Thanks for starting the June thread, Jim. Ashis, thanks for keeping us in touch with the reality on the ground.

We do have to keep the fire burning. JP always talks about raising the temperature just a few degrees, and we might make history. Let's make this summer hotter (and not because of global warming). Let's see the different challenges and changes in the movement as an opportunity to really turn the heat up and stop this genocide.

I've been going from place to place, and it's amazing how the young people of America are acting. There is so much energy. During the summer, because of schools letting out, the steam is sometimes let out also. We have to get the word out that this should not happen! Each student going home can bring his activism with him and share it with her/his family, church, all the community. We really have to coordinate and work together, hitting hard with all of our different projects and approaches.

One very important thing that we just have to keep at the front of our movement is the victims and survivors of this genocide. It is so easy focus only on our efforts and forget the real individuals, the faces behind the huge numbers.

I know, I'm preaching to the choir! :)