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Barrie Friedland
3 days ago3 min read
Stop Being Afraid, Stand Up and Fight!
To be clear, Trump's concern about the elderly woman only buying 2 not 3 apples is gone if it ever existed. Watch grocery prices...
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Jacob Kravetz
Dec 121 min read
Leah Margulies
Organized People Making a Difference See our chat with Leah here. As a little holiday treat, #DSOT is bringing you a fantastic chat...
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Jacob Kravetz
Dec 103 min read
Killer Healthcare
Early on December 4th , Brian Thompson, billionaire, and United Healthcare CEO, was shot dead in New York City. Amazingly, in one of the...
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Barrie Friedland
Dec 34 min read
Yes We Have No Bananas
Derrière chaque fortune, il y a un crime. Behind every fortune. there is a crime. Behind every great fortune, there is, in fact, often...
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Barrie Friedland
Nov 262 min read
The Non-Profit "Death Penalty" Bill
Donald Trump is a serial offender when it comes to stealing money from charities and nonprofits. It is a long list, so let's just cite...
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Barrie Friedland
Nov 221 min read
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book. NOT US
See our chat with Kent from Unite Against Book Bans here #DSOT is thankful that we were able to chat with Kent Oliver. He is a Senior...
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Barrie Friedland
Nov 194 min read
Now You Are Just Mocking Us
It is one thing to have too many elected officials unable or unwilling to have government serve the people. Yes, together with corruption...
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Jacob Kravetz
Nov 123 min read
What To Do Now and Tomorrow
From the viewpoint of DSOT, the election results suggest that voters feel the Democratic party has abandoned them, no longer serving the...
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Jacob Kravetz
Nov 124 min read
What Just Happned ! or ?
It's been a week since the election, and at the national level things didn't shake out as I had thought , and certainly not as I’d hoped,...
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Jacob Kravetz
Nov 53 min read
Vote/ Take a Short Break/Continue to Fight
Somehow it's finally election day. We, and so many others , have made the case repeatedly against Trump and the Republican party in this...
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Jacob Kravetz
Oct 312 min read
The Scary Secrets of State Lobbyists
See our chat with James Browning of F-Minus here. What's spookier than Halloween? Lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry hiding in plain...
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Jacob Kravetz
Oct 293 min read
Time to Get Out and Get Active
I want to keep this relatively brief because we are just a week away from the election (11/5) and we should be spending our time getting...
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Jacob Kravetz
Oct 223 min read
Losing Democracy by Inches and Miles
Democracy is on the ballot and yet so many in this country don't seem to know, or care. Why is that? What drives this apathy or...
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Barrie Friedland
Oct 153 min read
Don't Use Your Privilege to Take Away the Right to Vote. Voting is a Right
Can you imagine having a business in which your employees conspired to steal your rights and hinder your input? It seems a bit absurd...
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Barrie Friedland
Oct 102 min read
Meet Ryan Dorsey
Local Politicians Who Serve the People: From Abel Wolman to Ryan Dorsey It’s Thursday and we’ve got a quick Civics Pop Quiz for you: Who...
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Jacob Kravetz
Oct 83 min read
Are We Brave Enough to Seek Peace
Yesterday marked the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack per capita in modern history , when Hamas invaded Israel, killed 1200...
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Barrie Friedland
Oct 62 min read
What You Can Do
#DSOT Don't Shop on Tuesday was created to harness the power of people all over the country. It is designed to craft a growing and...
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Jacob Kravetz
Oct 41 min read
Hi/ Give us a Listen
Zoomside chats are quick informal conversations with activists about their causes/challenges and victories. We would love to talk with...
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Jacob Kravetz
Oct 13 min read
Dangerous/Deadly and Getting Worse
This past weekend hurricane Helene tore into the US mainland and ripped its way through multiple States including Florida, Georgia,...
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Jacob Kravetz
Sep 243 min read
If You Can't Beat 'em/ Don't Let 'em Vote
As we enter into the final weeks of campaigning prior to the elections for positions from Councilman to President there is coverage...
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Jacob Kravetz
Sep 172 min read
Fight with Combined Economic Power...Not Guns
The FBI and Secret Service are currently looking into another apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump, this time at his golf...
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Barrie Friedland
Sep 102 min read
Mass Shootings No Mas
With September here, the school year is underway across the nation. All the excitement and trepidation of a new year, new classes, new...
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Barrie Friedland
Sep 32 min read
Unions a Primer: Volume 1
To many, this past weekend meant that school started, the last Summer BBQ’s were held before the season slips away, and mattresses are on...
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Barrie Friedland
Aug 272 min read
Abingdon Woods: Victory and a Blueprint for Hope and Change
Recently there has been an unfamiliar feeling in the political air, hope. We’ve discussed over the last few weeks some of the changes...
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Jacob Kravetz
Aug 203 min read
Democratic Policies Thus Far
Go left young man ( et. al.) and align with the country. Monday was the start of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The...
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Jacob Kravetz
Aug 201 min read
Together/United/We Win
The mistake we cannot make as organizers, activists, and conscious, caring citizens is to not make our voices heard, both with raucous...
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Barrie Friedland
Aug 133 min read
A Real Reality Show
As written here before this election is unprecedented. Literally overnight the race transformed from the Deja Vu of the same two old...
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Jacob Kravetz
Aug 62 min read
Not Weird Walz
Since this email was sent out, Governor Tim Walz was selected to be the Democratic VP candidate. The next major moment in the Harris...
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Jacob Kravetz
Aug 62 min read
Weird
With Joe Biden stepping down from his re-election campaign and passing the torch this election has become one of the wildest and least...
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Barrie Friedland
Jul 303 min read
VEEP Sweeps
#DSOT is a rapidly growing coalition of people from all over the country fighting for a wide array of cogent policies and needed...
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Barrie Friedland
Jul 233 min read
Democracy Floats to the Surface
News Flash- people grow old. Yes, the adage says- aging is all in your mind, but that’s in fact the problem, it affects people's acuity...
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Barrie Friedland
Jul 162 min read
Please Put Your Gun Down
No government agency is taking them. In fact, it is nearly impossible to craft even the smallest protections in regard to gun sanity. If...
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Barrie Friedland
Jul 93 min read
Meet Chevron
If corporations are people my friend, then Chevron is the Devil. Beelzebub. Satan. Lucifer. Stand aside ExxonMobile- you are merely...
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Jacob Kravetz
Jul 23 min read
King Me/ But This is NOT a Game
There is no King of America It’s a little difficult to comprehend just how damaging to our country’s founding principles, and proper...
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Barrie Friedland
Jun 252 min read
VOTE
Power corrupts: absolute power corrupts absolutely. Credited to Lord Acton. Power shared is power diluted, but it is the basis of a free...
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Barrie Friedland
Jun 181 min read
Quote of the Day
Milan Kundera: 'The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.'
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Jacob Kravetz
Jun 182 min read
Elections for Sale
Buying an election megaphone. Since the 1970s, America has been walking a path where money and Free Speech are the same thing, and...
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Jacob Kravetz
Jun 181 min read
AWAKEN THE SLEEPING GIANT
We are not hopeless, however, we can awaken the sleeping giant of the poor and working class! Activating even a fraction of these 140...
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Barrie Friedland
Jun 113 min read
The Crime of Poverty
The late Leona Helmsley oft remarked that only the little people pay taxes. Well, Donald Trump originally ran on the fact that he also...
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Barrie Friedland
Jun 43 min read
The Lesson of the Dog
For those of you just waking up the Governor of South Dakota bragged in her recent autobiography that she shot a puppy because she (the...
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