“If you don’t know where you’re going, all roads will lead you there.”
— Lewis Carrol
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“To make matters worse, the DNC has refused to host a climate debate and announced that it will bar from the debate stage any candidates participating in one in another venue. In censoring a serious discussion of climate, the DNC aligns itself with President Trump’s anti-climate agenda.”
— Alison Rose Levy, The DNC Strategy Will Defeat Climate Voters, Not Trump (TruthOut 6/16/19)
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“We’re not protecting our children. If you can’t learn from the past, it’s going to continue happening.”
— Flo Rice, substitute teacher who was wounded during mass shooting at Santa Fe High School, Santa Fe, Texas (5/18/18). Local and state officials have withheld information of the investigation. USA Today (6/10/19)
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“In both the US and the UK, from 1980 to 2016, the share of total income going to the top 1% has more than doubled. After allowing for inflation, the earnings of the bottom 90% in the US and UK have barely risen at all over the past 25 years. More generally, 50 years ago, a US CEO earned on average about 20 times as much as the typical worker. Today, the CEO earns 354 times as much.”
— Jonathan Aldred, ‘Socialism for the rich’: The evils of bad economics, The Guardian (6/6/19)
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Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy – their own population.”
— Noam Chomsky
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“Respect existence or expect resistance.”
— Youth Climate Action Day poster
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“The revolution will be monetized.”
— Joe Bodnar