My request for progressives, Amy, is to say, look, you know, what? You can't make change as quickly as you want to; change is not an easy process. But you've got to stick, and you've got to stay. What if progressives in 1950 said, "You know what? This civil rights stuff is hard. We haven't seen the progress we were looking for. And so, we're just going to abandon the effort"? Please, don't do that. Stick, stay, and remember that this movement is not about a personality or president or even election. It's about restoring dignity to working and middle-class Americans, eliminating poverty, upholding civil and human rights, and inclusion for everybody. It's about a politics of generosity. And you can't necessarily do that in one election cycle, and it's not easy. So stick and stay. Turn out and vote. Don't hand this thing back to those guys. You will regret it.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, Congressman Keith Ellison, I thank you for being with us, joining us from Minneapolis, the first Muslim member of Congress.
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Another article that I received via email was substantially misquoting the Los Angeles Times. (The LA Times felt compelled to respond to this propaganda in an article on May Day 2007.) It is a propaganda piece on illegal immigration in California. See: http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2007/04/may_day_mythbus.html
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