Chelsea Clinton: Still Lending a Hand, Still Fighting

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The Hill ‏@thehill 29m29 minutes ago
Chelsea Clinton breaks her silence: We must keep fighting http://hill.cm/XIZIXWm

Chelsea Clinton urged supporters of her mother's presidential bid to keep fighting for their beliefs in a new interview with Refinery 29.

"Everything we believed before the election, we still believe," the former first daughter said. "Everything we worked so hard for, we have to continue to work hard for. It requires engagement in our own communities."

In the interview, Chelsea Clinton implored Democrats to use their frustrations for good by continuing to push for change.

"Use those emotions to engage and organize and advocate to protect and advance what you think matters most," Clinton said. "Whether that's combating climate change, or protecting women's rights, fighting against gun violence, or advocating for LGBTQ equality."

from refinery 29:

It’s mild for January but chilly in the 40,000-square-foot City Harvest warehouse in Queens, NY. Fifty or so Clinton Foundation employees, dressed in matching blue T-shirts, are digging through huge crates of grapefruit, sorting them into smaller bags to be distributed to food pantries across the city. Loud pop music blasts in the background, while 75-year-old Clinton Foundation president Donna Shalala energetically shares stories of working in her father’s grocery as a teen. I’m not exactly dressed to help — wearing totally the wrong shoes — but I don rubber gloves and pick through the crates of grapefruit anyway...

I met Chelsea once before, when I interviewed her in Haiti for a story about women entrepreneurship in the poverty-stricken country. In the year and half since, we’ve both had babies, born just a few months apart. Today, she greets me warmly, asks about my son, and if I’m sleeping. Who knows if she really remembers me, or if she’s been primed by her staff, but it’s nice. Our conversation is more casual and relaxed than last time. I read somewhere that Chelsea is shy, and I wonder if that’s why she always comes across as a little stiff in interviews.

We exchange a few anecdotes about our babies (I tell her I’m impressed she was back on the campaign trail so soon after having her son, Aidan) and chat some about City Harvest (this is the fifth time the Foundation has hosted a volunteer event there). And then I ask her what I really want to know: What are we supposed to do now?

You simply have to start, she says, regardless of whether you’re feeling hopeful or angry.

“What do we do in the small world of our own lives?” she asks. “How do we ensure that we are being the best parents, friends, citizens that we can be in our own day-to-day interactions? And then how do start from that place to then engage in the wider world?”

read more: http://www.refinery29.com/2017/01/135946/chelsea-clinton-new-days-resolution

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1. Thank you for this, bigtree.. even more encouraging and inspiring

at this point in history.

Good on Chelsea~

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2. kick

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3. K&R nt.