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Steve Brodner :: May Day

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Yesterday, on the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Americans across the country protested against President Donald J. Trump, his billionaire sidekick Elon Musk, and the administration in general. The decentralized 50501 movement, which stands for “50 protests in 50 states on 1 day,” was one of the organizers of the protests, planning more than 700 events. Spokesperson Hunter Dunn described 50501 as a “pro-democracy, pro-Constitution, anti-executive-overreach, nonviolent grassroots movement.” Notably, protests have spread to small towns all around the country, including towns in Republican-dominated areas.

[Heather Cox Richardson: Letters From An American]

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“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well,” Czech dissident, writer and statesman Václav Havel said, “but the certainty that something is worth doing no matter how it turns out.” 

–Vaclav Havel, who resisted in Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia, including after the Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 and went to prison for long stretches before the Velvet Revolution of 1989.

h/t  Susan Rodgers Hammond

Rebecca Solnit

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Confessions of a Reluctant Protester

Confessions of a Reluctant Protester