this one and that, in and of itself, worries me. I've been wondering how we can coalesce around one central source for generating strategy and then the subsequent calls to action (donations, volunteering, running for local office, etc.).

Democracy Awakening and Democracy Spring

Not an essay, just links to two motivational pieces of info for a genuine reality-based community that sees how things work (and don't). and why. Piefighter Extraordinaire posted this info at the reddit subthread. It stoked my feel the Bern fires, and I thought it might have a bellows effect for others here as well.

Well, we don't rent pigs . . .

One of the main tenets … of the I Ching is that one does not fight evil, one makes energetic progress in good, to paraphrase the Ching. By fighting evil, a person is actually sending energy to the evil by concentrating on it. It seems to be better (from my limited perspective) to use my energy to foster good, and to starve the evil in the process ~ crystaljim

About the restroom safety thing

Saturday night, around 11:40pm, a 25-year-old transgender woman was inside a single-occupancy unisex bathroom at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in New York's Greenwich Village when a man entered the bathroom claiming he only needed to wash his hands. The man then groped and raped the woman.

The man fled the scene. The woman also left the scene, before returning an hour later and calling 911. She was taken to Lennox Hill Hospital for treatment.

I'm not sorry. I will not live in fear or shame.

let’s get started!

Folks, we shit on our kids. Our party did not do for them what it did for many of us. I can’t live with that. In fact, my own kids, who I taught well, have challenged me. My own rhetoric thrown in my face, and they won!

I can’t sell establishment incrementalism and compromise to them. I can’t sell it to myself either. Not anymore.

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