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“We cannot say we are for press freedom when we are giving Israel the guns it assassinates Palestinian journalists with.”
“A lot of housing discrimination is enacted through things that don’t overtly appear to be about race, and may not even directly appear to be about housing.”
“There’s some really clear policy things we can do for folks who have just come here, like work permits, like making sure there is transitional housing and support and services.”
The insurance industry itself is a main actor in driving the rise of extreme weather, through its very close relationship to the fossil fuel industry.
“What unfolded in Lebanon last week was something dystopian, but it wasn’t a movie. It affected real people’s lives.”
“It’s got very little to do with religion and everything to do with geopolitics and capitalism and colonialism.”
“Firearms and other weapons were regulated more strictly in the country’s first 300 years than in the last 30 years.”
“The future of the economy is based on how well minorities do in America.”
“Kroger’s CEO, on a shareholder call, admitted that inflation is a good thing, because it’ll allow the company to raise prices.”
“Outside forces who, in some cases, do not have to disclose the source of their funding can spend more on a race than the candidates themselves.”
“To connect the dots of the health harms and the climate disasters that are happening, we need to do more.”
“This rulemaking process is supposed to be about protecting community members and making sure pipelines are safe, not about preventing protests.”
“They’ve taken the most significant criminal trial of the century, the 9/11 case, and put it into a system where everything is being invented from scratch.”
“Google has maintained its monopoly position, not necessarily by having a superior product, but by blocking out rivals.”
“When you’re used to hegemony, pluralism begins to feel like oppression.”
“Millions of dollars have been spent just driving people from corner to corner, with no even slight effort, really, to house people.”
“The problem isn’t what people believe. It’s translating majority opinion into majority rule.”
“In any country, there could be a trial begun, charges brought against those in Israel…who are enabling and profiting from this occupation.”
“If you are the one who is being evaluated, it’s not only you don’t know the criteria, but it could be changing.”
“How can we broaden our pardons and broaden our expungements, and expedite and automatically create these opportunities for people to move past these convictions?”
