Protest
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No Kings Three

Gotta get down to itSoldiers are cutting us downShould have been done long agoWhat if you knew her andFound her dead on the ground?How can you run when you know? Neil Young It has been a little more than a week since Linda and I attended the No Kings Three rally at the Minnesota State… Continue reading
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We Are All Terrorists Now

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi Renee Good was killed because she took the wrong way home after dropping her child off at school. Shortly before she was shot in the face, she spoke these words to her murderer. “That’s fine, dude, I’m not mad at you.”… Continue reading
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No Kings

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. Thomas Paine Very early Saturday morning, a misguided MAGA follower assassinated a Minnesota state legislator and her husband and severely wound another legislator and his wife. Both legislators were Democrats. After a gunfight from which the killer escaped, the police found a… Continue reading
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Still Marching After All These Years

I think there’s a weapon of cynicism to say, ‘Protest doesn’t work. Organizing doesn’t work. Y’all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn’t do anything,’ because, frankly, it’s said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez I have been to a lot of rallies over the… Continue reading