A video has shown up on Senator Bernie Sanders’ Facebook

SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION AT POLLING PLACES.
This section shall not prevent any officer or agent of the United States Secret Service from providing armed protective services authorized under section 3056 or pursuant to a Presidential memorandum at any place where a general or special election is held. [emphasis added] – H.R. 2825, section 4012

he single sentence above, which amends current federal law, would give the president unprecedented authority to send armed Secret Service agents to any US polling place for any reason. The law allows the president to send armed Secret Service agents to every US polling place if he has enough agents.

It is a tragic measure of the depravity of human existence that genocide
is a continuing and prevalent manifestation of violence in the
international system, despite the effort following World War II to
abolish it through negotiation, and then adoption and ratification of
the 1948 'Genocide Convention'.
https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume%2078/volume-78-i-1021-english.pdf

Three years after their building burned down, Columbus KTC Buddhist Meditation Center began their rebuilding. On Sunday, April 7, they held a ceremony to bless the land where their original building stood in Franklinton. The event was led by a contingent of lamas from Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, KTC’s home monastery in Woodstock, New York. The lamas led the assembled members of KTC in a litany of Tibetan prayers and then blessed the land with traditional rituals.

The official groundbreaking followed with Lama Kathy Wesley, KTC’s resident teacher; Kim Miracle, Board President; and Peter Macrae, new building architect, turning the first shovelfuls of dirt. The event marked the end of a long period of fundraising that showed the center’s commitment to staying in Franklinton, where they’ve been since 1990. They plan to be in their new building by this time next year.

We all have our own Origin Story that brings us to who we are today.  Whether it has brought trauma or prestige, all origin stories must be understood as how we begin.

Before starting let us all establish ground rules.  All Super heroes (organizers) go through some kind of a struggle or a painful experience, and “it is the choices they make, rather than their special abilities, that make them superheroes” (organizers) (Dr. Janina Scarlett). 

Why would you want to become a superhero, or an organizer? What are some attributes of being an organizer? We have many examples of heroes, like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Harry Potter and Star Wars.  But who are the role models for an organizer?  Throughout history, mostly they have been ostracized or assassinated.  Can each of us describe feelings and attributes that bring us to the choice of joining that elite group of people who have stepped up to organize when called?  ‘’