Founder and Exec Chair of Share Our Strength. Author of The Cathedral Within and The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men. #NoKidHungry
Washington, D.C. and Boston
Joined March 2009
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When Conscience Puts Children Ahead Of Politics
“It is hard to go home and say we need this level of increase when I just learned that, for example, over 4,000 kids are losing SNAP benefits in Maine,” Senator Angus King
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It’s been 20 years now but feels like yesterday. I repost each Memorial Day Weekend in honor of the service and sacrifice to which we owe so much. tinyurl.com/5cd2rpsp
(Other reflections on bearing witness in my weekly Substack column at billyshore.substack.com/ )
When Dignity Is The First Course On The Menu And There Are No Substitutions open.substack.com/pub/billys…
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion on detention centers across the U.S. In Maine, a new “social services collective” made their neighborhood safer, welcoming, and more beautiful for $6 million. billyshore.substack.com/p/co…
"While I was writing my book I realized we would not win Brown vs Board of Education [the ruling that desegregated schools] today,” he says. “That thought scared me. We were going to have to do much more than lawyering.”
Bryan Stevenson, Lunch with the FT tinyurl.com/34dmdn27
If This is "America First", I'd Hate to See What America Second Looks Like. New Substack column at tinyurl.com/4v3bma4u
“Wait For The Storm To Pass” Is Not An Option
Hunger is as damaging to the future of our children as anything a foreign power can inflict. billyshore.substack.com/
“These are all our children, and we shall either profit by or pay for whatever they become” – James Baldwin open.substack.com/pub/billys…
A Statesman’s Tips and Tricks for Finding Common Ground In A Divided America open.substack.com/pub/billys…
Every Time One Of Us Is Called To Courage, All Of Us Grow Stronger. open.substack.com/pub/billys…
“...Stop this brazen attack on our children” Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, referring to $10 billion cut in childcare support. Be civil, not silent. My full comments on my Substack @ tinyurl.com/53s9k32h
NEW YEAR FOR BEING CIVIL NOT SILENT, substack.com/@billyshore/not… #NoKidHungry #hunger #SNAP #incomeinequality
This “picture of the year” made me smile. Until it made me angry. open.substack.com/pub/billys…
