at some point that little trickle becomes a wave and that wave knocks over everything that stands in its path. so don t tell me that a living wage is impossible. don t tell me that walmart is immovable. don t tell me that congress won t act. because what i realized on black friday was that that wave is coming, and you either get in front of it or you get out of the way. sometimes it s fun to take a step away from politics and talk about life, love, to talk about what really makes us tick. each time i jump on one of the bikes, i always try to imagine the story of the person that rode the bike before me. where did they come from? where were they going, and what is their life story? have you ever wondered why so many districts today look like a flying giraffe? or in the case of a state senate district in upstate new york, abraham lincoln riding a vacuum? well, that s because the g-word, gerrymandering. since it s all the rage in the gop, i wanted to get in on the action. you think ari i
the loss of a job. that while not great, is better than no job. last friday, though, when i went to a walmart black friday protest in alexandra, virginia, i realized something. when those individual voices are combined with tens of thousands of others across the country in more than 1,500 protests, we begin to hear and to listen. and when they re joined with the voices of fast food workers in 100 cities across the country on thursday, they become even more powerful. and when they re joined by states like new jersey and cities like d.c. and localities like sea-tac, places where the citizens demanded better wages and are winning, you get the picture, it s power to the people. and finally, when they re joined by 76% of americans, including a majority of republicans who say they would vote to guarantee workers a better wage, well, at some point, that little trickle becomes a wave. and that wave knocks over everything that stands in its path. so don t tell me that a living