I’m not going to lie. Since November 2016, I’ve been retreating from the world in the name of self-care and, since May 2017, mommyhood. (Sidenote: I can’t believe my daughter is 7 months old already! Stop growing up.) I refuse to watch the news for nothing more than work purposes. I refuse to get sucked
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Originally posted on www.edilmari.com “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. I’ve been thinking a lot about being a woman over the past few weeks. It started with this video. Each morning after watching this, I’ve been contemplating over life and the pursuit of
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PowerPAC.org stands for community empowerment through building a sustainable infrastructure of progressive talent organically grown at the local level. This goes for candidates, campaign operatives, fund raising specialists, and issue activists. We think this is a critical third piece (together with Labor and party politics) necessary for increasing participation of our communities sometimes referred to
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I didn’t decide early on in life that politics was a career I’d pursue or even a path I’d cross. I didn’t care as deeply as some and I admit, even today, I feel out of place in the progressive world. My peers often make me feel like I haven’t lost enough, haven’t fought enough,
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I am an Angry Chinese Guy. Yes. I said it. Well I guess it doesn’t have the same impact as Angry Black Man…or even Angry Black Woman. But that’s just me. And I do not mean angry because Pablo Sandoval is dissing the team that made him famous (and my beloved SF Giants). Or that
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