We're already living in the aftermath of a successful administrative coup d' etat led by the executive branch. It's taking many people a while to catch up.
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Yup. This is exactly what I've been saying to people in my communities. Our work right now has to be to do everything in our power to protect the most vulnerable people WHERE WE LIVE and WHERE WE WORK. THIS is our work right now. How will we do this?
I think about this a lot right now because so much of my "where I work" is just, watching kids as unpaid labor. Mine but also a lot of time at our preschool.
And I have to keep reminding myself, these kids are vulnerable. Protecting their innocence and safety from this regime is valuable.
Not only is protecting the kids and their space vital but that's an anchor point (and a vulnerability) for a lot of people. Knowing your kids are okay lets you do a lot.
And we need amazing littles to grow up to be amazing big people to OUTLIVE this bullshit and be the future we're fighting for.
We have so many different seasons of life. Change is a constant and we have to show up how we can when we can within our capacity. There will be other seasons to do other things. God willing.
For ex, if Columbia University is your community, then you root there and you fight like hell to stop them from giving up more of their students and community members.
It'll be easier with more people on here. Try these out then spread the good platforms to move to. Hopefully you can help people get on board, & suggest accounts to follow on all these:
Yep. This👇 was 5 weeks ago! and it was already old news.
It’s up to US to speak up, to show up where and when we can.
Is the #StopTheCoup hashtag meaningless? No one, literally no one, seems to care that we’re living through a COUP, or have just lived through a coup. 😭
South Florida is such a strange place. Lots of resources, lots of issues to fix, TONS of inequity, tremendous difficulty getting organizing off the ground. I feel that so much.
It's the worst demographic for activism because of the constant language barrier, the fact everyone only has time to work. Then the geography just ruins any chance of getting people together
Identify the most vulnerable in your area, immigrants, transgender people, etc, and then either provide support to organizations supporting them, or provide direct support to individuals. That’s activism
We all have to do what we can where we live and work. That's really all there is to it. I have also been telling people that the Federal landscape is foreclosed to most of us for the foreseeable future. Our influence is extremely limited there.
Hi! If I can ask: What advice do you have for federal employees? So much depends on context, of course, but re: doing what you can where you work - does it make sense to do it in the current gov at the staff level? To leave?
They are purging military opposition while the Democrats cry about procedure and issue statements. The only good thing about them is they'll be executed long before I get to the camps. And they'll deserve it for handing us over to the fascists...
Constantly. It's almost all I do. We are under attack as surely as if tanks were rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue. No fascist has ever been removed from power by peaceful means. No matter how much you believe that violence is never the answer, sometimes it is the only practical answer.
Finger-pointing and strongly worded statements aren't going to solve anything by themselves. By all means keep calling everything out but it should be part of the broader tactical response that we aren't seeing.
what makes you think it was successful? the courts still exist. the "coup" is just corpos controlling EVERYTHING except the hearts and mind of a few decent judges. so what's actually different? hasnt it always been a dystopia?
She had a fantastic agenda w/only 3 mos to campaign. Included a $50k toward home buying, low-cost, childcare, help w/elderly parents. those are “kitchen table issues” people can relate to. T got 47% of the votes; not a mandate & 53% voted for others on the ballot, like a qualified woman. Kamala.
How is this even the same country that shut down airports & major highways, halted huge cities & torched cop cars just a few years ago? What is happening
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And I have to keep reminding myself, these kids are vulnerable. Protecting their innocence and safety from this regime is valuable.
I have to remind myself that it may not be glamorous heroism, but helping make sure they can become themselves is liberatory work.
And we need amazing littles to grow up to be amazing big people to OUTLIVE this bullshit and be the future we're fighting for.
It's hard, I spent 20 years on the front lines of organizing and I often feel cowardly not being there now, at a moment of existential crisis.
I try to remind myself that this work is meaningful resistance, still.
It sucks there’s a hierarchy in appreciation, but ultimately the frontliners wouldn’t be able to do what they do without support.
Also, it’s temporary. It gets easier when they are older.
https://bsky.app/profile/atmorous.bsky.social/post/3ljynceh4oc2o
https://hasbrouck.org/coup
By the time Congress catches up, we'll be starving, unhoused, diseducated, and dying of bad food and rampant contagion.
It’s up to US to speak up, to show up where and when we can.
Is the #StopTheCoup hashtag meaningless? No one, literally no one, seems to care that we’re living through a COUP, or have just lived through a coup. 😭
https://bsky.app/profile/katieholten.bsky.social/post/3lhwaftburc2q
We in the walking dead phase