#moses carryout

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(Exodus 3:11-12)

One of the things I find interesting about the life of Moses is that he went from a man of great significance, to no significance, to even greater significance. Who he was in Egypt was nothing compared to who he was in God. In Egypt, he took orders from Pharaoh, but in God he was the one giving Pharaoh orders.

But before Moses became that great man of God, he had to go through a season of being a nobody. Highly educated, but now watching over sheep. Use to royalty, but now living in the wilderness. Privileged his whole life, but now average like all the rest.

Without a doubt this had to have been the worse part of Moses' life. But it was there, in his insignificance, where God was preparing him for greatness. Before walking in his divine calling, the greatest honor Moses had was being in the same room with Pharaoh, but in his divine calling he was greater than Pharaoh, and the highest honor Pharaoh ever had was to being in the same room with Moses, only he just didn't know it.

When God is working on you to prepare you for what He created you for, you will have seasons of insignificance. But God is working on you in ways you just can't see or detect. He's emptying you of self and filling you with His spirt and all the necessities you'll need to carryout your calling.

[reasontowhine]

The John and John Show 11/25/2019

New Salem Witch Hunters - Notes From The Other Side

Fastbacks - Parts

Spike In Vain - Strangeland County

The Last - She Don’t Know Why I’m Here

Moses Carryout (Ron House) - 20 or 30 People

Womanhaters - Cry 816

The Dictators - Teengenerate

The Deadbeats - Brainless

Janitor Scum - Vacuum Rebuilder

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The Dream Syndicate - Sure Thing

The Victims - I Understand

Death Of Samantha - Rosenberg Summer

Guided By Voices - Always Crush Me

The Clean - The Blue

FM Knives - T.V. Light

Radioactivity - Where I Come From

Prisoners - Teenage Shatner

Cheap Clone - New Paltz

The Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You

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Profile: Ydanis Rodriguez

Profile produced for my reporting class at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Unpublished. 

Date: October 11, 2014

Ydanis Rodriguez in his office

As Ydanis Rodriguez was leaving home to go to an Occupy Wall Street protest at Zuccotti Park, his wife Yarisa asked him to be careful. She reminded him that they had to go to their daughter’s school meeting later that morning. He never made it to the meeting that day, but he made it to the cover of the New York Times Magazine “The Protester” edition.

 “I did have no plans to be arrested,” the council member for Washington Heights, Inwood and Marble Hills said. “My plan that day was to be there, see what’s going on, make sure that there was no excessive use of force.”

 The participation in the Occupy Wall Street protest wasn’t the only time that Rodriguez was arrested for civil disobedience as an elected official. In 2010, he was arrested, along with other council members, for protesting against the then recently passed Arizona immigration law. This measure allowed state law enforcement officers to determine a person’s immigration status during a stop if the officer believed the person to be an illegal immigrant.    

 The difference between the two instances, however, is that in the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protest he was allegedly beaten on the head by a police officer as he was trying to identify himself as a councilmember.

“For me it was a decision that the administration took that day, to clean the park, and not only had they stopped an elected official from being able to witness what was going on in the park, but they also stopped people from the media,” he said. He was referring to the freelance journalists who were there with him, and who were also arrested.

 “It wasn’t a good day for democracy in New York City,” he said. “It is clear to me that they don’t understand that you can take people from the park, but you cannot take people from the movement.”

 He reencountered many of the people he had seen at the Occupy Wall Street movement in later protests. They were all there during protests for better working conditions for fast food workers, in the movements supporting the struggle of car wash workers and, more recently, in the Climate Change march.

 “What you see is the same faces that were in the movement,” he said. “So the movement will not leave our society until we address the major issues that affect our whole world, which is the issue of inequality.”

 When asked about the efficacy of protesting in changing large issues such as inequality and climate change, his brows furrowed slightly as he let go of a profound sigh.

 “Look, I believe in the organizing movement,” he said. He had the expected reaction of a man whose life has been marked by community activism.

 Son of agricultural workers in the Dominican Republic, Rodriguez arrived in the United States in 1983, when he was 18. He came with one of his sisters (he has 13 siblings) to join the rest of his family who was already in Washington Heights, in New York.

 In his first year in America, Rodriguez had several different jobs: first he washed dishes, then he worked in a cafeteria, and lastly he became a livery cab driver. That’s when he finally could make his way to college.

 “And at City College, one of the first actions that I was part of was organizing a take-over of the administration building at City College, in 1988, against tuition increase and budget cuts,” he said.

 The takeover took place while Rodriguez was still an undergraduate pursuing his B.A. in political science. Later, in 1998, during his Master’s program in bilingual education, he and other two students at City College filed a lawsuit (Sigal v. Moses) against the then president of the college, Yolanda Moses, for nullifying the student government elections, which Rodriguez and the other two students had won. It took them ten years to win the lawsuit.

 By the time he won, Rodriguez was already a teacher at the school he had co-founded, Gregorio Luperon High School, where he taught for 13 years. The school was created to be a bridge, providing a transition between Spanish to English classes for students newly arrived from Latin America.

 Yokarina Duarte, Rodriguez’s former student and current deputy chief of staff for community affairs at his office, remembers the day Rodriguez explained the takeover of the City College building. It was a Saturday, and Rodriguez was teaching a group of students from Gregorio Luperon in one of the rooms the City College had given to the community after the 1988 protests.

 “He explained to us that they had to do different rallies, and in one of the rallies they took over City College, and nobody could get out of City College, no guard could get into City College, because they were protesting against tuition increase,” she said. “So, as part of the deal, they were able to gain the second floor.”

 The second floor she refers to was a room used for Saturday classes in the pre-university program Rodriguez had founded in 1996, the Dominicans 2000, long after the 1988 protests. The group met every Saturday to help students from Gregorio Luperon with homework, English language enhancement, academic tutoring on math, sciences and social studies, sports, and arts. All the teachers, including Rodriguez, who provided help to the students did so as volunteers.

 Milton Baez, a teacher at Gregorio Luperon and Rodriguez’s former co-worker, remembers seeing Rodriguez long before they worked together at the school.

 “In the Dominicans 2000, he was really the lead person there,” he said. “In the sittings, in the protest at City College, basically he was one of the leaders in the committee.”

Baez recalls that, while he was teaching there, Rodriguez was always organizing student groups to do community work. 

“There was a drive for keeping the streets clean, and he would get from the sanitation department, he would get shovels, and rankers, and plastic bags,” Baez recalls. “And he would go around the community cleaning, cleaning the streets. And the students would participate.”

 He added, “Ever since I’ve known him, he’s been an organizer. He likes to do stuff around the community.”

 Duarte’s first trip to Washington, D.C., was with Rodriguez and other school employees. The school had taken the students to the capital to protest against the war in Iraq.

“They got a free bus,” she said. “I don’t know how they got a free bus, but we had a wonderful time. We were making jokes, we were talking, we were singing in the bus all the way to Washington, D.C.”

 Teachers and students marched and chanted together that day. Rodriguez’s chant was “We cannot give up! We cannot give up!”

 “Ydanis was very good at it, making sure that we knew the importance, the difference that we were making by expressing support for a good cause,” Duarte said.

 In his office in Washington Heights, locals always come to ask the councilman for help. On the day of this interview, just after noon, a woman rushed into the office. She was shaking and spoke to the receptionist in Spanish. Her nephew had died in a hospital and she wanted to see Rodriguez to ask him to help send her nephew’s body back to the Dominican Republic.

 As a councilman, Rodriguez sits on eight City Council committees, proposing legislation on education, housing, transportation, and sanitation, among others. For instance, he was one of the sponsors of the local law to reduce the use of carryout bags, in which people would be required to pay five cents for plastic bags at shops, convenience, and grocery stores.  

 It seems like Rodriguez continues fighting, but this time from inside the establishment he once fought so hard against.

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(Exodus 3:11-12) One thing I find interesting about the life of Moses is that he went from a man of great significance to no significance to even greater significance. Who he was in Egypt was nothing compared to who he was in God. In Egypt, he took orders from Pharaoh, but in God he was the one giving Pharaoh orders. But before Moses became that great man of God, he had to go through a season of being a nobody. Highly educated, but now watching over sheep. Use to royalty, but now living in the wilderness. Privileged his whole life, but now average, like all the rest. Without a doubt this had to have been the worse part of Moses' life. But it was there, in his insignificance where God was preparing him for greatness. Before walking in his divine calling, the greatest honor Moses had was being in the same room with Pharaoh, but in his divine calling he was greater than Pharaoh - and the highest honor Pharaoh had was to be in the same room with him, he just didn't know it. When God is working on you to prepare you for what He created you for, you will have seasons of insignificance. But God is working on you in ways you just can't see or detect. He's emptying you of self and filling you with His spirt and all the necessities you will need to carryout your calling. #Inspiration #SpiritualInspiration #Encouragement #Trust #Faith #TrustInGod #Blessed #Favored #God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Pray #Grace #GodWantsUsToBeEncouraged #Love #Peace #Joy #Purpose #GiveIttoGod #GodIsAble #Faithful #True #Holy #Almighty #Repent #Power #Change #Hope #Mercy #Forgiveness https://www.instagram.com/p/B5oVSy8npnK/?igshid=1euug7v2cd4sa

[joseph4inspiration]

(Exodus 3:11-12) One thing I find interesting about the life of Moses is that he went from a man of great significance to no significance to even greater significance. Who he was in Egypt was nothing compared to who he was in God. In Egypt, he took orders from Pharaoh, but in God he was the one giving Pharaoh orders. But before Moses became that great man of God, he had to go through a season of being a nobody. Highly educated, but now watching over sheep. Use to royalty, but now living in the wilderness. Privileged his whole life, but now average like all the rest. Without a doubt this had to have been the worse part of Moses' life. But it was there, in his insignificance where God was preparing him for greatness. Before walking in his divine calling, the greatest honor Moses had was being in the same room with Pharaoh, but in his divine calling he was greater than Pharaoh - and the highest honor Pharaoh had was to be in the same room with him, he just didn't know it. When God is working on you to prepare you for what He created you for, you will have seasons of insignificance. But God is working on you in ways you just can't see or detect. He's emptying you of self and filling you with His spirt and all the necessities you will need to carryout your calling. #Inspiration #SpiritualInspiration #Encouragement #Trust #Faith #TrustInGod #Blessed #Favored #God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Pray #Grace #GodWantsUsToBeEncouraged #Love #Peace #Joy #Purpose #GiveIttoGod #GodIsAble #Faithful #True #Holy #Almighty #Repent #Power #Change #Hope #Mercy #Forgiveness

[joseph4inspiration]

(Exodus 3:11-12) One thing I find interesting about the life of Moses is that he went from a man of great significance to no significance to even greater significance. Who he was in Egypt was nothing compared to who he was in God. In Egypt, he took orders from Pharaoh, but in God he was the one giving Pharaoh orders. But before Moses became that great man of God, he had to go through a season of being a nobody. Highly educated, but now watching over sheep. Use to royalty, but now living in the wilderness. Privileged his whole life, but now average like all the rest. Without a doubt this had to have been the worse part of Moses' life. But it was there, in his insignificance where God was preparing him for greatness. Before walking in his divine calling, the greatest honor Moses had was being in the same room with Pharaoh, but in his divine calling he was greater than Pharaoh - and the highest honor Pharaoh had was to be in the same room with him, he just didn't know it. When God is working on you to prepare you for what He created you for, you will have seasons of insignificance. But God is working on you in ways you just can't see or detect. He's emptying you of self and filling you with His spirt and all the necessities you will need to carryout your calling. #Inspiration #SpiritualInspiration #Faith #Encouragement #Trust #TrustInGod #Blessed #Favored #God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Pray #Grace #GodWantsUsToBeEncouraged #Love #Peace #Joy #Purpose #GiveIttoGod #GodIsAble #Faithful #Repost #Holy #Almighty #Repent #GodOverPorn #Change #Hope #Mercy #Forgiveness https://www.instagram.com/p/BvkhvwnhZnY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=g1w7vlfhxqtp

[joseph4inspiration]

(Exodus 3:11-12) One thing I find interesting about the life of Moses is that he went from a man of great significance to no significance to even greater significance. Who he was in Egypt was nothing compared to who he was in God. In Egypt, he took orders from Pharaoh, but in God he was the one giving Pharaoh orders. But before Moses became that great man of God, he had to go through a season of being a nobody. Highly educated, but now watching over sheep. Use to royalty, but now living in the wilderness. Privileged his whole life, but now average like all the rest. Without a doubt this had to have been the worse part of Moses' life. But it was there, in his insignificance where God was preparing him for greatness. Before walking in his divine calling, the greatest honor Moses had was being in the same room with Pharaoh, but in his divine calling he was greater than Pharaoh - and the highest honor Pharaoh had was to be in the same room with him, he just didn't know it. When God is working on you to prepare you for what He created you for, you will have seasons of insignificance. But God is working on you in ways you just can't see or detect. He's emptying you of self and filling you with His spirt and all the necessities you will need to carryout your calling. #Inspiration #SpiritualInspiration #Encouragement #Trust #Faith #TrustInGod #Blessed #Favored #God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Pray #Grace #GodWantsUsToBeEncouraged #Love #Peace #Joy #Purpose #GiveIttoGod #GodIsAble #Faithful #True #Holy #Almighty #Repent #Power #Change #Hope #Mercy #Forgiveness https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq8lfLsBYus/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lm4uqo446tvg

[joseph4inspiration]

(Exodus 3:11-12) One thing I find interesting about the life of Moses is that he went from a man of great significance to no significance to even greater significance. Who he was in Egypt was nothing compared to who he was in God. In Egypt, he took orders from Pharaoh, but in God he was the one giving Pharaoh orders. But before Moses became that great man of God, he had to go through a season of being a nobody. Highly educated, but now watching over sheep. Use to royalty, but now living in the wilderness. Privileged his whole life, but now average like all the rest. Without a doubt this had to have been the worse part of Moses' life. But it was there, in his insignificance where God was preparing him for greatness. Before walking in his divine calling, the greatest honor Moses had was being in the same room with Pharaoh, but in his divine calling he was greater than Pharaoh - and the highest honor Pharaoh had was to be in the same room with him, he just didn't know it. When God is working on you to prepare you for what He created you for, you will have seasons of insignificance. But God is working on you in ways you just can't see or detect. He's emptying you of self and filling you with His spirt and all the necessities you will need to carryout your calling. #Inspiration #SpiritualInspiration #Faith #Encouragement #Trust #TrustInGod #Blessed #Favored #God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Pray #Grace #GodWantsUsToBeEncouraged #Love #Peace #Joy #Purpose #GiveIttoGod #GodIsAble #Faithful #Repost #Holy #Almighty #Repent #GodOverPorn #Change #Hope #Mercy #Forgiveness

[joseph4inspiration]

(Exodus 3:11-12) One thing I find interesting about the life of Moses is that he went from a man of great significance to no significance to even greater significance. Who he was in Egypt was nothing compared to who he was in God. In Egypt, he took orders from Pharaoh, but in God he was the one giving Pharaoh orders. But before Moses became that great man of God, he had to go through a season of being a nobody. Highly educated, but now watching over sheep. Use to royalty, but now living in the wilderness. Privileged his whole life, but now average like all the rest. Without a doubt this had to have been the worse part of Moses' life. But it was there, in his insignificance where God was preparing him for greatness. Before walking in his divine calling, the greatest honor Moses had was being in the same room with Pharaoh, but in his divine calling he was greater than Pharaoh - and the highest honor Pharaoh had was to be in the same room with him, he just didn't know it. When God is working on you to prepare you for what He created you for, you will have seasons of insignificance. But God is working on you in ways you just can't see or detect. He's emptying you of self and filling you with His spirt and all the necessities you will need to carryout your calling. #Inspiration #SpiritualInspiration #Faith #Encouragement #Trust #TrustInGod #Blessed #Favored #God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Pray #Grace #GodWantsUsToBeEncouraged #Love #Peace #Joy #Purpose #GiveIttoGod #GodIsAble #Faithful #Repost #Holy #Almighty #Repent #GodOverPorn #Change #Hope #Mercy #Forgiveness