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There are some amazing ideas and organizations out there, but we keep getting blasted with the MAGA crap and it is depressing and frustrating. Finding a book like this is refreshing. I'm just about to take my last Zoom class on Civilian Non-Violent Resistance with Rivera Sun. It's been six weeks well spent with yet another group that har…
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There are some amazing ideas and organizations out there, but we keep getting blasted with the MAGA crap and it is depressing and frustrating. Finding a book like this is refreshing. I'm just about to take my last Zoom class on Civilian Non-Violent Resistance with Rivera Sun. It's been six weeks well spent with yet another group that hardly anybody has heard of. Exciting to learn that there have been wars stopped by non-violent resistance and civil wars prevented by the same.
Speaking of good reads, I received Liz Chaney's "Oath and Honor" as a Father's Day gift. Though not finished yet, it appears to be a crisp, unadorned, and persuasive narrative of the January 6th events told from the vantage point of someone at the inner circle of GOP Congressional politics and the House Investigating Committee (and without too much self-congratulatory back slapping). You will learn, if you were not already aware, that at least one third of the current GOP members of the House and Senate are traitors to their oaths, to their country, and to their constituents willing to directly support or enable political mendacity, cheating, and violence in order to perpetuate their own power and that of the Orange Lump.
Wow! This sounds like a terrific read. I still marvel at Liz Chenney’s level, direct gaze as she delivered commentary during the J 6 Hearings. My secret goal was to sometime in my life be able to do that. Thank you for the recommendation 🙏
Knowing the possibility of the improbable is the model we desperately need. Especially since our MSM (article about WaPo hiring a Rupert-trained CEO about did me in) has been such a horror.