We marched a year ago across the country — and around the world. I had flown to DC as had hundreds of thousands. This year, I stuck closer to home, but in the intervening year, I have continued to protest and march against an administration that seems to only care for the very rich, the…
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2018: Be the Phoenix Rising
2017 — you were a hard year. It seems as if you put all the things on the line and then took a steamroller to them. And while we are certainly worse for the wear — cracks and fissures in our humanity and our democracy — we have also proven our strength and our resilience….
Responding to Hate with a Dance Party: San Francisco Counter-Protest to the Alt-Right
The Bay Area wasn’t going to let San Francisco, our jewel of a city, become another Charlottesville and so counter-protesters organized events to drive out the hate with the only weapon ever known to be successful: LOVE. And Music. My husband, a few friends, and I traveled on BART up to City Hall for a…
No picture today because I cannot post an image of my broken heart.
I have been up to my nostrils in readying my classroom for the kids tomorrow — so I’ve been kind of busy and haven’t been able to wrap my brain around words that don’t have to do with curriculum. But today’s post has nothing to do with my classroom, or my family, or traveling, or…
Resistance is a Sign of Hope
The president signed a tragic executive order yesterday, barring all people from certain Muslim countries from entering the United States. It’s already having devastating effects for people arriving at our nation’s airports. Read about those who are being detained here. We, as a country and as a people, are better than this latest round of executive…
The Women’s March on Washington: The day we ALL showed up
I almost didn’t go. As I get older I find that I hate large crowds and this march promised to be big. My two teenage daughters had seen protests on tv and were afraid that something terrible might happen — and indeed, on the day of the Inauguration, terrible things did happen. But just as…
Barbara Ganias Comstock 