A 96 hour democratic perimeter update tracking federal enforcement, state resistance, election control pressure, and the quiet erosion of civic boundaries.
Thanks once again for these clear-sighted and clear-minded daily updates, Dino. The absence of panic, along with the refusal to minimize the dangers, are admirable - and absolutely necessary.
Hello Wayne. These updates will certainly run daily when needed. For now, I collect data every few days to maintain the current frame…until ICE does something stupid and deadly. To think I used to work with them regularly…
Otherwise, I’m no more interested in stoking the every day anxiety Machine any more than I’m willing to sensationalize. I’ll leave that to the Dean Blundells of the world.
Gotcha! The Dean Blundells, the Daniel Cohn-Bendits, and the Black Panthers of old have their role, too, but hopefully even they/we (that was me back then, at least as a 'wannabe') have grown a little wiser.
I applaud your depth of related knowledge. Minneapolis is quite a flashpoint, with an amazing number of demonstrators, and grassroots organization in response to what has impacted them so highly, with their hospitals, schools, businesses, and thousands of terrified families of color. I think this pushes the matter to getting back to state powers, and we should consider, from the grassroots, moving up to local, then state, then maybe federal. So first Minneapolis, for example. I just published an article on the idea of greater organization for that city, to begin with, and then perhaps the state to follow. God bless. https://markgmeyers.substack.com/p/how-to-start-a-city
Excellent summary and probably the BEST place for me to go & read to catch up on all I've missed! Thank you so much Dino, for clearly & precisely covering all this so accurately & I know truthfully. I especially like that last part of "what to watch next"! And your conclusion of "where this leaves us" though not encouraging - your "honest read" counts more in these days! Appreciate you & this!
Thanks once again for these clear-sighted and clear-minded daily updates, Dino. The absence of panic, along with the refusal to minimize the dangers, are admirable - and absolutely necessary.
Hello Wayne. These updates will certainly run daily when needed. For now, I collect data every few days to maintain the current frame…until ICE does something stupid and deadly. To think I used to work with them regularly…
Otherwise, I’m no more interested in stoking the every day anxiety Machine any more than I’m willing to sensationalize. I’ll leave that to the Dean Blundells of the world.
Gotcha! The Dean Blundells, the Daniel Cohn-Bendits, and the Black Panthers of old have their role, too, but hopefully even they/we (that was me back then, at least as a 'wannabe') have grown a little wiser.
I applaud your depth of related knowledge. Minneapolis is quite a flashpoint, with an amazing number of demonstrators, and grassroots organization in response to what has impacted them so highly, with their hospitals, schools, businesses, and thousands of terrified families of color. I think this pushes the matter to getting back to state powers, and we should consider, from the grassroots, moving up to local, then state, then maybe federal. So first Minneapolis, for example. I just published an article on the idea of greater organization for that city, to begin with, and then perhaps the state to follow. God bless. https://markgmeyers.substack.com/p/how-to-start-a-city
Excellent summary and probably the BEST place for me to go & read to catch up on all I've missed! Thank you so much Dino, for clearly & precisely covering all this so accurately & I know truthfully. I especially like that last part of "what to watch next"! And your conclusion of "where this leaves us" though not encouraging - your "honest read" counts more in these days! Appreciate you & this!