ANGUS: 10 Steps to Resist Fascism and Defend Democracy

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ANGUS: 10 Steps to Resist Fascism and Defend Democracy

Charlie Angus / The Resistance - April 12

EXCERPT: "I want to share with you the speech I gave in Ottawa this past week, following Trump’s threat to destroy an entire civilization. I offered ten steps for Canadian resistance. I share them with you now:

1. I promise to do whatever I can to defend the sovereignty, territorial integrity and democracy of Canada.

2. I promise to respond to the best of my abilities to help in times of national disasters, floods, fires, or threats to our border.

3. I promise to upgrade my skills to help my community and my country — whether in emergency preparedness, first aid or other training.

4. I promise to show up for my community and country by voting and participating in grassroots democratic actions, including resistance against anti-democratic threats.

5. I promise to remain true to the values of inclusion, fairness and respect for Indigenous rights and will do my best to ensure that no one is singled out because of their sex, gender, race or religious background.

6. I promise to boycott everything I can from the United States and to support regional food sovereignty by buying local wherever possible.

7. I promise to be an active blocker of disinformation and hate.

8. I promise to get active locally, helping to create small groups of resisters and to recruit fence sitters. Solidarity supports courage. We can’t do this alone.

9. I promise to be a non-co-operator with tyranny. If my company or institution has contracts with tyrants or attempts to roll back rights, I will voice opposition, slowwalk the work, or refuse altogether. Our labour is power. We need to push the corporate, education and political sectors to take a stand.

10. I promise that if our territorial integrity is breached either externally or internally, I will be an active disruptor. I will refuse to obey any orders from those who would undermine our sovereignty and will engage in acts of resistance and acts of mass disobedience to frustrate those who demoralize those fake authorities and make it impossible for any undemocratic threat to govern us.

We can tell ourselves not to overreact. We can hope that NATO will protect us. We can count on the midterms to make everything normal again.

Or we can face the fact that the only thing that will save this beautiful and at times fragile democracy is ourselves — the Canadian people.

We’ve got this.

Keep kicking at the darkness, my friends."

[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/10- ... dium=email ]