What about armed protests?
“Change. Now. I get that, and understand the symbolism of packed heat. A gun says: We mean business…”
Robert C. Koehler
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Is the nation opening its soul?
“Topple a few statues, remove some iconic names from American institutions . . . and the ghosts of the past start to escape from history, filling the present moment. It’s called awareness…”
Robert C. Koehler
Published in: Z Net, Conscious Life News, Pagosa Daily Post, Citizen Truth, Anchorage Press, Tribune Content Agency, The Smirking Chimp, Black Star News, Art Voice, Common Dreams, Times Famous
Date: July 2,3,2020
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Seattle’s cauldron of possibility
“Maybe CHOP won’t last, but something is changing. Our national groupthink, as maintained with such stalwart certainty over the last half century by centrist politics and the mainstream media, seems to be crumbling before our very eyes…”
Robert C. Koehler
Published in: Pagosa Daily Post, Free Press, Tribune Content Agency, Black News, Global Diaspora News, LA Progressive, World Beyond War
Date: June 25,26,2020
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Defunding ‘justified’ murder
“Well, he deserved to die, didn’t he? He fought, he ran, he grabbed the cop’s taser and fired it. And he was intoxicated, apparently. And he was blocking traffic…”
Robert C. Koehler
Published in: Common Dreams, LA Progressive, Tribune Content Agency, Richmond County Daily Journal, Free Press, Z Net, Anchorage Press
Date: June 18,19,20,2020
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Globally uprooting a racist past
“And the toppled statue of a 17th century slave trader, now at the bottom of Bristol Harbour, is suddenly more relevant than ever, as the cry for compassionate social order – sparked by the murder of George Floyd – begins to engulf the whole planet…”
Robert C. Koehler
Published in: Common Dreams, LA Progressive, Tribune Content Agency, Richmond County Daily Journal, The News International, Free Press, Progressive Party, Z Net
Date: June 10,11,12,2020
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The knee for change
“Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War…”
Robert C. Koehler
Published in: Common Dreams, Buzz Flash, ArcaMax, LA Progressive, Tribune Content Agency, The Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Gilmer Free Press, Pagosa Daily
Date: June 4,5,10,11,2020
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