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Words from Marianne
Thoughts and reflections from the campaign trail.
The Willow Project and the Fate of our Species
We're moving in the wrong direction; only we the people can turn it around.
We're moving in the wrong direction; only we the people can turn it around.
Many people are upset about the Willow Project, and for good reason. The $8 billion oil drilling project in Alaska is undoubtedly “recklessly irresponsible,” in the words of Al Gore. Despite President Biden’s campaign...
A New America Is Struggling To Be Born
But it won't be birthed unless we birth it...
But it won't be birthed unless we birth it...
It’s time for America to recreate itself. An America that has reclaimed its original principles but is willing to reckon with the places where we have not lived up to them. We need to celebrate the places where we have been...
America’s Economic Royalists
At what point do we just say no?
At what point do we just say no?
It says something deeply dysfunctional about our society that there are young people now whose goal is to become a billionaire. Beyond the fact that 99 per cent of those who want that will never get the chance, the very...
You Were Born for Such a Time as This
That was their time, this is ours
That was their time, this is ours
56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. It was a document treasonous to the king of England, therefore by doing so they were literally putting their lives at risk. The Declaration called forth a new nation, built...
Bringing to Consciousness America’s Unconscious Shadows
America is like an alcoholic family, in which no one is really saying what’s going on, the children are registering all the unprocessed realities but don’t know what to do with them, and anyone who speaks up and tells the...
We Can Change
...or change will be thrust upon us.
...or change will be thrust upon us.
Years ago I went to work at a place where I sought to institute various changes. I met lots of resistance - I admit I lacked the managerial chops at the time to enroll people in my ideas, as I should have - and kept hearing...
The Neoliberal Con that’s Destroying America
The hour is late. Are the people ready?
The hour is late. Are the people ready?
Neoliberalism is the political philosophy that dominates both major political parties. It replaces democratic values with market values as the governing principle of our society, making free-market capitalism, deregulation...
America Done, or America 2.0
Our destiny is as yet unwritten
Our destiny is as yet unwritten
American history is like a book in which every generation writes a chapter. Some of the chapters have been glorious while others have been tragic; the chapter we’re in is one in which we’re teetering on an edge between the...
East Palestine, Labor, and Where We are Now
My interview with Max Alvarez
My interview with Max Alvarez
The train derailment and subsequent environmental disaster on February 3rd in East Palestine, Ohio, is the embodiment of a greedy economic perspective and the damage it creates. The railroad industry, like so many...