US politics
fromPortland Mercury
2 days agoOkay Indiana Jones
Avoid risky confrontational actions that could trigger increased federal enforcement and harm immigrant neighbors and their families; prioritize long-term, nonviolent planning.
We must ask ourselves: how would the heroic suffragettes or the remarkable Greenham Common women be regarded if active today? The answer is simple: they would be locked up. Just as they were locked up then. A century ago, women chained themselves to railings, set fires, endured prison and changed the world, and we celebrate their victories without thinking too hard about their methods. Yet today's laws would criminalise them on sight.