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Re: Fwd: an Eleanor Roosevelt moment

From:cheryl.mills@gmail.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2015-06-24 15:00 Subject: Re: Fwd: an Eleanor Roosevelt moment

okay - OUT LOUD - I am laughing On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 12:48 PM, John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com> wrote: > But does her husband share child care duties? > On Jun 24, 2015 8:23 AM, "Cheryl Mills" <cheryl.mills@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> >>