I’m a grandmother who grew up in Rockland and have lived in the county for most of my life. After working for 20 years as a web design person (IU, back-end programming, mapping tools and database access) I retired into COVID and the collapse of Democracy. I had hoped to spend my retirement trying to make things better for my children and grandkids; bringing awareness to the impending catastrophic results of our man-made climate crisis; maybe doing a little crafting, 3D design and printing in my spare time. Turns out, we have more immediate problems.
I’m not a joiner by nature. But this is going to take all of us, all kinds and all available modes of action. I see everyone in my neighborhood hunkering down as though this aberrant regime is going to evaporate with the next election, while I myself have serious doubts about the legitimacy of any future elections (and a bit of suspicion about the last one). I think my neighbors are delusional and I don’t think we can wait to find out. I CANNOT wait. So I made this website, and we are protesting.
Somehow, the people who have found us mostly seem to be like me, good-hearted, strong-minded individuals who must DO SOMETHING. We all believe in the things we thought America was about, or tried to be: respect for each individual, and for the right to freedom of expression. Respect of our Nation’s Constitution and its protections, and failing that, those truths we thought were self-evident:
that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
I’m not a leader, and not a particularly good organizer, but I hope to facilitate whatever spirit and actions arise in answer to the unbelievable, cruel, and lawless actions of this new fascist regime.