Resistance Is Resisting
The estimated crowd size was perhaps close to 10,000 people at yesterday’s No Kings rally at Mill Creek Park in Kansas City, which I attended. Rallies were held throughout Missouri and Kansas, in both urban areas and small towns. Across the country something like 9 million people showed up. For some this was the first time they had attended a rally anywhere.
Yes momentum is building. We’re moving forward but a rally is only a beginning. The more we understand that a genuine movement has to grow from below the sooner we can see actual success as we stand up to authoritarianism and yes, confront a very real fascist attempt to turn the United States into something very bad for all of us collectively.
No we’re not in a made-for-TV movie, a simulation or merely have to wait for the “bad stuff” to go away. Uh, huh we are going to be inconvenienced.
For those that might comfortably proclaim that, “We told you so,” I’d suggest using your, er, wisdom and insight to confront the growing fascist movement right now, right in front of you that is not remotely interested in whatever insight you may think you have.
And certainly don’t forget the real assassination of an elected official that took place in Minneapolis this weekend or that active duty American soldiers in Los Angeles detained an American citizen on U.S. soil.
“What’s Love Got To Do With It?”
But for most in this country, unfreedom is a novel experience. What makes this condition confounding is that our unfreedom doesn’t yet look like it does in Russia or China—it is still partial. (Deepak Bhargava)
To meet this moment in US history, we need to revisit the rich—and successful—tradition of nonviolent disruption. (Deepak Bhargava)
For those that want to know the HOW I would highly recommend the article, We are no longer free. But we can win our freedom back
Foreigners treated as enemies, judges under attack: the signs are everywhere in the US. But there are still reasons to hope. (Miriam Lewin, Argentine journalist)