November 9, 2016
Resist despair.
Don’t yield to resignation.
Do not withdraw into the safety of some privileged, private life.
Now is the time to learn from 1933 and organize help for those who are the most vulnerable.
Support education so rising generations have the tools to deal with the life long fall-out of this catastrophe.
Martha Ullman West
thank you.
SIDONIE CARON
Potent images, Friderike.
Bob Hicks
Well put. Thanks.
Pat Wollner
Well said. Let’s get to work.
Gloria
Thank you, Fri. I will, you will, we all MUST. But first, a day to try to stop crying.
Alice Meyer
The images are potent, stunning in fact, but I wonder what it is we are supposed “to do” now to effect this altered universe.
An afternoon book club meeting of 12 Reedie MALS women just posed the same question with, alas, no suggestions. Anyone?
friderikeheuer@gmail.com
Here are some pragmatic suggestions
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/how_liberals_can_channel_their_post_election_anxiety_into_action.html
I also think becoming active in the democratic party to increase its progressiveness is a way to go; working for a plan to abandon the electoral college is worthwhile. Fighting for voting rights for inmates – so many of whom are in prison for drug related or other non violent offenses Learn from historians what worked for successful resistance against emerging autocratic regimes. Education.Education.Education.Education.Education. Put our $$ there.
Evelyne
Yesterday Kristallnacht reminds us what happened in the past.
May we see better days.
Best Wishes from sunny Jerusalem