This young woman makes me proud to be an American. Her post about the march on Washington is a captivating read.
Young people, be prepared to lose the internet as you know it. I’m serious. When I was young we ate Vietnam for dinner, ask your parents. We watched protesters fight for civil rights and to stop a war we knew was wrong, every broadcast. The news wasn’t owned by PepsiCo, the reporters didn’t have fake boobs, and they told you what was going on in the world – not in peoples’ bedrooms. People can’t watch the truth about war at let it go on, not for long.
You see what they’ve done to “the news”, they’ll do that do the internet soon. They’ll stop regular people from speaking their minds and raging against the machine. They’ll not let you post your protest video on YouTube.
But until then, keep writing about your experiences on the front line of the protest and of the war. Keep posting those videos and pictures of what’s really going on and for the love of all this country once stood for, keep speaking out!
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