When my mother gave birth to me in Shreveport, Louisiana, back in 1959, she was in the USA on a working Visa from the UK. She was working as a waitress in a diner, and she SAVED her wages and LIVED ON TIPS, to save up enough money to go back to England to her family, with me as a baby. She was an unwed mother.... my biological father 'sh…
When my mother gave birth to me in Shreveport, Louisiana, back in 1959, she was in the USA on a working Visa from the UK. She was working as a waitress in a diner, and she SAVED her wages and LIVED ON TIPS, to save up enough money to go back to England to her family, with me as a baby. She was an unwed mother.... my biological father 'shot-through' when she was 3 months pregnant. (typical!) She told me she actually had a gentleman (who knew her story), who used to come in EVERY day for a 30 cent cup of coffee, and left her a $1 tip! She'd managed to save enough by the time I was 9 months old, and so she went home to her family in the UK. Where are all the kind-hearted people like that beautiful gentleman, in the current, extremely divided (thanks to Donald J Trump and his ilk) culture of your country??? It is heartbreaking to watch the country I was born in sink to where they are right now, with this certifiable lunatic and his sycophantic lapdogs doing his bidding, running the country! WTF?!!! It is horrific! I now live in Australia, and became an Australian citizen in 1986.... OUR Country just REJECTED TRUMPISM OUTRIGHT at our recent Federal Election on 3 May, and unseated the Trump-in-Training, Peter Dutton!!! We do NOT want that SHIT here in our country!!! Please, if you value your freedom and your way of life and the opportunity to make your voices heard... PLEASE... PARTICIPATE in the regular, nationwide HANDS OFF Protests to MAKE your voice heard! No-one else is going to save you this time.... it's up to you... ALL of you! Help this grass-roots, people-powered project grow exponentially to AT LEAST 3.5% of the population (11 million people nationally). BE a part of the SOLUTION, rather than the PROBLEM! I KNOW this is a long read, but it is passionate and sincere! Too many elections of good people have been lost by mere apathy! (I guess the BENEFIT we have here in Australia, is that WE have MANDATORY VOTING..... so participation in OUR Democracy is non-negotiable. Worth thinking about for YOUR Country, I believe...)
When my mother gave birth to me in Shreveport, Louisiana, back in 1959, she was in the USA on a working Visa from the UK. She was working as a waitress in a diner, and she SAVED her wages and LIVED ON TIPS, to save up enough money to go back to England to her family, with me as a baby. She was an unwed mother.... my biological father 'shot-through' when she was 3 months pregnant. (typical!) She told me she actually had a gentleman (who knew her story), who used to come in EVERY day for a 30 cent cup of coffee, and left her a $1 tip! She'd managed to save enough by the time I was 9 months old, and so she went home to her family in the UK. Where are all the kind-hearted people like that beautiful gentleman, in the current, extremely divided (thanks to Donald J Trump and his ilk) culture of your country??? It is heartbreaking to watch the country I was born in sink to where they are right now, with this certifiable lunatic and his sycophantic lapdogs doing his bidding, running the country! WTF?!!! It is horrific! I now live in Australia, and became an Australian citizen in 1986.... OUR Country just REJECTED TRUMPISM OUTRIGHT at our recent Federal Election on 3 May, and unseated the Trump-in-Training, Peter Dutton!!! We do NOT want that SHIT here in our country!!! Please, if you value your freedom and your way of life and the opportunity to make your voices heard... PLEASE... PARTICIPATE in the regular, nationwide HANDS OFF Protests to MAKE your voice heard! No-one else is going to save you this time.... it's up to you... ALL of you! Help this grass-roots, people-powered project grow exponentially to AT LEAST 3.5% of the population (11 million people nationally). BE a part of the SOLUTION, rather than the PROBLEM! I KNOW this is a long read, but it is passionate and sincere! Too many elections of good people have been lost by mere apathy! (I guess the BENEFIT we have here in Australia, is that WE have MANDATORY VOTING..... so participation in OUR Democracy is non-negotiable. Worth thinking about for YOUR Country, I believe...)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world