Lion King Crew’s I Can’t Breathe Challenge

Lion King cast singing
I Can’t Breathe Challenge featuring the Cast & Crew from Disney’s The Lion King Nat’l Tour

While the national dialogue around #ICantBreathe #BlackLivesMatter is being framed, it’s important to remember that racism hurts all people in a society: those who practice it and those victimized by it.

Let’s make 2015 the Year of The People and take our world back.

Do elitist terms get in the way of political progress?

OK, progressives know that Bernie Sanders is unmistakably a good guy. He pointed out recently that in a country with such a huge gap between economic classes, and with so many low and moderate income people drowning financially, any talk about cutting Medicaid and Medicare is inhuman and should be unthinkable; he’s certainly right about that, and it’s great to have a national political representative speaking plain truths on the public’s behalf like this. But then, Sanders goes on to talk about health care reforms that are still needed and throws out that ridiculous term, “single payer healthcare.” read more