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@zhonnymao 7 am sounds like before normal school hours. We had Youth for Christ at my high school back in the 70’s and it wasn’t mandatory. Extra curriculum. Seemed harmless at the time.
Civil disobedience is not a rejection of American democracy. It is how generations have forced democracy to honor its promises.
Abolitionists defied laws protecting slavery and helped people escape through the Underground Railroad. Suffragists picketed the White House and endured prison for demanding the vote. Workers struck for humane hours and safer workplaces. Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat. Black students occupied lunch counters. Freedom Riders challenged segregation, and marchers crossed Selma’s bridge. Later, students resisted the Vietnam War, disability activists occupied federal buildings, and ACT UP disrupted business as usual during the AIDS crisis.
Each movement was called rude, disorderly, dangerous or unpatriotic. History remembers them differently: they exposed injustice and expanded freedom.
Yesterday, that tradition continued in the Senate as anti-war protesters repeatedly interrupted Pete Hegseth’s testimony seeking billions more for the Iran war, holding signs reading “NO WAR ON IRAN.”
Power prefers silence. Democracy requires dissent.
It's a good thing President Obama killed Osama Bin Laden because otherwise Trump would be inviting him to the White House for some goddamn hors d'oeuvres