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Thursday, October 19, 2017

REMEMBER NOVEMBER 8, 2016

October 19, 2017

November 8, 2017 will mark a dark day in United States history.  If you have to think for a minute about that date, that is part and parcel of the problem.  We are apt to forget our tragedies as new ones emerge. 

On November 8, 2016, a tragedy befell the United States of America.  Many of us have forgotten the empty and hopeless feeling that night and disbelief and sadness on the following day.  We have been inundated with tragedies, almost too numerous to count including natural weather disasters as well as threat of nuclear war and murders that are not natural.  

I am not a good organizer.  Committees are difficult to deal with.  Individuals may, however, make a difference.  An example shown by a well known person, Colin Kaepernick, has grown in scope and now a national discussion about demonstrations to show support or rejection of his idea, his singular demonstration is growing.  A terrible practice demeaning to women has driven a powerful man from power thanks to one person speaking out.

This idea may take hold.  If you agree, please tell at least two sympathetic friends and ask them to tell their friends, and so on.  Exponential agreement with this simple plan may add to exposing the reality that the current administration of the United States is not representative of American Ideals. 

I propose that at noon on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 that every conscientious person, not only in the United States, but around the world, stop for one or two minutes and kneel in memory of democracy as we knew it. Mourn the loss of reason. 
Be still.. 
Wear black. An armband or a shroud.  
Wear black and stop to mourn.  

Mourn the deaths and destruction in Las Vegas and Houston and Puerto Rico and the sadness around the world and demonstrate that as powerless as each of us as individuals may feel, as a community we may simply show our sadness and kneel together in Unity.  

 Noon.
 November 8, 2017.  
Stop and be still.   
Wear Black.

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