Dear friends,
Have you made the world safer for your neighbors this week?
In the last week or so I've:
-- Attended a huddle that was 90% women, and left with the (now complete) action item of setting up a meetup page for the future.
-- Helped my wife meet with the young democrats.
-- I did not email the DNC about the process of choosing electors. I need to research what I meant by this and how I can help. It seems far away, but matters.
This third week saw the courts standing up, and ever more incomprehensible tweets from the resident of the Oval Office. My work bullshit hit a crescendo, and will hopefully decrease next week.
Next week, I'm planning to:
-- Email the DNC
-- Turn over the huddle's meetup account to the rightful leader. I'm happy to run IT and do behind the scenes stuff, but the face and brains of the movement's got to be women.
-- Spend several days at Dreamation. Its kind of like therapy and self-care all rolled into one glorious package.
Love to you and yours! He will not divide us!
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I also want to email the DNC. Can you tell me more about your process for that?
ReplyDeleteConnected with the local temple to get involved with local refugee efforts and community issues. Called various congresspeople. Talked to people on my street about organizing extremely locally. Helped my sister-in-law make important connections to organizing in her extreme local area. Reached out to an acquaintance who voted for DT to ask what he would have to do to lose her support.
ReplyDeleteMarshalled for Caravan of Love, an anti-ban anti-wall, pro-immigrant pro-refugee protest. Had a moment of acknowledging to myself that yes, if needed, I would absolutely put my white body in the way of harm to protect the brown bodies of my neighbors. Mostly just told cars to turn around.
ReplyDeleteAt my local mosque's solidarity Cup-Of-Tea event I did my best to jovially monkey-wrench white folks trying to turn a "get to know each other" event into their platform to virtue-signal.
ReplyDeleteThem: So can you explain [read: apologize for] the whole Sunni-Shiite thing, because obviously I know that Islam is a religion of peace, I love my muslim neighbors, but sometimes...
Me: Oh, sorry to interrupt, but I was wondering what kind of things are good to bake or cook, in order to bring to the next meeting? I get the sense that if I'm already adjusted for kosher I'm probably not going to get in trouble with halal rules, but I want to be sure. Would cheesecake be too messy?
I also emailed called my congressmen and senators. I'm doing that a few times a week, and it almost does't register as an activity anymore. Which is good -- it means its taking less energy.
ReplyDeleteDerrick Sanders I think we just need to go here: http://my.democrats.org/page/s/contact-the-democrats
ReplyDeleteMaybe volunteer to be a delegate!
Meguey Baker , Kelley Vanda , Tony Lower-Basch You three are really inspiring! Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteOrganizing the huddle (extension of the women's march) should make a lot of things easier in the future. I'm hopeful we'll be able to use that as a central way of marshalling everyone to protests and taking action.
Tony Lower-Basch LOVE that!!!
ReplyDeleteTony Lower-Basch Or, as Dianne points, out: "Oh, I hear you're a christian! Can you explain the whole Irish car bombing thing because of course I know Christianity is a religion of peace ... "
ReplyDeleteBut, she's a confrontational atheist and you are not.
The one I thought of was "Oh hey, as an American can you explain the whole slavery and racism thing, because of course I know that America is a country that values freedom, I love Americans, but ..."
ReplyDeleteIndeed, Tony Lower-Basch . Overcoming unthinking hypocricy is virtually impossible. The evasion tactic of changing the subject is probably more helpful.
ReplyDeleteI'm not even against people wanting to signal and aspire to virtue. Just, y'know, don't want it to crowd out other less flashy things like "getting to know your neighbors."
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