"We are here to tell the stock exchange and Wall Street to stop trading our lives, that we want living wages and healthcare and clean air and voting rights."
"The government's insane, and I don't know what else to do, other than to do this, and to try and get the attention that we need to wake the public up," said ecologist Aaron Thierry.
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Fox News are engaging in "deliberate cruelty that treats human beings like pawns," said one immigrant rights advocate.
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The question is whether we'll return to sane and humane economic policies and ban big money from politics or if we'll embrace the authoritarian policies of Putin, Trump, and Le Pen.
The opposite of courage is not cowardice—it's conformity. And right there's the problem with the Big Money establishment that now controls the Democratic Party.
