Subjugations 'r US

Welcome. Below is the February 4 preview from the forthcoming and tentatively titled All of Us: A Pro-Democracy Book of Days for America.

Building on the January 28 entry on shadow, the January 29-February 4 entries continue to explore shadow, and then look at the foundational subjugations in American history (Women, Indigenous Peoples, Africans/African Americans, & the Poor).

This January 28 entry is the fourth of four that deal with the subjugation of women.

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5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos is taken into custody by federal agents when they were unable to find Cookie Monster, for whom they had only an administrative warrant. An agent speaking on the condition of anonymity shared that Stephen Miller really wanted Cookie Monster detained.

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Sources

Barrett’s quote has been around for a while and appears in various iterations.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace, (Parallax, 1996/1987), 87.

Jason Reynolds, “Imagination and Fortitude,” On Being with Krista
Tippett, June 25, 2020, https://onbeing.org/programs/jason-reynolds-
imagination-and-fortitude/

Paraphrase of Matthew 25:40-45

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Our musical signoff this week is a live-from-Minneapolis performance by Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello singing Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and “The Ghost of Tom Joad”, and a Morello-led “Power to the People”.