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The Moment Has Come.
FIRST, A LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT:
The tweet below, which appeared in in 2017, ignited an international firestorm and gave much needed momentum to a movement started in 2006 by Tarana Burke, the one who coined #metoo.
Read it carefully. The response says, “If [we all responded with] ‘Me too’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem. Man, was she was right. We responded, and it made a huge dent in the problem. We’re not done, yet, but the list of world-changing laws and events that resulted from people like you and me answering the call is here.
NOW, A LITTLE PUSH: LET’S DO THIS FOR GUN CONTROL.
There have to be enough of us who are sick to death with the NRA’s hold on our entire political system. My question is this: What can we do, NOW, to protest in such a way that everyone takes notice? Think outside the box.
This is not happening ‘out there’ at schools in Texas, Connecticut, and Florida, at concert venues in Nevada, at grocery stores New York and Colorado…