I’ll be in Washington, DC on New Year’s Day. The event begins at 2pmET and the livestream starts at 3pmET. Tickets for both are available at http://Marianne2020.com/events
Looking forward to visiting Washington, DC on New Year’s Day. The event begins at 2pmET and a livestream will be available at 3pmET. Tickets for both are available at https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mwdc2020# …
The difference between race-based policies and reparations is this: race-based policies give financial remuneration, but only reparations carries an inherent mea culpa - an acknowledgment of a wrong that was done, a debt that is owed, and the willingness of a generation to pay it
“She inspires society to have a better vision of itself...”
- Mayor Ed Malloy of Fairfield, Iowa
We need a US Department of Children and Youth in order to coordinate the efforts needed to provide adequate responses to the unbelievable vulnerabilities & challenges of our kids today. America has the professionals who know what to do to solve all this. I will put them to work!
We need trauma-informed education, community wrap-around services, anti-bullying, mental health services, mindfulness in schools. Every school should be a palace of learning, culture and the arts. The best way to serve America's future is by better serving our children today.
Millions of children live with chronic trauma, and we should rescue them no differently than if they were victims of a natural disaster. Their despair has been normalized by the political establishment. but not by me. We need a massive realignment of investment in America's kids.
Elementary students on suicide watch. Public schools with "trauma rooms." Teachers having to deal with students who have overwhelming behavioral problems on a daily basis. Millions of children with severe PTSD just from living in their neighborhoods. America, we have a problem.
Just changing policy won’t be enough if we don’t change our thinking. And changing our thinking won’t be enough if we don’t change our policies. Making ourselves conduits of change on both levels: that’s the political sweet spot for 2020.
2020 will be the year of integrative politics, where we recognize that a change in our hearts is as important as changes in our policy. If we’re serious about wanting to change the world, we must go about changing things on both levels.
