I spend a lot of time on Twitter — I’m a masochist, I guess — and I keep seeing people reacting to stories like this one about the warehousing of immigrant children in overcrowded and disease-ridden detention camps on our southern border. People tweet plaintively: Why aren’t we in the streets en masse? Why aren’t…
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It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over! Be Inspired by Survivors.
No Saturday plans? Looking for a way to channel your energy? If you’re in New York, get on the 6:30 a.m. bus organized by Planned Parenthood and go to Washington, D.C. Even if we can’t stop the lying, threatening, conspiracy-theory-spreading Brett Kavanaugh from being confirmed to the Supreme Court, make sure your voice is heard…
Protestors Turned Up, Chuck Schumer Did Not
On Saturday, I shepherded a group of Indivisible Upper East Side members downtown to the Families Belong Together march to protest the separation of refugee children from their parents. Signs of the times #familiesbelongtogether #familiesbelongtogethermarch #indivisible #indivisibleues #resist #bethechangeyouwanttosee … signs in photo 1 designed by @rowlandpictures A post shared by Wendy Brandes (@wendybrandes) on…
Today’s #ResistTrumpTuesdays Action
Your new passion for activism is rattling the regime. Keep it up with #ResistTrumpTuesdays and spend your lunch hour at a rally to “Stop Trump’s #SwampCabinet.” FIND A LOCAL RALLY THROUGH MOVEON’S WEBSITE. Last week, hundreds of people — including me — went to New York’s senators’ offices despite driving rain. People out in the…