Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights

Protesting. Standing up for what’s right. Uniting around the common good—kids have questions about all of these things they see and hear about each day. Through sparse and lyrical writing, Rob Sanders introduces abstract concepts like “fighting for what you believe in” and turns them into something actionable. Jared Schorr’s bold, bright illustrations brings the resistance to life making it clear that one person can make a difference. And together , we can accomplish anything.
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• twitter .com/RBReich/status/1463310523995361283 (‘  Prof. Robert Reich  :  Pssst… Republicans are quietly erasing decades of voting rights progress across the South and will succeed in fully dismantling our democracy if we fail to pass federal voting rights protections.  https://t.co/yC8RRysFKb?amp=1 via @RBReich ‘)
• twitter .com/RBReich/status/1463242406195863555 (‘  Never forget that a majority of Supreme Court justices were appointed by presidents who initially lost the popular vote. The court is now poised to overturn Roe v Wade, despite Americans supporting it by a roughly 2-to-1 margin. This is not how democracy is supposed to work. Solutions Watch video… ‘)
• twitter .com/RBReich/status/1463206728208719881 (‘  Berkeley professor Robert Reich :   Mass incarceration is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. Insulin rationing is a policy choice. Climate disintegration is a policy choice. Poverty is a policy choice. Billionaire tax loopholes are a policy choice. Make no mistake: We have the power to change things. ‘)
• twitter .com/RBReich/status/1463206728208719881 (‘  Berkeley professor Robert Reich :   Mass incarceration is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. Insulin rationing is a policy choice. Climate disintegration is a policy choice. Poverty is a policy choice. Billionaire tax loopholes are a policy choice. Make no mistake: We have the power to change things. ‘)
• twitter .com/QuoteDigging/status/1462946579552292864 (‘  Texans are ready to get past the small, petty politics of Greg Abbott — and to get back to being big again. –Beto O’Rourke  ‘)
• en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Abilene,_Texas (‘ Abilene is a city in Taylor and Jones Counties in Texas, United States… It is the county seat of Taylor County. Dyess Air Force Base is located on the west side of the city.   ‘)
• marchehua .com (‘ My friends from Hong Kong, pro-democracy are arrested by the encroachment of beijing in hong kong on 23-11-2020, they are in prison, So I share their story to help them, Joshua Wong  #StandwithHongKong , #StandWithMyanmar, #standwiththailand ; @mrattkthu @hazzel_ray  ‘)
• twitter .com/Amy_Siskind/status/1462931230995927043 (‘ Amy Siskind : We must pass voting rights protection while we still hold the majorities. It is priority #1. Whatever needs to be done – including bringing in Pelosi to rein in Manchin and Sinema – make it happen. ‘)
• twitter .com/Amy_Siskind/status/1462976470091976708 (‘  I don’t understand members of Congress tweeting that this or that should be passed into law. We know! Your job is to stay in DC and pass things. That is why we sent you. There is no need to have Congress be out of session 23 of 27 days! ‘)
• theweeklylist .org/weekly-list/i-sounded-the-alarm-for-authoritarianism-in-2016-and-i-am-sounding-it-again (‘ On January 20, 2021 we were finally able to exhale, believing our near brush with authoritarianism was behind us, and that with President Joe Biden… Elected Republicans continually questioned the 2020 election results, and attempted to rewrite history, including casting the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol as a mere “tourist visit.” ‘)
• twitter .com/QuoteDigging/status/1463311513721061376 (‘  Joe Madison on why he is going on a hunger strike for #votingrights: “I’ve got four children, five grandchildren, and a great-grandchild. I don’t want them, 50 years from now, to have to go through what our forefathers went through….” From The ReidOut  @quellosicilian : “when those who ask why a hunger strike Joe? And I tell them just as food is vital to our survival, voting rights are vital to our Democracy’s survival”. Freedom : How We Lose It and How We Fight Back ‘)
• twitter .com/RBReich/status/1463242406195863555 (‘  video,  Never forget that a majority of Supreme Court justices were appointed by presidents who initially lost the popular vote. The court is now poised to overturn Roe v Wade, despite Americans supporting it by a roughly 2-to-1 margin. This is not how democracy is supposed to work.   ‘)