ANGUS: MEMORY AND RESISTANCE: LESSONS FROM MY GRANNY

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MEMORY AND RESISTANCE: LESSONS FROM MY GRANNY

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Charlie Angus / The Resistance - March 12, 2025

EXCERPT: "Life over the last 40 years has been like an endless, flatlined present. We ignored the dangerously shifting ground because we were distracted by our gadgets. It seemed as if our world was little more than a big bubble of isolated consumers staring at their screens.

The Trump threat has upended this complacency. We have been thrust awake into a dark and frightening time. Many are reaching into the past to make sense of it, hoping to find something to get us through.

And we have been finding it – in family memories, songs and stories of our nation’s past. We invoke Juno Beach, Vimy, and Gord Downie. We are relearning hero tales like Laura Secord and finding our inner Terry Fox.

These tales not only strengthen us individually, but they make us stronger collectively.

There is no way I can tackle the scary things ahead but we? Well, we are a whole different matter altogether. . . . ."

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