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Paid Leave: Bold, Urgent and Within Our Reach

Ellen Bravo and Wendy Chun-Hoon Medium.com
The movement we have been building across the country is propelling cohorts of new leaders, many of them women of color and queer and trans folks.

Antislavery Wasn’t Mainstream, Until It Was

Matt Karp Convergence
After Republicans lost their first election in 1856, the nineteenth-century Nate Silvers were happy to declare the antislavery movement a radical, fringe idea. Four years later, Abraham Lincoln won on a radical program of change.
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