No more "it is what it is"

I'm fed up and more than tired of inequality for all and by all I mean humans and our environment. There is absolutely NO room for the phrase "it is what it is" in our vocabulary any longer except for the weather. Would you care to hear "it is what it is" regarding slavery? Women and African Americans not being able to vote? Literally beating cart horses to death to leave them die and rot in the streets? Having a landfill built next to your residence?

I think not.

We MUST reverse our complacent apathetic attitudes. But I know it is not easy - it's much easier to not rock the boat, just let it go and not do anything. Will that solve a problem? No. Will the problem continue? Yes.

Do your part. Join a group. Give your time. Your actions do matter.

We have these rights in no particular order:
* to feel safe in a movie theater, a restaurant, our place of work and worship, our schools, driving down the damn road.
* to know what is in and on our food AND if it has been genetically modified
* to drink clean water and breathe clean air
* to love and/or marry who we want
* to have LOTS of wild spaces to enjoy



We have these responsibilities and obligations to:
* care for each other
* ESPECIALLY not to do anything to someone we would not want done to us
* to raise our voices against things that are wrong and fixable
* to speak with our actions because our actions are LOUDER

I'm just one person but if you speak and act and others speak and act we will be heard.