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Resist: It's Time

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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."

The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.

The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.

It's time.

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Faced with intensifying repression and state violence, there is an understandable inclination to seek safety by avoiding confrontation. But this is not always the most effective strategy.

Cross posting from elsewhere since it's a good read

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[โ€“] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Easier to take off quickly, don't want to be the person caught stumbling with the cuff hooked on your ankles.

[โ€“] Nougat@fedia.io 2 points 17 hours ago

And put back on over the boots