Before 9/11 things were so different. My family went to Mexico and visited both sets of grandparents and all our cousins for Christmas in 2000. We couldn’t visit them again until I got my citizenship in 2006. Let’s go back to the times before feamongering about terrorism hurt our community.
We in the Valley are used to hot summers, but the summers are getting hotter and hotter each year. It’s time to acknowledge that climate change is here, and it is a real problem impacting our lives. The increasing heat makes life hard for outdoor workers, it causes droughts and puts our long-term water supply in danger. The heat makes it harder to live in the Valley – harder to get outside and walk or play in the summer, harder to have a garden. We shouldn’t have to pay for the fossil fuel industry’s greed, and both parties have completely failed in doing anything about it.
Por el bien de todos, primero los pobres
The cost of living keeps going up, but wages stay low. Our people have to work so hard just to survive. Let’s change things so everyone can thrive.
There is more than enough money and resources in the world for everyone to have a good dignified life, but billionaires and corporations hoard wealth for themselves, creating terrible false scarcity for the rest of us.
Consider what it says in the Bible, Proverbs 14:31:
Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.
Marlon Duran For Congress! 