Here we go; it’s the LAST DAY of my Meme-A-Thon. 1. Hours since I last satisfied my nicotine fix: 87. 2. I am grateful for my mentors, movement elders who inspire me to keep on trucking. One of my first movement mentors was David Graeber. It was late fall 2001, the smoke from September 11 [...]
via Colorlines Vermont, land of rolling green hills dotted with black and white Holsteins and picturesque red barns. White people, everywhere, lots of them. Home of state-sanctioned town hall meetings that are models for participatory democracy. And now, the first state in our republic to enact universal health care for all. Two weeks ago, Gov. [...]
via Colorlines.com Juan Baten came to this country from Guatemala seven years ago in search of a better life. A bus in Cabral, Guatemala, hit his father so Baten left home at the age of 15, to make the journey north. He made his way to Brooklyn, N.Y., where he found work in a tortilla [...]
Yvonne Yen Liu is a nerd for the racial justice movement. She lives in Oakland, California. You can write to her at yvonnegrapher at gmail dot com.
Yvonne Yen Liu is a nerd for the racial justice movement. She lives in Oakland, California. You can write to her at yvonnegrapher at gmail dot com.