Bills are piling up, rent is due, millions are jobless. A one-time $1,200 check won’t cut it.
We need to provide $2,000 a month to every man, woman and child—and make it retroactive to cover the past three months.
If we can bail out corporations, we can ensure everyone’s needs.
This is how you can finish the work that the generations before you started. By staying open and hopeful, even through tough times. Even through discomfort and pain. Channel your feelings into activism and into this democracy that was designed to respond to those who vote.
So much has changed so quickly. And if any of you are confused or scared or angry—or just plain overwhelmed—I just want you to know that you aren’t alone. I am feeling all that, too. And I have a few things I want to say about it. https://t.co/kUZeBzC8xP
As has always been true at key moments in history, it’s going to depend on young people to go out there and rewrite what is possible.
I couldn’t be prouder of all the young people leading that change right now. Here’s my advice for the Class of 2020: https://t.co/XD2n7LEihk
"So use that anger, yes. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.” #MayaAngelou
“Kneeling is the least we could do,” said Natalie Kinlow, 18, as tears streamed down her cheek. After kneeling for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, protesters here in Burbank are gearing up to march to City Hall. @ladailynews
I wrote out some thoughts on how to make this moment a real turning point to bring about real change––and pulled together some resources to help young activists sustain the momentum by channeling their energy into concrete action. https://t.co/jEczrOeFdv
Like so many of you, I'm pained by these recent tradegies. And I'm exhausted by a heartbreak that never seems to stop. Right now it's George, Breonna and Ahmaud. Before it was Eric, Sandra and Michael. It just goes on and on and on.
When we share honestly about our own experiences, we invite others to do the same. The connections we build in these moments of vulnerability are so powerful and so healing.
Tonight at 5pm ET, I hope you’ll join me for the BECOMING watch party. #WatchBecoming