ULTIMATELY, who benefits from these well-practiced fables? Who makes gain from the false lessons instilled? Who are the myths of Thanksgiving designed to benefit? What are the truths they are meant to obscure?
AND SO I RETURN TO THE ROOT: This is the radical positivity that I use as my compass. This is the simple vision that I have. Not a never-ending wearying battle, not an eternal tightlipped scowl. Not moping and hoping and weeping and keeping the feeling of being a victim alive. But a joy filled heart on a sun-drenched field with fight in my bones and light in my eyes.
THE GATEKEEPERS SMELL YOU. They smell your stink, your mobsweat, your hunger for truth, your disdain for polish and kickback and they fear you. They fear for their own future, and all that once was so pristine and in the green zone of yesterday’s News. But do they fear mostly for their cash or for the proliferation of Truth?
WE CAN NO LONGER IGNORE the war crimes that trail our national steps like a raging family of ghosts. Either we refute and condemn these horrific deeds through actions that bring justice, or we are become them.
THERE HAS BEEN A PUSH as of late to communicate to the public how deeply into our system hate groups have infiltrated. In this anxious time we are living through, minorities and immigrants become scapegoats for society’s ills. People get hurt and hunted because of it. This is a good video to pass around to help.
THANKSGIVING is probably the most popular and earliest-given justification for invasion, murder, imperialism, occupation, and “othering” that we know of in this country. Even now in Iraq we hear fables fashioned on the same colonizer’s framework and it sickens. But Thanksgiving is Iraq, with its steaming platter of corpses. Iraq is Thanksgiving.
THE SANCTUARY EDITORS: Showing the vitality and importance of voices from outside the mainstream two-party political paradigm, Congresswoman McKinney puts forth not only a strong understanding of the complexities of the Immigration Issue, but also a vision of real-world solutions with a refreshing willingness to confront the broader social and economic realities which undergird international migration.
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