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Vicky Benoit's avatar

We are organizing all progressives in our area, which include many special interest groups. Community, for our members, has been essential…knowing we’re not alone, and commiserating with each other on bettering our home town, state and nation. We hope to expand our activities as needed. A recent effort by us(and many others in our state) helped defeat four amendments on March 29, in Louisiana! Not easy to find progressives until you need us😎

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Joyce Wycoff's avatar

Thanks, Vicky, love to hear this … would love to hear more … anything written up on this … or would you be interested in writing about it?

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Vicky Benoit's avatar

We had over 300 citizens who protested April 5 then again on April 19. We are the most Republican city in a very red state. Many participants were protesting for the 1st time! We are gathering for the remarkable people who are progressive in Lafayette! We are ready for action, whenever needed in our state.

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APRIL 5, Hands Off demonstrations in our country, including Lafayette, La., our most republican community in Louisiana! More info Sunday.

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Anita Perez Ferguson's avatar

Use what you have, when you can, for as long as you can to make a difference. Cory used his voice and personal experience to call our attention, stimulate our interest, and motivate each of us to use our energy to fight for change. Thanks.

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Joyce Wycoff's avatar

Jim, I agree that when hope is treated as object to be dusted and displayed on a shelf, it's rather worthless. When it is used as a motivating force, it is powerful. Hope for a better outcome gives us the energy to move. Without hope, we become inert, powerless. For me, "I have hope" is passive; "I hope; therefore I act" is when things begin to change.

"We the people!" Yes! We are the only way we're going to lift ourselves out of this crisis.

Best!

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Jim Sanders's avatar

Hope.

The last thing placed in Pandora’s Jar by Zeus so that humans will endure all the evils he put into the jar that were released and still worship the Olympic gods. The gods thrive on the worship of humans.

Hope, so that you will endure to pay taxes, buy products, consume, as the bloated tick gods feast on more of your blood.

Isn’t hope the chains on action?

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

John Milton

We need a general strike of THE PEOPLE, not wishing and hoping that some leader will lead us out of the land of despair into a land of equality and Justice.

We the people means that our only salvation is through we the people, not through wishing and hoping.

Reduce consuming to weaken the dragon of greed.

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