I participated in the Women's March in Austin last Saturday (1/18). The presentations in the "speakers" portion of the event were exceptionally good, with ideas focused on the future, making the economy work for more people, and issues around mothers and reproductive rights. The speakers were leaders of Austin-based organizations that are currently working on a non-partisan basis to improve the lives of women, especially trans women and women of color. Most of the participants in the march were white women, many old like me. I recommend tuning in to the ideas of these young women that aim to encourage leaders to envision and work for a future that supports people who are oppressed (thereby helping the rest of us) rather than getting trapped in the future imagined by the tech billionaires and Oil Barons.
Few people are knowledgeable about Texas or American history, and even fewer remember how their families were helped out of poverty by the New Deal. Hell, even today, when rural Texas is getting fiber optic cable access — finally — and it’s all because of Biden’s Anti-Inflation and Build Back Better initiatives, most people have NO CLUE that its is Joe Biden’s “fault” that they are finally able to stream a movie and not have it halt or pixelate on them. People are not being educated about so many facts. The Fourth Estate has truly failed, and in their failure has doomed hope of curbing the monopolies and re-instituting some measure of control over corporations.
I participated in the Women's March in Austin last Saturday (1/18). The presentations in the "speakers" portion of the event were exceptionally good, with ideas focused on the future, making the economy work for more people, and issues around mothers and reproductive rights. The speakers were leaders of Austin-based organizations that are currently working on a non-partisan basis to improve the lives of women, especially trans women and women of color. Most of the participants in the march were white women, many old like me. I recommend tuning in to the ideas of these young women that aim to encourage leaders to envision and work for a future that supports people who are oppressed (thereby helping the rest of us) rather than getting trapped in the future imagined by the tech billionaires and Oil Barons.
Few people are knowledgeable about Texas or American history, and even fewer remember how their families were helped out of poverty by the New Deal. Hell, even today, when rural Texas is getting fiber optic cable access — finally — and it’s all because of Biden’s Anti-Inflation and Build Back Better initiatives, most people have NO CLUE that its is Joe Biden’s “fault” that they are finally able to stream a movie and not have it halt or pixelate on them. People are not being educated about so many facts. The Fourth Estate has truly failed, and in their failure has doomed hope of curbing the monopolies and re-instituting some measure of control over corporations.
That’l learn em. Nuff said.