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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friends and I created a support group that meets every week to talk about politics and what we can do. It's very helpful to maintain our faith in the goodness of humanity and how we can use our collective strength to end the evil that is the Trump regime and its billionaire clique. [/quote]
This is great for you personally but please consider taking action. It could be a simple as writing postcards and calling your reps daily. 
Check out 5calls.org for call scrips and postcardstovoters.com for postcards.

We all need to take action.[/quote]

Feel like we are past the point of postcards.
Honestly protesting feels performative. We need to organize and we need a leader, maybe an economic strike. Where are our previous presidents? George W, where are you? Painting dogs? People need to speak out against this. I mean, how bad does it have to get?[/quote]
The thread is about what everyday people can DO. Complaining about George W is just, well, complaining.

Protesting is absolutely not performative. It signals to others w discontent. If nobody protested that would signal we accept the situation.

But, protesting is the minimum, not maximum thing to do.

Call your leaders and demand they take action. Not just in congress. Hound your local and state governments to go beyond dropping F bombs.

Insist they have noncooperation agreements with ICE and  curb immunity for civil law enforcement- because ICE are CIVIL, not criminal law enforcers. They shouldn’t even be allowed to carry guns.

Actual resistance could look like tracking ICE apprehensions and accounting for all victims, running a support hotline for impacted families, providing legal aid to immigrants, tracking ICE locations and sharing this information with immigrants at risk, maintaining a list of ICE license plates.

So when I say postcards, it’s for stuff like this or to help elect new folks to state and local governments. That is where the real power lies anyway.[/quote]

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