@matthewcooke: How to we make peace happen? Through mass action. Clear demands. Moral consistency. And organizing. Outside the party system, as demonstrated by Dr. King when he ended legal segregation and won voting rights not that many decades ago. This is not the untamed wilderness of the frontier. People do not need guns in our cities and towns anymore. And if we want to be taken seriously that means a mass movement for no longer selling weapons of war on the open market. If you haven't yet, sign up for: http://www.survivorsguidetoearth.com Building in an independent space, free from digital landlords.

Lostinpain :

I have managed to live 60 years in four different states without once needing a gun.

Xpidite :

Sorry buddy….it’s never gonna end.

Jenn💙🩵❤️🩷 :

take the money OUT of politics. Age limits. Term limits. It's all about money.....

I’mMyBiggestFan😝 :

bravo. amazing work

LMNOP :

Get the CSU and UC Systems to start. I’m not being sarcastic, seriously. Let us (UC grad, CSU employee here) start! Easier to imagine it in your life if you see an example. Don’t forget the wraparound support, people! Bus boycotts need bake-sales!

malone21071 :

I have signed up

auntie2niecey :

Trump incited the January 6th insurrection. He does not want peace! Regardless, I will be peaceful and love my neighbor. I will protest peacefully. God help us all 🙏🕊

valfrazee :

We’re a third world country with a few amenities

Scrummybummymom 🌎 :

Powerful. Very powerful.

ALcardshark :

Matthew, your clarity and purpose need to shine like a beacon, a lighthouse to remind people that there is an alternative to the current insane asylum that we find ourselves living in. Americans exist today in a constant state of fear, fear generated by the mass media and our so-called representatives who are really nothing more than paid servants of Wall Street, big business, and the War Machine. They want us afraid and divided so we do not turn our eyes to the financial elite who are using our division to pillage the wealth of our nation. No other country is as inundated with fear as the United States of America and no other country kills as many of its own citizens with weapons. Until we stop this insane fear-mongering we are never going to be able to bring people together in a harmonious Society. Walking out of our schools is necessary at this point because they are unsafe but it's a catch-22, until we stop inundating our citizens with fear they will never feel safe and secure enough to understand what it means to live in a peaceful harmonious Society, and that it is our only hope.

JackieB :

United and in community we can make a difference!

tzwriter :

There are more pews here than people. And probably half of those people have their fingers on a trigger. We have a rage/fear/hate/ism/phobia problem with no clear solution. I like the idea of a walk out.

Jade Scalero492 :

So sad that we are so unsafe here😩😩😩

Dig Williams :

I ADMIRE AND RESPECT YOUR VOICE…WELL DONE!

Bob :

💯 Wonderfully explanation my brother💙💙💙

N[Ø}bødy :

The only way it ends is with real justice, equality, caring more for the weak than the strong, ensuring that we leave a future for the next generation.

BlindSqrl :

Trey Reed.

AHA :

Yes!!! WW MUST stand together

Broseph :

I am inspired by every bit of this, and I’m a gun owner and user. I have no answer though to how an economic walkout can work without social services? Most Americans have insufficient savings. How do we address this?

freedomblessing0 :

100%

Sheilah :

we love you Matthew. please keep education

Karry Bennett :

Maybe, it should start with honesty instead of trying to be first and demanding it someone else. Did you dance with your friends.

PastorMarie :

America was born in violence!

Izzyakin609 🇿🇦💜 :

Thank you, nice to listen to this early in the morning. Before going out into this uncertain world.

BeccaBow1 :