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Judy Collins Talks Resolutions, War, and Keeping It All Together

Ray Roa Creative Loafing
"We need a song that transcends the moment instead of leaving us to have to live in that feeling of despair and horror and hunger and human suffering,” Collins said.” We have to be given something to lift us over that and through that.”

The Relevance of Hope Under Trump

Ronald Aronson The Nation
Hope belongs to the left. Social hope entails searching collectively for public solutions to our public problems rather than pretending that everything is up to the solitary individual. Hope creates action, but it is equally true that action creates hope. It is the action of movements, rooted in people's needs and longings, attempting to change the world in small ways and large.

Trump Changed Everything. Now Everything Counts

Barbara Kingsolver The Guardian (UK)
Millions of Americans are starting to grasp that we can't politely stand by watching lives and liberties get slashed beyond repair. What are you going to do?

Learning to Claim Our Victories - Finding Hope in Dismal Times

Rebecca Gordon Tom Dispatch
'Luckily, not everyone has been glued to the screen, eternally watching The Donald. From Black Lives Matter to the climate change movement, activists have, as TomDispatch regular Rebecca Gordon points out, never stopped working to make this a better world and, as she indicates, if we can take our eyes off the media spectacle-cum-circus for a few moments, they offer us a kind of hope for our future that shouldn't be ignored.' - Tom Engelhardt
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