Check out #IndivisibleSantaFe #SpeakersCorner at #NoKings 2.0. Even Big Bird spoke! https://indivisiblesantafe.org/speakers-corner-diary-3/
Time to think out loud about why I am going to work for Speakers’ Corners across the country, something we started doing in my city today. (More on Indivisible Santa Fe’s effort at https://indivisiblesantafe.org/a-speakers-corner/.) I got home to news of escalating threats from Trump about sending troops into Chicago, over the objections of the city’s mayor and the Governor of Illinois. I watched footage of Chicagoans bravely walking up to armed, masked ICE agents, asking them about how they felt abt their conduct. 1/
If I start a #SpeakersCorner group here, would you follow it? Would you maybe give a Speakers’ Corner a try in your town or city and post some photos or a video to the group? For more info about the Speakers’ Corner initiative see thread that starts ⬇️
https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115319475791436546
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If you have just one person to go with you, set up a Speakers’ Corner. One of you speaks, the other one takes some photos or a video and then you switch. You may well be pleasantly surprised, as we were in today in Santa Fe — many people paused and listened for a while, and a few took a turn speaking. Share your photos and videos here and elsewhere. Tag them #SpeakersCorner. 7/
What could make Speakers’ Corners powerful would be their sheer number, their ubiquity. Imagine, every week, from now until we regain a shot at pluralistic constitutional democracy, millions of Americans reading out the First Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment or their own state constitutional provisions protecting free speech or due process and equal protection of the law. Every week, across the country. 6/
If you have just one person to go with you, set up a Speakers’ Corner. One of you speaks, the other one takes some photos or a video and then you switch. You may well be pleasantly surprised, as we were in today in Santa Fe — many people paused and listened for a while, and a few took a turn speaking. Share your photos and videos here and elsewhere. Tag them #SpeakersCorner. 7/
More from today’s #SpeakersCorner. Info at https://indivisiblesantafe.org/a-speakers-corner/ 2/
One more from #SpeakersCorner today. Learn more at https://indivisiblesantafe.org/a-speakers-corner/ 3/3
Video from today’s #SpeakersCorner in #SantaFe #NewMexico. Me, then two more members of #IndivisibleSantaFe exercising our constitutional rights to speak publicly, without government interference. @indivisibleteam 1/
More from today’s #SpeakersCorner. Info at https://indivisiblesantafe.org/a-speakers-corner/ 2/
Video from today’s #SpeakersCorner in #SantaFe #NewMexico. Me, then two more members of #IndivisibleSantaFe exercising our constitutional rights to speak publicly, without government interference. @indivisibleteam 1/