Visible Revolution

Here’s the problem:

Everything LOOKS like business as usual.
Everything SOUNDS like business as usual.
Mostly everything IS business as usual.

Yes, we’ve been having demonstrations—big and small—frequently and everywhere. THAT is glorious and important.

Despite fascist-complicit media that minimizes our disapproval and fury, WE see and KNOW that millions are angry and disgusted and want the regime removed and severely punished.

Everyone everywhere understands completely the nominally cryptic question: “Is he dead yet?”

But our disgust and fury is invisible except in these protests and on social media.

WE MUST CHANGE THIS. NOW.

We’ve begun our nonviolent revolution well. The protest organizers and coordinators—Indivisible, 5051 and others—have done well.

But we’ve stalled. To get going, to magnify and increase People Power, to weaken and heap pressure on the fascists, we need to create what I’m calling The Scene.

We need to set the scene for the revolution by making our feelings, thoughts, intentions and plans visible.

And not just visible. Visible everywhere. Unavoidable and unmistakable.

Indivisible, Not Invisible.

We need to add signs and artwork to our neighborhoods. Our homes and shops are billboards for free speech. So are the streets, telephone polls, road signs, auto bumpers.

Our clothing isn’t just to keep our bodies warm. They are opportunities to say what we are thinking and feeling inside. To assert our determination. To state our nonnegotiable demands.

We can’t just do this subtly or intermittently. We need to take it to extremes. Just as we make our intentions visible in demonstrations, our fury and determination must dominate the visual landscape of our communities.

The impact of this happening everywhere—even in tiny red state communities, as we are seeing with protests—will be immediate and significant.

It will show bold open defiance. It will normalize dissent. It will grow our movement. It will set the stage for the massive noncompliance disobedience that will follow.

Visual Revolution will restore momentum. We will aggressively seize control of the narrative.

This is EASY. This is IMPORTANT. We need as much participation as possible. Let’s list some specific ideas.

Don’t limit yourself to these. Feel free to use them...but also to invent your own. Here's a couple of ideas:

1. Shop owners: put a sign in your window prohibitng firearms inside—as as sign of respect for customers and the community.
2. Make stickers with tough, specific anit-fascist messages and stick them everywhere the public can see them.
3. Wear T-shirts and hats that tout The People’s Revolution.
4. Carry and display protest signs even when you aren’t attending demonstrations.
5. Upside down American flag stickers—distress signal—everywhere.

What about the actual messages? We are aiming for disturbing, inflammatory messages that people will talk about. Again, a few ideas:

1. Repeat credible allegations against the most awful and dangerous people, particularly little-know rich fascists/plutocrats. Peruse the (tiny batch of) relased #Epstein files. Review the Panama and Paradise papers—of wealthy people using offshore accounts to evade taxes. NAME NAMES. Put up posters with the allegations along with info regarding their complicity with the facsist regime.
2. Post demands for the release of the COMPLETE #Epstein files, and demand the immediate arrest of everyone responsible for continuting to withhold them—those breaking the law, guilty of contempt of Congress.
3. Signs and bumper stickers with only the name of the mom murdered by ICE: Renee Nicole Good.
4. I think this is a good statement: "We The People demand the resignation and arrest of the criminal leaders of the fascist regime."

Do not ever say anything defensive. Do not repeat allegations by the fasists even to refute them. Tune them out, ignore their messages and spread our messages locally AND everywhere.

Share this essay in person and online. Share your ideas online and ask others to post theirs.

Let's start a big noisy conversation of dissent.