Senator Adam Schiff 8 January 2021Now that the dust has settled, all too literally, on the events at the Capitol on Wednesday, I wanted to share a few thoughts on what it was like to be there, what it means to the country, and where we go from here. For the many of us that

Erin Schaff, staff photographer:Grabbing my press pass, they saw that my ID said The New York Times and became really angry. They threw me to the floor, trying to take my cameras. I started screaming for help as loudly as I could. No one came. People just watched. At this point, I thought I could

“In June of 2018, I co-organized the largest women-led civil disobedience in American history to protest family separation and the zero tolerance policy.Capitol Police arrested over 600 women for staging a sit-in the Senate Hart Office Building. Over SIX HUNDRED women. No breaking windows. No violence. No breaching Senate Chambers.Let that sink in.”- Linda Sarsour

one of the sanest voicest – throughout this whole year.https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/and as Heather says…”this is where our work starts”…these ideologies will not go away on their own, they have been bubbling up since the civil war. It is time to face them. it is time for our work on a system of government “for all”. and

Black Lives Matter 6 January 2021What we saw today was years in the making. Centuries even.The underwhelming presence and action of law enforcement today was a representation of the White supremacy that will never allow our Black communities to be free. Let’s not avoid the reality that we all know would have transpired had these