On Organizing
Dear Neighbor, Though I post this today, I am struck that I wrote this over six years ago, midway through the first Drumpf administration, February 19, 2019, to be exact. "Why it's important to note the original writing—is because this could have been written yesterday. Today. Tomorrow. The Biden administration after winning election in 2020, and after party stalwarts had shut down Bernie Sanders yet again, was shielded by the COVID pandemic from the continued demands for justice from unlikely allies that had been emerging. With U.S. citizens, children, being deported, among many other devastating developments every day, it is, to me, the same as it ever was. But, this hope, also, is the same as it ever was, even as I find myself unable to find the strength, the energy, the anger to show up on the most recent picket lines. That's my body's story, and here I am going to stick to my heart and mind.