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Eri Hapo
@erihapo.bsky.social
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Living day by day trying to savor what's good.

Also, I don't negotiate with fascists, racists, or bullies.
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No kings
No tyrants
Not now
Not ever

#nokings
October 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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I found this passage about mass training particularly interesting: "In a very short amount of time, people could go from being total outsiders to becoming leaders in their towns."
Excerpt from page 76 of the book This Is An Uprising: The many pranks that activists pulled in the early days did not merely entertain observers and supply the press with ready photo ops. They also provided opportunities to recruit. At each of them, Otpor mem-bers would engage passersby interested in the action and invite them to trainings. These were not the type of nonviolence trainings typically seen in the United States: short, two- or three-hour affairs intended to prepare people for a single demonstration. Instead, they were courses of ten hours or more, designed to empower participants to operate in their own autonomous, local chapters...The number of people in a given session might be small- -seven or eight participants was typical- but, when repeated hundreds of times, the trainings integrated extraordinary numbers. In a very short amount of time, people could go from being total outsiders to becoming team leaders in their towns. And the training process was exponential. New chapters were outfitted with manuals and toolkits enabling them to host their own trainings, By the time Otpor had twenty thousand members, so many trainings were under way in so many different localities that the obvious locations for gatherings-community centers and youth clubs--were constantly booked. More difficult than finding qualified leaders for the sessions was securing the physical space needed to train.
June 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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After today's amazing No Kings protests turnout, I was inspired to pick This Is An Uprising back up and keep reading it

#booksky
#nokings
Book cover: This Is An Uprising by Mark Engler and Paul Engler
June 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Winner of the largest protest sign at today's Hands Off protest

#handsoff #5050protest #nokings
Protester holding large banner: "Trump is a Russian asset"
April 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Great turnout for Hands Off protest!

#handsoff
#nokings
#50501
Woman with Hands Off billboard Protest sign: Trump portrait. "Hands Off our $. You our public servant. You work for us! We dont work for you" Protester holding sign: "Flippers up. Hands off our free speech!" Protester holding sign: "Keep your tiny hands off social security"
April 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Here's an article about Chris Kluwe getting fired. Note the quote from a council member falsly claiming Kluwe's protest wasn't peaceful (it was). It immediately made me think of a passage from the book "Let This Radicalize You" titled "They Will Call You Violent"

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...
All seven members of the Huntington Beach city council are conservatives and one member, Gracey Van Der Mark, said there was "nothing peaceful" about Kluwe's protest. She said he was guilty of "causing alarm among those on attendance, including two young students." Excerpt from the book "Let This Radicalize You" by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba titled "They Will Call You Violent."
February 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Article spotlights Chris Kluwe getting fired but note the quote from a council member falsly claiming Kluwe's protest wasn't peaceful (it was). It immediately made me think of a passage from the book "Let This Radicalize You" titled "They Will Call You Violent"

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...
All seven members of the Huntington Beach city council are conservatives and one member, Gracey Van Der Mark, said there was "nothing peaceful" about Kluwe's protest. She said he was guilty of "causing alarm among those on attendance, including two young students." Excerpt from the book "Let This Radicalize You" by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba titled "They Will Call You Violent."
February 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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This is what democracy looks like
MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence. MAGA stands for re-segregation and racism. MAGA stands for censorship and book bans. MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing. MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal. MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA, including canceling research on veteran suicide. MAGA stands for cutting funds to education, including for disabled children. "MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy, and, most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is.
February 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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This, for anyone with the audacity to try and downplay Harris' qualifications for president.
He was the worst president in history. And when he got voted out, he tried to stage a coup. Then he stole national secrets and sold the ones he didn't store in the bathroom. He was convicted of fraud, found liable for sexual assault and convicted of 34 felonies. He is half a billion dollars in debt, owned by God only knows who, and the biggest national security risk the nation has ever had. But at least he's not a Black woman.
February 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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"It is the grandest illusion ever created: in a world where corporations and governments worldwide are poised to annihilate most life on Earth, we are made to believe that other disempowered people are the greatest danger we face"

--Let this Radicalize You, Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba

#booksky
"Let This Radicalize You" book, by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
February 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Yes, we have to start mobilizing in our communities if we haven't already. Who's been doing this for a while? Post your tips.
#organize
#resist
#buildcommunitypower
What resistance looks like. Excerpt from reposted post
January 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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"All government is based upon consent" --Gene Sharp, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, Patrt 1
Excerpt from book The Politics of Nonviolent Action, Part 1 by Gene Sharp
January 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Calling a spade a spade. Great article by @jenrubin.bsky.social at @contrariannews.org substack.com/home/post/p-...
Excerpt from article Words by Jen Rubin
January 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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I read this article in 2016. It was profound then and even more relevant today. Read it.
"Write down what you value....Write a list of things you would never do. Because it is possible that in the next year, you will do them....Write a list of things you would never believe. Because it is possible that in the next year, you will either believe them or be forced to say you believe."
January 21, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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I feel like The Unthinkable by Amanda Ripley is particularly relevant on the eve of the inauguration. #booksky
Book cover of The Unthinkable by Amanda Ripley
January 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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"Nonviolent action is based on...these views: that governments depend on people, that power is pluralistic, and that political power is fragile because it depends on many groups for reinforcement of its power sources." #theresistance #nonviolentaction #booksky
Excerpt from page 8 of the book The Politics of Nonviolent Action Part One: Power and Struggle The front cover of the book The Politics of Nonviolent Action Part One: Power and Struggle
January 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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January 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM