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Potluck Social Gathering
Sunday, Dec. 3, 2:00 pm
Ravenswood Fellowship United Methodist Church, 4511 N. Hermitage Ave., Chicago (Sunnyside & Hermitage, 4 blocks from Montrose Brown line)
Facebook Event here
Why are we coming together at this potluck? I know we are all questioning ourselves to different degrees as the outrages keep pouring in and the streets seem quieter than they were before mass shock set in. Before overload and then normalization began to take hold. So let’s take just a small inventory:
- We are witnessing genocidal neglect in the aftermath of the devastation in Puerto Rico.
- Net neutrality is about to be destroyed.
- A tax bill passed the House that would save Trump and his immediate family over 1 billion dollars while decimating the middle class. It is being lauded by Republicans as a tax break for the middle class. Fake news.
- 210,000 gallons of oil leaked from the Dakota access pipeline in mid-November (ten days ago!) and corporate news has barely mentioned it. The Trump regime overturned the halting of the pipeline construction by the Obama administration and now exactly what the Water Protectors said would happen has happened.
- The House passed a ban on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. We are watching the appointments all over the country of ultra-right wing conservatives to the federal judiciary who have promised to overturn Roe v Wade and even make contraception illegal.
- We are being told that coal and nuclear power are the future for a clean environment and we have watched this administration leave the Paris Climate Accord and send fossil fuel executives to Bonn, Germany to spread disinformation regarding what 99% of all scientists agree upon: climate change is real, it is due to human action and if we do not reduce our carbon footprint, it will mean the end of human and animal life on this planet.
- We are witness to one of the most dangerous moments in human history: Trump’s saber rattling with North Korea. The doomsday clock has been moved from 3 minutes to midnight to 2 1/2.
Remember why we are doing this now???? We have a regime of white supremacy and male supremacy changing the way we are governed. Humanity is at stake, quite literally. Are you going to listen to those who claim we are too radical? Is wanting a peaceful and healthy planet too radical? Is wanting to expose and eradicate the hatred being espoused by this regime too radical? It is our responsibility to respond to these outrages as more civilians are being killed in the Middle East than ever before by U.S. bombings. The goal of having thousands of demonstrators turn into millions is exactly the kind of response that is appropriate, needed and proportionate to the threat that humanity is facing! It is a difficult battle right now so let’s hold on to one another until our spark becomes a flame, a flame that will ignite the massive resistance needed to end this nightmare.
Let us congregate next Sunday, Dec 3, at the Potluck Social Gathering. Let’s break bread and celebrate our humanity and our activism. Let’s discuss new strategies to organize people to get out in the streets and stay in the streets until this fascist regime has been driven out. This nightmare must end.
See you Sunday!
Matthew Skoller
You Are Invited / Invite All Your Friends / Bring a Dish / Join & Share on Facebook
Potluck Social Gathering
Sunday, December 3, 2:00 pm
Ravenswood Fellowship United Methodist Church, 4511 N. Hermitage Ave., Chicago (Sunnyside & Hermitage, 4 blocks from Montrose Brown line)
Facebook Event here
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