Tell the Democratic Candidates: Reverse Trump

Conversations happening RIGHT NOW will determine what issues shape the coming national debate. The pro-choice majority is calling on candidates to prioritize undoing Trump’s attacks on reproductive freedom and centralize increasing access to abortion in their campaign priorities.

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Visit with your member of Congress to oppose Trump’s NAFTA deal!

A really powerful way to have your voice heard is to set up a meeting with your member of Congress.

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8 Podcasts for the Spiritual Searcher by EMMA DIBDIN

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It is worse, much worse, than you think

Quakers, social justice and revolution

A number of books have been published recently, each speaking about environmental catastrophe with greater urgency and depth. I’ve just begun to read The Uninhabitable Earth, by David Wallace-Wells.

It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn’t happening at all, and comes to us bundled with several others in an anthology of comforting delusions: that global warming is an Arctic saga, unfolding remotely; that it is strictly a matter of sea level and coastlines, not an enveloping crisis sparing no place and leaving no life undeformed; that it is a crisis of the “natural” world, not the human one; that those two are distinct, and that we live today somehow outside or beyond or at the very least defended against nature, not inescapably within and literally overwhelmed by it; that wealth…

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What Is Juneteenth? African American History Blog | The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explains the origins of Juneteenth, the celebration of the end of slavery.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren & Rep. Deb Haaland Unveil New Legislation to Provide Universal Child Care and Early Learning to All Families — Native News Online

Published June 22, 2019 WASHINGTON — United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and Congresswoman Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), Vice Chair of the Majority Leader’s Task Force on Families and Children Living in Poverty, last Tuesday unveiled the Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act, a comprehensive and bicameral bill…

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Timeless China, Dehang / Hunan — Cameron Diaz

Timeless China, Dehang / Hunan

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