There are over 8,000 of us here outside of DC. Every time there is a national demonstration, the old people here get out with their signs and cowbells and drums. We live along a 6 lane highway, and there are regularly 2,000 people out there. And we'll keep it up. Many of the younger ones go downtown to join the bigger demonstrations.

.......my state, Washington, legalizing marijuana were also nice to finally see.

but they also have the experience!

They didn't. And I don't.
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Disheartened? These people never gave up when faced with enormous obstacles.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219813493

And our task seems even harder, countering a media/bot army of lies and liars, and fascists.

Reposting with a new action message at the end.



John Lewis led the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, and the crossing of Edmund Pettus Bridge, known as "Bloody Sunday," as state troopers brutally attacked marchers. Lewis suffered a fractured skull, and the events influenced the passing of the Voting Rights Act, which Lewis remained a staunch supporter of until his last days.

Did he worry what "pundits" thought?

Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss



Giuliani’s lies in support of former President Donald Trump’s bogus stolen-election claims subjected them to a torrent of racist and violent threats and turned their lives upside down.

Did they buckle under harrassment?

Ruby Bridges became the first Black student at age 6 to integrate William Franz Elementary School—a white public school in New Orleans—in November 1960.



Angry onlookers jeered at Bridges as she walked by



She showed more courage than most adults in our time.

Rosa Parks

In 1955, she was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat for white customers.





And just one more.

Reverend Martin Luther King

Trying to help the good cause.

You do good work for all of us.

Sir linkalot.
I also compose a lot of my own posts.

I met him. I laughed and cried with him. I consider him a friend. He can’t be there physically, so I go in his place.

and the other people whom they know. The older we get, the more radical, less (make that NO) tolerance for bs, and well able to spot the lies and horrors. And completely out of fucks to give. As one put it recently, "the older I get, the less "life in prison" is a deterent."

but I've noticed in my area we make up a disproportionate number of the protesters. We even have a respectable number of people who refer to themselvess as "FDR babies" - meaning they were born while he was president.

Y’all stay safe out there…

They may not have as much hair on their heads but there's plenty in the ears to make up for it.

US and World for the better. IMO
No, I won't sit down and just accept what they tell me to.