There once was Stamp act and Boston teaparty at the birth of democracy- it seems there is re-play of sorts in the wings of powers now ...
Need of the times is for Resistance Now , to keep our faith and hopes for keeping the embers of a democrcy alive , so it can glow again...
In these past few days of sowed chaos (Kaos) despondency and withdrawing from the day is an automatic response for us humans.
Then, you realize.... succumbing to a bully is not an option for LIFE.
You vaguely remember some terms, such as 'pen down strike'. Even with the 'almost all fake , non fact checked world' you look up the term and realize these were real modes of non violent resistance . There is 'pen down strike, work to rule strike , non spending strike ,music in the face of resistance' etc.
The 'non spending strike' appeals to me , something I can do...or at least try to do. My own option is possibly just a dream but I know I will get better at it the more I try. I hope it will put a lighter carbon foot print on the earth as well , however small it is ... I know I will be able to stick with it , buying only what I really need... not all those wants that seep in, dancing into the corners of our minds , drawing us in, just to boost the cash flow for the already cash swollen companies / industries that thrive just on their cancerous greed , especially now fed by the bully that loves his twirls of chaos and all the attention these twirls bring him. I some times wonder if they will all twirl out of this earth's gravity , especially at the ever increasing speed of these twirls.If earth could eject all those twirlers , that would indeed be great!
Starting today as I look at the sun starting its journey in the East, as it did even before any of us came into being at the random places on earth that we happened upon I shall trymy varieties of resistance. When the day wears me down ( as I expect to occur for all of the near future days) I shall focus on the earth's gravity and on the sun that will rise again.
I may have had an urge to remain quiet for a bit , but I decided that I do have to speak and act. I cannot go against who I am,what I am or how am , its just there in my genes to speak and act against injustice . One of my earliest memory was of such events, so how can I be quiet at this time of multiplied injustices that I see surround me here and farther away, with the cancerous insidious infiltration of the injustices into everything all over .
All of us can do some things to RESIST , its just each person, each of us have to look deep within our souls to see this and the ways to do it. It means we have to think , it means don't get fooled by vacuous words floated at us , it also means we remind ourselves that a liar will continue to remain a liar , a bully will always be one even as the shimmer around their acts change... it means every one of us can definitely find our own ways including "work to rule strike, spend less strike , do not resign strike etc. and other nonviolent ways to continue to resist that will have a collective effect. The sun rises each day to bring hope with its slanting rays to this earth, hence let's get those rays of hope and Resist...
by Pc-3 (02/01/2025)
Reposted as we all need to do resist to save life and democracy
