Fwd: an Eleanor Roosevelt moment

From:cheryl.mills@gmail.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2015-06-24 10:23 Subject: Fwd: an Eleanor Roosevelt moment

The joy cdm Begin forwarded message: > From: Anne-Marie Slaughter <slaughtr@Princeton.EDU> > Date: June 24, 2015 at 7:30:04 AM EDT > To: Hillary Clinton <hdr29@hrcoffice.com> > Cc: Huma Abedin <huma@hrcoffice.com>, Jake Sullivan <jake.sullivan@gmail.com>, Cheryl Mills <cheryl.mills@gmail.com>, Margaret Williams <williamsbarrett@aol.com> > Subject: an Eleanor Roosevelt moment > > Hillary, > No matter what the campaign plans call for, I would urge you not to waste this moment in our history to renew the civil rights movement, which, as you pointed out in Beijing, is really a human rights movement. That is the way Eleanor Roosevelt launched it, as chairwoman of the committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. And of course her own passion on the subject was forged in part by her up close view of race in the U.S. If you go back to an op-ed Gloria Steinem wrote after her Vassar address on Living the Revolution in 1970, she saw women’s rights as just one pattern in a larger revolutionary banner for social and economic justice — certainly of a piece with the civic rights movement. http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/wlmpc_wlmms01014/ > > We are at such a moment now. Put together, as you already have, the rights of young black men and their families, with the rights of women (single mothers through CEOs), the rights of immigrants, LGBT rights, disabled — what you have is that the 1960s are an unfinished revolution (and the push for equal rights in the 1960s is rooted in ER and others’ work in the 1940s — the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is adopted in 1949 but the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights only appears in 1966, with the US leading the way.) > > This is your timeline: inspired by the Roosevelts, coming of age in the 1960s, fighting for those issues through the tide of deregulation, money, and yawning inequality that began in the late 1980s to today, now you have the four fights. Call out to your fellow 1960s revolutionaries. All of you who saw the possibility of a better society. Rally them, and their children and grandchildren, now. Work with groups across the country to synchronize a march in different cities that is not about you, but about the issues you have dedicated your life to. People are BORED with politics as usual. > > With respect also, from what I can tell talking to many different people in New York, CA, Chicago, Princeton — your own passion needs to show through more. Your campaign is in a much better place than it was in 2008, but I think you need to take a few more risks and show who you are. This moment calls for more than statements, as good as yours (on Charleston) was. It’s like at State — let’s do more than a demarche! Seize the moment. You have the contacts, the power, the media attraction — call up the heads of every African-American group and other civil rights group you can, work with them to draft a manifesto, transform Ferguson and Charleston and so many others from moment to movement. > > Best, > AM