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Meet at the intersection of Lake Avenue and Colorado Blvd. (site of the world-famous Rose Parade) in Pasadena. Begin at 860 E. Colorado Blvd. To join with a Quaker, contact Prof. Anthony Manousos at interfaithquaker@aol.com. See: nokings.org
Saturday is a NATIONAL day of action and mass mobilization
Maybe courts and lawyers will save us?
This in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption in Washington, DC, including King Trump's birthday military parade, celebrating a wasteful (homegrown British-style) imperial military older than the country. We are protesting crackdowns on free speech and assembly of people for their political views, threatening to deport American citizens and corrupt the courts.
What threats to our democracy are we seeing? What can we do individually and as a Meeting of Friends to support people and institutions that are under attack -- immigrants, LGBTQIA+ community, federal workers, university students and staff, our legal system, scientific and medical research, and so on? Prof. Manousos will facilitate a discussion and share a Quaker perspective on being a prophetic witness during these trying times.
Once upon a time, Sinclair Lewis wrote a book, a dystopian fantasy. No one believed it, except maybe novelist George Orwell, who by 1948 had the manuscript for a book he would call 1984. (He didn't think such a time was too far off, so he flipped 48 to 84). By 1984, it was already true, only most Americans and Brits hadn't noticed. The predictions were eerie and in practice all around us. It's only gotten worse since then.
“The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.”
— Salon
It Can’t Happen Here is Sinclair Lewis’s cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.
Sit home. What has protesting ever accomplished?
Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Mr. Hitler’s aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press.
Called “a message to thinking Americans” by the Springfield Republican when it was published in 1935, It Can’t Happen Here is a shockingly prescient novel that remains as fresh and contemporary as today’s news. More
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