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Big Ideas: A short history
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An Open Letter to Mountain XPress Regarding Gender Bias and Racial Bias
We are writing to draw attention to the blatant bias evident in the
We should also recognize the Big Ideas created and launched by the collective self advocacy work of hundreds of the unhoused, the underpaid, and the disenfranchised that have emerged over the last decade including the grassroots organizers of the historic May 1st marches for immigrant and human rights, the Homeless Coalition and Ahope, the living wage campaign, Dreamers for education rights, health access and advocacy, and the We Do campaign. These ideas create spaces for justice not buildings for admiration, improve the real lives of working families and the elderly who built this community with their own hands not with disposable wealth, and remind us that a community is not a buzz word but a living exchange for growing equality.
I wonder if any of them were GLBTQ either??