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Martina Leinz has been a volunteer public health and safety advocate for 17 years. She is also a gun violence prevention advocate.
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June 14, 2018
At the Tony Awards last weekend, Robert DeNiro took the stage, went off script, and bluntly shouted, “F – Trump!” The “F bomb” reverberated around the room and everyone jumped to their feet and started cheering! It was cathartic. And let’s face it; we could all use a little catharsis these days. Many of us can no longer stomach the evening news. The daily barrage of transgressions from this administration is just too much. It has left all of us feeling embattled, hopeless, even depressed. In fact, the internet has coined a term for this, “Trumppression.” And while those feelings are...
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October 11, 2017
Voice. We all have one, it’s time we use it. We must speak out about the injustices and dangers the Trump administration poses from attacks on our healthcare, our immigrant and LGBTQ communities, and our reproductive rights, to our disastrous foreign policy. And it is that latter point that I want to focus on now. Since he took office, Trump has provoked North Korea, made moves to pull us out of the nuclear deal with Iran, heckled and baited our allies, thrown his Secretary of State under the bus, and shown a blatant disregard for history, alliances, diplomacy, pragmatism, and thoughtful...
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September 25, 2017
As the wife of a former U.S. Naval Aviator who flew jets over Iraq and was shot at with surface to air missiles, I understand the trauma of combat. Before he deployed, I asked my husband to write letters to our daughters in case he didn’t make it back. He thought I was being morbid – until the first missile nearly missed his jet. He went back to his stateroom that night and promptly wrote the letters. Thankfully, they never had to be delivered. Our country has asked so much of our men and women in uniform. The trauma suffered even by those who survive their deployments is indescribable–...
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