15104 was born when I realized that an educated, well-informed working class is archetypical to progress for the community and for the world.
My mini-epiphany dates back to 2012, when I started blogging in earnest, first with my own website; then through a collection of essays on politics based upon my growing involvement with Buddhism as a destination for my personal spiritual journey; and finally with a small collection of those essays titled Donkey Dharma.
For the past several years, my blogging has continued, on a number of forums, including the United Steel Workers Union as well as two sites of my own - Thoughts4Change and I Owe It All to J. Thaddeus Toad. The thread that runs through all these is my to-the-bone conviction of the importance of individual thoughts, speech, actions, and work to accomplish real, significant, non-violent social change. (Noble eightfold path, or Edmund Pettis Bridge,anyone?)
Cue a reference to Robert Kennedy; he made the case for the impact of individual integrity far more eloquently than I could ever hope to. Read it and remember it whenever you feel hopelessness creep in ...
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