...okay, I'm embarrassed that I had literally ONLY JUST found out about the Sunday "Ready to Resist" calls--- Sunday's was my first one (and it is EXACTLY what I was looking for in all my faffing about "how do I prioritize my activism?"--- MoveOn has me covered, I see). And, I mean, I'm morally certain that our awesome mods and members had posted about it, and for that matter that I'd gotten emails from MoveOn itself about it, but somehow it just did not register with me until last week when I signed up.
On which note, and also in order to avoid comment-spamming you, I'm going to piggyback onto your other comment that you were discouraged that the people at your ACLU event hadn't heard about another event--- I just had a similar experience at a couple of local events (not to mention that, you know, despite being in this comm and on a bunch of progressive/liberal mailing lists I myself didn't know about something significant, see above)... but honestly it's kind of heartening to me that there are all these little organic pockets of resistance coalescing with each other over time.
I mean, let's face it, the four months since the "Hellection" not to mention the two since the "Sinauguration" do indeed feel like years, but it's not actually been that long in real time, and we've already had some successes (e.g. Pudzer stepped off--- that one alone straightens my spine and puts a dance in my marching step!--- and Sessions recused himself on Russia and the first Muslim ban went down in flames). So it's going to take a bit of time for us to connect with each other--- but we're doing it, little bit by little bit. And the fact that there are even more people out there who care, who are on our side about these shenanigans, is amazing--- it means that our ability to use the tools of democracy, of "we the people", is only going to grow. (I'm thinking, for example, of the last woman who called in to the Sunday call talking about how alone she'd felt in her community and Amanda Johnson was all like, "Here, let me hook you up with like three local groups that I personally know of in your area." That's just kind of how we're gonna be rolling for a bit--- finding each other, getting connected.*)
There's also the possibly-even-more-heartening possibility that at least some of the people we've both met at any given resistance action who didn't know about other activities are newly motivated to resist--- to go full Star Wars, "these are [their] first steps"... in other words, we're not just getting the pre-existing progressive/liberal/otherwise-never-Trump crowd, we're getting new people, first-timers, as it were. So they're just beginning to network/connect with existing groups--- and I daresay we can help with that. ;)
*Can I just take a moment to point and laugh at the whole idea of an organized, coordinated "deep state", whether led by Obama or anyone else, that the current administration is trying to put out as being the origin or root of the opposition to them? For heaven's sake, we're liberals, we don't herd well! If we liked hierarchy and being told what to think, we'd like the current administration... and on the other hand, if we were that coordinated and organized, we'd have won the election.
This is the opposite of a top-down conspiracy; it's a bottom-up grassroots groundswell--- we're a whole bunch of little voices that started whispering "No, no, no," on 11/9 (or before)--- and gradually, bit by bit, we're hearing one another, and those whispers, that may have started as denial or despair... are turning into a roar of... well, democracy.
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Date: 2017-03-14 05:38 am (UTC)On which note, and also in order to avoid comment-spamming you, I'm going to piggyback onto your other comment that you were discouraged that the people at your ACLU event hadn't heard about another event--- I just had a similar experience at a couple of local events (not to mention that, you know, despite being in this comm and on a bunch of progressive/liberal mailing lists I myself didn't know about something significant, see above)... but honestly it's kind of heartening to me that there are all these little organic pockets of resistance coalescing with each other over time.
I mean, let's face it, the four months since the "Hellection" not to mention the two since the "Sinauguration" do indeed feel like years, but it's not actually been that long in real time, and we've already had some successes (e.g. Pudzer stepped off--- that one alone straightens my spine and puts a dance in my marching step!--- and Sessions recused himself on Russia and the first Muslim ban went down in flames). So it's going to take a bit of time for us to connect with each other--- but we're doing it, little bit by little bit. And the fact that there are even more people out there who care, who are on our side about these shenanigans, is amazing--- it means that our ability to use the tools of democracy, of "we the people", is only going to grow. (I'm thinking, for example, of the last woman who called in to the Sunday call talking about how alone she'd felt in her community and Amanda Johnson was all like, "Here, let me hook you up with like three local groups that I personally know of in your area." That's just kind of how we're gonna be rolling for a bit--- finding each other, getting connected.*)
There's also the possibly-even-more-heartening possibility that at least some of the people we've both met at any given resistance action who didn't know about other activities are newly motivated to resist--- to go full Star Wars, "these are [their] first steps"... in other words, we're not just getting the pre-existing progressive/liberal/otherwise-never-Trump crowd, we're getting new people, first-timers, as it were. So they're just beginning to network/connect with existing groups--- and I daresay we can help with that. ;)
*Can I just take a moment to point and laugh at the whole idea of an organized, coordinated "deep state", whether led by Obama or anyone else, that the current administration is trying to put out as being the origin or root of the opposition to them? For heaven's sake, we're liberals, we don't herd well! If we liked hierarchy and being told what to think, we'd like the current administration... and on the other hand, if we were that coordinated and organized, we'd have won the election.
This is the opposite of a top-down conspiracy; it's a bottom-up grassroots groundswell--- we're a whole bunch of little voices that started whispering "No, no, no," on 11/9 (or before)--- and gradually, bit by bit, we're hearing one another, and those whispers, that may have started as denial or despair... are turning into a roar of... well, democracy.