Living is resistance, but it is not enough. Conditions can worse. Do not become quiet.
You do not need to riot. You don't need to take the highway. You don't need to light anything on fire. I'm not telling you not to do those things - I don't feel safe advocating them publicly, but I cannot be made to pretend to oppose such things publicly, I'm telling you that it is not itself the prerequisite to the collective survival of our democracy or minority rights or the prevention of the atrophy of our political consciousness. You may do such things - I cannot stop you! - but they are risks that I am not asking you to take today.
But you do have to protest, to strike, to organize. Drop banners, take over your local party, feed the hungry, speak about injustice, buy food for the people feeding the hungry, be the call for your friend at a protest, provide legal aid both to protestors and to all the other imprisoned, take over a park, hold a teach-in, or a die-in (real power here for pro choice protestors), or a sit-in, make a cacophony of action, collectively try a million things to see what works right now in this moment.
In times such as these, it is more pressing than in better times, specifically because it is quite possible it will become dangerous, because resistance, and a refusal to go quietly, makes the authoritarian's job harder.
Poland reminds us that clawing things back is possible. Do not let your political awareness atrophy - that is where catastrophe lives. As long as we are fighting, we will live. Silence, the slogan goes, is death.
