What can they do to you? Whatever they want.. They can set you up, bust you, they can break your fingers, burn your brain with electricity, blur you with drugs till you can’t walk, can’t remember. they can take away your children, wall up your lover; they can do anything you can’t stop them doing. How can you stop them? Alone you can fight, you can refuse. You can take whatever revenge you can But they roll right over you. But two people fighting back to back can cut through a mob a snake-dancing fire can break a cordon, termites can bring down a mansion Two people can keep each other sane can give support, conviction, love, massage, hope, sex. Three people are a delegation a cell, a wedge. With four you can play games and start a collective. With six you can rent a whole house have pie for dinner with no seconds and make your own music. Thirteen makes a circle, a hundred fill a hall. A thousand have solidarity and your own newsletter; ten thousand community and your own papers; a hundred thousand, a network of communities; a million our own world. It goes one at a time. It starts when you care to act. It starts when you do it again after they say no. It starts when you say we and know who you mean; and each day you mean one more. - “The Low Road”by Marge Piercy
