What can we do?

I am old and partly disabled. I cannot walk far without pain, but I do what I can to keep resistance visible…
…In how I appear in public… and other ways. I wear a kaffyiah. A Free Palestine t-shirt. and carry on my cane-stool, a prominent FUCK TRUMP.

Most people on the street are buried in their phones, and don’t see anything in their surroundings, but I get enough reactions to encourage me to feel that those involved, or impacted in any way, or simply, aware of the historic storm that is sweeping us up–are encouraged simply to encounter another person who supports them in their concerns.

A woman pulled over when I was waiting for a bus on Walnut–tell me she is from–and has family in Palestine–and thanked me… this was back when students were protesting on the campus (where I visited every day to talk with those students, and remind them that this, like every resistance movement, has deep roots in history, and they should be proud of being a part of it.

We should not discount the importance of what small actions we can take.
If you have a kaffiyeh, wear it when you go out. Talk with your friends, your neighbors.

By the way–on their FB profile, the HUMUS food place on Walnut off 40th is owned by a Zionist supporter, and is hasbara poster on social media. Don’t patronize them. Spread the word.