Tag: history

President Jimmy Carter & His Farewell Address

As the founder of the Jimmy Carter Jamboree, a grassroots initiative here in California to celebrate Carter, recognizing his approaches for peace, diplomacy, housing, health and much more, I want to shine a light on his farewell address when he stated that he was now entering one of the greatest roles in America, more powerful than the president himself, and this is as a private citizen.

During this time of utter conflict, protests, strikes, anger, arrests and more, I have a perspective to share as the daughter of the 1981 National Union Strike, one who experienced what it’s like to have the US Government arrest members and feel the consequences of being sabotaged by the US Government. There is another way to make your voice heard without putting yourself at risk. And it’s far more effective.

We are so divided in this country, which is not necessarily by accident. It’s by design. We need to unify. While Trump has used anger and hate to bring people together, there is another way to do the job. . . and that is by celebrating US President Jimmy Carter, bringing attention to the kind of leadership we respect, one who carries empathy, wisdom and peace.

When I talk to people I’m astounded by the hypocrisy. They say how ineffective Carter was, yet he wasn’t. He pushed major policies related to education, energy as well as expanding many of our national parks. He stood up to OPEC and sought peace without using missiles and war to solve problems. He is respected around the world, but for some strange reason not year, though the reasoning it’s so strange.

Despite the fact Carter bridged peace between Israel and Egypt, he also stood up for the Palestinian people, even going to Gaza to meet the leaders and monitor elections. He wrote a book Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid. And then during his book tour faced extraordinary opposition by AIPAC and other Jewish organizations.

The Carter Center doesn’t talk about Carter’s stand for Palestine or even his words in 2009, “Israel treats the Palestinians like animals.”

It’s time, as a nation we begin to come clean with truths and recognize since the Reagan Administration, we’ve had 40 years of trickle down economics, knock down of labor, rise of the elites and oligarchies, out of control wars and yet we raise Reagan statues and don’t hold him accountable for the disaster his policies have brought to us. It’s time to flip the table and come clean. The Reagan Era has been a disaster. ..The “Hero” of the Republican Party, Ronald Reagan and his policies and those who have been heralding him need to be called out.

And it’s high time as a nation we reflect on The Carter Administration, recognizing a generation chose not to support him, yet Carter continued to do the work despite criticism, leaving us today with a narrative of one of our greatest leaders to celebrate.

Raise a salute to Carter. .. it’s the greatest form of resistance and protest you could ever muster.

The Daughter of a Federal Criminal Speaks About The State of the Union

Proud of it.

I’m one of the few daughters in the nation whose family stood in the 1981 National Strike Against the Federal Government and the “GOP Hero,” President Ronald Reagan.

We understood what was at stake – dishonest politicians who were manipulating people for power. Most of the union members of that 1981 national strike of air traffic controllers had been Vietnam Veterans who understood DEEPLY what it means when political leaders use their power against the people. Reagan had made campaign promises to the air traffic controllers and then stabbed the union in the back, terminating them, when Reagan had failed to own up to his promises. The Union, working class people, held him accountable, putting their own family, including children, on the front line of the pick lines. What and how the air traffic controllers of 1981 stood stands today as a beacon of hope and inspiration for us all. They used no violence.

For years leading to that strike, the union utilized “sick outs,” collectively calling into work sick. It was a nonviolent way to show collective power and to help steer the federal government into owning up to fair contracts and honesty.

It’s time for the American people to learn their power.

After years with this whole covid narrative, which by now most of us know and understand how likely a “bad flu” got twisted and turned into looking like a major disease, pitting people into poverty, giving power to the billionaires and traumatizing our children. Also, we know that 80% of those who faced health issues related to this “covid” had major chronic diseases, including obesity, diabetes and more. In 2001 the US Surgeon General said “obesity is becoming an epidemic and it’s a pandemic in the making.” His words were visionary. Would we have had a “pandemic” if people were healthy enough to endure, as most healthy people did.

Let’s remember who was president at the time. It was Trump.

Let’s remember who drove Operation Warp Speed. It was Trump.

Let’s remember what happened those first weeks of the “pandemic” in March of 2020.

  1. A new military art was unleashed, “Space Force”
  2. 5G was launched.
  3. Systems for tracking and tracing procedures were quickly implemented
  4. Free American citizens were “locked down”, a term used for prison

Weeks later, as regular citizens we were given a $700 check and told to feel good about this while corporations were being given billions in what became the largest wealth transfer in history, killing our middle class.

Friends, it’s time to end this nonsense and understand the game being played on American people. And it is a game. There is no doubt in my mind that we are facing the greatest threat to our civil liberties, democracy and safety, not just for ourselves, but for our children and future generations.

If there were ever a time in history to start collecting, it is now. Stop the petty infighting and begin locking arms, peacefully, of course. Always peacefully.

Harry Belafonte had said the greatest power is putting a smile on your face and get dancing in the face of power, control or domination.The good news is “we, the people,” are not the bad guys. We have a government that has been abusive, manipulative and controlling, and it’s time to break free and we can celebrate that.

The elites have the reins right now. But, we do have the power. Stop going to corporate stores or depending on anything coming from them. …start creating, trading and gifting. We have everything we need if we are there for one another. Start raising each other up. Because right now, we still have each other.

And that is power.