Tag: Dick Durbin

When the People Are Stronger Than Their Politicians

November 10, 2025

On Truffles, Trauma, and the Collapse of Political Courage By Melanie Nathan, Nov 10, 2025,  I grew up with white-person privilege in South Africa, watching Apartheid rise to its peak and then crack under the weight of resistance, sanctions, and unimaginable suffering. Forty million disenfranchised Black South Africans — the majority — had to endure … More When the People Are Stronger Than Their Politicians

Hundreds of Thousands Marching and Trump May Defy Court Order to Reunite Children

July 2, 2018

While the Message from hundreds of thousands of marchers  –“Families Should Be Reunited in Freedom” resonated across the United States, Trump played golf and doubled down on tweets to separate and deport ! This past weekend, hundreds of thousands of Americans turned out in both big cities and small towns to protest the Trump administration’s cruel Zero Tolerance and … More Hundreds of Thousands Marching and Trump May Defy Court Order to Reunite Children