I’ve been a fan of Sam Daley Harris for many years. His thinking and activism has motivated and inspired my own efforts in the non-profit world.

An organization he founded called RESULTS is a citizen lobby dedicated to creating the political will to end poverty and hunger. His work has literally saved people’s lives. He founded and now leads Civic Courage, providing all of us the opportunity to make a difference on the lives of people we will never even know.

Sam’s book Reclaiming Our Democracy is a testament to what’s possible when citizens are engaged in the democratic process. Working through Civic Courage, Daley Harris and his volunteers have led successful efforts to block some of the draconian budget cuts in the Trump agenda, forming a bulwark against their cruelest effects.

He is an important leader for such a time as this.

There’s a general consensus about a few things regarding AI:

• It’s here and it’s not going anyplace. The world will never be the same.
• It’s extremely convenient to use at times, though people should realize that sometimes it lies.
• The environmental damage it causes is huge.
• In the hands of corporations like Palintir, it’s already being used for what could be government control and totalitarian purposes.
• The conversation we’re having about it as a society is morally and ethically inadequate to the challenges it poses for the human race.

I asked Brian O’Kelley, co-founder of AppNexus and Scope3, to help us start to figure all this out. It’s not a conversation we should leave in the hands of those who’ve proven themselves careless about the fate of our democracy or our species.

Also, Brian will join me for a zoom call with paid subscribers on Thursday night, 5pmPT and 8pm ET. We’ll be sending you the link! So think of your questions and lets have the conversation.

This one literally affects us all.

MarianneWilliamson.Substack.com

From deporting innocent citizens to criminalizing homelessness, America’s government today is breaking laws and normalizing cruelty. Tens of thousands of America’s unhoused population work part or even full time. Many have children. When homeless encampments are removed and people’s belongings trashed, how are those people to keep their jobs? How are the children to go to school? The level of trauma being inflicted on people is something beyond what any person of conscience should be willing to tolerate.

I asked Jesse Rabinowitz, Campaign and Communications Director at National Homelessness Law Center, to help explain what’s happening and what we can do about it. Please support a bill currently before Congress that would actually help solve the problem. Make calls. Spread the word. Make noise.

Cruelty is evil. We must not give in.

MarianneWilliamson.Substack.com