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James M. Branum
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#Jewish #HumanisticJudaism #Interfaith #Minister
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#LosAngeles #StandWithLA #ChingaLaMigra #MeltTheICE
June 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Full details on this upcoming panel discussion featuring a panel of myself and two recent #USMilitary conscientious objectors, discussing #ConscientiousObjection and the legal and moral issues about #UnlawfulOrders at: c.im/@jmb/1144741...

#ResistFascism #MilitaryLaw #USA #USMilitary #Trump #MAGA
Picture of US servicememberr shrouded in darkness Words: When Orders cross the line: A panel on unlawful orders & Conscientious Objectors LIVESTREAM From: Military & Veteran Women's Coalition
May 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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And here's the photo that I took in Mazatlan from a month ago that I used as a reference for the right side of this work.
photo of the Malecon (boardwalk) in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico There are people walking and riding bikes in the scene. There is also a rainbow pride flag on the pavement, as a cross walk.
April 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Here is a story about the original photo I worked from for the left-hand side of this work: www.nytimes.com/.../menorah-...
black and white photo from 1931 Germany a menorah is displayed in a window, the viewer inside and looking through that window at the building across the street where a Nazi flag is flying
April 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Here is a story about the original photo I worked from for the left-hand side of this work: www.nytimes.com/.../menorah-...
April 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Just got this in yhe mail from thr Society for Humanistic Judaism

This is great timing, just in time to fit into tonight's seder!

#Peach #Passover #HumanisticJudaism
Text of candlelightjng liturgy, probably best to try OCR on it
April 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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My sign for today's protests

#April5 #ResistFascism #ResistEmpire #ResistTrump #ResistElon
April 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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MILITARY LAW CLE: March 20th, 5pm
Presented by NLG-Bay Area Military Law Panel
How Can You Help Military Dissenters Resist the Trump Agenda?

One hour of free MCLE Credit for California Attorneys

Date: Thursday March 20th, 5-6 pm
Location: Zoom nlgsf.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/mail...
CLE: How you can help military dissenters resist the Trump agenda
March 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Parody posters posted by activists in #London

#Tesla #Fascism #Elon #UK #Resist
Poster with a picture of a Tesla with Elon Musk giving a fascist salute. TEXT: Goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds. Tesla, The Swasticar
February 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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#HeathenRevival #Oklahoma #FolkMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQ #Resist
pen and ink sketch showing a guitar, harmonica, olive branches, a book, a protest sign, and lots of words taken from folk song lyrics sung that night, and random other stuff
February 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Sharing this secular version of a #Shivti on the themes of #Diaspora, and resistance to #nationalism of all varieties.

#JewishArt
February 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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From Project Yano

#USMilitary #BeforeYouEnlist
January 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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What to do if ICE comes to your door...

#Immigration #HumanRights #FuckLaMigra #Law #ICE #FuckFascism
What to do if ice comes to your door.. one do not open doors 2. Remain silent 3. do not sign 4. report The Raid 5. fight back
January 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Here's one of my latest drawings, a sketch of the Great Friends Meeting House in Newport, RI, an astonishingly old (built in 1699!) wooden Quaker meeting house

Also, here's the photo I shot that I worked from.

#Art #Quaker #RhodeIsland #NewportRI #Newport #Drawing
Drawing of Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, RI Photo of Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, RI
January 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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1977 President Jimmy #Carter pardoned those who resisted the draft during 3 the #VietnamWar.

2024 President Joe #Biden has a historic opportunity to pardon those who went #AWOL during the years of the wars in #Iraq and #Afghanistan.
Learn more at: bit.ly/BidenPardons
#Peace
(Portraits of Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden with QR code) 1977 President Jimmy Carter pardoned those who resisted the draft during 3 the Vietnam War. 2024 President Joe Biden has a historic opportunity to pardon those who went AWOL during the years of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Learn more at: bit.ly/BidenPardons
December 31, 2024 at 9:06 PM