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  • Defund the Military

    Defund the Military

    Peregrin Wood

    The US military has become the world’s largest criminal organization.

    Donald Trump’s war against Iran is against the law. It is illegal for the President to start a war without authorization of Congress. It is illegal for the President to assassinate officials of foreign governments.

    The US military is carrying out crimes at the order of Donald Trump. We cannot count on soldiers to have the information and the emotional maturity necessary to refuse illegal orders from the President.

    The entire organization of the US military has become corrupt. The military is now ideologically dedicated to discrimination, inequality, and Christian Nationalism.

    What is the point of having a military when that military serves as a tool of a fascist tyrant who is taking our freedoms away?

    In one of the first acts of the war against Iran, the US military bombed an elementary school in Tehran. At this moment, the death toll is 148.

    That’s 148 children killed by just one American bomb.

    We don’t need more weapons. We need more wisdom.

    Imagine a country in which young men are no longer taught how to kill people.

    Imagine what good we could do with the money the federal government wastes on the military.

    Defund the military.

    Defund the military

  • Why Protest? Reason #1: Different Games and When it’s Not a Game At all

    James Cook

    Episode 1 of a YouTube series on the question, “Why Protest?” Each video shares an answer from a different vantage point or experience of protest.

    Episode summary:

    GOP senators voted unanimously on 3/1/25 to target some of the already most vulnerable children for being different. Living in Maine, it’s necessary to point out this includes Senator Susan Collins.

    The morning after the vote, the Ivy League Debate Club circles in Democratic Leadership are murmuring their wishes that we regular folk avoid talking about it. “Shh. This issue loses the game in Maine!” they say.

    But we’re not in an oak-paneled room of cozy polite opponents winning on points. MAGA has played Kayfabe for years. Confidence wins that game. And that means confidence in one’s values, whether they be cruel (Republicans targeting kids) or kind (lifting up all children, not using them).

    The priorities of this argument are also oriented inappropriately to elections. Yes, elections matter, but winning them is not the ultimate goal. The ultimate goal is to build a constructive, trusting, nurturing society that includes and benefits as many people as possible, and they’re HURTING VULNERABLE KIDS. It is crucial to make that unacceptable, and that means standing up in our communities and setting the standard. That is what public demonstrations do: reset the agenda to reframe the stakes and priorities, with the confidence needed to win a Kayfabe audience over.

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