While reading some stuff about the various protests in Wisconsin, I flashed back to a Doonesbury series from the early '80s/late '70s ( I think) about the truckers' protests. Mike Slackmeyer falls in with some truckers planning a protest and reveals his radical past, and the truckers ask him for pointers on how to run an effective protest. He telegrams back to Walden Pond to ask for his armband and gas mask to be sent to him, saying "The revolution lives!".
And I can't help thinking if there are grey-haired people in some of these back rooms giving lectures--or podcasts!--on how to handle yourself when the police are moving in or on the best way to get tear gas out of your clothes.
So it's not a meltdown; we are at the er. I would think she broke her hip except she hasn't fallen and barely walks. What fun
Oh, dear, suela. ~ma for something that can be treated and resolved easily.
Oh Consuela, I hope you find the ER speedy and helpful. Much calm to you and quick resolution to her.
I hope you guys get speedy and good treatment, Consuela.
I just read a profile of the distinguished educator who as a young and idealistic guy wrote
The Anarchist Cookbook
-- which, by the way, he researched on a bunch of declassified government manuals and so on, i.e. publically available sources -- which since he sold the copyright he can't stop from being published.
Anyway, it sent me thinking that there really should be a "Non-Violent Protestor Cookbook" with lots of advice about setting up effective safe protests, how to train your demonstrators and all that.
Didn't Thoreau write one of those?
I hope you can find an easily resolvable cause for the problem, Consuela.
