Experience, Share And Replicate Civil Disobedience
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From an email I received the other day:
[…] “Our hope is to learn things that we can pass along to other people doing civil disobedience — turn this whole experience into a template that will make it easier for the next round. Our inspiration is the “barefoot lawyer” movement in China and Uganda.” [..]
- Liz Seymour -
Liz was one of the brave group of local protesters that were arrested at the Greensboro anti-surge rally a few months back. After I read Isabella’s post about why she decided to be arrested, I immediately signed up to grab the bus down to DC for the protest in late January.
On the way back from the march I met Liz for the first time.
We’ve gotten to know each other a bit more over the past few weeks at the Monday night Food not Bombs dinner for the homeless at the Greensboro Public Library. You see, Liz spends her days walking the walk — living in a collective house with six friends while making meals all week for folk around town who might otherwise go without.
Yeah, I can already hear what that little voice is saying in the back of your head:
“What a hippie!”
You need to tell that voice to shut the fuck up.
If you’d like to meet some real people — people who both stand up for what they believe in and live their lives accordingly — Liz and her co-defendants plan on holding a rally and press conference at 5pm outside the Greensboro courthouse tomorrow following their trial for civil disobedience.
Good luck, Liz, Isabella and everyone else involved.
Tags: activism, civil disobedience, Food not Bombs, Greensboro, homeless, Iraq War, Liz Seymour, protest.
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| You need to tell that voice to shut the fuck up.
Funny you’d say that because everybody’s quick to judge nowadays, and hypocritically hate it when someone has such a ‘discriminating’ opinion about them.
Heck, and I’m a hypocrite just like any other human being caught up in this system we dare call a democracy and going with the flow, well, most of the time. So praise to them.
Fact is, if it weren’t for `those hippies’, the world would definitely have gone down the drain much sooner and much faster. :-)
yeah, i do my own judging from time to time based on my world view, so i guess i’m as guilty as anyone along those lines, but the older i get, the easier it is for me to not drop bombs based on superficial presentation. e.g i don’t look at people in suits and classify them as uber-conservative pricks anymore. that was an easy, post-art school, pre-reality way of making myself feel good about my choices in life.
maybe everyone didn’t have that “little voice” about liz and crew (especially most of the subscribers to this blog i would assume), but the few who are held fast in a black and white world, well, those are the ones that need a shaking from time to time.
and yes, navaho, without the edge of the left, wars would continue for much longer than they do. the grassroots moves the antiwar movement mainstream, which then affects corporate positioning, which then affects congress… “hippies” have a lot of power.