{"id":43088,"date":"2019-06-24T23:52:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=43088"},"modified":"2019-06-24T23:52:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T03:52:34","slug":"dont-wait-activate-also-election-day-info-for-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/dont-wait-activate-also-election-day-info-for-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Wait: Activate! Also, Election Day Info for NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>. People tweet plaintively: Why aren’t we in the streets en masse<\/em>? Why aren’t we like London<\/a>? Like Hong Kong<\/a>? Like Prague<\/a>? Like Seoul<\/a>? Like Washington D.C.<\/a> and all around our own country in January 2017?”<\/p>\n

Ugh. Americans always gotta American. It’s “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” when giving advice to everyone else, but the moment it’s our turn — collectively or individually — we look around for a hero to save us, or at least a guarantee of a million people marching so that we won’t feel lonely out there in the mean streets. Listen up! We are<\/em> our own heroes and there are<\/em> actions taking place all over the country. If you get out there and join one … and bring a friend … who brings a friend … who brings a friend … and so on<\/a> … you’ll help create that big crowd you want to see. That’s how it works.<\/p>\n

You could have joined me at a lunchtime protest organized by an Indivisible<\/a> activist chapter called Action Potluck<\/a> today. We were outside the offices of New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, wrapped in silver Mylar “blankets” to symbolize the poor standard of care deliberately being inflicted on actual babies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I’m peeking out over a white sign between the letters “O” and “K” on the left.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

As I left the protest — which was mostly silent and graced by the presence of a Catholic priest, a Buddhist priest, and two rabbis — I shot this little video to encourage and educate you. <\/p>\n