Here is the article by Will.i.am. about why he chose to make this video.
I couldn't agree with him more. If the message from the two sides had to be narrowed down to only one word, the right would be FEAR, and the left would be HOPE.
I chose hope. Not to fear fear fear jihad, or the immigrant picking my lettuce. But to remember the power of the people to incite change.
Winona LaDuke is one of my heroes. Her is a quote from a speech she gave, and I think it can jog our collective memory of how powerful we the people can be.
"The fact is that the Nixon Administration proposed to have a thousand nuclear power plants in the United States by the year 2000.[2] What a nightmare that would have been. Instead now we have 109 aging nuclear reactors that are a total disaster. But the reason that we don't have a thousand nuclear power plants in this country is because people got out and organized. That is how that was defeated. The nuclear industry is very powerful. But the people are more powerful."
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