December 11, 2018

Twitter peeps-can you help me with this poll?

I don't have a huge amount of Twitter followers and most are DUers. My timing sucked for posting this poll and it's getting lost amid the press conference news.

I'm kind of obsessed with the idea of a Viola Liuzzo movie and want to try to get the attention of some people who could make it happen. Hence, the poll. 😛 Please help if you're on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/pamelajo444/status/1072547505701826560

December 4, 2018

A Great Man Died This Weekend

Civil rights attorney Dean Robb passed away Sunday.

Robb was in his 30s in 1961 when he began helping a group called Friends of the South organize 25 civil rights attorneys, mostly from Detroit, to help get Freedom Riders and other civil rights activists out of jail, challenge illegal arrests, and work with southern lawyers and civil rights organizations. In 1963, he organized an inter-racial conference of 10-12 southern lawyers in Atlanta where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke shortly after he was released from a Birmingham Jail. Robb’s biggest civil rights case was a civil lawsuit against the FBI filed by the family of murdered Detroit freedom rider Viola Liuzzo.

https://www.pittlawpc.com/news/Dean-Robb-as-Freedom-Tour-Leader-and-Civil-Rights-Legend_AE30.html

One of Viola Liuzzo's daughters posted this on Facebook yesterday... "Attorney Dean Robb passed at 5:05pm today. Dean has been a part of our family since the early 1970’s. He represented our wrongful death case for our mom Viola Liuzzo. He never left us. He was always there with an ear to listen and ready to help in anyway he could. He took the five of us under his wing after our dad died in 1978. Dean lived a wonderful life, always fighting for social justice. I was so very blessed he was a large part of our lives."

Rest in peace.

October 30, 2018

Beto is going to win.

That is 50% affirmation to the universe and 50% gut feeling.


Beto will win.

October 15, 2018

The Beto Song

October 5, 2018

Dumbass Trump with toilet paper on his shoe

What I love most about this is the number of people who probably saw it and said nothing.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1048021378249756673

January 28, 2018

The Awesomeness of Penzeys

Check out this Facebook post from Penzey's Spices...

https://www.facebook.com/Penzeys/posts/10156227895772834:0

Our Sunny Paris offer is part of our celebration of the 75th anniversary of Casablanca. It may well be the best love story ever, but it's also a roadmap for fighting the totalitarianism now taking hold of the Republican Party in America today. In love there is hope, and hope is the only force capable of beating the despair that allows fascism to take hold.

I get emails, lots of them. Some people have a hard time getting their heads around what standing up for humanity has to do with being a Spice business. And I get that this answer won't make sense to everyone, but what standing up for humanity has to do with being a Spice business is pretty much everything. Cooking is where we learned our humanity. Through cooking we came to understand that strength was not driving others away, strength comes from welcoming others in. Up until a year ago that's how America worked, too.

The good thing about Nationalists, Fascists, Nazis and their like is that they are never in the majority. The bad thing is that they are pretty good at demoralizing the majority to the point where they can seize control. What hope means in times of despair is also everything. The origins of our Embrace Hope pin go back to well before the time that publicly supporting the equality promised to all by the US Constitution was seen as supporting one party and attacking the other. Originally this was to be a plaque we placed above the doors to our stores.

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And please be ready for a time when we will have to Embrace Hope more than ever. The coordinated Republican attack we are seeing right now against the first amendment’s guarantee of a free press and against America’s dedicated law enforcement agencies is a clear indication that there is a lot more about to be revealed than simply vague meetings with Russians that went nowhere, and states’ voting databases being hacked for no reason.

The desperation of these attacks on the press and law enforcement are the signs of a party in great fear of the public learning the true extent of its actions. They are labeling the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s support of the Republican Party as un-American. This is a party fighting for its life. Good chance there will be times where many find themselves in despair ahead. You’re a Cook, Embrace Hope instead.

Thanks for reading,

Bill

bill@penzeys.com