Con la Vista al Voto : Think of Voting as the Least You Can Do
8:53 am By Maegan La Mala · Con la Vista al Voto|Midterm Elections 2010
2 Nov 2010Every time elections roll around, I am reminded of the words and actions of my mentor (RIP) Richie Perez. He worked for years for Puerto Rican Rights, Latino Rights, and Voter Rights and he helped me think about revolution as a process and us as a people having many tools in our revolutionary toolbox to move the struggle(s) forward.
The speech below was a speech I made right before the 2008 presidential election, but I think it is still relevant, especially as I have had conversations with friends and loved ones who cannot vote, because of the their legal status, because of their once incarcerated status, because they are colonial subjects.
As long as we frame and allow the powers that be to frame voting as the end all and be all then we will never see change anywhere.
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