"This week I sat in my #synagogue’s sanctuary for the first time since the #HighHolidays. It was a Wednesday night, and I was attending an “#upstander” training to learn what I was legally allowed to do if I found myself at the scene of an #ICE encounter — something that seems more and more likely every day here in #Minneapolis.

These training sessions are being held daily around the #TwinCities. They are happening online, in houses of worship, and at restaurants and breweries that are donating their spaces. But it felt important to me to attend one at a synagogue because I know the inner voice I’ve been hearing lately — none of this is okay — is an echo of everything I’ve learned through my #Jewish education. And I’m not alone.

“A lot of my Sunday school experience growing up was about how to question authority,” a Jewish friend I’ll call L told me."

https://www.kveller.com/as-a-jewish-mom-in-minneapolis-right-now-history-feels-too-close/

Agreed. And IMO, when citizens see masked #Sturmtrumpers in unmarked vans claiming to be police, ABDUCTING PEOPLE, there is a strong moral argument for interceding, en masse, TO STOP said abductions,

To be an #upstander, not a bystander.

* Note: this is not legal advice--nor is it even a legal ARGUMENT: Police in Nazi Germany were upholding the law. Police in Selma were upholding the law. The law CAN be in the wrong--even right here in river city; this has often been THE MOTIVE BEHIND the most famous protests in history. But the law IS STILL THE LAW, and anyone electing to cross that line has to assume they'll be required to accept the consequences, if indeed said Sturmtrumpers turn out to have been police.

https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/114291638005957923

#upstander choose life

#navalny #nawalny

Publiekelijk iemand aanspreken op asociaal gedrag gebeurt te weinig op social media. De daders gaan er daardoor vanuit dat hun gedrag normaal is. Zoals dat ook was bij Marco Penninkhof die mijn verstandelijk lichtgehandicapte dochter diskwalificeerde als iemand met een verstand van een drie-jarige. Ze kon zich niet verdedigen. Gelukkig deden vele andere journalisten dat wel voor haar. #upstander

https://www.brainwash.nl/lees/technologie/2023/esther-rozendaal-internet-gezellige-plek.html

Publiekelijk iemand aanspreken op asociaal gedrag gebeurt te weinig op social media. De daders gaan er daardoor vanuit dat hun gedrag normaal is. Zoals dat ook was bij Marco Penninkhof die mijn verstandelijk lichtgehandicapte dochter diskwalificeerde als iemand met een verstand van een drie-jarige. Ze kon zich niet verdedigen. Gelukkig deden vele andere journalisten dat wel. #upstander

https://www.brainwash.nl/lees/technologie/2023/esther-rozendaal-internet-gezellige-plek.html

"These moments can sabotage an organization that's running smoothly."

https://kimmalonescott.medium.com/for-upstanders-46fc6f33901f #radicalcandor #upstander

Be an #upstander & speak up when you hear a #microaggression using #GRIT
G: Gather your thoughts
R: Restate "Did I hear you say..."
I: Inquire "What did you mean?"
T: Talk it out "A comment like that could be perceived as..."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/2756198