I'm in what's said to be the bluest county in the bluest state. Yet in Cody, WY, (pop.10,000), there were about 75 of us in front of the courthouse with our signs. We did get some supportive honks, which was so heartening!
June 6th is so far away after May 1-3. I’m disappointed there’s nothing yet sooner. I’ll keep looking! Maybe we’ll have more suffering the effects of the Orange menace by then and increase numbers, but I’m worried momentum will slow. I’ve got plenty of pics and audio/video to send you as we’ve been to six protests, so hope you’re ready! Thanks so much for your help with organizing and documenting! Maybe you can publish a book about the Resistance movement winning afterwards!
It does sound like a long gap, but we dont need to wait for a nationwide event. Check your local Indivisible group, if there is none, start a weekly 1/2 hour stand out in your town, or organize a small postcard writing session at your house or a coffee house & let your reps know your opinions. Love your energy!
In Woodstock VT a group gathers daily at noon on a main road to protest. Sometimes there are 8 people, sometimes hundreds. It’s picking up for sure.
So I echo what others have said and encourage you to start something. Find a couple of friends, pick a street corner in your town and put out the word. Then on June 6 and 14 you will have more people! 💪🏽
“Billionaires pay less taxes than your barista.” Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...
Not much sourcing or referencing in Jarno Jokinen's inspired comment above. I can't say that he sourced these references, however, the documentary film SCREAMERS on 20th Century Genocidal Campaigns that went from rhetoric to deployment by the collapsing World War 1 Turkish Ottoman Empire that a few years earlier had spanned with barely any challenge three continents and was knocking at Europe's Balkan doors on the Mediterranean shores:
SCREAMERS, A documentary about genocide which features System Of A Down, was released on DVD on April 20. The critically acclaimed film, directed by Carla Garapedian, traces the history of genocide and genocide denial through the atrocities in Armenia, The Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur.
To coincide with the film's release, Screamers will also be screened by Amnesty International at their Human Rights Centre in London on April 21 and will be presented by vocalist Serj Tankian the following day at Oxford University. "Screamers has caused a strong emotive response everywhere that it's been released," Tankian tells Kerrang!. "I'm looking forward to partaking in the Amnesty Int'l and Oxford University panels when I come over to the UK in April." For more information on the film, please visit www.screamersmovie.com
Musical prologue & sponsorship provided via System of A Down the California-based escapees of the second genocide of the 20th Century (after the German efforts v. 'Hottentot' & Herero\Namaqua and Nama nations of Southwest Africa (present day mapped Namibia) led by the German Empire):
"It is sometimes said that American writers are insular, and write only, or at least primarily, about America. While this may be true in some cases, it is hardly true of Thomas Pynchon. George Saunders has said that Pynchon tries to cram the whole world into his fiction, and Saunders finds a hint of Buddhism in Pynchon’s impulse to absorb the world, especially evident in his longer novels.
"Of the many international locales Pynchon takes his readers to, Africa and Latin America occupy a prominent place. Rather than show how small our world is becoming, Pynchon seems intent on preserving the largeness of the world – in terms of its cultural diversity – in the face of the reductionist onslaughts of colonialism, Western cultural domination, and technological advances that overshadow traditional ways of knowing and seeing.
"Much of Pynchon’s fiction represents his charting through several centuries of history the precarious survival of cultures, such as those in Africa and Latin America, which represent alternative ways of life, full of vitality that Europe and North America lack. Thus, if Saunders is accurate about Pynchon’s desire to include the whole world in his work, then Africa and Latin America represent vital parts of that world."
Mitch Ritter via Penny Padgett-Harper via Thomas Pynchon & documented sources
Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers)
You’re absolutely right! We The People will be the heroes of this story. Thank you for the updates on protests across the country, what you’re doing is inspiring the rest of us while recording this for history. And make no mistake, we will go down in history on the right side of this insanity and our country and fellow Americans will be stronger than ever
I'm in what's said to be the bluest county in the bluest state. Yet in Cody, WY, (pop.10,000), there were about 75 of us in front of the courthouse with our signs. We did get some supportive honks, which was so heartening!
June 6th is so far away after May 1-3. I’m disappointed there’s nothing yet sooner. I’ll keep looking! Maybe we’ll have more suffering the effects of the Orange menace by then and increase numbers, but I’m worried momentum will slow. I’ve got plenty of pics and audio/video to send you as we’ve been to six protests, so hope you’re ready! Thanks so much for your help with organizing and documenting! Maybe you can publish a book about the Resistance movement winning afterwards!
start something up! keep the momentum going in your area. Don't wait for permission. You can be the change you want to see.
It does sound like a long gap, but we dont need to wait for a nationwide event. Check your local Indivisible group, if there is none, start a weekly 1/2 hour stand out in your town, or organize a small postcard writing session at your house or a coffee house & let your reps know your opinions. Love your energy!
In Woodstock VT a group gathers daily at noon on a main road to protest. Sometimes there are 8 people, sometimes hundreds. It’s picking up for sure.
So I echo what others have said and encourage you to start something. Find a couple of friends, pick a street corner in your town and put out the word. Then on June 6 and 14 you will have more people! 💪🏽
Refuse Fascism, an organization out of NYC, is trying to organize a nationwide day of action on May 17. Don't know how successful they'll be without partner support. https://refusefascism.org/2025/05/04/protest-may-15-and-may-17/
“Billionaires pay less taxes than your barista.” Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...
Not much sourcing or referencing in Jarno Jokinen's inspired comment above. I can't say that he sourced these references, however, the documentary film SCREAMERS on 20th Century Genocidal Campaigns that went from rhetoric to deployment by the collapsing World War 1 Turkish Ottoman Empire that a few years earlier had spanned with barely any challenge three continents and was knocking at Europe's Balkan doors on the Mediterranean shores:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpHkzwE4qzg
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SCREAMERS, A documentary about genocide which features System Of A Down, was released on DVD on April 20. The critically acclaimed film, directed by Carla Garapedian, traces the history of genocide and genocide denial through the atrocities in Armenia, The Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur.
To coincide with the film's release, Screamers will also be screened by Amnesty International at their Human Rights Centre in London on April 21 and will be presented by vocalist Serj Tankian the following day at Oxford University. "Screamers has caused a strong emotive response everywhere that it's been released," Tankian tells Kerrang!. "I'm looking forward to partaking in the Amnesty Int'l and Oxford University panels when I come over to the UK in April." For more information on the film, please visit www.screamersmovie.com
Musical prologue & sponsorship provided via System of A Down the California-based escapees of the second genocide of the 20th Century (after the German efforts v. 'Hottentot' & Herero\Namaqua and Nama nations of Southwest Africa (present day mapped Namibia) led by the German Empire):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Nama_genocide
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/thomas-pynchon-in-context/africa-and-latin-america/0508DBFD9CC0CADE0DB1AE6BF11F149A
Summary
"It is sometimes said that American writers are insular, and write only, or at least primarily, about America. While this may be true in some cases, it is hardly true of Thomas Pynchon. George Saunders has said that Pynchon tries to cram the whole world into his fiction, and Saunders finds a hint of Buddhism in Pynchon’s impulse to absorb the world, especially evident in his longer novels.
"Of the many international locales Pynchon takes his readers to, Africa and Latin America occupy a prominent place. Rather than show how small our world is becoming, Pynchon seems intent on preserving the largeness of the world – in terms of its cultural diversity – in the face of the reductionist onslaughts of colonialism, Western cultural domination, and technological advances that overshadow traditional ways of knowing and seeing.
"Much of Pynchon’s fiction represents his charting through several centuries of history the precarious survival of cultures, such as those in Africa and Latin America, which represent alternative ways of life, full of vitality that Europe and North America lack. Thus, if Saunders is accurate about Pynchon’s desire to include the whole world in his work, then Africa and Latin America represent vital parts of that world."
Mitch Ritter via Penny Padgett-Harper via Thomas Pynchon & documented sources
Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers)
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You’re absolutely right! We The People will be the heroes of this story. Thank you for the updates on protests across the country, what you’re doing is inspiring the rest of us while recording this for history. And make no mistake, we will go down in history on the right side of this insanity and our country and fellow Americans will be stronger than ever
You are so right—neighbor to neighbor (hope we can overcome the anxiety)