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What Gives You Hope?

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What Gives You Hope?

We're living through terrible times. Is there anything that inspires hope?

Peter Daou
Mar 25, 2022
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What Gives You Hope?

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DIRECT DAOU for 3.29.22: What gives you hope?

There’s so much in the world to feel hopeless about. War. Racism. Misogyny. Violence. Inequality. Poverty. Hunger. The pandemic. Is there anything that gives us reason for hope?

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Here are some responses to the question when I posed it on Twitter:

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Angela Rae Boon 💙🇺🇦You are amazing🇺🇦💛 @AngelaRaeBoon1
@peterdaou Sunshine and encouragement from strangers on Twitter who fill the void of family I never really had. I'm going to need lots of both for about 11 days. 🙏💗💗💗🙏
5:39 PM ∙ Mar 25, 2022
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Jerger @JasonBerger1
@peterdaou i just got my dream job helping refugees and asylum seekers after 6 years of trying and it owns so fucking much and it's within walking distance of where we live
7:03 PM ∙ Mar 25, 2022
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Gritty is the Way @Gritty20202
@peterdaou the kids who are watching critically the passion of activists in the streets the people of my community the fact that time comes for us all, and most of our country's leadership is getting closer to the inevitable
5:47 PM ∙ Mar 25, 2022
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Christian @ChrisWig1
@peterdaou The kids organizing walk outs against the don’t say gay bill in Florida
5:36 PM ∙ Mar 25, 2022
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gk @jankp71
@peterdaou Our younger generations.
6:14 PM ∙ Mar 25, 2022
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I fight for mi gente! Join me tovarisch. @BigDub1
@peterdaou My grandkids. TBH not so much hope as motivation to never stop fighting for the future.
5:37 PM ∙ Mar 25, 2022
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Taylor C. Noakes @TaylorNoakes
@peterdaou That the Smithsonian's African American History Museum is so immensly popular it's still nearly impossible to get in, years after it opened.
5:39 PM ∙ Mar 25, 2022
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Linds 🪴 @lw1124
@peterdaou My kids. I have to try to hold onto some level of hope. The alternative is too unbearable to think about.
5:43 PM ∙ Mar 25, 2022
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Joe Patrick @projoepat
@peterdaou Connection, kindness, mindfulness, gratitude, creativity, humor, passion, mystery, music, pain transformed into healing, quick shifts in public perception regarding healthcare etc, systems have been rebuilt, continued inventive sustainability 🤷‍♂️
5:43 PM ∙ Mar 25, 2022
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Robin @robin_vestal
@peterdaou Sunshine, dogs and cats, flowers and people that love
5:47 PM ∙ Mar 25, 2022
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GENERAL STRIKE 🔥 NOW! 🦺 March for Progress!🌹 @march4progress
@peterdaou More Americans now support unions and by a wide majority. Also people trying to start unions at Starbucks and Amazon. And the Teamsters and UAW members reclaiming their unions from corrupt neoliberal corporate shills. There will be more strikes. We need a #GeneralStrike.
5:45 PM ∙ Mar 25, 2022

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Walter Hackett
Writes Big Dub’s Newsletter
Mar 25, 2022Liked by Peter Daou

Good to see that kids are a significant theme and that folks care about the World we're going to leave them.

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