This wave of resistance reminds me of Berkeley back in the day…and it’s different, too.
People of all ages and cultures are now practicing politics with large doses of joy, real solidarity, mutual aid and wonderful art, along with hard-assed non-violent resistance. We’re resisting at the Super Bowl and in the streets, on picket lines and in court, in boycotts and on ballots – Bad Bunny, Toñita and inflatable frogs, with whistles blowing, videos rolling, and singing “You can change your mind” to ICE agents. We are creating a world we want to live in as we fight the one being forced on us.
“I see possibility in the surging human kindness and courage shown by regular people across this country. I see possibility in what happens when corruption and hate are exposed so starkly; the possibility that revulsion against what we are seeing creates a coalition that is bigger than what would have been possible when the truths were not so clear.”
Phil Buchanan
My small corner of the resistance is full of possibility and human kindness, and it continues to feed my soul.
Please join me:
- March 28 for the NO KINGS! events in Alameda:
- Family activities from 10am – noon at Chochenyo Park and a big rally (that I’m MCing) at City Hall from noon – 1pm – click here to learn more.
- Celebrate the Semi-Quincentennial with your vision for our future:
- Citizen Joy, the organization I started two years ago, is working with artists across the country to create our answer to the MAGA story of this 4th of July. We the People: Artful Visions for Our Future is an artistic invitation to put your truth into the world. Make something brave – a TikTok video or a symphony, a painting, a dance, a song, a circus, anything that is your vision for our future. Show us a world that’s still possible if we don’t give up on each other.
“The questions become urgent and personal: What can I help build to ensure the future we want to see? History teaches us that liberation has been won by thousands of everyday people who used their skills, courage and imagination to bend this nation closer to justice. If enough of us act where we are, we can stitch together a multiracial democracy that is stronger, fairer and more resilient than anything we have known.”
ACLU President Deborah N. Archer
