Joan
@forestharmony.bsky.social
forest wanderer, zhineng qigong practitioner, peace seeker, partner, mother, activist, former community health/nutrition educator.
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Who owns the government debt? Who owns government bonds?
Mostly it is the rich.
If they paid taxes the people would not have to borrow money from them.
Mostly it is the rich.
If they paid taxes the people would not have to borrow money from them.
November 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Who owns the government debt? Who owns government bonds?
Mostly it is the rich.
If they paid taxes the people would not have to borrow money from them.
Mostly it is the rich.
If they paid taxes the people would not have to borrow money from them.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
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Cave once, and history will make you pay twice.
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Cave once, and history will make you pay twice.
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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The Genoese dockworkers inserted themselves into the globe’s most contentious political issue, Palestine, using the best tool in any worker’s toolbox: stopping work. Call it a boycott, call it direct action, call it a strike. When workers stop working, bosses & governments take notice. My latest! ✊
Since dockworkers operate at a crucial “choke point” in the military supply chain to Israel, their recent boycotts are a powerful form of solidarity with Gaza.
Dockerworker strikes in solidarity with Gaza have a long legacy
Since dockworkers operate at a crucial “choke point” in the military supply chain to Israel, their boycotts are a powerful form of solidarity with Gaza.
wagingnonviolence.org
November 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The Genoese dockworkers inserted themselves into the globe’s most contentious political issue, Palestine, using the best tool in any worker’s toolbox: stopping work. Call it a boycott, call it direct action, call it a strike. When workers stop working, bosses & governments take notice. My latest! ✊
"It appears that one of the few issues both the right and the left agree on is that the wages of the richest shouldn’t be so high!"
For more on this research, click on the link: inequality.org/article/far-...
When Far-Right Voters Learn Wage Inequality Facts, Their Support for Policy Solutions Jumps
A new study of voters in the United States and five other countries finds that those on the far right become much more supportive of redistributive policies when they know the true extent of the wage…
inequality.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:36 AM
"It appears that one of the few issues both the right and the left agree on is that the wages of the richest shouldn’t be so high!"
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"The new billboards are designed to inform troops of legal resources … 'The [Southern Command] strikes … represent the most blatantly illegal act that this administration has had the military carry out.'"
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taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/
Billboards outside US Southern Command urge troops not to 'break the law’ in Caribbean strikes
“Don’t let them make you break the law,” reads a billboard along the road to U.S. Southern Command, one of several set up by veterans.
taskandpurpose.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"The new billboards are designed to inform troops of legal resources … 'The [Southern Command] strikes … represent the most blatantly illegal act that this administration has had the military carry out.'"
taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/
taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/
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Our #visibility team on the US 460 pedestrian overpass in Montgomery Co. Wednesday. A sign posted there by our Republican-run state government says assembly is prohibited. Nevertheless, they assembled. #Vote Republicans out. @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @indivisible.org @cardinalnews.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Our #visibility team on the US 460 pedestrian overpass in Montgomery Co. Wednesday. A sign posted there by our Republican-run state government says assembly is prohibited. Nevertheless, they assembled. #Vote Republicans out. @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @indivisible.org @cardinalnews.org
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The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.
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REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
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Don’t stream the regime, folks!
@indivisible.org @cardinalnews.org @nbcnews.com @maddow.msnbc.com @richmond.com #roanoke #wdbj #wsls #spotify #boycottspotify #boycott
@indivisible.org @cardinalnews.org @nbcnews.com @maddow.msnbc.com @richmond.com #roanoke #wdbj #wsls #spotify #boycottspotify #boycott
Spotify is running ads to recruit ICE agents for violent, illegal kidnapping of innocent people. So, we are cancelling them until they stop. Here’s how:
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Tutorial: How to cancel your Spotify subscription
YouTube video by Indivisible
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October 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Don’t stream the regime, folks!
@indivisible.org @cardinalnews.org @nbcnews.com @maddow.msnbc.com @richmond.com #roanoke #wdbj #wsls #spotify #boycottspotify #boycott
@indivisible.org @cardinalnews.org @nbcnews.com @maddow.msnbc.com @richmond.com #roanoke #wdbj #wsls #spotify #boycottspotify #boycott
For Nov 6th --I'm signing up and gathering up some friends to participate in this together. "Shared knowledge increases the power of active nonviolence in our communities!" check it out. paceebene.org/events/2025/...
We Rise. They Fall. Here’s How It Happens — Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service
We Rise. They Fall. Here’s How It Happens. 1.5 hour webinar by Rivera Sun Thursday, November 6 4-5.30pm PT / 5-6.30pm MT / 6-7.30pm CT/ 7-8:30pm ET Sliding Scale, Suggested Donation: $30
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October 31, 2025 at 3:01 AM
For Nov 6th --I'm signing up and gathering up some friends to participate in this together. "Shared knowledge increases the power of active nonviolence in our communities!" check it out. paceebene.org/events/2025/...
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15.7 million workers (≈ 10% of all workers) lived in households where someone participated in SNAP in the last year. (CBPP)
It's a SCANDAL that corporations get away with paying their workers poverty wages while taxpayers subsidize their profits!!
It's a SCANDAL that corporations get away with paying their workers poverty wages while taxpayers subsidize their profits!!
October 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
15.7 million workers (≈ 10% of all workers) lived in households where someone participated in SNAP in the last year. (CBPP)
It's a SCANDAL that corporations get away with paying their workers poverty wages while taxpayers subsidize their profits!!
It's a SCANDAL that corporations get away with paying their workers poverty wages while taxpayers subsidize their profits!!
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Shout it from the rooftops.
October 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Shout it from the rooftops.
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WATCH: “This viral chart about who uses SNAP is a complete lie 🤥 - 35% go to white people, the largest share… 90% are 🇺🇸-born citizens… 70% work full time, meaning it’s subsidizing corporations that don’t pay workers a living wage… 86% of SNAP households have children…”
October 31, 2025 at 2:02 AM
WATCH: “This viral chart about who uses SNAP is a complete lie 🤥 - 35% go to white people, the largest share… 90% are 🇺🇸-born citizens… 70% work full time, meaning it’s subsidizing corporations that don’t pay workers a living wage… 86% of SNAP households have children…”
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Our #visibility team on the US 460 pedestrian overpass in Montgomery Co. yesterday. A sign posted there by our Republican-run state government says assembly is prohibited. Nevertheless, they assembled. #Vote Republicans out. @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @indivisible.org @cardinalnews.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Our #visibility team on the US 460 pedestrian overpass in Montgomery Co. yesterday. A sign posted there by our Republican-run state government says assembly is prohibited. Nevertheless, they assembled. #Vote Republicans out. @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @indivisible.org @cardinalnews.org
Yes-- we have a history to consider and learn from--even acts considered political theater can break the hold of authoritarianism. check it out.
“…the point is to put forward a prototype for a new type of American government, for a post-Trump country, that carries forward part of the existing institutional framework that is worth preserving, alongside radical change in response to Trump.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how | Thomas Geoghegan
States opposed to Trump can create a compact – a new prototype for American government – even if it’s perceived as political theater
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October 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Yes-- we have a history to consider and learn from--even acts considered political theater can break the hold of authoritarianism. check it out.
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This moment calls for discipline and discernment.
Underestimate the threat — we grow complacent.
Overestimate it — we fall into despair or violence.
Both serve the authoritarian.
The threat is real — and so is our power. We are facing our challenge with clarity, fortitude and dignity. No Kings.🇺🇸
Underestimate the threat — we grow complacent.
Overestimate it — we fall into despair or violence.
Both serve the authoritarian.
The threat is real — and so is our power. We are facing our challenge with clarity, fortitude and dignity. No Kings.🇺🇸
October 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This moment calls for discipline and discernment.
Underestimate the threat — we grow complacent.
Overestimate it — we fall into despair or violence.
Both serve the authoritarian.
The threat is real — and so is our power. We are facing our challenge with clarity, fortitude and dignity. No Kings.🇺🇸
Underestimate the threat — we grow complacent.
Overestimate it — we fall into despair or violence.
Both serve the authoritarian.
The threat is real — and so is our power. We are facing our challenge with clarity, fortitude and dignity. No Kings.🇺🇸
Great Series: "Every single one of us has the power to give or withhold our willing participation". ilhttps://paceebene.org/candlelight-episode-2
Candlelight Episode 2 — Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service
paceebene.org
October 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Great Series: "Every single one of us has the power to give or withhold our willing participation". ilhttps://paceebene.org/candlelight-episode-2
"These were demonstrations for democracy - and people defended the Freedom of Speech even for people they vehemently disagreed with." paceebene.org/blog/2025/10...
7 Million People. 2700 Protests. Historic Nonviolence. — Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service
The #NoKings Protests on October 18 were the largest single-day protests in US history. With at least 7 million people participating in 2700 demonstrations, it was a staggering statement against T...
paceebene.org
October 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
"These were demonstrations for democracy - and people defended the Freedom of Speech even for people they vehemently disagreed with." paceebene.org/blog/2025/10...
If you're represented by a Republican, tell them it's time for Mike Johnson to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. No more excuses or delays. #SwearHerIn #Grijalva
October 24, 2025 at 4:29 AM
If you're represented by a Republican, tell them it's time for Mike Johnson to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. No more excuses or delays. #SwearHerIn #Grijalva