As anyone in the Military will tell you: “Freedom, isn’t Free. There needs to be action! This type of civil obedience is good but takes time. A dozen Million Person Marches in every MAJOR AMERICAN CITY, and a general strike, combined with a complete boycott for a predetermined time period would make a lot more impact
ACTUALLY – I think organized "cells" of 25, at dozens (hundreds preferred) of stations across the country, simultaneously (or nearly so) would at the very minimum be a significant media op. This idea is being discussed on F&L–CttE Fb page now.
Me? I think it is a brilliant, creative, engaging, fun form of protest. So I will keep watch on the fb post, and also remember to call my friend to get her to call her lawyer friends to recommend a civil rights lawyer (correct?) in case I get locked up (a call which I have been, uh, forgetting to make for a couple of months)
Sharing this elsewhere. Thank you, @ClosertotheEdge. I love it. It's so REAL.
I'm in the blue oasis of Atlanta, in an otherwise savage and rotten red Georgia. This could work brilliantly where I am locally as we have lost of PoC wearing the shield.
I’m not being dismissive of the original idea… just find that larger more visible ideas are usually more effective and the economic pressure the strike and boycott would make are probably more effective. Just my opinion.
...yeah, I think Imma try this. I have the courage to do it. I just don't have the courage to answer to my wife if they think they need to hold me for 48.
You have more courage than I do. My local police might very well lock me up! I could try!
Go ask questions on behalf of a friend.
As anyone in the Military will tell you: “Freedom, isn’t Free. There needs to be action! This type of civil obedience is good but takes time. A dozen Million Person Marches in every MAJOR AMERICAN CITY, and a general strike, combined with a complete boycott for a predetermined time period would make a lot more impact
ACTUALLY – I think organized "cells" of 25, at dozens (hundreds preferred) of stations across the country, simultaneously (or nearly so) would at the very minimum be a significant media op. This idea is being discussed on F&L–CttE Fb page now.
Me? I think it is a brilliant, creative, engaging, fun form of protest. So I will keep watch on the fb post, and also remember to call my friend to get her to call her lawyer friends to recommend a civil rights lawyer (correct?) in case I get locked up (a call which I have been, uh, forgetting to make for a couple of months)
Sharing this elsewhere. Thank you, @ClosertotheEdge. I love it. It's so REAL.
I live in Florida. I absolutely would get locked up. So, I guess I’d better saddle up! 😁
I'm in the blue oasis of Atlanta, in an otherwise savage and rotten red Georgia. This could work brilliantly where I am locally as we have lost of PoC wearing the shield.
I’m not being dismissive of the original idea… just find that larger more visible ideas are usually more effective and the economic pressure the strike and boycott would make are probably more effective. Just my opinion.
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Absolutely brilliant series. Hoping I have the courage to do this myself. Love it
...yeah, I think Imma try this. I have the courage to do it. I just don't have the courage to answer to my wife if they think they need to hold me for 48.
I actually told one of my kids I was going to turn myself in, then read this. 😉
A great idea for a movement! Wow!
Well done. I've been smiling since the first part and thinking - Is Arlo Guthrie guest writing this story?
Brilliant!
ROOK. YOU ARE MY HERO
Mine, too! I was a fan girl first!! :)
The beginning of the end....
Bravo, Rook! I like the persistence.
Brilliant, humorous, sobering.