Ramya Vivekanandan: You have a well-reasoned, effective plan that strengthens the person and prepares her to find persons who share her core values, and jointly to fight the beast.
"As you might have noticed, I’m one of those who writes - and firmly believes - in the notion that joy, delight, rest, sustenance, pleasure and softness are vital to building and sustaining the kind of resistance - and ultimately revolution - that we must fight for, as Americans in this moment."
You referred us back to last week's post, which has an equally strong point here:
"In the words of Anand Giridharadas on The Ink:
“Do not participate in the fragmenting of your attention so far and so wide that you cannot prioritize, you cannot see bigger patterns, you cannot identify the merely unwise policies from the flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional ones.”
One could concentrate on one issue: The incendiary, neo-fascist attack on immigrants.
This attack has nothing to do with legitimate aims of keeping a country's borders safe or staving off drug trafficking or protecting the public from human trafficking.
Those are core functions of any country's government.
This is core and this is not what we oppose.
We oppose incendiary racism against immigrants and oppressive, inhumane policies.
The incendiary:
Trump: The immigrants poison our blood.
Vance: They steal and then eat your kittens and puppies in blood, voodoo rituals.
(The last recalls the proto-Nazi slogans that brought devastating pogroms in Mediaeval and Renaissance Europe: Jews steal children and eat the little boys and girls in a blood-ritual.)
The oppressive, inhumane practices:
Thomas Homan designed and will carry out the cruel policy of the iron-clad fist. The policy will be reintroduced from the last Trump administration. Namely, the iron-fist of ICE will separate children from their loving moms and protective dads and intern them. The bureaucracy, then and now, is designed to make the ties between parent and child all but untraceable. In the first Trump Administration, reports of overcrowding and occasional sexual assault were current.
The opposition to these incendiary slogans and the inhumane practices:
The ACLU, the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP (Sherrilyn Ifill) are among leading civil rights organizations opposing the oppressive policies.
LULAC -- the League of United Latin American Citizens is a civil rights group founded in 1929 that has already vigorously opposed inhumane immigration policies under Texas Governor Greg Abbott. LULAC joins with the other leading civil rights organizations in resistance.
Any individual feels powerless against the mighty State.
In the 1950s, I remember the old slogan, "You cannot fight city hall." (I am 77, so I grew up during the whole 1950s.)
But your column is one means of uniting persons who care about other people and whose core value is to protect the worth, the value, the dignity and freedom of each person.
Your column is very thoughtful, even poetic in beauty.
Thank you so very much for sharing.
Oh, and I LOVE Indian food. Your home-made South Indian cuisine sounds DIVINE!
I agree that it’s both and…
"Because it’s not either-or. It’s both-and."
I also think that joy is necessary for us to carry on the other ways we resist. We oppose by not letting the pain and worry consume and paralyze us.
Thanks for the shout out :)
Ramya Vivekanandan: You have a well-reasoned, effective plan that strengthens the person and prepares her to find persons who share her core values, and jointly to fight the beast.
"As you might have noticed, I’m one of those who writes - and firmly believes - in the notion that joy, delight, rest, sustenance, pleasure and softness are vital to building and sustaining the kind of resistance - and ultimately revolution - that we must fight for, as Americans in this moment."
You referred us back to last week's post, which has an equally strong point here:
"In the words of Anand Giridharadas on The Ink:
“Do not participate in the fragmenting of your attention so far and so wide that you cannot prioritize, you cannot see bigger patterns, you cannot identify the merely unwise policies from the flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional ones.”
https://ramyavivekanandan.substack.com/p/hazy-uncertain-but-nonethelessa-pathway
One could concentrate on one issue: The incendiary, neo-fascist attack on immigrants.
This attack has nothing to do with legitimate aims of keeping a country's borders safe or staving off drug trafficking or protecting the public from human trafficking.
Those are core functions of any country's government.
This is core and this is not what we oppose.
We oppose incendiary racism against immigrants and oppressive, inhumane policies.
The incendiary:
Trump: The immigrants poison our blood.
Vance: They steal and then eat your kittens and puppies in blood, voodoo rituals.
(The last recalls the proto-Nazi slogans that brought devastating pogroms in Mediaeval and Renaissance Europe: Jews steal children and eat the little boys and girls in a blood-ritual.)
The oppressive, inhumane practices:
Thomas Homan designed and will carry out the cruel policy of the iron-clad fist. The policy will be reintroduced from the last Trump administration. Namely, the iron-fist of ICE will separate children from their loving moms and protective dads and intern them. The bureaucracy, then and now, is designed to make the ties between parent and child all but untraceable. In the first Trump Administration, reports of overcrowding and occasional sexual assault were current.
The opposition to these incendiary slogans and the inhumane practices:
The ACLU, the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP (Sherrilyn Ifill) are among leading civil rights organizations opposing the oppressive policies.
LULAC -- the League of United Latin American Citizens is a civil rights group founded in 1929 that has already vigorously opposed inhumane immigration policies under Texas Governor Greg Abbott. LULAC joins with the other leading civil rights organizations in resistance.
Any individual feels powerless against the mighty State.
In the 1950s, I remember the old slogan, "You cannot fight city hall." (I am 77, so I grew up during the whole 1950s.)
But your column is one means of uniting persons who care about other people and whose core value is to protect the worth, the value, the dignity and freedom of each person.
Your column is very thoughtful, even poetic in beauty.
Thank you so very much for sharing.
Oh, and I LOVE Indian food. Your home-made South Indian cuisine sounds DIVINE!
There are leading civil rights organizations