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wcast

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22. Excellent point

Reply to SayItLoud (Reply #21)

Thu May 28, 2020, 10:05 AM

May 2020

It is almost exclusively power of the purse, just like the Montgomery bus boycott. Green is green and, sad to say, is the only thing that catalyzes real change.

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