Thursday, November 10, 2016

Op-Ed: Organizing Starts Now, With Love

What do we do daddy? I'm crying.

Those were the words I awoke to this morning.

My daughter, like millions of American children, has not just witnessed the election of a president who has openly bullied women, Latinos, Blacks, Muslims, the parents of war heroes, and many other groups of Americans. She has watched his rhetoric change the atmosphere on her playground as children mimic his hate like mocking birds. It hurts her. It scares her.

My response to her: Dry your tears. A better day will come. We must all pull together to make it happen.

How? She asked. I told her we would discuss it tonight. Here is what I will try to explain to her in simpler terms:
 
The resistance begins today.

We must take Trump at his word. He has promised to assail the rights of women and minorities, expand coal mining and fracking, build the equivalent of the Berlin Wall between us and Mexico, said he does not believe in a Federal minimum wage, and threatened to escalate our conflicts abroad. His respect for the US Constitution is questionable at best.

We must build the most robust movements we have ever known to defend our rights and those of our neighbors, protect our planet, end poverty, and shift the world away from war and towards peace. 

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