Aaron SotoJul 10
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
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Show threadRabbi Danya RuttenbergJul 10
Niemöller was never the moral guide. He got the memo too late. Our job is to to understand that EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING IS PRECIOUS and to act accordingly NOW
Show threadRabbi Danya RuttenbergJul 10
If someone is being targeted any human being it's my responsibility it's my obligation even if i'm safe forever because someone needs to do something and I'm someone
Show threadRabbi Danya RuttenbergJul 10
someone needs to do something and you are someone what are you gonna do

THE GOOD TROUBLE CHECKLIST
THE GOOD TROUBLE CHECKLIST

keep all your shenanigans in one place

Life is a Sacred Text
Show threadRabbi Danya RuttenbergJul 10
as Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it some are guilty all are responsible
Show threadRabbi Danya RuttenbergJul 10
The number of people who manage to respond to the first skeet with "but they ARE coming for you" is truly astonishing. PEOPLE. THAT IS NOT THE POINT HERE. Please please please PLEASE see the people in harm's way now as your obligation no matter what irrespective of your own skin
Show threadRabbi Danya RuttenbergJul 10
If we want to play historical analogy game, sure, I'm not delusional about where my loudmouthed disabled queer Jew rabbi ass sits viz the Gulag but I'm also not delusional about where I am viz the people watching the OTHER PEOPLE GET RACIAL PROFILED INTO CONCENTRATION CAMPS and I am safe today.
Show threadRabbi Danya RuttenbergJul 10
As long as you are safe you are obligated to take action on behalf of those who are not safe. Full fucking stop.
Show threadRabbi Danya RuttenbergJul 10
And safety is not ever going to be absolute, not here, not now, not in this chapter of this nation's history. (For some people, it's never been absolute, never been at all) But for those of us with RELATIVE safety, we are OBLIGATED to take action NOW while we ARE STILL ABLE TO DO SO
Show threadRabbi Danya RuttenbergJul 10
Taking action now-- by those of us with any scant amount of safety whatsoever -- is the ONLY way we can get any sense that any of us will ever get to the part where any of us will ever get to the true collective liberation that we all deserve And that some are most especially owed by this nation.
Show threadRabbi Danya RuttenbergJul 10
As @iwashyna.bsky.social has said, whatever you've been saving for a rainy day -- those favors, that access, whatever-- this is the time. This is the emergency time. We have actual fascism to defeat. Concentration camps to dismantle. The 16th largest military in the world to abolish.
Jack Iwashyna (@iwashyna.bsky.social)

I work at Johns Hopkins to help patients + their loved ones heal from critical illness. I mentor clinicians and other scholars to become exceptional scientists. Democracy is a Social Determinant of Health (#SDoH). Preserve it Also #ICU #Baltimore

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Show threadRabbi Danya RuttenbergJul 10
again WHAT ARE YOU SPECIFICALLY DOING TODAY www.lifeisasacredtext.com/goodtrouble/

THE GOOD TROUBLE CHECKLIST
THE GOOD TROUBLE CHECKLIST

keep all your shenanigans in one place

Life is a Sacred Text
Show threadRabbi Danya RuttenbergJul 10
Sustained campaign. Diversity of tactics. (definitely not just marching in the streets.) A cross-section of society. Ideally women-led or co-led. COMMUNITY AND SOLIDARITY IS EVERYTHING. Keep learning. Take one step. Then take another. Just keep going. You can do this.

On Organizing
On Organizing

time to level up / an early draft of a playbook

Life is a Sacred Text
Show threadWhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮Jul 11
@theradr.bsky.social Right on. 👏👏👏
Show threadSchroedingerJul 11

@theradr.bsky.social First they came for other humans. Or other parts of the living world.

And I fucked them up, because I am human. I am part of the world.

Show threadCarolynJul 12
@theradr.bsky.social One might think that was enough.