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Vote For My Idea for Change!

I remember my dad teaching me the lyrics to John Lennon's "Imagine" when I was a very little girl. I vividly recall pressing rewind to hear the words again and again. I was mesmerized with the music and the message. Even though I was young, I understood the sacred meaning of Lennon's message. We can dream our reality. We are all connected.

I entered the Ideas for Change contest sponsored by Change.org. Ideas for Change in America "is a national competition to select the best ideas from across the country and turn them into reality." My idea is based on my intention to create Citizen Expat, an online community that will provide American expatriate progressives with a netroots organizing center that will enable them to remain connected and engaged in the movements they care about at home, on the internet and on the ground.

I am excited about this potential opportunity to make my dream real. Please take a second and vote for me here. If you vote for me I am sure it will generate some positive "instant karma". If you share it with your friends you will generate even more lovely vibes!

I am very grateful to have this space to share my voice and vision! xoxoxoxo

Calling em' out!

Public intellectual and scholar Tim Wise's Facebook status inspired me to laugh out loud yesterday. Speak brother, speak:

 

"Tim Wise thinks he understands the right-wing anger over the President's education speech & the importance of hard work in school. See, they prefer the last President--the one who bragged at Yale commencement about being a lazy, mediocre C student, a...nd told them how that was ok, because you could be mediocre and still become President. And they love Hannity and Limbaugh: both of whom found college too hard and quit..."

 

I'm proud of Tim Wise for calling these neo-conartists out on their #$*%. It is seriously time that they choke on the Kool-Aid they have been drinking and realize that their privilege has nothing to do with merit and everything do with their status in a race/class/dominant sex/colonialist driven caste system.

 

My blood boils thinking about all of these same individuals claiming that Obama lacks experience and qualifications in order to feed into racist, fear-driven stereotypes.

 

I love Tim Wise for laying it all out.

 

My only regret is that he didn't dig up a little bit of Sarah Palin's CV to add into the mix. No wonder these people hate academic freedom.