Dump Hope. It’s Time to Break the Trance!

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Dump Hope. It’s Time to Break the Trance!
Social Justice and Activism
by Laura Flanders | October 1, 2014 - 8:44am

On Sunday September 21st, huge crowds marched through Manhattan. More than 1,000 environmental justice, labor, faith and grassroots groups mobilized and trod the many steps down the city’s upper west side and through midtown to end up somewhere west of Penn Station.

The People’s Climate March was peppered with signs: "Save the Planet," "Reinvest in our Cities," "Sea Walls Not War." For every person there seemed to be a particular passion.

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According to the dictionary definition: Hope is "a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen." Alternatively, "a person or thing that may help or save someone; grounds for believing that something good may happen."

Isn't the climate marchers' point that the climate crisis is right here right now? It’s not about feelings, fears or expectations; it’s current tense.

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