From Conscience to Collective Progress: Rediscovering Our Shared Responsibility to Organize, Engage, and Work Together for Justice and Human Dignity”
Dr. King provided us with many wise reminders, once saying “There comes a point when silence is treason”. How true is this now, in today’s social and political climate?
We are experiencing two of the greatest injustices in human history right now: the Zionist genocide against Palestinians, which continues despite the optics and dominant narrative, and the systematic targeting of the Latino population here in the US by local and especially federal law enforcement, with the full backing of the military who are on stand by to be deployed to any city or town across the country to enforce the policies of the Administration. At the same time, Israels Mossad along with the CIA attempted to foment civil war in Iran, eventually launching all-out war, while the US is detaining a kidnapped Head of State in a federal prison, is flying military aircraft within Mexican territorial airspace, while also threatening Colombia and Cuba with invasion, and in the case of Cuba, tightening the noose of the blockade in order to starve a nation into submission.
This is obviously neither a moral nor a shameless government, here in this country, in Israel, in most of the Western nations, and even some on the Global South. No, this is Empire plain and simple. As such, it is to be despised and destroyed. And the only way to do so is through organized, intelligent resistance.
In this country, we’ve been conditioned to think that democracy and fredom are limited to a vote once every two years in an election cycle. This is obviously flawed thinking, and has never guaranteed democracy, freedom, or justice. We can vote in more ways than an election cycle every two years. We can vote with our purchasing power. We can vote with our presence at local city hall meetings, by going to our State Capitols, by going to Washington; through mail and phone campaigns to elected officials. We can vote through the strike, through the impeachment article. We can vote with business ventures that empower the resistance, and by leveraging accessible technologies that are empowering to the struggle. We can vote through our mobilization and organization, through research and study. We can vote with our feet and voices in the streets. We can vote through our social media activity, and through the written word. We can vote through art, through music, through Hollywood. And we can vote in how we are with our loved ones and our neighbors, how we treat our elders and raise our children. And we can vote through our faith, and by being true to the integrity of our religions. Because outside of the darkest of cults, I do not know of any religion that contradicts the lifelong duty of every human being to be guided by love, and to do right by God and by our fellow brothers and sisters. These are universal, fundamental guiding principles, commanded by God across civilizations, throughout human history.