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️Curious Magpie 🕯️@CuriousMagpie@beige.party
From Kelly Hayes:
"... As #authoritarianism intensifies in the U.S., we often hear calls to “save #democracy.” But one of the problems with that framing is that many people don’t feel they have a meaningful relationship with democracy.
The participatory nature of a public assembly can allow people to create democratic experiences, hear each other out, and begin to solve problems together. I think this is going to be an essential organizing tactic in the coming months and years ..."
https://organizingmythoughts.org/public-assemblies-strengthen-community-resistance-to-rising-authoritarianism/?ref=organizingmythoughts-newsletter
chicating@chicating@mastodon.world
@CuriousMagpie@beige.party Well, I care about that, but as a disabled person, even one working on all that stuff for many years now...if getting something for me personally was my motivator, I would quit too. There are few things more abstract to me than "freedom" or "independence" and neither party does a good job meeting my/our needs in my lifetime.(Dems would let us keep our crumbs...yay, they just look better bcuz fash r SO AWFUL. Important dime, I suppose, but dime's worth of difference, much?!)