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49. Joy as Defiance

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 06:44 PM

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I am getting a bit tired of the counter-resistance message that we are powerless in the face of the 47 juggernaut.

Hope is the life's blood of resistance, just as lies are the life's blood of authoritarians.

Find ways to keep your own hope alive. And when it all feels overwhelming find something, some act, however small to connect with others and connect to our own power. We don't need a movement. Each of us just needs to find ways to MOVE and tap into our collective creativity to resist.

Hope is the foundation and the four C's -- Connection, Courage, Creativity, and Commitment -- point the way forward.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
--Desmond Tutu

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

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