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F4lconF16

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Sat Jan 10, 2015, 01:42 AM Jan 2015

Handed out flyers for a Black Power rally at a "Selma" screening downtown.

If you haven't gone to see it, please do. It's inspiring, and beautifully captures what power we have if we choose to take it. It may be hard. It may be brutally hard. But if each of us takes to the fight in whatever way we can, we can effect change. There will always be hope if we reach for it.

I am loving getting out there and doing things. I've been wanting to start working with the activist community for a while now. I recently begun attending meetings at the ISO Puget Sound chapter, and met a lot of good people there. There's a rally that's coming up on MLK day and a march after that I'm really looking forward to, as well as a protest. I'm most excited to go to a community panel that includes John Carlos as one of it's speakers.

Change is happening. We can all feel it. People are becoming unsettled. They're paying attention. Please, go out and do what you can. We are many, and they are few, and we can win. We can and will. But we have to struggle. We have to fight.

Make a difference.

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Handed out flyers for a Black Power rally at a "Selma" screening downtown. (Original Post) F4lconF16 Jan 2015 OP
Lawrence O'Donnell raved about that movie last night. SunSeeker Jan 2015 #1

SunSeeker

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1. Lawrence O'Donnell raved about that movie last night.
Sat Jan 10, 2015, 02:31 AM
Jan 2015

He said the scene where the bomb explodes at the 16th Street Baptist Church was so shocking that he flew foward in his seat. He pointed out how much more powerful it is to see that horrific event (where four young black girls were killed) on a movie screen than to read about it in a book.

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