Tuesday's 3 things: Art spotlight
Item 1. Reminder
Creating art, zines, flyers, music, and more = one of so many ways to meet this moment.
Item 2. Panels
Ellen O'Grady continues to break down the biggest things in her comics. (Instagram link)
Something to do ➡️ Send some cash to buy e-sims for the people of Gaza.
Item 3. Words
Two months ago, Daniel Hunter What to do if the Insurrection Act is invoked for Waging Nonviolence. However you felt about the weekend's mass actions, consider reading it with fresh eyes following #NoKings / as the summer continues to heat up. Since Tuesday is art day here, I wanted to especially highlight this:
Authoritarians love some violence in the street. It allows them to swoop in with crackdowns they claim will protect the population from criminals. In fact, ordinary scared people may even call for crackdowns to “restore peace.”
To make these moves backfire, we can actively project calm and communicate a commitment to order, kindness and nonviolence. [...]
If they can’t bait the movement into violence, then they’ll almost certainly instigate it. [...] Once a pretext is declared, our fight cannot be internally about how we got there. Whether there is violence by agent provocateurs or frustrated folks from our side, we have to seek unity amongst the broadest coalition. Our response has to be swift and unified. We need to loudly condemn all state sanctioned violence [...] If Trump uses the Insurrection Act, the ways to constrain him are largely by public pressure, a reluctant military and courts, after gross violations. Political strategist Anat Shenkar-Osorio has defined three strategies for public pressure in these times: refusal, resistance and ridicule.
Something to do ➡️ Read the "ridicule" tactics toward the end of the piece + share it with the most playfully subversive person you know. Is there a fashionista in your life? An actual clown? A street theater-maker? Can you make some rebellious satirical magic this summer?
