{"id":46986,"date":"2022-07-04T15:40:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T19:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=46986"},"modified":"2022-07-04T15:40:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T19:40:58","slug":"4th-of-july-activism-and-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/4th-of-july-activism-and-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"4th Of July Activism and Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let’s start this 4th of July with a song! Click the link below for Reina del Cid’s powerful adaptation of “My Country ‘Tis of Thee.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Land of dystopia\/
Religious myopia.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those of you who are in NYC and have no plans in the very<\/em> near future can join me at this march in Brooklyn at 5 PM today.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Not in New York City or otherwise not available? Don’t worry! I have a week’s worth of activism options for folks in NYC and across the nation in my latest Indivisible Activate NYC<\/a> newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

READ THE NEWSLETTER AND GET ACTIVATED!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the educational front, there’s no time like the present to read (or re-read) the famous 4th of July speech by statesman\/orator\/abolitionist Frederick Douglass.<\/a> If you’re more of a listener than a reader, you’re in luck, because you can hear James Earl Jones read it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JAMES EARL JONES READS THE DOUGLASS SPEECH.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever I re-read this speech myself, one element of it always hits me differently than the last time, depending on current events. Today it is this passage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia, which, if committed by a black man, (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of the same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

How little has changed<\/a>, and how hard we must fight! But don’t despair. As Coretta Scott King said, “Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.” Let’s win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let’s start this 4th of July with a song! Click the link below for Reina del Cid’s powerful adaptation of “My Country ‘Tis of Thee.” “Land of dystopia\/Religious myopia.” Those of you who are in NYC and have no plans in the very near future can join me at this march in Brooklyn at 5…<\/p>\n

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