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25 Apr 2017, 12:11 pm

Call to Action’: Harvard Students Launch Resistance School to Combat President Trump

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Resistance School organizers — a group of Harvard graduate students — said a couple hundred people participated in the first lesson in person at the Ivy League campus in Boston on Wednesday, while about 15,000 people of all ages tuned in via livestream from 50 states and 20 countries. They estimated the total participation was even larger because students were encouraged to host watch parties in groups.
The school — which is offering lessons on mobilizing activists and sustaining long-term resistance — has inspired comparisons to Dumbledore's Army, the student group that united against Voldemort in the Harry Potter series. Breen said he is embracing the comparison as long as it means the school's message is resonating with people. The group also reached out to Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, a vocal Trump critic, to invite her to participate, but they haven't heard back yet.


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25 Apr 2017, 1:13 pm

No matter how much people try to resist or blame any particular president for one thing or another, who-ever is president is actually far less of a problem, than the existence of the very government/system itself. The whole ENTIRE damn thing needs to be ABOLISHED. Efforts at opposition-to-president is actually a waste of time, and money, and effort, and energy, and resources. What SHOULD be done is to ABOLISH the GOVERNMENT.

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Call to Action’: Harvard Students Launch Resistance School to Combat President Trump

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Resistance School organizers — a group of Harvard graduate students — said a couple hundred people participated in the first lesson in person at the Ivy League campus in Boston on Wednesday, while about 15,000 people of all ages tuned in via livestream from 50 states and 20 countries. They estimated the total participation was even larger because students were encouraged to host watch parties in groups.
The school — which is offering lessons on mobilizing activists and sustaining long-term resistance — has inspired comparisons to Dumbledore's Army, the student group that united against Voldemort in the Harry Potter series. Breen said he is embracing the comparison as long as it means the school's message is resonating with people. The group also reached out to Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, a vocal Trump critic, to invite her to participate, but they haven't heard back yet.


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25 Apr 2017, 1:17 pm

JFC. This is the biggest overreaction to a bad President ever. My generation is going to start a civil war.



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25 Apr 2017, 10:17 pm

Think they'll need to find a good open field not too far from Cambridge where they can get an outdoor AntiFa training camp going. They might want buses for the round trip because a few dozen Priuses parked on the edge of nowhere would quite likely rouse some degree of local suspicion.


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26 Apr 2017, 12:29 pm

Like Fannie Mae against Freddie Mac (sp?), the govt accredited school teaches dissidence. It has been said that a divided house cannot stand, and a Biblical curse, of the enemies of God, is that they would turn on eachother. Bastiat's Broken Window Fallacy is an example of gross waste, in the material world.

I think the most politically-incorrect way to defeat an improvident, occupying force, is to care for the people. Most of history's notorious arch-villains' main offense was a petition for independence, then losing the war, which ensued.

Antifa is making no independent provisions, of which I am aware.

Be useful, but on your own terms, if you really want to worry people.

Make just one good thing from scratch. See all the concerns this causes, if you want a real, political awakening.

Call it a safespace, only when you can provide for your own.



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29 Apr 2017, 9:56 am

Hmm. Yeah, resisting Trump is good and all, but the alternative, for now, is the Clinton-Wallstreet reign that has shown to be in its decline since 2008...

So, one would have to resist both this president and the system around it. Now that calls for some serious thinking about what should follow.

Maybe a thinktank on the social organization of the future would be a better idea- define a goal, something to fight *for*


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