this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2025
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Resist: It's Time
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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."
The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.
The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.
It's time.
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- Do not gatekeep resistance
- Do not organize specific subversive plans here.
- Do not identify yourself or anyone else here.
- Do brainstorm general ideas about how to support people who need it and stymie the efforts of fascists
- Do share thoughts on how to be personally prepared for subversive action
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I want to take part in this, but I have bills to pay. How is a working class person supposed to do this?
I worry that many people are in a similar situation to mine, and while we support the idea, we likely couldn't afford to commit to it when the time comes. This is an intentional trapping of fascism; keep us poor, keep us compliant. But it works. I can't afford to go homeless for a cause that, if successful, may buy us a few months of sanity, at best, before Trump makes another push toward fascism. For a lot of people, participating in this is a gamble, which would have long-term consequences with no guarantee of even short-term results.
Not trying to be dissuasive. It just all feels hopeless.
Stop paying bills. Rent strike.
The same applies to the other strike. If we all do it, we win.
Spread the word to everyone you know, likely some of them will not have heard and also have the support structure to join in without risking life under a bridge.
They want you feeling hopeless. Think laterally and help in anyway you can.