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"Now’s the time to act. We’re not a people that just look and watch and wait to see what happens. We’re Americans. We make things happen. We’re tougher than these times, we are bigger than the smallness of our politics, we are patriots and we are pioneers, and innovators and entrepreneurs who through individual effort and through a common commitment to one another will build an economy that is once again the engine and the envy of the world. We will write our own destiny."

- Barack Obama, Jobs and the Economy | Jun2 9, 2011

(Source: c-spanvideo.org)

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Please take a moment to remember Patrice Lumumba. He embodied the highest hopes for the people of the Congo, and 50 years ago today they were robbed of his promise by a plot orchestrated by the US and Belgium. We can’t know for sure what the Congo might have become under his democratic leadership, but we do know of the brutal dictatorship installed in his stead, and the broken, tortured country that has emerged today. If ever there were cause for tears of righteous-rage…