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Letter: Protect our freedoms

Editor, Gazette-Journal: During this 250th birthday year of the United States, let’s rededicate ourselves to freedom: Freedom from Trump’s constant attacks on women, immigrants, people of color, gay people and Muslims. Freedom to work and live without discrimination, harassment and violence because of your gender, race or religion. Freedom to get medical care when we or our children are sick. Freedom to earn a living wage, to attend college or get job training, and to retire in security. Freedom from a rigged economy in which the top 1 percent own more than the bottom 99 percent combined. Freedom from concentrations of industries that stifle competition and keep prices high. Freedom to marry whom we choose. Freedom to make decisions about our own bodies. Freedom to send our kids to school without fear for their safety. Freedom to breathe clean air, to drink clean water, to live on a habitable planet. Freedom to elect our leaders without the rich, or foreign governments, choosing them f...

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