Day Twelve
What then? We must find our resolve.
#resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#resistance #activismthruart #freepalestine #abolishICE #freemahmoudkhalil #rumeysaöztürk #love #loss #grief #noneofusarefreeuntilallofusarefree #liberation
There is no doubt there is, have been, and will be loss. The loss of rights, lives, loves, and so much more. It would be folly to ignore it.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#resistance #activismthruart #freepalestine
#freegaza #abolishICE
Day Ten
What about loss?
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#resistance #activismthruart #freepalestine#freekilmarabregogarcia #abolishICE #freemahmoudkhalil #love #loss
And in the end they will be to wallow in their impotent rage. While we bask in the love that flows from the rivers to the seas.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#resistance #activismthruart #freepalestine#freekilmarabregogarcia
These loves, our love, open to all of us, shared, simmered, stoked day to day and moment to moment is a deep tremulous holler against the vacuous hearted.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#resistance #activismthruart #freepalestine#freekilmar
The beautiful, abstract love or lovers fumbling to make sense of spirit, chemistry, physics, and the matters behind heart and soul in the early twilight before rosy fingered Dawn cuts crimson and gold upon the sky.
#resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#love
The solid, firm love of friends laughing together, ringed around a dinner table where tears of both grief and joy are freely shed without judgment.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#resistance #activismthruart #freepalestine #freekilmar
The enduring, timeless love of a parent for her children, and child for parent regardless of challenges, triumphs, or the constant streams of “I told you so”.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#resistance #activismthruart #freepalestine #love
Day Nine
What do we have that they can never take, hold, or disappear?
Love.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#resistance #activismthruart #freepalestine#freekilmarabregogarcia #abolishICE #freemahmoudkhalil #love
So keep putting one foot in front of the other. Eventually we will notice footprints that look like ours, or better yet—we will cast the print down for others to follow.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#resistance #activismthruart #freepalestin
Our fear is necessary. Our fear is precisely what is needed. Our fear gifts us all the opportunity to be brave.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#resistance #activismthruart #freepalestine #freereza #freekilmar #freekhalil
Day Eight
Do not be afraid to start new things. Or rediscover old things to make them new again.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#resistance #activismthruart #freepalestine #freereza #freekilmar #freekhalil
Stay strong.
Share your strength with others.
Let others share their strength with you.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#resistance #activismthruart #freepalestine
Day Seven
What is power?
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#resistance #activismthruart #freepalestine
And then start moving again to the beat of the drums and our hearts.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#resistance #activismthruart #freepalestine
Breathe.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#resistance #activismthruart #freepalestine
And perhaps it is In those quiet interludes another momentous current will spur us further on. Forth onto unknowns that push and pull, wresting from the horizon the next assailing realization.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#activismthruart
It is okay to be swept up in the quiet that comes within every storm. It is Allow ourselves to feel something without forcing it. We must allow ourselves to accept that what we see is real.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear #activismthruart
Day Six
It’s okay to step back for a moment. To breathe, observe, and listen.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #joyoverfear
#resistance #activismthruart
For they are not just sparks and embers but stars burning bright in constellations of hope stretch out upon the night’s sky.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #saveourservices #unionstrong #joyoverfear
#nooneisfreeuntilallofusarefree
#activismthroughart
And when we stare across that abyss, pay attention to the embers and sparks.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #saveourservices #unionstrong #joyoverfear
#nooneisfreeuntilallofusourfree
Day Five
What comes next?
Seed the grounds of unity with what ultimately sustains us.
Nourish it, water it, tend to its life.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #saveourservices #unionstrong #joyoverfear
#nooneisfreeuntilallofusourfree
A shout picked up by one side of the sea, crosses the river, meets in the middle, and passes to the other bank.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #freepalestine
#saveourservices #unionstrong #joyoverfear
Resist. We must warm ourselves in the seas of solidarity. Rest on the banks of the rivers that teem with activity. Of both youthful and elder resolution that starkly stands firm.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #freepalestine #unionstrong #joyoverfear
Day Four
There will be time that doubt creeps in. Doubt dripping into the cracks, freezing with fear, creating that wedge between the whole. Seeking to weather and erode.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #saveourservices #unionstrong #joyoverfear
#freegaza
Maybe we will see the pipes to pair with the percussion.
Regardless, we will be happy that we listened to our hearts and followed the drums.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #saveourservices #unionstrong #joyoverfear
Seems more like another example of the forcing feeding of hyper individualism that pervades our collective psyche.
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #saveourservices #unionstrong #joyoverfear
Day Three
How often have we heard that we should “march to the beat of our own drum”? What’s is the fun in that?
#handsoffDC #resist #fightfascism
#powertothepeople #solidarityforever #saveourservices #unionstrong #joyoverfear
