What Gives You Hope?

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

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. 🙏💗💗💗🙏

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

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

Christian @ChrisWig1

@peterdaou The kids organizing walk outs against the don’t say gay bill in Florida

gk @jankp71

@peterdaou Our younger generations.

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.

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.

Linds 🪴 @lw1124

@peterdaou My kids. I have to try to hold onto some level of hope. The alternative is too unbearable to think about.

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 🤷‍♂️

Robin @robin_vestal

@peterdaou Sunshine, dogs and cats, flowers and people that love

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.

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