Issue #49

This issue ended up being completed much later than anticipated. So, as you move through the content of this issue, keep in mind that the majority of content was generated prior to November 9, 2016. The results of the 2016 Presidential Election have shifted global, national and local affairs and perception of government overnight. Times are uncertain. Is this the end of an era or a beginning of a new one? Continuity perhaps ruptured and yet not at all.

I am stupefied by all of it, which makes writing this note an especially difficult task. One thing seems certain: complacency is over. We have to work for democracy, protecting the environment and human rights. Here are some words from Frederick Douglass:

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Maybe as we read, simultaneously and separately, we can gather in telepathic resistance, argument and conversation.

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