{"id":41242,"date":"2018-10-28T23:24:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T03:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=41242"},"modified":"2018-10-28T23:24:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T03:24:18","slug":"recommended-reading-and-week-in-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/recommended-reading-and-week-in-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Reading and Week in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last December, Kali Holloway shared a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/election-2016\/increasingly-necessity-15-point-guide-surviving-authoritarianism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">15-point guide to surviving authoritarianism<\/a>&#8221; originally published by Polish journalist and activist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mycielski\/status\/824105749823574016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin Mycielski days after Trump&#8217;s inauguration<\/a>. Read the post now to see how accurate Mycielski&#8217;s predictions of the Trump regime&#8217;s behaviors were. But don&#8217;t lose heart! As Mycielski said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8221; &#8230; be strong, fight, endure, and remember you\u2019re on the good side of history. EVERY authoritarian, totalitarian and fascist regime in history eventually failed, thanks to the PEOPLE.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/election-2016\/increasingly-necessity-15-point-guide-surviving-authoritarianism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ THE 15-POINT GUIDE TO SURVIVING AUTHORITARIANISM.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Historian Timothy Snyder&#8217;s book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/on-tyranny-timothy-snyder\/1125454355#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>On Tyranny<\/em><\/a>, is similar &#8230; full of scarily accurate predictions and warnings, but also hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of hope, this &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/recommended-watching-blue-wave-trailer\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Wave Trailer<\/a>&#8221; by Eleven Films gave me a lot of that feeling on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a5pB0klMwAc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Also on the blog this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/wednesdays-video-lets-hang-out-in-nyc-and-columbus\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November is going to have a lot of jewelry-related events<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/throwback-thursday-and-ring-giveaway\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m having a ring giveaway! Enter on Instagram<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/write-postcards-to-get-out-the-vote\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In this video, I explain how to use postcardstovoters.org to get out the vote<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/what-is-stochastic-terrorism\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Numerous acts of violence this week can be attributed to stochastic terrorism<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also check out my daily recommended pre-election resistance actions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indivisible-ues.org\/news\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. They are mostly for New Yorkers, but there are usually a few things that can be done anywhere in the country, including phone banking and postcard-writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last December, Kali Holloway shared a &#8220;15-point guide to surviving authoritarianism&#8221; originally published by Polish journalist and activist Martin Mycielski days after Trump&#8217;s inauguration. Read the post now to see how accurate Mycielski&#8217;s predictions of the Trump regime&#8217;s behaviors were. But don&#8217;t lose heart! As Mycielski said: &#8221; &#8230; be strong, fight, endure, and remember&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/recommended-reading-and-week-in-review-2\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[598],"tags":[1731,1728,1730,1729,846],"class_list":["post-41242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-in-review","tag-authoritariamism","tag-mass-shooting","tag-on-tyranny","tag-synagogue-massacre","tag-terrorism","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41245,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41242\/revisions\/41245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}