Patti Smith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patti_Smith) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author and photographer who’s still rocking at 77 years old. She’s been fighting for the right side of history longer than most of us have been alive.
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COMMIT to doing political work to organize and fight!
COMBAT the forces that would, if given the chance, take away the rights of everyone who isn’t a white, heterosexual, cis, Christian, conservative, rich, male.
NOW GO make some Good Trouble!
Some small, easy ways that add up:
https://www.activateamerica.vote/ – “Reach out to voters to support Democrats and defeat Republican extremists.” They have several different campaigns you can do at any given time: writing postcards, text banking or phone banking.
https://postcardstovoters.org/ – “Postcards to Voters are friendly, handwritten reminders from volunteers to targeted voters giving Democrats a winning edge in close, key races coast to coast.”
https://www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/ – “Help write postcards to voters in 11 key swing states! We’ll mail you free postcards, voter lists and instructions with proven message options. You’ll provide the stamps and mail the postcards to voters in October.”
All these organization will give you lists of people to contact and a short script to write, text, or say.
Please, please, PLEASE get involved, this way or some other way! That and VOTING are the only ways to combat the true evil that the MAGA Right has become.
Here’s where I got this idea.
The original quote is from punk rock elder Henry Rollins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Rollins) from an interview with Joe Rogan in 2016 https://bit.ly/4cJZhf1. Brought to my attention by fellow Princetonian Ken Katkin of Trash Flow Radio.
The artwork is tagged “Rasmenia.” I found https://www.rasmenia.com/ and sent an admiring message but haven’t heard back yet.
