protest meets weather in a very real way
Jan. 23rd, 2026 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanter1944I would very much like to attend a local rally in solidarity with Minnesota today - there are events planned nationwide - but it's currently -24C, which is -11F, and it feels like -32C, which is -26F. The wind is making my wind chimes do the intermittent mambo. Schools have closed all over the area, because it's not safe for kids to wait for buses in this. BRRRR! And not only BRRRR! It would be unsafe, in a very real way, for me to be outside for any length of time, even if I layered up.
... Do I head for a rally anyway, despite the horrible weather, or not? A large chunk of me is willing to risk it. I mean, the ICEDamns* aren't taking time off from intimidating and brutalizing people, are they?
*That's an admittedly clumsy play on ice dams i.e. what accumulate on a roof if there's heat escaping a house through the attic or similar, but I couldn't come up with anything better on short notice.
... Do I head for a rally anyway, despite the horrible weather, or not? A large chunk of me is willing to risk it. I mean, the ICEDamns* aren't taking time off from intimidating and brutalizing people, are they?
*That's an admittedly clumsy play on ice dams i.e. what accumulate on a roof if there's heat escaping a house through the attic or similar, but I couldn't come up with anything better on short notice.
I'd stay home
Date: 2026-01-23 10:11 pm (UTC)Second, turn your activism where you can still have far-reaching effects: online. You reached out to inform people about an event that I wouldn't be able to attend in person, BUT if we get some other form of protest going online--focused on spreading facts instead of ICE's propaganda-- then you have, in effect, spread the protest, too.
I, personally, would not sign digital petitions because I do not TRUST my own government any longer. Yes, I worry that they MIGHT trace back real data based on an email address... which I believe is one of the deliberate aims of this whole ICE deployment.