from the series Raise Your Voice!…
By PETER MOLENAAR
To begin once again on a personal note: subsequent to his having a stroke, the writer here continues to reconnect a broken brain to a broken body, a body broken by 35 years of heavy labor at Smith Foundry, an enterprise which famously polluted the lungs of children (now totally absent from the zone near Cedar Ave. and 28th Street). Which is to say: he will continue to march with the masses, with a cane in hand, but the rapid-response mode is not in his future.
Even so, he took part in a UNIDOS assembly held at El Colegio (4137 Bloomington Ave.) where, in keeping with the rapid-response networks that engaged the ICE occupation, democracy-defense networks were envisioned.
Naturally, our polling places will be defended, while a list of triggering possibilities is pondered, such as: cancellation of mid-term elections, or perhaps another violent episode of election result denial.
PETER MOLENAAR advocates a broad united-front, even as he describes socialism as the future solution.
