Posts tagged solidarity

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Now that national news outlets have picked up the story, the student union will be having a press conference today at noon (EST). We were also ordered a pizza by some wonderful people in Madison, Wisconsin in a show of solidarity.

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I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.
Bertrand Russell
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Walk into Action

I’m thrilled that I know these people personally.

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“In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.” Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto Zoom

“In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.” Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

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Being a leftist is a calling, not a career; it’s a vocation not a profession. It means you are concerned about structural violence, you are concerned about exploitation at the work place, you are concerned about institutionalized contempt against gay brothers and lesbian sisters, hatred against peoples of color, and the subordination of women. It means that you are willing to fight against, and to try to understand the sources of social misery at the structural and institutional levels, as well as at the existential and personal levels. That’s what it means to be a leftist; that’s why we choose to be certain kinds of human beings.
Cornel West
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But if we are to survive as a nation, a culture — or as a planet, ultimately — we’d best begin to demand better of ourselves and others. We’d best commit to a recognition that most of us are just trying to do the best we can, in a world that can be tough and unforgiving. Trying to raise families, keep our heads above water, and do what we think is right. Occasionally we get it wrong, and so do our neighbors. But that doesn’t make us, or them, terrorists, or zombies, or stealth Stalinists, or baby-killers, or gun nuts, or Klansmen, or whatever. It makes us, and them, human.
Tim Wise, “Paranoia as Prelude: Conspiracism and the Cost of Political Rage”
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rmsk8r05: “This Christmas present is not for one but for all in equal measure.”

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“This Christmas present is not for one but for all in equal measure.”

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The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people, and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad, petty, little, unsexy ways, every day.
David Foster Wallace
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But hopefully this is a reminder: sometimes being a gentleman means doing what you can to enable others to live their lives fully.
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