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Joan
@forestharmony.bsky.social
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forest wanderer, zhineng qigong practitioner, peace seeker, partner, mother, activist, former community health/nutrition educator.
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Go #RaleighNC! Holding space, expressing solidarity, prioritizing joy! #NoKings
Drummers, dancers, speakers, chanters, petitioners, marchers-an inspiring display of the many ways to exercise the #FirstAmendment
the sidewalks were filled with #WeThePeople rockin' and talkin' and dancin' for the #FirstAmendment #NoKings
Holding space, expressing solidarity, prioritizing joy.
Solidarity, Joy, Holding Space
"all of us have a role to play as we meet the awful challenge of this crisis. What is the special skill you will bring to this struggle?" #NoKings #NRVIndivisible #Resist #BeBrave #OneMillionRising #WeUsOurs
Cleve Jones gave a riveting, rousing speech at San Francisco's No Kings rally yesterday, and he's graciously allowing me to publish it. He began: "The pronouns I use the most are the ones probably understood the least by those in the White House today. They are WE, US and OURS."
Cleve Jones: "This Is Our Country"
This is the first guest essay at Meditations in an Emergency. I'm proud to bring you yesterday's speech by the great Cleve Jones, who has for nearly half a century been a key organizer for the global ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
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NBC just gutted the very teams that gave marginalized voices a seat at the table—then called it “restructuring.”

The cuts:

📌NBC BLK (Black community coverage)

📌NBC Latino (Latino community coverage)

📌NBC Asian America (Asian American community coverage)

📌NBC Out (LGBTQ+ community coverage)
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‪From our No Kings 2 march & protest rally yesterday in #ChristiansburgVA. About 1550 people. No crowns. No thrones. No kings. No dictators. No secret police. #NoKings #NoKingsNRV #NoKingsChristiansburgVA
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“Today's nonviolent activists are launching a global shift in protest tactics away from anger, resentment, & rage & toward a more powerful form of activism rooted in fun.…surprisingly, all of this works even better the harder dictators crack down on it.”

—Srdja Popovic, “Blueprint for Revolution”
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Know your nonviolent tactics ... you're going to need them.
Big demonstrations are inspirational, but they alone can't overthrow a dictator.

That takes mass noncooperation and interventions like strikes, boycotts, tax resistance, occupations, parallel government, etc. to pull down the pillars of support that empower a regime.
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The hypocritical @washingtonpost.com, which supposedly prioritizes “personal liberties” in its editorial mission, has fired columnist Karen Attiah for exercising her personal liberties. If you subscribe, has the moment finally arrived to cancel? @karenattiah.bsky.social
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Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
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There is no democratic justification for withholding these files. This is a coverup.⁩
#Solidarity with the many brave women who spoke out today insisting #ReleaseTheFiles, all of them, now. #JusticeForTheSurvivors.
Is this a trend? Sign appeared in the last week at Christiansburg VA overpass, and a few weeks ago at a Shenandoah County VA overpass. #freespeech #solidarity #goodtrouble @acluva.bsky.social @cardinalnews.org @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social #nrvindivisble
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The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them.

Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.
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New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭