Just as in our personal lives it is possible to have friendships and work with people we are not in 100% agreement with, so too in political movements. In fact, it is absolutely essential.
Thanks so much for letting us know how the Hands Off rally went, Mark, and I'm so glad you brought Palestine to it and received lots of encouragement.
A catch all movement -- I wonder what will become of this?
My hope is that the big tent left will become an unstoppable movement in all western countries, creating a new political party that everyone will flock to, or at least consistent demands that parties can publicly adopt or not.
The fascist movement is internationally co-ordinated, and we need to be too.
Of all individualistic progressive substackers out there trying to sell you their unique stamp on the world Mark Taylor offers the collective resource that I wish our public media was there to provide. Mark brings together the very best progressive ideas the collective thought needed for collective action. Rather than promoting his brand he provides connective shared insight like no other substacker I have encountered.
Bombs off Gaza, now there is connective thinking that has the perspective of the biggest picture.
You have to start somewhere and with the allies you’ve got. Thank you for showing up when many of us are there in spirit but not able to be in person. Trump (or one of his aides) must have read The Prince by Machiavelli. He’s going in as fast as possible with this blitz to gut the middle class and further impoverish the poor — why, I don’t know. I’m glad it’s so blatant only because it will more quickly expose the damage he’s willing to inflict. Musk in his dumb cheese hat didn’t fool anyone but exposed his contempt for the voters. He thought he could stroll into town, pretend to like the locals, hand out some cash and everyone would fall into line behind his candidate. He found out differently.
I went to the La Crosse Hands Off protest. They had NATO on the agenda. I'm not for NATO. I didn't even think that someone would look at me and say why are you here with a Stop the Genocide in Gaza sign. The people that saw my sign thanked me for it. There were signs for every issue and there's so many of them. There were about 1200 people at the La Crosse protest.
IT truly is amazing to me how many people turned in many City's in the USA.
When your own 'greed and money' is threatened you turn up BUT you don't give a shit about 'your never ending wars.' I have watched these protests: Hum. NOT many Palestinian flags.
And sitting home complaining does absolutely nothing to help Gaza, but the Zionists love it. Paint "Free Palestine" on a slab of cardboard and go to protest events and speak up for the Palestinians.
Engage.
Discuss.
Advocate.
Debate.
DO POLITICS.
Or stay home, whine and make snide comments ... and play into the paws of the fascists.
Nancy Pelosi was a speaker at a Hands Off protest in Scranton, PA. I'm very doubtful she mentioned Gaza or genocide at all in her remarks.
Pelosi is a fascist, IMO. Playing into Pelosi's and the DNC's hands is playing into the paws of the fascists. Be careful they don't make you focus only on the things they want you to focus on (and vote "blue no matter who!") and gradually forget about what's happening to people in both Palestine and Ukraine. Palestinians and Ukrainians both want peace, not the continued approval of US arms sales, which Dems seem to go along with their Repuglican colleagues in Congress. Duopoly politicians are almost 100% in the pocket of AIPAC, so they're not about to go against Israel's wishes.
But we had a good number of people turn out at our regularly scheduled pro-Palestine protest, so I'm fine working with these groups who don't support fascist politicians who take AIPAC money.
Glad to know you stand up for your principles, Gypsy! If we lose our conscience and moral direction and end up making compromises with fascist warmongers who take AIPAC money, what good will we be to anyone--including ourselves? #FreePalestine
You follow my posts and should know I'm no fool of a tool of Dem Party politics. I find the comments in this thread befuddling with a total lack of understanding how politics work. Living in safe echo chambers of agreement and mutual admiration does NOTHING to challenge or change the narrative, the politics or policy of the bipartisan corporate blob.
And I don't understand why not being willing to walk into the midst of a group that tolerates genocide as a representative of the dead children of Palestine is not just an act of political challenge but a mission of giving voice to those children.
Thanks so much for letting us know how the Hands Off rally went, Mark, and I'm so glad you brought Palestine to it and received lots of encouragement.
A catch all movement -- I wonder what will become of this?
My hope is that the big tent left will become an unstoppable movement in all western countries, creating a new political party that everyone will flock to, or at least consistent demands that parties can publicly adopt or not.
The fascist movement is internationally co-ordinated, and we need to be too.
Of all individualistic progressive substackers out there trying to sell you their unique stamp on the world Mark Taylor offers the collective resource that I wish our public media was there to provide. Mark brings together the very best progressive ideas the collective thought needed for collective action. Rather than promoting his brand he provides connective shared insight like no other substacker I have encountered.
Bombs off Gaza, now there is connective thinking that has the perspective of the biggest picture.
Thanks, Glen. It really is time for us all to recognize we are all in the same heating-up pot of water and come together.
Thank you for your service!
You have to start somewhere and with the allies you’ve got. Thank you for showing up when many of us are there in spirit but not able to be in person. Trump (or one of his aides) must have read The Prince by Machiavelli. He’s going in as fast as possible with this blitz to gut the middle class and further impoverish the poor — why, I don’t know. I’m glad it’s so blatant only because it will more quickly expose the damage he’s willing to inflict. Musk in his dumb cheese hat didn’t fool anyone but exposed his contempt for the voters. He thought he could stroll into town, pretend to like the locals, hand out some cash and everyone would fall into line behind his candidate. He found out differently.
I went to the La Crosse Hands Off protest. They had NATO on the agenda. I'm not for NATO. I didn't even think that someone would look at me and say why are you here with a Stop the Genocide in Gaza sign. The people that saw my sign thanked me for it. There were signs for every issue and there's so many of them. There were about 1200 people at the La Crosse protest.
Thanks for the report, Debbie! Good to hear so many showed up. Another Wisconsin town standing up.
IT truly is amazing to me how many people turned in many City's in the USA.
When your own 'greed and money' is threatened you turn up BUT you don't give a shit about 'your never ending wars.' I have watched these protests: Hum. NOT many Palestinian flags.
Your comfortable life USA is going. WHY?
The whole world is turning against you.
Hi Jenny
There was a protest in a small city about 12 miles from me. I refused to attend because it didn’t include Gaza in its agenda.
Take my Social Security.
Take my Medicare.
Let inflation skyrocket; I don’t give a flying fuck. Just FREE PALESTINE.
That’s the only issue I care about.
And sitting home complaining does absolutely nothing to help Gaza, but the Zionists love it. Paint "Free Palestine" on a slab of cardboard and go to protest events and speak up for the Palestinians.
Engage.
Discuss.
Advocate.
Debate.
DO POLITICS.
Or stay home, whine and make snide comments ... and play into the paws of the fascists.
Nancy Pelosi was a speaker at a Hands Off protest in Scranton, PA. I'm very doubtful she mentioned Gaza or genocide at all in her remarks.
Pelosi is a fascist, IMO. Playing into Pelosi's and the DNC's hands is playing into the paws of the fascists. Be careful they don't make you focus only on the things they want you to focus on (and vote "blue no matter who!") and gradually forget about what's happening to people in both Palestine and Ukraine. Palestinians and Ukrainians both want peace, not the continued approval of US arms sales, which Dems seem to go along with their Repuglican colleagues in Congress. Duopoly politicians are almost 100% in the pocket of AIPAC, so they're not about to go against Israel's wishes.
But we had a good number of people turn out at our regularly scheduled pro-Palestine protest, so I'm fine working with these groups who don't support fascist politicians who take AIPAC money.
Glad to know you stand up for your principles, Gypsy! If we lose our conscience and moral direction and end up making compromises with fascist warmongers who take AIPAC money, what good will we be to anyone--including ourselves? #FreePalestine
You follow my posts and should know I'm no fool of a tool of Dem Party politics. I find the comments in this thread befuddling with a total lack of understanding how politics work. Living in safe echo chambers of agreement and mutual admiration does NOTHING to challenge or change the narrative, the politics or policy of the bipartisan corporate blob.
And I don't understand why not being willing to walk into the midst of a group that tolerates genocide as a representative of the dead children of Palestine is not just an act of political challenge but a mission of giving voice to those children.
Do you three know about Daryl Davis?
You might want to check him out. He models the way politics and building alliances works: https://sanantonioreport.org/daryl-davis-fulfilling-mlks-dream-engaging-hateful/
I'm made cynical by my expectation that most of those people voted for Kamala Harris. Don't mistake my comment as evangelical.
MAGA, liberalism, God and celebrity, all parts of toxic America, indivisible under the eyes of a suffering planet.