Great invite, with clear directions and stated goals. I love the addition of requests for REFB! I have been ill so most likely won’t be able to join you. I will be out there in spirit!
I haven't found mention of crowd size from Saturday. Somewhere I read "100s" but I was there and it was BIG!! Thank you for organizing it so beautifully.
The PressDemocrat referred to ‘Thousands.’ Estimates I have seen suggest somewhere between 2-3000. I’ve no idea. There were a lot.
And really, there were new people, people who had never been to a protest, a bus full of elderly people from Brookdale, people in wheelchairs, on crutches, using canes. If these people can turn out to a friggin’ MARCH, even if they couldn’t walk the entire difference, it shows their concern.
However many issues tip us over the edge, let’s see more people at the next big event. And at all the small events.
Dear Indivisible, this elderly lifelong lefty is put off by use of the term "revolution." It's not appropriate and if we want to appeal to the widest swath of people - especially those who don't comfortably think of themselves as lefties but are drawn by circumstances to the movement - we should avoid politically divisive words like "revolution."
This event is over. There’s no good reason to discuss the words used in the advertising now.
As you note, 250 years ago the colonies found themselves in revolt against the rule of Kings. There were many reasons for that; it wasn’t sudden; not everyone liked it; for a time, it looked as if the people fighting to free themselves from Kings would lose. Some people remained loyal to the Crown and fled to Canada and England. Some became more radical. Some left all government behind and took themselves further west. Some wrote documents that inspire us still, even as they failed to live inspiring lives.
There are always parallels in history. Some find echoes to the 1930s and 1940s — especially in social movements and economic decisions. Some also see the resonance with the very foundations of our country.
Whatever words we use to define this moment in history, we must remain committed and peaceful. And committed, most of all.
You might quote David Brooks to me. He recently said (NYTimes op-ed) that we need a ‘civic uprising.’
Personally, I’m going to keep quoting the president of the Heritage Foundation and author of Project 2025, Kevin Roberts, who said in 2024: “And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
Great invite, with clear directions and stated goals. I love the addition of requests for REFB! I have been ill so most likely won’t be able to join you. I will be out there in spirit!
Chris W Petaluma
I haven't found mention of crowd size from Saturday. Somewhere I read "100s" but I was there and it was BIG!! Thank you for organizing it so beautifully.
The PressDemocrat referred to ‘Thousands.’ Estimates I have seen suggest somewhere between 2-3000. I’ve no idea. There were a lot.
And really, there were new people, people who had never been to a protest, a bus full of elderly people from Brookdale, people in wheelchairs, on crutches, using canes. If these people can turn out to a friggin’ MARCH, even if they couldn’t walk the entire difference, it shows their concern.
However many issues tip us over the edge, let’s see more people at the next big event. And at all the small events.
Dear Indivisible, this elderly lifelong lefty is put off by use of the term "revolution." It's not appropriate and if we want to appeal to the widest swath of people - especially those who don't comfortably think of themselves as lefties but are drawn by circumstances to the movement - we should avoid politically divisive words like "revolution."
There isn't a clear connection made to the American Revolution of 250 years ago. That could be polished up.
Thank you, Betsy.
This event is over. There’s no good reason to discuss the words used in the advertising now.
As you note, 250 years ago the colonies found themselves in revolt against the rule of Kings. There were many reasons for that; it wasn’t sudden; not everyone liked it; for a time, it looked as if the people fighting to free themselves from Kings would lose. Some people remained loyal to the Crown and fled to Canada and England. Some became more radical. Some left all government behind and took themselves further west. Some wrote documents that inspire us still, even as they failed to live inspiring lives.
There are always parallels in history. Some find echoes to the 1930s and 1940s — especially in social movements and economic decisions. Some also see the resonance with the very foundations of our country.
Whatever words we use to define this moment in history, we must remain committed and peaceful. And committed, most of all.
You might quote David Brooks to me. He recently said (NYTimes op-ed) that we need a ‘civic uprising.’
Personally, I’m going to keep quoting the president of the Heritage Foundation and author of Project 2025, Kevin Roberts, who said in 2024: “And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
And that’s where those thoughts take me.
—Sabra