Hope from Robert Reich

[MadameButterfly]

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/how-to-hope-in-a-near-hopeless-time?r=c8lu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

This is what I needed to get me through a sleepless night. Hope this helps.

[bdamomma]

1. Thanks

for posting. I like Robert Reich. I listened to him the other night on his Coffee Klatch, he listed organizations to donate to. Made me feel hopeful.

[Native]

2. Thank you so much for sharing this.

I'm in Florida, and I'm already envisioning an underground railroad scenario to help women and girls get the care they need.

[SorellaLaBefana]

4. It, as did portions of the original network, may well have to run all the way to Canada and Mexico

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/undergroundrailroad/

U.S. Postal Service Pays Homage to Heroes of the Underground Railroad With New Forever Stamps (09 March 2024)


...[a railroad] In name only, the Underground Railroad started as a loosely organized secret network of courageous and imaginative freedom seekers, and the brave operatives who assisted them. It was powered not by coal but by human courage.

As railroads grew in the 1830s and 1840s, the secret network adopted their terminology. “Stationmasters” and “conductors” assisted “passengers” traveling from one “station” to another on the Underground Railroad. Over time, the network coalesced into a well-organized system as it responded to the increasing numbers of freedom seekers and a corresponding rise in attempts to thwart escapes.

Most remained anonymous, but some left their mark on history, including the 10 men and women honored on these Forever stamps: Harriet Tubman, Thomas Garrett, William Still, Harriet Jacobs, Jermain Loguen, Catherine Coffin, Lewis Hayden, Frederick Douglass, William Lambert, and Laura Haviland...

This need for such may well prove to be true

[Native]

5. so true.

[Silver Gaia]

3. Thank you.

I needed that, too.