Category Archives: Commentary

November 6, 2018

Vote for the Human Family

For the past two years, I’ve watched, with many others, the normalization of hate, fear, gun violence, dishonesty, racism, sexism; attacks on citizens voicing their conscience, attacks on the free press, on good journalists who make it their job to be sure truth is known.

I’ve watched this country step away from our stewardship of the world – our fellow humanity, and the environment that sustains us – rolling back environmental protections, demonizing refugees and admiring leaders who do not value the human rights and equality our country names as its values.

January 22, 2017

#WomensMarch Roanoke: Power in Voice

The new year turned a few weeks ago, but yesterday felt more like a beginning. At noon, Elmwood Park in Roanoke, Va. was thronged with people arriving for the city’s Women’s March – approximately 4,500 of them, joining millions more around the globe.

The 2017 #WomensMarch may have been born in anger and in fear, in response to dark and violent rhetoric and proposed legislation whose targets include those who have historically struggled to have an audible and equal voice (women; racial, ethnic and religious minorities; refugees and immigrants; the LGBTQ community; the disabled, the impoverished, the homeless, the marginalized and the disenfranchised), but the manifestation of that was a joyous, determined day of peaceful protest, envisioned, inspired and organized by women.