I Think We Have To Get Bolder.

I Think We Have To Get Bolder. Why After Fukushima Didn't We All Go Out And Shut Down All The Nuclear Power Plants And Stay There Until It Happened?

In America, We Have To Really Be Working On Two Fronts Right Now. Immediately, We Have To Be Rising In Resistance And Protecting Our Muslim Brothers And Sisters [and] Every Marginalized Person Under Threat And Siege. At The Same Time, We Have To Be Planning And Envisioning Where We're Going. How We Build Moments And Movements, How We Come Up With The Vision We Want Of A Progressive Left - That's What Comes In After.

I Think What All Of Us Have In Common Is That We've Been Taught And Trained And Programmed To Focus On Fixing And Mutilating Ourselves. That's A Core Reason Why Women Do Not Have Power In The World.

The Devastation Of Neoliberalism Is So Multi-fold, Whether It's Violence Against Women Or Desperate Economic Inequality Or The Destruction Of The Planet.

This Artistic Uprising We Had The Other Night In Washington Square Park: There Was Poetry, There Was Dance, There Was Song, There Was Spoken Word; And People Left Feeling So Inspired And So Energised. We Have To Get Ourselves Out Of This Syndrome Of Trauma And Being Re-traumatised. Art Releases This Energy. It Exposes Us To Wonder Again, And Magic Again, And Ambiguity - All The Things We Need To Really Keep Going And Fighting And Resisting In These Times.