Yesterday morning I watched the Democracy Now! clip of Tom Hayden addressing the 2015 Teach in on the power of Vietnam War protest and I was particularly struck by his emphasis on movements finding the way to unity.

As we face the 2016 election those of us in the self-selected, dissatisfied minority who are deeply concerned about the need for change might contemplate Hayden's suggestion of finding a path to unity.

Unity does not mean lock-step agreement on every issue or detail, it does mean finding an avenue by which to bring our presently atomized struggles for peace, the environment, racial, social, and economic justice together.

None of our struggles can achieve a lonely objective for change without all the other struggles joining in across lines of class, race and gender.  We all know it, but have not been able to bridge the divides by calling for transformative change together.

Thus, we find ourselves in the eleventh hour of deep global crisis with expanding wars – any of which can escalate so that nuclear weapons are used – and climate change which is upon us with stunning rapidity.

It is increasingly clear that all global regimes as currently established are inadequate to the monumental tasks ahead and that people's movements must arise around the world to save the day.