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Happening today.
It is time to heed the words of the man I began this whole thing with: John Lewis. I beg folks to take his example of his early days where he made himself determined to show his love for his country at a time the country didn’t love him. To love this country so much, to be such a patriot that he endured beatings savagely on the Edmund Pettus bridge, at lunch counters, on Freedom Rides, he said he had to do something. He would not normalize a moment like this. He would not just go along with business as usual. He wouldn’t know how to solve it but there’s one thing that he would do that I hope we all can do, that I think I did a little bit of tonight. He said for us to go out and cause some good trouble. Necessary trouble to redeem the soul of our nation. I want you to redeem the dream. Let’s be bold in America, not demean and degrade Americans. Not divide us against each other. […] This is a moral moment. It’s not left or right, it’s right or wrong. Let’s get in good trouble.
Senator Cory Booker, April 1, 2025.
Protests of any kind are great places to find like-minded individuals. People who believe in freedom as strongly as you do. Talk to others about ideas you have. Swap signal contacts. Make connections.
If the public didn’t worry them, they wouldn’t invest so much money and effort militarizing police, villainizing protestors, manipulating the narrative, and black-bagging activists like Mahmoud Kahlil.
The illusion that the wealthy don’t care what the poor think is a part of the system working as designed. They want you to think they don’t care. They want you to think protesting is pointless.
They don’t want you to feel connected. They don’t want you to feel like you have a community around you that agrees with you and supports your cause. They don’t want you to stand in a crowd of tens of thousands and think “boy, there sure are a lot more of us than there are of them.”
Do whatever you can! Get in some Good Trouble.