#people have the power

[viddybiblio]

Patti Smith - People Have The Power (Official Video)

[dzgrizzle]

A reminder: 

“The people have the power 

The power to dream, to rule, 

to wrestle the world from fools” 

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

ElectionDay sartorial splendor: Tasteful without being gaudy.

GoVote #PeopleHaveThePower

[vooruitmariek]

got to see Patti Smith live last year

[thevisualvamp]

Patti Smith Forever

[serenaangeletti]

Patti Smith🌹✨

A tour of Italian Days

📍Ancona, Teatro delle Muse

[cricketcat9]

Heartwarming

uk journalists having to report through gritted teeth that there were no riots last night as thousands of anti-racist protesters significantly outnumbered the racist rioters across the country

[fly-chicken]

A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU

***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***

Blacked out part is my name.

I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too

AND

I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.

And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.

A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am

[sigmund-nemo]

Choir! Choir! Choir! & Patti Smith - PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER

[symphonyofsilence]

Let the poor man rest.

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

"Fundamental changes in society are sometimes labeled impractical or contrary to human nature: as if nuclear war were practical or as if there were only one human nature. But fundamental changes can clearly be made. We are surrounded by them. In the last two centuries abject slavery, which was with us for thousands of years, has almost entirely been eliminated in a stirring world wide revolution. Women, systematically mistreated for millennia, are gradually gaining the political and economic power traditionally denied to them. And some wars of aggression have recently been stopped or curtailed because of a revulsion felt by the people in the aggressor nations. The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism and to rabid nationalism are beginning not to work. A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet." - Carl Sagan, Cosmos: Who Speaks For Earth?

To think that my parents grew up in a country in which racial segregation was codified by law, and when I was a child it felt like part of a barbaric past. Things still aren't perfect, but we've come so far.

And then I think about how when I was growing up LGBT discrimination was the norm, and now there are no children left in my state who remember a time before gay marriage was legal. Things still aren't perfect, but we've come so far.

It feels like my heart is breaking and repairing itself at the same time

[dzgrizzle]

Always worth a re-post.

[enola504ever]

My Goddess

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

"What the autocrats — whether they're in American politics or in Russian politics or in Chinese politics — what they want is for you to be disengaged. They want you to drop out," she says. "I want people to be convinced that ideas matter, that we're going to have to defend and protect our political system if we want to keep it."

"Constant lies also create this kind of cynicism and apathy. It's a way of keeping people out of politics and preventing civic engagement. I mean, a lot of these authoritarian states know that … [the] biggest threat to their power is their own people. And so their goal is to prevent people from ever organizing, from ever being engaged, from ever caring at all. And one of the ways they do that is through this constant stream of lies that make people feel like they're simply unable to know anymore what's true and what's not." - NPR

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

the werewolf stan is amazing btw thank you

No, thank you!!! In fact, here's more just because you sent this ask (and probably the other one too, I love you)!!!!! More!!!!!!!!

They are liars <3

Part one is here!! ;P

Part three is here!! 'cause I can't control myself 😔