Choosing to be 'neutral' - while active genocides are happening, in more than one area of the world - is choosing to be a coward.
Inaction, is in itself a conscious action.
Silence only helps oppressors & not the oppressed.
Grow some fu*king courage.
Start making some more noise, against multiple crimes against humanity!
Stand up, speak up for more than yourself & a paycheque. Many of us have already taken risks & we're marginalized folks. Don't tell me that you don't have any personal power!
I'd even venture to state that inaction takes more mental energies than taking actions that are in alignment with your core values. Actions in alignment with your core values requires much less mental energies, because they're more natural.
@justafrog I consider every sort of resistance effort as important. Please remember, this isn't new to me. I'm just trying to remind people who forgot & alert people new to activism - inaction is also an active choice.
@justafrog Yup. Been at it for over 30 yrs now. I'm doing mostly tactical builds from home, legal assistance & few other off frontline essentials. I'm training younger folks, weekly.
@justafrog My first activism arrest was kinda funny because I was only 15 at the time & immature so I threw wads of bubblegum at loggers who came anywhere near me. I'd chained, glued & bubblegummed myself to a logging truck on my 4th day at War of the Woods in Tofino. It took RCMP 2 more days to remove me. Another 3 days before they figured out I'd gummed starter, put sugar in gas tank & rendered it immovable except by tow truck.
@justafrog My first time was inspired after my first visit back to matriarch homelands..I spoke about devastating feelings in 2 documentaries..about ecocide by USA on our Vietnamese Indigenous village family & our justice battles. I did treesits for several weeks, near Whistler, about 4 yrs after.
@justafrog All of our ancient forest direct actions were to delay industry/government, give us more time to fight for more legal protections & many of us were willing to keep putting our lives & freedoms on the line because it was the right thing to do - for environment & humanity, as interconnected living wholes.
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