Who Can Soothe The Hotheads? (a story/ish)

Jesse was feeling a bit angry, a bit afraid and let his temper, his emo fall out all over the floor. He sat there not sure just what to do. But inside he wanted to fight like a fool.

A governor came by and tried to impress Jesse with the rule of law first. It just made Jesse angrier. So the governor sent in a cop, then soldier, to make Jesse listen. WELL! That didn’t help him calm down at all! It made him madder!

It was a good thing the governor was watching! He sent in Jesse’s family and friends, but that didn’t seem to be helping Jesse calm down. In fact, they were all getting mad.

It was a good thing the governor was watching! He sent in a story teller and the guy listened to Jesse and wrote the tale for all the villagers to hear, but that just got them all mad. They gathered pitch forks.

It was a good thing the governor was watching! He sent in a steward and asked him to help calm Jesse down. But the steward went collecting the workers and told the tale. The workers stopped work and gathered their picket signs.

It was a good thing the governor was watching! He called forth a priest from Jesse’s temple and they had a chat. Turns out Jesse was right to be upset. Well that explained why all the others were joining in…. But yes, the priest would try to help.

He preached about patience.
He preached about hope,
Then he sent in the clowns and the whores. Which was ok for the single men, But the wives weren’t having any of that business!
They dragged their husbands away from such nonsense!

Jesse was still sitting there, in his own emo. And kind of watching the show. Ready to laugh or grab a friend by the collar if he acted like a fool.

But at least now he was thinking… and he and the governor had a long talk. It’s not like the governor could say it was all Jesse being unreasonable, is it?

It’s not like Jesse being restrained or incarcerated would do much good.

So the governor went to his office and drafted some changes to the Charter and it made the future a bit brighter for their world. Today, and there was a plan for tomorrow too.

Jesse’s family and friends went back to their day,

The storyteller told a tale of change. And the villagers went home.

The steward told a tale and the workers went back to work.

The priest took the clowns and whores back to the temple and apologized to the wives he angered.

And the governor and Jesse shook hands and went home.

And Jesse? Was he still mad? Still scared? Yes, but at least he knew there was help on the way! And doesn’t that always help when you feel bad? It does it for me!

Pacifistic Freedom Fighters – Those Who Don’t Want to Follow Thoreau or Marx

Some people who I discuss politics with call me Pollyanna or say my fundie Christian roots are showing. Or even better, they say I’m a Communist or Marxist. (My first sociology prof would kill himself laughing at this). I’m not, I’m more of an anarchist than anything.

What actually makes me anti-govt is being the product of a farm world, small village. Where you only bought what you could use, what you could re-use. And with a huge household, what you could store in half a closet. Or con the rest of the family into thinking was a good thing. That we’d actually con the parental units into buying. And considering my dad was a seasonal worker (construction) and step monster was part time after I was 13 and could cook a family meal, with our three mortgages on the house dad built, it was a hard sell. (I know sentence structure, but … I’ll take tips into how to phrase it better?) Considering my efforts at earning a living in sales all failed, you can safely say these efforts didn’t go well for me.

But these days, the most vocal voices in the ecology and environment wars aren’t always that educated.

• They just look at the sky, the weather and go sheesh it’s getting hotter every year… how can the earth sustain this?
• Or ya know, there are just too many cities, too many people and the animals are getting crowded out. Where will we find habitats for them?
• Or how about the fact there is plastic floating on the ocean, and heaps of garbage people actually live on in several places on earth. How can all those things leeching into the soil and water tables be a good thing for humanity’s future?

And it changes who becomes a warrior against the govt. Who is willing to place their lives and their freedom on the line a lot! It’s no longer about religious collective dreams either:

Millenarianism

• belief in a future golden age of peace, justice, and prosperity.

eschatologies

• of several world religions, which teach that world events will reach a climax. end times

It’s now about survival.

And now doing it in a way that doesn’t add to the bruises on Gaia is the best part of valour for these freedom fighters. They are facing jail to take down the corrupt political system that forwards consumerism, convenience and corporatocracy to replace it with civilian committees. To make your voice and mine heard.

That isn’t a new idea. That is the ideology of a republic or a democracy, the basis on which it began anyways. The reason why you and I get to vote, supposedly.

But somehow it became more about the elite ruling the great unwashed. (I blame Machiavelli, I really do! sniffs pits. i’m good!)
Every four years we get to cast a vote for who will rule us, who will use their police powers and military to keep us working for the corporations. And if the one factory in our small town shuts down, or ten mom and pop’s get replaced with a Walmart, do they care? Nope! Not at the national level they don’t. They might begin to care if it was GMC, or Amazon. They might care if the bank that shuts down is Chase or Price-Waterhouse. But they don’t care if you have to drive an hour to find an actual physical bank.

Bottomline, govt just isn’t for you or about you.

So why do you have to spend six months of your working year working for their taxes? When your family eats sale meat ends or mac and cheese. Maybe even hot dogs and Kraft dinner. Where fresh veg and fruit are luxuries.

How does that justify trillions of dollars spent on systems that are literally killing the planet and us? How is it ok to know that the earth will be in such a place within the next 30-50 yrs that billions of people will be without clean water, or edible growable food?
That there will be a mass extinction event, and this time it will be humanity that dwindles away? They are now estimating approx 90% of us.

Why? Because the govt is hellbent on supporting killer industries like oil, gas, mining, personal vehicles, corporate farms….. instead of us. And we will die because they won’t change their direction?

Yeah I know, you think i’m nuts. But I found my tribe. And here are other voices saying the same thing. (YAY!! It’s not just me! Woop wooop!!)

Our planet is dying because those we elect are shills for our murderers. And we are giving them the power to execute us.
These days, the rebels are using ideas and words for bombs. And the govts are scared enough. But the corporatocracy is more so than anyone. And they’re bent on repressing the rebel’s voice.

Chris Hedges in conversation with Roger Hallam

If you want to know more, follow:
Caitlin Johnstone ,
Burning Pink ,
Extinction Rebellion ,
Kill the Corporatocracy ,
Movement for a People’s Party, or
Poor People’s Campaign
on Twitter.

#16DaysofActivism against #GenderBasedViolence – 25th November – 10 December 2020

Being a woman, girl or LBGTQ is hard in any given year. Finding the supplies you need for managing your hormones, period supplies, working, living with those who would harm you. And even just walking down the street and not being harassed.

In some countries, wearing a head dress or being jailed, fined, stoned for not. Facing genital mutilation.

Managing fertility needs, or trying to avoid them by using protection, or at worst case getting an abortion. If it’s available.

But in 2020, the pandemic has made the safety of being a woman, girl or LGBTQ even harder. At a time when services are on lockdown, some of the worst of the worst in predators and abusers are taking advantage and people are dying at a higher rate.

Even though this was thought of by the UN and governors around the world, more people are dying this year than other years.

So now we’re at a place of saying, please check on your neighbours. If you suspect they need help, then you’re more likely right than not. Please do the work of finding them resources. Offer them a respite, better yet a way out. If you have extra cash, save an envelope in your house (taxi fare/bus fare, a night in a hotel, a change of clothes, a couple days of meals — what you can afford to help them flee that their partner cannot find)

The shelters are full with homeless, the services are mostly on hiatus. So we need to plan like they don’t exist and go back to earlier times. And help each other be safe(r).

There is no magic bullet coming and people are dying, not just from the pandemic either.

The 16 days are from the day of recognition of women and girls struggle with gender based violence and human rights’ day.

….. United Nations

UNWomen 1
UNWomen 2

‘The Great Reset’ Conspiracy and the Flaws Inherent in Globalization – US vs Canada

Justin Trudeau has been taking flack for a lot of things, some of it has merit and some of it is dumb and dumber. JT has made it pretty clear that he wants Canada to have a seat at the world tables of power. As he should, if Canada wants to grow as a nation. We do, don’t we?

And in comparison to Trump, who keeps acting like a lone, growly wolf, JT does everything he can to put us forward as a team player.

That seems to be the direction Biden intends to take as well, but there is a clear distinction between JT and Biden. JT’s base of thought is a feminist approach. Inclusion. And that is just not and never has been Biden’s approach. In fact, he’s shown just the opposite.

A good example of this is the Covid stimulus Canada has put forward. JT’s first instincts were to protect and serve the people who most needed it. The seniors, the disabled, the reserves (where some of the indigenous people still have very little interaction outside their own people and they are most at risk of Canadians for a viral outbreak), the small businesses.

And i do get that Biden had to get elected first, but where were the DEMs when it came time to vote in stimulus? (crickets)

Yesterday, I got a chance to read Biden’s plan (and you can too! Specially if a Canadian can, right?)

It looks good till you see his plan for housing includes gentrification principles. Which is racist, paternalistic, and will kill the communities it’s meant to ‘help’ faster than you can say ‘Momma the bank has the sheriff outside our house. They say it’s not ours now and we gotta leave’. Or more specifically for some of the poorest who live in tenements, ‘Momma there’s a sign on the door that says the landlord sold the building and we gotta leave at the end of the month’. Before he is even in the White House, the guy is putting his racism and elitism on full display.
When gentrification goes into a neighbourhood, there are shops for eg, but they aren’t the kind poor folk can use. There are businesses and loans to the poor, but trust me, they aren’t for multi-cultural projects to diversify the nation. Only the well and truly assimilated rise.

And that folks is the guy who WILL join the Iluminati and take control of the world. After all this past year of wannabe oligarch trying to MAGA you to death, it’ll be Biden who actually does it.

But yes, don’t he speak good y’all? Yay! There won’t be any midnight rage tweeting!

Bullies come in different forms. j/s And I think either way, you had a devil to vote for. So you got one.

my previous writing – Globalization and it’s Impact on Little Ole Us.

https://mspeachierocks.wordpress.com/2020/04/03/globalization-and-its-impact-on-little-ole-us/

Mr Money Bags and Mr Bean Counter (a story)

Mr Money Bags and Mr Bean Counter –

King Midas decided it was time to make his rounds.  He went by the temple to see if they had been gathering their tithes. And of course they had,  Supplicants are good for one thing.  Their idea that God would punish them if they didn’t give some back to him. The priest mentioned the roof, the community kitchen and the craft fair idea he was raising funds for.  So King Midas gave a bit of the money back to him. That’s what good stewards do, after all.  King Midas was glad for the blessings. 🔑
Next King Midas went to gang HQ and asked about his shareholder dividends. He got a piece of every pie they had going.  He picked up some guns, spent time with a whore and took a hit for later, when he was on his own. And smiled as he walked away.  King Midas was glad for the tributes.  🔑
Then King Midas went to his office and checked with the CFO about his enterprises. The pharmacy was stocked, the papers were published, the websites were all on point and people were moving those clicks as they should. And the pot was collecting his gold.  Straight into the terrorists’ plot behind it all. King Midas was glad for his gold.  🔑
So he went to the meeting to see if his regents were leading the grunts in the daily squirmishes.  And of course they were.  So he handed them their pay. And endured the parade of grunts wanting to shake his hands.  Ah yes!  The true believers….. Who found reason in history and faith to blow things up. Cuzz they were tired of being the grunt.  King Midas often laughed that they never blamed him. Maybe they should have. A governor is kinder when they think the people are reasonably good eggs. King Midas was glad of their adoration.  🔑
King Midas thought he was safe. The magician pulling the rabbits out of the hats and counting all the tricks. Very few people knew his name, or anything about him but his handle.  He did love the secrecy of being the one in on the entire picture.  King Midas loved his privacy.  🔑
But he’d forgotten about the bean counter. Who had been following all these interactions straight thru to the bank. The bean counter who was about to turn it all over to the police. Follow the money and you find the head of the whole thing. No one knows that better than the bean counter. And King Midas, of course!   💰 💰 

Post- Apocalyptic World – The Village & Xenophobia (a story)

Post- Apocalyptic World – The Village & Xenophobia

We’d been isolated in the back of beyond for so so so long!! That we were kind of weirded out when a stranger came by. We gossiped a bit. I’m not proud of that, but you would too, wouldn’t you??

Then we went by to visit, so we could touch his hair, and his skin. Pretty. Soft! Nice. The ladies asked what product he used. And examined the seams in his sleeve. Well! Someone had been taking care of him.

Then the ladies lined up so he could examine them, in case he wanted to sleep with one of them. And they waited, and waited…. One of the men gently nudged him forward. Maybe that wasn’t a custom where he came from? Just how inbred were his folk anyways?

But he declined and went to the shack we said he could sleep in. And we gossiped a bit more before we went to bed.

The next morning, we went to see how he slept. And he had a family in there with him we’d never seen before!

Well now!

We looked high and low for some kind of magic tools, but there weren’t any! People grumbled, but we calmed them down with the fact that one family would be fine. We could feed all of them, right?

But this kept happening! Every night he went to bed alone. Every morning he woke up with a new family. The bet takers laid odds on how many there’d be in the morning, every night.

It was quite the curiousity! That shack got examined every night for magic tools. We posted guards around the village and the shack. Nobody came in or out during the night.

The wisest and the fools of the village had many discussions about how this was possible!! The villagers laughed over the answers of wise and fools.

We even tried putting him in a different shack. Same result though. He must have powerful magic, but from what??

Finally there were more of his family than the villagers. Then there were more than our villagers and the neighbouring ones too.

Needlessly to say we were a BIT worried. And curious still. Cuzz how the hell??

Some of the easily scared were talking about how things could go wrong if they decided they were in charge now. And some of the calmer ones couldn’t disagree. That might be a problem!

We did try to be the same as the first day, but soon enough the stranger caught wind that we were getting upset and talking. Behind their backs.

At first he hid the families that arrived each morning, but we still didn’t know how they got there.

Then he sent some away to live nearby, but not in town.

Then he married the older ones with our young folk. Was it to show they were invested in us? Or was there another reason?
But people were still grumbling!

His people started pitching in with the hunting and fishing. I gotta say that was certainly appreciated. Then they pitched in with the cooking and sewing. That was appreciated too.

But it didn’t seem to be enough!

So he sent his new arrivals away and some of the older ones too. But then we noticed that some of the people they married of ours went missing when their partner left.

Oh dear! We pined for our villagers we had known from birth. He was stunned. And quickly they returned. With their new partner.
You could see his head spinning trying to figure out a way to solve this dilemma.

Finally there were three villages made, one of the old, one of the new not yet paired up , and one of those of old and new paired.
And things settled down some. More over time.

But there was that hairy eyeball back and forth. Where someone watching the other wanted to know what was next?

And then another guy came across the horizon….

The scared ones chased him away. We weren’t going thru that! Ever again!

The next day, all the new folk had disappeared. They became just a story for our conscience. Cuzz their partners pined. And there was nothing we could do about it.

Now was there?

We had learned something though…. Strangers in the village caused all . kinds . of . trouble!! And were never allowed again.

An Act of Violence – It’s Naming Depends on So Many Things. Or does it?

What is the difference between a freedom fighter, a guerilla or a terrorist? What is the difference between a war crime, abuse of power, and terrorism?

Often it’s who does it and in what context. If they have given their word prior that they won’t get out of control to world authorities, if they want to appear a moral group. If they’re playing the long game rather than in the field and caught up in the battle.

It tells you who wears the blame. The governor or the warrior.

It tells you which side is more likely to get romanticized.

War is bloody, and so is defense of all you hold dear when someone keeps attacking you. Your freedom or your beliefs. Your family or the village you’ve spent your whole life in.

So sometimes what you are called depends on what side you’re on. Which to me lets a LOT of really horrible things skate by just because…. you’re in the power seat.

…..war crimes –

(def by United Nations agreements)
For the purpose of this Statute, ‘war crimes’ means:
Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:

• Wilful killing
• Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;
• Wilfully causing great suffering,
• or serious injury to body or health;
• Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly;
• Compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power;
• Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial;
• Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;
• Taking of hostages.

Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:

• Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
• Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives;
• Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under the international law of armed conflict;
• Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated;
• Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives;
• Killing or wounding a combatant who, having laid down his arms or having no longer means of defence, has surrendered at discretion;
• Making improper use of a flag of truce, of the flag or of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy or of the United Nations, as well as of the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions, resulting in death or serious personal injury;
• The transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory;
• Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives;
• Subjecting persons who are in the power of an adverse party to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any kind which are neither justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the person concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such person or persons;
• Killing or wounding treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army;
• Declaring that no quarter will be given;
• Destroying or seizing the enemy’s property unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war;
• Declaring abolished, suspended or inadmissible in a court of law the rights and actions of the nationals of the hostile party;
• Compelling the nationals of the hostile party to take part in the operations of war directed against their own country, even if they were in the belligerent’s service before the commencement of the war;
• Pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault;
• Employing poison or poisoned weapons;
• Employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices;
• Employing bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core or is pierced with incisions;
• Employing weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering or which are inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed conflict, provided that such weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare are the subject of a comprehensive prohibition and are included in an annex to this Statute, by an amendment in accordance with the relevant provisions set forth in articles 121 and 123;
• Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
• Committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in article 7, paragraph 2 (f), enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence also constituting a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions;
• Utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations;
• Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport, and personnel using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity with international law;
• Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions;
• Conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into the national armed forces or using them to participate actively in hostilities.

In the case of an armed conflict not of an international character, serious violations of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts committed against persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention or any other cause:

• Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
• Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
• Taking of hostages;
• The passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all judicial guarantees which are generally recognized as indispensable.

Paragraph 2 (c) applies to armed conflicts not of an international character and thus does not apply to situations of internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature.
Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in armed conflicts not of an international character, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:

• Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
• Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport, and personnel using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity with international law;
• Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under the international law of armed conflict;
• Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives;
• Pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault;
• Committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in article 7, paragraph 2 (f), enforced sterilization, and any other form of sexual violence also constituting a serious violation of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions;
• Conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into armed forces or groups or using them to participate actively in hostilities;
• Ordering the displacement of the civilian population for reasons related to the conflict, unless the security of the civilians involved or imperative military reasons so demand;
• Killing or wounding treacherously a combatant adversary;
• Declaring that no quarter will be given;
• Subjecting persons who are in the power of another party to the conflict to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any kind which are neither justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the person concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such person or persons;
• Destroying or seizing the property of an adversary unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of the conflict;
  source

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abuse of power –

The abuse of power involves the deliberate use of power for specific aims that could not be legitimately justified since they are often for the exclusive benefit of power itself, for the maintenance of a political regime or of an unjust social and economical system. High public officials who, protected by their position, accumulate unjustifiably their wealth, undertake all manner of business, favour their protégés and receive donations or improper “commissions”.

source

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terrorism –

(yesterday’s writing)

…. historical models of insurgents –

Phansigars or Thugees of India – first found in 7thC, harsh steps to irradicate them by British in 18-1900s
Muslem, Hindu who robbed and killed the rich travellers and gave proceeds to a patron or moneylender.
Are they gone today? No?
source

…..

assassins – Arabic hasisi (‘hashish-eater’)
heretical group of Shiite Muslims who were powerful in Persia and Syria from the 11th century CE until their defeat at the hands of the Mongols in the mid-13th century CE. Who murdered for political or religious purposes.
source

……..

zealots – Ḳanna’im or Sicarii (ref. daggers)
Time of 2nd temple of Solomon or Maccabean era? – Jewish rebel political party against the Roman empire
till they were slaughtered at Masada.
source

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When is it Called Terrorism?

Would you believe me if I told you that the word is so disputed that even the ‘experts’ can’t come to an agreement on it’s exact definition?

Where they most often agree though is that the actions are taken against an oppressive govt. By someone who feels alienated or disenfranchised.

It’s not some guy having a bad day either. Or someone of limited capacity who can’t understand what they’re doing. And yes it’ s a monstrous act, but it’s not done be a demon.

Usually they tell you ahead that something is going to happen because they’re upset. To build up the fear they want you to feel. Not always, but usually.

So how does the word get so overused?

Like all buzz-words, it gets picked up by the media and lay people and used for anything that scares you. And the more that is done, the more it gets exaggerated.

Maybe that helps it lose some power, some of it’s monstrous effect. So it’s demystified in your mind. But it can also mean that the opposite happens, that public opinion grows and can cause real harm to someone who was having a grumpy day and is now facing life imprisonment, or worse the death penalty.

Words have power, and we chose how and when we hear that word. So we need to be careful what context we use the word terrorism in.

Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism course by Leiden Univ/The Hague

Repairers of the Breach : US CARAVAN ‘MARCH’ -MONDAY NOV 23, 2020

Repairers of the Breach : CARAVAN ‘MARCH’ MONDAY NOV 23, 2020

(this is a notice, not my work)

…..

POST-ELECTION MESSAGE TO THE NATION

BY
Repairers of the Breach

……

AND
Poor People’s Campaign

…….

more Than 72 million Americans have voted this year to repudiate extremism, racism, Trumpism that comes out of extremism.
If we address poverty and systemic racism, ecological devastation and the war economy, and the false moral narrative of religious nationalism, then that is the key to the healing of the nation.
According to an analysis from the Center for Disease Control, poor people are three times as likely to contract COVID-19 — not poor Black or poor white people, just poor people. Of course, poor Black people in percentage are more likely, and Latino and Indigenous people, but poor people are three times more likely to contract it. And when they do their families are not able to quarantine and skip work.
James Baldwin, taught us, we can have disagreement until your disagreement denies my right to exist. We can even have unity, unless in order to be united with you I have to agree that I don’t have the right to exist.

• living wages,
• Universal access to health care
• Voting Rights Act.
• Unions (worker protection)
• stimulus pkg

Ending poverty is the moral issue that can and must unite us alL
to win health care, living wages, equitable education. To turn our war economy into a peace economy.
250,000 people die every year because of poverty. People of all races and creeds and colors.
In a nation that boasts of being the wealthiest country in the world, we have more than half of children living in food insecure homes, and this pandemic has made this hunger, this poverty, this job loss, evictions, the suffering of children even worse.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:

“A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies.On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will just be an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not constantly be beaten and robbed as they make their life, their journey on life’s highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”

…..

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival will be organizing caravans on Monday, November 23rd, where we will continue to push for a just stimulus package, where we will continue to demand that our democracy matters. And that we, the people, have the power to organize, to provide justice for all, to establish that all needs are met. Democracy means every human being matters

We know when we lift from the bottom, when we organize, when we build power from the bottom, everybody, everybody, everybody can rise. And so we will do so, we will rise in these caravans on Monday, November 23rd, we will keep on rising and mobilizing and organizing. And we will move forward together, and not one step back.

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EXERPTS – SOURCE

Moral Monday will return on November 23 with mass nationwide caravans of remembrance and call-to-action for COVID relief, calling for Trump to stop delaying transition and immediate policy mandates
November 23 at 2:30pm ET,

Govt, politics – What can you do when your govt is acting like a criminal?

• They’re holding secret meetings, plotting to harm a large group of people, or at least withhold safety and support they’re entitled to?
• They’re hoarding money they were supposed to use to help people. If that were a business, it’d be called embezzlement.
• They’re practicing insider trading, chronyism, nepotism.
• They’re bullying anyone who calls them out on their behaviour. And changing laws to protect themselves.
• They’re ruling the people as if they’re all from their church instead of separating church and state as they’re meant to.

And TBH even those above them are unlikely to do anything, or those following them into that office. Cuzz if they take down that one. it leaves them vulnerable when they do the same things.

So what do we do as voters? What can we do?

…Strike? …. Rebel? ….Not vote?

If they were a civilian, they’d be up on charges, or at least being sued. Oh woe is me, these people are corrupt! And it feels like we can’t do anything!

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🤡Today’s lament brought to you by Doug Ford – Ontario’s idiot premier, who is a Trump fan, BTW.🤡