1) One of the things that I love most about @BlocPower Civilian Climate Corps is that we try to develop and care for vulnerable individuals as WHOLE people.
Austin just experienced it's biggest temperature drop ever within a 24 hour period! From 97º Sunday afternoon down to 39º Monday morning! Just incredible!
This past week, while still reeling from the loss of Ms. Jo Ann Bland, we lost another civil rights hero. Dr. Bernard Lafayette passed away in Tuskegee, Alabama Thursday. We, at the Institute for Common Power, had the absolute honor of working with, learning from, and being mentored by Dr. Lafayette. He was our personal hero. We will do our best to continue to keep his memory and lessons alive.
Dr. Bernard Lafayette was an award-winning educator, writer, ordained minister, and iconic civil rights activist who worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rep. John Lewis, Diane Nash, Rev. C. T. Vivian, Rev. James Lawson, and countless others.
Born in Tampa, FL in 1940, Dr. Lafayette attended American Baptist College in Nashville where he and Lewis were roommates. He became a central figure in the city’s student movement and helped desegregate the city before becoming a Freedom Rider. Dr. Lafayette was instrumental in bringing Selma, AL and voting rights into a national lens when, in 1963, as a member of SNCC, he insisted on going to Selma despite others saying that change could not be created there. Lafayette helped launch the Selma campaigns that led to the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Trained by Dr. King, Rev. Lawson, and others in non-violence, Dr. Lafayette spent decades internationalizing nonviolence training through centers, workshops, and interventions in civil conflicts. He successfully arbitrated conflicts in Wounded Knee, SD; South Africa; and Columbia. Lafayette earned an MEd (1972) and a doctorate (1974) from Harvard University. He was Chairman of the Board for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Dr. Lafayette will be missed, but never ever forgotten.
#bloodysunday #history #selma #civilrights #truth
"AI is a tech revolution unlike anything we've ever before experienced in history."
also
"New jobs will be created to replace ones destroyed by AI, just like we've always seen in history."
You’re nuts if you think UBI is coming
You think the American heartland is going to airdrop the laptop class free money after they gutted manufacturing and left these entire states for dead?
Brother you are on your OWN!! Better start saving up
-Both tried their own version of reform in the drug trade.
-Both went behind the back of and were at odds with their superior(s).
-One lost his life.
-One lost his career.
“Look like you and me both trying to make sense of this game.”-Stringer to Bunny Colvin. #TheWire
this speech by Jesse Jackson is one of the best I've heard, and exposes the neoliberal Democratic party's refusal to even attempt to appeal to the working classes let alone organizing them, instead only catering to their corporate owners. "Reagan won by the margin of despair!"
This week for Marketplace Tech Bytes, @jewelmelanie and I covered:
- the new AI-only social network
- Alphabet's hundo bond
- our most-played songs. (hers: I Found My Smile Again by D'Angelo, mine: Golden from KPop Demon Hunters
Fox News: The U.S. military earlier this week shot down what turned out to be a party balloon near El Paso, Texas, after initially assessing it as a possible foreign drone, a misidentification that later led to a full airspace shutdown around the airport.
@MikeNellis the year is 2076. i've been the head of the NFL for 50 years and have used the halftime show to represent every ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and religion. the new 2076 halftime show has now moved onto animals
Louisiana plans to sue me because I won’t extradite a doctor for providing an abortion.
@AGLizMurrill: Go fuck yourself. California will never help you criminalize healthcare.
I will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court by a Republican Party running scared. If they want answers, let’s stop the games & do this the right way: in a public hearing, where the American people can see for themselves what this is really about.