Resources for Resistance
Thus begins a series of blog posts to disseminate resources to resist fascism
In the spirit of “Provisional Understanding,” I will release these as they arise as needed, in interaction with others. Consider my last post, “Choose Your Adventure” as post 0 of the series, because I didn’t know then it was going to be a series, because programmers start with zero, and as declared in the movie “Stand And Deliver,” Mayans had a concept of zero before the West ever did.
Last night I had a conversation with my best friend from college, with whom I have been fighting in parallel as scholar-activists since then. We always talked about collaborating, and there is no time like the present. We were made for the present moment, as Rachel Maddow explains.
Alexandra Ocasio–Cortez (AOC) explains she has no “marching orders” except to build community.
The next thing I want to share is that the religious left needs to declare a “Day of Prayer and Fasting” on January 20th, in the spirit of this portrayal in the movie “Gandhi.
The Working Families Party had a mass call last night, and though I learned of it too late also, a recording is available.
Lastly, for now, there is a middle path between a facile reconciliation with the rank and file of “the other side,” and division from, and retribution for them.
Our attitude should be, with the confidence of Otpor, the Serbian student movement which instigated the ouster of Milosovič, “the butcher of the Balkans,” “Come join us. We are on the winning side.”