Resistance is the answer

Dear Friends,

As we begin the New Year, I am filled with fear and anxiety about our country and the world.  I worry about what President-elect Trump and the Republican Congress will do.  But it is time to stop being depressed, anxiety filled and frustrated.  It is time to take action.  We cannot let Donald Trump's presidency become normalized because there is nothing normal about him.  One of my New Year's resolutions is to perform at least four acts of resistance each week.

I have subscribed to wall of us which gets its name from this tag line on their website (here):

he promised a wall.
he will be stopped by a wall of us.
FOUR CONCRETE ACTS OF RESISTANCE
DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX EACH WEEK

By subscribing (here), they will send you an email each Sunday with four concrete acts of resistance. I have done many of them.  Please join me in subscribing and then taking action.

There are, of course, many other ways to resist President-elect Trump.  We must take to the streets in acts of civil disobedience.  The current online version of The New Yorker contains a commentary by Jelani Cobb entitled "The Return of Civil Disobedience, the sixties produced a conviction that 'democracy is in the streets.' The Trump era may echo that." (here).  I do not know where the quotation: "democracy is in the streets" comes from, but I think that it is completely correct and that we must all take it to heart.

So in addition to writing letters, making calls and supporting organizations that will help in the resistance, we must be in the street because "democracy is in the streets".

Thanks for reading and please comment,
The Unabashed Liberal