Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died on Friday.
moral clarity, clarity of purpose. not only did he believe in reconciliation in south africa but went on gloriously to lead on fights of climate change, lead on fights for the rights of the lgbtq community, spoke out forcefully on behalf of palestinians and their plight and crusaded for them and powerfully never hesitated to speak truth to power. i remember when he came here to the united states in 2003 and many of us joined him at the rally at the united nations when he said the united states was morally wrong to invade iraq. extraordinary figure, extraordinary courage. i dare say not only will his kind not come again but as i think of the conversation you just had with congresswoman dingell and the lack of civility we re seeing in our politics, there is a usefulness to his extraordinary service and the lessons he gave us that should carry forward in a time when we have a poverty of moral
apartheid. i he showed the entire world the better face of that nation. he enabled all of us to imagine what a reconciled future could look like. then once we established true participatory democracy in soute africa in 1994 he was asked to lead the truth and mo reconciliation commission whichd really pioneered restorative justice around the world. it is poorly understood today. but as you said, this is somebody who had a clarity, moral clarity, clarity of purpose. not only did he believe in reconciliation in south africa but went on gloriously to lead on fights of climate change, t lead on fights for the rights of the lgbtq community, spoke out forcefully on behalf of palestinians and their plight and crusaded for them and powerfully never hesitated to speak truth to power. i remember when he came here to the united states in 2003 and many of us joined him at the
images of michael brown lying facedown in the street in ferguson went viral. even after the public had seen him in death there were questions about how to portray michael brown in life. should we see him at his best moments or at his less compelling? social media offered a painful response as young black people asked, quote, if they gunned me down, what picture would they use? if question itself and the discordant side by side images ofrds by african-americans acknowledged even inconsequential moments snapped in a fleeting moment can suddenly take on profound significance in the context of a violent death. there is one d.c. movement whose daughter was measured five years ago is on a crusaded that we pay attention to the photos in death be paid attention to as many as those in life.
respect by living longer. we get it, every perp gets represented, that s how it s done, but this lawyer crusaded, revealing a bitter bias. it speaks to a administration steeped in its own bias. isn t the defense of mumia kind of racist? you think if mumia was white, he would be a hero, or if the dead officer was black, would he know his name? i doubt it. the great story here is maureen faulkner called a lot of senators on the fence, got them persuaded. then the president responded. here s what he had to say. very upset. what did he say? he said this, as they show it. there you go. he called it a travesty based on wildly unfair character attacks against a good and qualified public servant. i would read more but frankly, it bores me. eric