{"id":37161,"date":"2025-11-12T08:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=37161"},"modified":"2025-11-30T10:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:11:07","slug":"new-york-mamdanis-win-proves-that-hope-is-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=37161","title":{"rendered":"New York: Mamdani\u2019s Win Proves That Hope Is Power"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An article by Frances Moore Lapp\u00e9 and Corinna Rhum from Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n

Zohran Mamdani\u2019s stunning victory on Tuesday is a bright light in this otherwise terrifying political time, and the messages propelling his political ascendance offer many lessons. One particularly is music to our ears\u2014indeed, it\u2019s a song we\u2019ve long been singing. We\u2019ll let the words from his\u00a0acceptance speech\u00a0<\/a> speak for themselves:<\/p>\n

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“Tonight we have spoken in a clear voice. Hope is alive. Hope is a decision that tens of thousands of New Yorkers made day after day, volunteer shift after volunteer shift, despite attack ad after attack ad. And, while we cast our ballots alone, we choose hope together: hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Right on!<\/p>\n

Mr. Mamdani\u2019s message is both powerful and incisive. To launch his campaign to become mayor of our largest city required hope\u2014and great courage. A long-shot candidate\u2014a 34-year-old South Asian Muslim and democratic socialist assemblyman\u2014he is a departure from mayoral convention.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, he, and a dedicated team of volunteers, took the plunge, pouring heart and soul into one of the most impressive grassroots campaigns. Mr. Mamdani\u2019s candidacy was an act of hope\u2014rooted not only in a belief in the necessity of his ideas and capacity to govern but also of hope that the political landscape would embrace a leader like him.<\/p>\n

We must challenge ourselves to hope! Why not run for office with a bold, hope-infused platform? Volunteer for a candidate we believe in? And cast our votes for a different and better future?<\/p>\n

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And that hope turned into victory\u2014justifying itself. Adamantly and consistently, he worked to convince voters that a better New York is achievable\u2014that hope need not be an abstract and ephemeral feeling but rooted in actual political possibility.<\/p>\n

Doing so, Mr. Mamdani championed the concerns New Yorkers\u2014but, really, most Americans\u2014feel acutely: our affordability crisis in housing, food, and\u00a0healthcare; the burden of wages failing to keep up with cost of living; the immense struggle required just to survive. At every step of his campaign, he addressed these deep structural problems with real, innovative policy solutions. He didn\u2019t ask voters to find hope from his politicking. Rather, he offered real grounds for belief.<\/p>\n

We have long said that hope is power. Mr. Mamdani\u2019s political success is evidence of this truth.<\/p>\n

So perhaps the most important takeaway from Mr. Mamdani\u2019s campaign is this: Hope grounded in possibility is the fuel for\u00a0democracy. We find this a particularly powerful line from Mr. Mamdani\u2019s acceptance speech: \u201cWe won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.\u201d This sentiment is, indeed, the crux of hope\u2019s power. When we believe, the door to action opens. We become agents capable of making real the changes we so desperately. As Mr. Mamdani says, politics is not done to us, but what\u00a0we do.<\/p>\n

This spirit is contagious and key to fighting back successfully against the Trump administration\u2019s fascist policies and reversing widespread democratic backsliding. We must challenge ourselves to hope! Why not run for office with a bold, hope-infused platform? Volunteer for a candidate we believe in? And cast our votes for a different and better future?<\/p>\n

Organizations including\u00a0Run for Something\u00a0empower us to step up and consider ourselves as changemakers, and several other national groups such as\u00a0Common Cause\u00a0and\u00a0Indivisible\u00a0provide clear paths for citizen action. Who knows what may come from taking the next hopeful step in your community, whether its electoral or any other form of advocacy.<\/p>\n

Remember hope is not for \u201cwimps.\u201d It requires courage to do what we thought we could not do. The root of the word courage is the French word for heart, \u201ccoeur.\u201d So, when you step up and feel yours pounding, don\u2019t doubt. It\u2019s just your heart cheering you on!<\/p>\n

Leading with hope, we can build the engaged and just \u201cliving democracy\u201d we want and know is essential. We can become proud of our country again.
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.. DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION .. An article by Frances Moore Lapp\u00e9 and Corinna Rhum from Common Dreams Zohran Mamdani\u2019s stunning victory on Tuesday is a bright light in this otherwise terrifying political time, and the messages propelling his political ascendance offer many lessons. One particularly is music to our ears\u2014indeed, it\u2019s a song we\u2019ve long been … Continue reading New York: Mamdani\u2019s Win Proves That Hope Is Power<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,91],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-37161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","category-north-america","tag-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37357,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37161\/revisions\/37357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}