Painful truths that we must all now face. This is the face of raw evil. Massive theft. Epic dehumanization. Global subjugation. And a steady march toward wider and wider genocide— racial, ethnic, gendered, economic, medical, and of course environmental. Everything and everyone we have ever held dear is now at stake. At yesterday’s No Kings Day protest in front of the US Capitol, one of the closing speakers began the Patrick Henry line from the Revolutionary War, “Give me liberty or” — and here the crowd roared back with a readiness and resolve that stunned me — “give me death!”
Our sheltered, far too isolated life in America is waking up to the reality that, on the eve of the 250th anniversary of our taking down a king, we must now summon all of the humanity and Light that our forbears did to denounce, defy, and resoundingly defeat dictatorship, enslavement, fascism, and death that could dwarf all of history’s plagues combined.
Now is our time to come together to stand up, speak truth to power, and act like our very lives depend on crushing this menace. Because they do.
Painful truths that we must all now face. This is the face of raw evil. Massive theft. Epic dehumanization. Global subjugation. And a steady march toward wider and wider genocide— racial, ethnic, gendered, economic, medical, and of course environmental. Everything and everyone we have ever held dear is now at stake. At yesterday’s No Kings Day protest in front of the US Capitol, one of the closing speakers began the Patrick Henry line from the Revolutionary War, “Give me liberty or” — and here the crowd roared back with a readiness and resolve that stunned me — “give me death!”
Our sheltered, far too isolated life in America is waking up to the reality that, on the eve of the 250th anniversary of our taking down a king, we must now summon all of the humanity and Light that our forbears did to denounce, defy, and resoundingly defeat dictatorship, enslavement, fascism, and death that could dwarf all of history’s plagues combined.
Now is our time to come together to stand up, speak truth to power, and act like our very lives depend on crushing this menace. Because they do.
So well said. And so sad.
It’s hard to even face the words that you and I are writing.