I just got back from a No Kings protest. While driving back I was thinking about the experience. Joyful is the exact word I came up with. It was such a great group of people.
I would love to post the pictures from Myrtle Beach SC I don’t know how. About 5000 people attended, there were 5 different No Kings Protest in the reddest of red states.
Village of just under 2000, in a New England town of around 4000. We think (no official count yet) that around 500 people showed up: all ages, most local, but folks from towns around us). The mood was exactly like what you were showing in NY. Beautiful, thoughtful, joyous. Our local Maga drove by and smoke-bombed us with his oversize pickup. Poor man. My son-in-law pointed out that pickups that looked as if they were using to haul stuff honked and waved. Those that were "show" trucks tended to look away. Go figure. Nearly all other traffic honked and waved and smiled and shouted thank you at us. It was a great day. I had a sign taped to my back that said "Little Old Lady antifascist" with the antifa underlined. Lots of people took a photo of me from the back, my daughter told me. Fun.
I just read hundreds of comments on Dan Rather's Substack. It seems the joyful mood and great turnout was everywhere. It was really re-energizing for me-- not a single bad vibe in the Oakland crowd. Dogs (real ones), chickens, unicorns, giraffes. Families, oldsters in wheelchairs, a marching band playing Bob Marley.
Here's the link to Dan's site, in case anyone wants to read a lot of reports from across the nation.
I was at a joyful, peaceful No Kings Protest in Miller (Gary), Indiana this morning with 400+American Patriots! 📣 This is what Democracy looks like! 🇺🇸
I keep sharing the issue that will save democracy hoping people will wake up. Here it is:
The political right was correct that there’s a deep state of corruption. They missed what it is though. It’s the education world. Fascist-like dictators hijacked it about four decades ago and replaced called-to-teach teachers, our angels, with loyalists.
Teacher whistleblowers have been crying out for help since 2002 at WhiteChalkCrime.com and EndTeacherAbuse.org. We’ve ignored them, the people who are the soul of this nation, the people happy to work for low pay, the ones who inspire our children to be more. We allowed this thinking we wouldn’t eventually become less.
The political left is correct that we must restore democracy. We must find a true public servant. And because the left aligns with these schools as they are, the right doesn’t trust the left. They want an end to the deep state they know exists, because it does, and once the left admits they missed this, they can build trust working together.
I know it’s hard to admit good people missed this, but until we do there’s no fixing what’s broken. First they came for our schools and we weren’t teachers so…..That’s what good people did wrong.
Here’s proof. Randi Weingarten, president of one of the two unions, just published a book raving about how our teachers are democracy’s foundation. It immediately became a NY Times best seller. I, a former teacher who’s worked at exposing our corrupt schools since 1995, published a book A Graver Danger saying exactly what she said, but I included the fact that teachers have been reduced to puppets for very selfish people who are going to destroy our democracy. So she’s right they’re democracy’s answer, but they stopped doing their job once fascists took over and you need to know that too to take action.
I published A Graver Danger before the election hoping to wake people up to the fact our schools carved a path for Trump. Needless to say, I’m just a teacher. She’s famous and all over tv. My getting my book read was like buying a lottery ticket. Her book was like when you’re a celebrity they listen—our nation’s biggest problem that started the day we started removing the only voices as strong as celebrities—the teachers with the gift to teach others souls - a gift a higher power gave them. They were our balance. The elimination of these teachers is what ended democracy.
Do I have to convince you that celebrity worship is our biggest problem after Trump?
We are plagued by it because we let fascists take over our schools and anyone who’s part of the education world isn’t going to tell you because fear always silences the truth. Always. If you didn’t learn from Lindsay Graham and Marco Rubio, you don’t know the power of fear. And teachers were right to be afraid. Those of us who spoke out and lost our jobs still haven’t gotten this heard.
So if you have the feeling that the march left us cold, you’re right. There isn’t a leader who can lead us from this mess our schools did to us. But there are teacher whistleblowers that I’ve organized who need to be on all the shows the celebrities earn the right to be on explaining what they did to our schools. Help me become a celebrity so I can get the teacher criminally indicted for trying to prevent a Columbine at a Miami school on TV explaining why teachers are afraid to work with potential shooters so they don’t.
Help me get the award winning NY teacher who’s ability to teach writing resulted in a Harvard study of her talent, but who’s selfish principal who thinks like Trump didn’t want around so she put her in the Rubber Room. Randi Weingarten, then NY Union president, helped this fabulous teacher retire, saving her career is not what you do when you work for fascists. These are only two examples of teachers who’ve been at EndTeacherAbuse.org since 2002 while you were not interested in what they were doing to our teachers because you weren’t a teacher.
We all make mistakes. We forgive you for missing this—and no one is more forgiving than an authentic teacher—but now you’re in the unfair boat we’ve been in for decades and you don’t like it and don’t know what to do.
I say listen to your teachers who a higher power gave you to keep harmony knowing there are lots of evil types too. That was the spiritual plan—-equal good and bad people but teachers to keep the balance on the side of the good ones.
If you’ve read this far, then you can help solve our Trump problem by getting my book to one of our decent leaders who without it will not solve our problem. Read it, get others to read it. Make it go viral until my Yes, We Could’ve Panel of teachers is known and on tv. These are awesome teachers who will make a difference.
History says Germans chose a strongman because World War One had devastated them so. One day history will say America chose a strongman because of their corrupt schools. Of this I’m sure.
Please subscribe to my Substack. Help me get the issue that will save democracy to the leaders who need to know that our schools are the deep state and we cannot have a democracy until we listen to the teachers who know what to do about this, but have had no power because fascist-like administrators silenced them. Once known, this is the issue that will unite the good people from both sides.
Or accept that marches will change nothing, since we need authentic schools to maintain a democracy, and get used to what all of our teachers got used to years ago.
I just got back from a No Kings protest. While driving back I was thinking about the experience. Joyful is the exact word I came up with. It was such a great group of people.
Where’s that?
Sorry, Salem, NH.
Yes it was truly a joyful day at my event, in CA, as well.
In Salem, NH as well.
I would love to post the pictures from Myrtle Beach SC I don’t know how. About 5000 people attended, there were 5 different No Kings Protest in the reddest of red states.
Share in the chat I started this morning. You can upload there.
I’m with you 100%.
Same joyful mood in Santa Monica under the palm trees....
This is so uplifting! Thank you for your report. We need to have more of the No Kings protests, they unite and uplift —powerful!
Village of just under 2000, in a New England town of around 4000. We think (no official count yet) that around 500 people showed up: all ages, most local, but folks from towns around us). The mood was exactly like what you were showing in NY. Beautiful, thoughtful, joyous. Our local Maga drove by and smoke-bombed us with his oversize pickup. Poor man. My son-in-law pointed out that pickups that looked as if they were using to haul stuff honked and waved. Those that were "show" trucks tended to look away. Go figure. Nearly all other traffic honked and waved and smiled and shouted thank you at us. It was a great day. I had a sign taped to my back that said "Little Old Lady antifascist" with the antifa underlined. Lots of people took a photo of me from the back, my daughter told me. Fun.
Great interview with this lady!
I just read hundreds of comments on Dan Rather's Substack. It seems the joyful mood and great turnout was everywhere. It was really re-energizing for me-- not a single bad vibe in the Oakland crowd. Dogs (real ones), chickens, unicorns, giraffes. Families, oldsters in wheelchairs, a marching band playing Bob Marley.
Here's the link to Dan's site, in case anyone wants to read a lot of reports from across the nation.
https://steady.substack.com/p/did-you-march-against-tyranny-today?
I protested in Hudson, NY. It’s a small city in Columbia County. We had at least 1,000 people! We had music and wonderful speakers. It gave me hope.
We need to sing this
And it fits your site too
America America
I’m emotional in Denver great crowd!
O beautiful for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears
America! America! God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea
America! America! God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Samuel Ward / Carmen Dragon
America the Beautiful (O Beautiful for Spacious Skies) lyrics © Dragon Music
The power is in the people
“We the people “
Fantastic live Steven!
Thanks, Leslie.
Some have said about 10,000 in Tampa today, where I attended. It was a big freakin party with serious intent. I felt patriotic fora change.
I was at a joyful, peaceful No Kings Protest in Miller (Gary), Indiana this morning with 400+American Patriots! 📣 This is what Democracy looks like! 🇺🇸
I keep sharing the issue that will save democracy hoping people will wake up. Here it is:
The political right was correct that there’s a deep state of corruption. They missed what it is though. It’s the education world. Fascist-like dictators hijacked it about four decades ago and replaced called-to-teach teachers, our angels, with loyalists.
Teacher whistleblowers have been crying out for help since 2002 at WhiteChalkCrime.com and EndTeacherAbuse.org. We’ve ignored them, the people who are the soul of this nation, the people happy to work for low pay, the ones who inspire our children to be more. We allowed this thinking we wouldn’t eventually become less.
The political left is correct that we must restore democracy. We must find a true public servant. And because the left aligns with these schools as they are, the right doesn’t trust the left. They want an end to the deep state they know exists, because it does, and once the left admits they missed this, they can build trust working together.
I know it’s hard to admit good people missed this, but until we do there’s no fixing what’s broken. First they came for our schools and we weren’t teachers so…..That’s what good people did wrong.
Here’s proof. Randi Weingarten, president of one of the two unions, just published a book raving about how our teachers are democracy’s foundation. It immediately became a NY Times best seller. I, a former teacher who’s worked at exposing our corrupt schools since 1995, published a book A Graver Danger saying exactly what she said, but I included the fact that teachers have been reduced to puppets for very selfish people who are going to destroy our democracy. So she’s right they’re democracy’s answer, but they stopped doing their job once fascists took over and you need to know that too to take action.
I published A Graver Danger before the election hoping to wake people up to the fact our schools carved a path for Trump. Needless to say, I’m just a teacher. She’s famous and all over tv. My getting my book read was like buying a lottery ticket. Her book was like when you’re a celebrity they listen—our nation’s biggest problem that started the day we started removing the only voices as strong as celebrities—the teachers with the gift to teach others souls - a gift a higher power gave them. They were our balance. The elimination of these teachers is what ended democracy.
Do I have to convince you that celebrity worship is our biggest problem after Trump?
We are plagued by it because we let fascists take over our schools and anyone who’s part of the education world isn’t going to tell you because fear always silences the truth. Always. If you didn’t learn from Lindsay Graham and Marco Rubio, you don’t know the power of fear. And teachers were right to be afraid. Those of us who spoke out and lost our jobs still haven’t gotten this heard.
So if you have the feeling that the march left us cold, you’re right. There isn’t a leader who can lead us from this mess our schools did to us. But there are teacher whistleblowers that I’ve organized who need to be on all the shows the celebrities earn the right to be on explaining what they did to our schools. Help me become a celebrity so I can get the teacher criminally indicted for trying to prevent a Columbine at a Miami school on TV explaining why teachers are afraid to work with potential shooters so they don’t.
Help me get the award winning NY teacher who’s ability to teach writing resulted in a Harvard study of her talent, but who’s selfish principal who thinks like Trump didn’t want around so she put her in the Rubber Room. Randi Weingarten, then NY Union president, helped this fabulous teacher retire, saving her career is not what you do when you work for fascists. These are only two examples of teachers who’ve been at EndTeacherAbuse.org since 2002 while you were not interested in what they were doing to our teachers because you weren’t a teacher.
We all make mistakes. We forgive you for missing this—and no one is more forgiving than an authentic teacher—but now you’re in the unfair boat we’ve been in for decades and you don’t like it and don’t know what to do.
I say listen to your teachers who a higher power gave you to keep harmony knowing there are lots of evil types too. That was the spiritual plan—-equal good and bad people but teachers to keep the balance on the side of the good ones.
If you’ve read this far, then you can help solve our Trump problem by getting my book to one of our decent leaders who without it will not solve our problem. Read it, get others to read it. Make it go viral until my Yes, We Could’ve Panel of teachers is known and on tv. These are awesome teachers who will make a difference.
History says Germans chose a strongman because World War One had devastated them so. One day history will say America chose a strongman because of their corrupt schools. Of this I’m sure.
Please subscribe to my Substack. Help me get the issue that will save democracy to the leaders who need to know that our schools are the deep state and we cannot have a democracy until we listen to the teachers who know what to do about this, but have had no power because fascist-like administrators silenced them. Once known, this is the issue that will unite the good people from both sides.
Or accept that marches will change nothing, since we need authentic schools to maintain a democracy, and get used to what all of our teachers got used to years ago.