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Myra Marx Ferree's avatar

Lots of info out there - but not much on key questions like the when and where of events (I am constantly being asked how I knew that x or y protest was going to happen before it did) or of funding a politics of resistance (why do pleas for $ always come from ActBlue and say “not affiliated with any candidate or candidate’s committee” in small print at the bottom?). Even AOC’s pleas for money do. If you don’t want donations to flow into the general coffers of a feckless DCCC or DNC, where can you contribute to progressive, ACTIVE Dem voices? Where do good suggestions go? When there are widely endorsed ideas coming from Tim Snyder (an opposition that provides a “shadow cabinet” to offer VOCAL alternatives at a “press briefing” in a well selected site regularly) and others, where does this democratic input go? Can your organizations organize not just us on the streets, but our “representatives” to represent us? The “empty suit” town halls seem to be effective, but again, how do we actually find out when and where they will be? For example, if Elizabeth Warren can be motivated to do a NH town hall to shape what will be a tough Senate race there in a progressive pro-consumer direction, how would we find out and attend it? Help open up a better organized resistance that is open to more than highly motivated, well informed voters!

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Catherine Modica's avatar

Here at the suggestion of Chop Wood Carry Water. Thanks for providing more coordinated info about actions.

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