There is a young, twenty-three year old white woman named Ashley Baia who organizes for our campaign in Florence, South Carolina.
This is why Edward Snowden must be pardoned – because the ability of black communities to organize for our collective liberation depends, in part, on whistleblowers like him.
For queer folks, for trans folks, for black people with disabilities, black people with mental illnesses, there's no sense of urgency in rushing, in organizing for our lives.
As we gather for NAN's convention, people from all corners of the country, the young, the elderly and from diverse backgrounds will all collectively organize for our future.
That hate-filled effort to take rights away from our families, from our children, will be back in the nation's consciousness, and we will be organizing for our lives.
They gave us the financial support that we needed to train a new generation of LGBT API leaders, build the capacity of local LGBT API groups, advocate and organize for our community, and promote visibility.
"But now our hospitals are organized for SARS prevention".
Bell says it best, "The only way to be impactful is to be uncomfortable". She witnessed young leaders, like the ones who organized March for Our Lives, who aren't afraid to step outside their comfort zone.
After losing 17 classmates and teachers in one of the most devastating school shootings in U.S. history at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, Gonzalez and Hogg organized March for Our Lives, one of the most largely attended protests in U.S. history.
