Need some reprieve from the chaos? I’d like to offer this space to post about the resistance, where we choose the proactive and supportive over the reactive and discouraging. What are the best actions happening globally this week? Are there signs of a not-so-slow fuse having been lit?
Maybe it’s time we were kinder to ourselves and each other, and set to building something we can rely on.
Some signs of hope,
Thousands of people spontaneously occupied and protested at airports across the US in response to the Tr*mp administration’s ban on Muslims entering the country.
Thank you to all who stood up this weekend for those whom others seek to harm. With no planning, no organization, no funding and no meetings, tens of thousands of Americans, on their own, just showed up at their airports, their local portal to rest of planet earth, and said loud and clear, “NO. Not in our America. We are the majority. You will not diminish our values, you will not degradate our fellow human beings. We welcome all.” Let’s keep our voice alive and strong, every single day, every single one of us. – Michael Moore
The ACLU announced Sunday evening it had raised $19.4 million from 290,000 donations since Saturday. The average it takes in per year is $3 million to $4 million, according to Reuters reporter Dustin Volz.The donations and membership growth is “unprecedented,” Anthony Romero, the ACLU’s executive director, told Yahoo News.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” Romero said. “People are fired up and want to be engaged. What we’ve seen is an unprecedented public reaction to the challenges of the Trump administration.”
The ACLU gained more than 150,000 new members as of early Sunday, and received millions in donations.It filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Saturday on behalf of two men detained at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport and threatened with deportation.
But because shock events destabilize a society, they can also be used positively. We do not have to respond along old fault lines. We could just as easily reorganize into a different pattern that threatens the people who sparked the event. A successful shock event depends on speed and chaos because it requires knee-jerk reactions so that people divide along established lines. – US Historian Heather Cox Richardson
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