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Hello 2024- I am here.
So I made it-No, not in one piece-missing parts, but another Birthday, another Christmas, another year! I survived chemotherapy, surgery, radiation, immunotherapy and I am cancer free. The recovery and rebuilding has not been easy but I feel like I … Continue reading
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Eulogy for Mickey Jarvis 2005
Hello, I am Danielle, feminist, proletarian, critiquist, queer and I am here to praise Mickey. To me the left today is a network of closed shops- the hard left an exclusive club. The left I remember was diverse, multi-racial, multi-cultural … Continue reading
Recovery during the Pandemic
I met Jason Williams at CCAR Recovery Center in Willimantic. This, most recent podcast, is with the Recovery Center Manager John Schwartz. https://www.dropbox.com/s/9y1v53hx1cypp78/ROOT%20-%20Ep13.mp3?dl=0 This is a follow-up interview. https://bolton.vod.castus.tv/vod/?video=e4ef95d5-8db3-470f-91bc-fce990d7960d
Poem by Jason Williams
I’ll build a better me, in case tomorrow isn’t my day Today, I’ll love me, today I’ll be strong Be careful who you let go, today I’ll hold on Memories from a lost time, visitors from a lost mind Highly … Continue reading
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I have met some famous people:
Politics give you access to famous people or you interact with people who become famous. Senator Abraham Ribicoff, I met as a child and I continue to meet all my Senators and Representatives. Rev Jesse Jackson I met in TN … Continue reading
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Update
Much to my surprise, I was diagnosed with Inflammatory Stage 3c Breast Cancer almost a year ago. My parents did not become ill or frail until they were nearing 80. I began graying and needed glasses in my fifties like … Continue reading
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Why I, an Ornery Old, am Still a Socialist
I loved the Space Program. In elementary school, I wrote odes to the astronauts. Marshalled resources, united action and common commitment allowed us to put a man on the moon. This is the power and possibility of government and I … Continue reading
Is it Science-based? or Politics?
We believe in science. Our solutions are science-based. These are the reassurances of our new Democratic Administration. For millions of us, that is a huge relief. The previous White House famously requested the CDC cease the use of science-based or … Continue reading
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Statement from Me for the NY Committee for Jobs and Economic Justice, City Hall Rally, October 30, 1995
In the welfare debate, there is a tendency to group the uneducated, the ill educated, the undocumented, the criminal, the sick and the poor into a class of “takers” and to dismiss this “class of takers” as outsiders, not like … Continue reading
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