Speaking of heros...

[sheshe2]

The NAACP has dedicated this final full week of March to celebrating women who put their lives on the line for justice. In doing so, these courageous, brilliant, revolutionary women shook the world and reshaped the United States.

Women like liberation activist and internationalist, Vicki Ama Garvin, Black Panther Party leaders; Ericka Huggins, Kathleen Cleaver and Elaine Brown, and lawyer, activist, civil rights advocate, and feminist Florynce Kennedy.

Yesterday, they honored...




Denise Oliver Velez - applied cultural anthropologist, writer and revolutionary--was a part of the Young Lord's Party, which rallied a crew of women that fought for open enrollment in the City Colleges of New York, for the formation of Puerto Rican Studies Programs and bi-lingual education in grade schools.


I am honored and humbled to be able to call Denise a friend. She has more passion, intelligence, heart and soul than anyone I have ever met. And every time I listen to her talk or read what she has written, I'm guaranteed to learn something.

http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2014/03/speaking-of-heros.html


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Denise has always been an inspiration and gift. To see the NAACP's honoring of her was a profound reminder of that. She has never stopped doing the crucial work of bending the arc of the moral universe towards justice.

It is not work for the faint of heart or the easily discouraged. It is work that knows justice may bloom in another life time, but it will bloom none the less, no matter how deep the difficulties or how long the struggle. Denise knows that each seed of justice matters. She encourages students, friends, fellow activists, neighbors, and all of us in our own efforts, cheering us on each step of the way.

Our Denise embodies that nurturing of justice and its hoped for blooming, both now and in the future.

We are deeply blessed to have her.

Knowing that, I thought you'd all want to know about the NAACP's honoring of Denise.

It's time to celebrate a life that has touched, and continues to touch, so many.

So let's spin some tunes and make a joyful noise. Let us share joy and thankfulness for Denise, and all those who inspire us in bending the moral arc of the universe towards justice.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/28/1288013/-The-NAACP-honors-our-own-Denise-Oliver-Velez

[ProSense]

1. Kick!

Her work is very interesting.

[Cha]

2. I like how smartypants puts this..

"Let us share joy and thankfulness for Denise Oliver Velez, and all those who inspire us in bending the moral arc of the universe towards justice."

Hallelujah~

Mahalo, she~

[sheshe2]

4. My favorite line Cha!

Thanks for highlighting it!

[Whisp]

3. K&R!

[sheshe2]

6. Thanks Whisp.

This line reminds me of our President...

"It is not work for the faint of heart or the easily discouraged. It is work that knows justice may bloom in another life time, but it will bloom none the less, no matter how deep the difficulties or how long the struggle."

[treestar]

5. Amazing women

Not of faint heart or easily discouraged. I had not heard of them and so thanks for this she!

[sheshe2]

8. "justice may bloom in another life time, but it will bloom none the less"

I like this part too, treestar. It's the same with the President. What he has done will change things, maybe not tomorrow or even next year, but it will treestar.

Thank you, they are amazing women!

[WillyT]

7. K & R !!!