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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:1in;margin-left:0.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Thanks Craig, yes, it’s a marvelous speech, and as many
persons in the USA and through the world, I’m in a position of mourning, an anticipation of tomorrow. It’s true
that Obama was such an intelligent President, and I’d like to get an Obama in
France! But when I mourn too much, I try to remember what, for example, Cornel
West says about Obama<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:1in;margin-left:0.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">(<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/barack-obama-legacy-presidency"><span style="color:black">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/barack-obama-legacy-presidency</span></a>)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:1in;margin-left:0.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">and then my fire is a little bit less intense, I try to
find another source of enthusiasm, something that is not linked with Obama, but
with the people. I remember what Angela said a couple of years ago:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:1in;margin-left:0.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">“We talked about the fact
that people like to point to Obama as an individual and hold him responsible
for the madness that has happened. Of course there are things that Obama as an
individual might have done better – he might have insisted more on the closing
of Guantánamo – but people who invested their hopes in him were approaching the
issue of political futures in the wrong way to begin with. This was something
Stuart Hall always insisted on – it’s always a collective process to change the
world.”</span><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:1in;margin-left:0.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">(<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2014/dec/14/angela-davis-there-is-an-unbroken-line-of-police-violence-in-the-us-that-takes-us-all-the-way-back-to-the-days-of-slavery)"><span style="color:black">https://www.theguardian.com/global/2014/dec/14/angela-davis-there-is-an-unbroken-line-of-police-violence-in-the-us-that-takes-us-all-the-way-back-to-the-days-of-slavery)</span></a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:1in;margin-left:0.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">“Always a collective process.” So my New Year’s resolution
is this one: let’s build the collective that could prevent any president to
damage the collective.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:1in;margin-left:0.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">In solidarity,<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:1in;margin-left:0.5in;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Frédéric Neyrat<span></span></span></p>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-01-19 10:30 GMT-06:00 Craig Saper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cjsaper@gmail.com" target="_blank">cjsaper@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Andrew’s call to actions reminds me to share this collaborative animation just released today by the Atlantic: just in time to get folks FIRED UP for the collective actions happening in the next couple of days! <div><br></div><div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Watch on The Atlantic:<br><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/513629/fired-up-ready-to-go/?utm_source=eb" target="_blank">http://www.theatlantic.com/<wbr>video/index/513629/fired-up-<wbr>ready-to-go/?utm_source=eb
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