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On Racial Justice, Walls of Moms — and How to Reclaim the Future (during a pandemic!)
Greetings, good people, Friends are asking me what’s going on in Portland, Oregon, the mostly-white liberal city up the road. I’ve been closely following the Black Lives Matter protests that keep turning into nightly skirmishes with occupying feds, and...![My Very Own Super Tuesday](https://www.marydemocker.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/mom-and-daughter-bookseller.jpg)
My Very Own Super Tuesday
I’m writing on Super Tuesday, two weeks after my very own Super Tuesday 2/20/2020. I’d started that day feeling low, sure that my multiple interviews and pitches with big venues were DOA. My pathetic revolution and I were washed up. Then, a Google alert. The...![Hillary Will (Probably) Lose for Reasons Only Trump T-shirt Hawkers Dare Mention](https://www.marydemocker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/trump-rally-pic-of-woman-featured-image-1080x600.jpg)
Hillary Will (Probably) Lose for Reasons Only Trump T-shirt Hawkers Dare Mention
Trump supporters’ T-shirts and signs scream out the vulnerabilities making Hillary–and her husband–dangerous gambles for Democrats desperate for a winning nominee.
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It’s the Killing Season: Get the Glue Gun
It’s nature’s “killing season,” when everything is tested; to participate in March’s explosion of new life, everything–animals, plants, appliances, careers, relationships–must first withstand February’s decay.
Scared of jail. Terrified of the alternative.
Last Wednesday at the Eugene Federal Building, I delivered, along with two dozen other climate activists, a letter to Those In Charge. What did I write to denizens of the shiny behemoth that seems better suited to the Death Star than to our liberal hamlet?