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Are you protesting today? Most locations start at 12pm and continue through the afternoon. Just show up, signs are welcome but not mandatory. Drive by honking and waving to show support.

Trump and his MAGAts are calling this the hate America rally. A No Kings protest founded this country.

Show up and give the entire Republican oligarchy and their Nazi henchmen the finger. Literally if you’re near an ICE facility.

See you out there.

#no kings #Saturday October 18th #non-violent protest #political activism #RESIST

From Democrats Abroad Canada on Facebook:

Also there were protests in 50 cities outside the US in solidarity!

The crucial thing now is to not act like we've done our bit and can stay home now, or get demoralized that this didn't instantly end the Regime. We need to stay engaged, and keep building momentum!

In my opinion, we also need more economic actions, ie boycotts and strikes.

Also, if you're an American living outside the country, check out Democrats Abroad and get involved! They're a good organization, they help Americans abroad vote and inform them of their voting rights, as well as proving info on issues like taxation of Americans abroad. And they get their own delegates to the Democratic National Convention, just like a state!

#US #Protests #Peaceful Protest #Non-Violent Protest #June 14th #Democrats Abroad #Democrats Abroad Canada #No Kings

Friends, Several of you asked that I repost this from earlier this week because you read it once and couldn’t find it again or you heard abo

Can we be clear about a few things? Protesting this slaughter is not expressing antisemitism. It is not engaging in hate speech. It is not endangering Jewish students. It is doing what should be done on a college campus — taking a stand against a perceived wrong, at least provoking discussion and debate.

#robert reich #non-violent protest

I am so proud of these women, not that they care or need my support. But still....respect !

#portland #non-violent protest

Bayard Rustin: The Forgotten Gay Civil Rights Activist

Keeping in theme with blackout Tuesday as a way to educate one another I’d like to share information about a prominent Black Civil Rights Activist. Also, keeping in theme with Pride month, he happened to be gay, which of course, is the reason many of us hear so little about him.

Bayard Rustin is best known for his work with Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1950′s and 60′s. He was one of the key figures in organizing the March on Washington; he drilled off-duty cops as marshalls, bus captains to direct traffic, and scheduled the podium speakers.

In 1953 he was arrested for sexual activity with a man in a parked car and pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of “sex perversion” (standard sentence for sodomy at the time). He served 60 days in prison. While up to that point he’d always been openly gay with family and friends his prison sentence made it widespread knowledge. This was all prior to meeting MLK but MLK was clearly aware of Rustin’s sexual orientation and still chose to keep him in his inner circle. It’s believed that Rustin was actually the one who converted MLK to adopting pacifism as Rustin had been a prominent advocate of it, combining Quaker ideology with socialism, forming the foundation of his belief system.

His sexual orientation was used against him to discredit the Civil Rights movement. A U.S. Representative threatened to leak rumors of an affair between King and Rustin forcing the men to stop organizing a march at the Democratic National Convention. A few weeks before the March on Washington, Senator Strom Thurmond declared Rustin a “Communist, draft-dodger and homosexual” and went as far as entering a photo of Rustin speaking to MLK while he sat in the bathtub as evidence of an affair. MLK wanted Rustin to have a stronger presence at the forefront but others intervened saying they couldn’t have someone who was such a liability be a front person and was relegated to be more behind the scenes. Despite outside interventions the March was a success.

I could go on an on about his work in civil rights. Talk about how he organized the New York City school Boycott. His travels to India to learn from prominent leaders of the Ghandian movement. His five day-series of writings about the awful 22 days he served in a chain-gang after being arrested for violating Jim Crow segregation laws. I’ll leave that to the rest of you to look up.

Bayard Rustin met George Neagle(still alive) in 1977 and became life partners until Bayard’s death in 1987. To get around same-sex marriage laws Bayard adopted Neagle in 1982 (a common way back then to ensure their partners had legal rights over them). Neagle’s mother had to fill out a form disowning him and a social worker had to visit their home to deem it “fit.” Neagle accepted the Medal of Freedom on behalf of Rustin in 2013 from Barack Obama for his work in Civil Rights.

Later in his life, Bayard would express his sentiments over not being more involved in gay rights activism. He felt his sexual orientation was a private matter but at the urging of his partner he participated in a few protests. He had this to say at a speech about a gay right’s bill in New York (warning:use of “N****):

“Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination. The new "niggers" are gays.... It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change.... The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people.”

He became a controversial figure as he felt Black people should focus more on improving themselves rather than changing the system to work for them after the laws were put in place giving them rights. Still, no matter what, no one can dispute the impact of Bayard Rustin on the Civili Rights Movement. Without him we may not have had the MLK we all know and several organizations may not be as successful as they were without him.

Remember Bayard Rustin.

Urban riots must now be recognized as durable social phenomena. They may be deplored, but they are there and should be understood. Urban riots are a special form of violence. They are not insurrections. The rioters are not seeking to seize territory or to attain control of institutions. They are mainly intended to shock the white community. They are a distorted form of social protest. The looting which is their principal feature serves many functions. It enables the most enraged and deprived to take hold of consumer goods with the ease the white man does by using his purse. Often rioters do not even want what he takes; he wants the experience of taking. But most of all, alienated from society and knowing that this society cherishes property above people, he is shocking it by abusing property rights. There are thus elements of emotional catharsis in the violent act. This may explain why most cities in which riots have occurred have not had a repetition, even though the causative conditions remain. It is also noteworthy that the amount of physical harm done to white people other than police is infinitesimal. A profound judgment of today's riots was expressed by Victor Hugo a century ago. He said, 'If a soul is left in the darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.' The policymakers of the white society have caused the darkness; they create discrimination; they structured slums; and they perpetuate unemployment, ignorance and poverty. Day-in and day-out he violates welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery of law; and he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provisions for civic services. The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Black people live in them but do not make them any more than a prisoner makes a prison. Let us say boldly that if the violations of law by the white man in the slums over the years were calculated and compared with the law-breaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., from “Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement”, to the convention of the American Psychology Association, Washington D.C., September 1, 1967