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Kingsolver Archives - Occasional Planet https://occasionalplanet.org/tag/kingsolver/ Progressive Voices Speaking Out Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:10:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 211547205 Kingsolver: It’s too late to play nice https://occasionalplanet.org/2016/11/27/kingsolver-late-play-nice/ https://occasionalplanet.org/2016/11/27/kingsolver-late-play-nice/#respond Sun, 27 Nov 2016 19:54:37 +0000 http://www.occasionalplanet.org/?p=35272 Barbara Kingsolver is one of my favorite writers, and she has to tour with a bodyguard because she dares to speak out about environmental

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Barbara Kingsolver is one of my favorite writers, and she has to tour with a bodyguard because she dares to speak out about environmental degradation in our country. Here’s something she wrote about how those of us who voted for the candidate who won the most votes MUST protest.

The article in The Guardian is called, “Trump Changed Everything: Now Everything Counts.”

We have to protest despite being raised to respect and accept political change. We did that with George W when Gore really won, and what did it get us? A firestorm of wars in the Middle East. It’s too late to play nice. Everything that holds us together is at risk.

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