Donald Trump

26 Jan 2017

I Went to Both the Inauguration & the Women’s March. This is What I Learned.

History is a tricky thing. It’s rare that you can perceive the exact moment a cultural shift occurs while it’s actually happening. Usually the slow, steady, relentlessness of time obscures the importance of events, and it’s not until you look back that you realize “That! That was the moment everything

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25 Jan 2017

Boycott These Companies Because They Sell Trump Brands

The only thing Donald Trump loves almost as much as he loves himself is money. His name is synonymous with rapacious, hyper-capitlistic, wealth accumulation…and well, whatever the opposite of accumulation is (ahem…how many bankruptcies?). He’s so associated with money that if you woke up from a 30 year coma an

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25 Jan 2017

Brave Protesters Hang ‘Resist’ Banner from Crane Near White House

Well this is just incredible! Those of you worried that the weekend’s demonstrations were a one off and that people would go back to regular life, never ye fear! Just look at the beauty above! According to NBC News Greenpeace protesters scaled the big ass 270 foot crane you see

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16 Jan 2017

All the Ways to Protest The Inauguration While in D.C.

Making that fateful trek to our nation’s capital this week? Not all of it will be bad, yes there will most likely be a speech with the eloquence and grammar below a 6th-grade level, the lowest predicted attendance rate and highest amount of organized protests of any inauguration, but that

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25 Nov 2016

The 5 Ways We Can Stop Trump from Seizing Power

This was originally a Facebook post by Taj James, Founder & Co-Director at Movement Strategy Center. It is reposted here with his permission. The 5 Ways We Can Stop Trump from Seizing Power (And how to remove him from power if he does!) #TrumpLost the democratic election (the one where the person

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25 Nov 2016

Why the Standing Rock Protest is Everyone’s Issue

The scene at Standing Rock is like a medieval morality play, pitting good against evil. Of all the nightmares in America today, one stands out as a symbol of everything that’s wrong: the Dakota Access Pipeline. As a symbol of all that’s right, we have the Standing Rock Sioux and

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11 Nov 2016

An Apology from a Straight Middle-Class White Man

Let me first say I did not vote for Trump, I voted for the future of America by casting my ballot for Hillary Clinton. Who I am might appeal to you but my beliefs, worries, angst and fight might not. I’m white, born a man, straight (although I love all

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27 Oct 2016

What it’s Like Canvassing for Hillary Clinton in Nevada

“EXCUSE ME!”

I tense up as the tall gray-haired man wearing grandpa glasses yells to grab our attention and then stands a little too close for comfort. I was with 3 other women outside a Starbucks in Reno wearing Hillary Clinton t-shirts as we got ready to knocks on doors and talk to voters. Outside of my Bay Area bubble, I realize I’m assuming random people (well, white men at least) are Trump supporters until they prove otherwise.

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