Friday's one wish + two things
Item 1. Ground, breathe, plan
Longtime friend and collaborator Kate Barrow shared a new resource this week: a Resistance & Resilience-Building Guide for 2025.
Item 2. Because...
Among plentiful other horrors this week, Columbia just caved:
Columbia agreed to ban masks, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies as well as the Center for Palestine Studies.
Remember:
➡️ Why might people be wearing masks in 2025?
➡️ We should all know our rights. At the risk of being a broken record: Print, carry, and share red cards in whatever languages are most commonly spoken in your area. Take a free training from Right to Be. If you've memorized the basics, look at local immigrant rights groups in your state for more nuance – like this resource from NJ Alliance for Immigrant Justice on how your rights differ in public vs. non-public areas.
Item 3. A weekend wish for you
From The opposite of fascism by Anand Giridharadas:
Be what scares them. Live lives in colors their eyes can’t even see. Cook food they want to deport. Test the fire code with your parties. Form a scene that meets every Wednesday. Call someone you haven’t in a while. Fight with a smile. Fail and come back. Be weird. Be welcoming. Kiss converts. Refuse despair. Be disobedient. Laugh loudly. Hide someone. Call out. Root down.
They are waging a war on living. The more fully you live, the harder their job will be.
With love,
Julia
