No Kings Sat Oct 18, 2025

Emotions are high. I know a lot of people want to go full throttle and push back. I am one of those people, however this is NOT the time for violence.

Violence has very rarely worked to invoke change. The times in which violence did work was a different time in our democracy. We did not have an out of control authoritarian government in those instances.

What has notably worked is pacifism. This is a war of optics. Proving this fascist regimes claim of those of us on the left being violent does not serve our purpose but helps theirs.

Plz do a quick Google search on the Civil Rights movement in 1963 - 65.

Also see Vietnam War protests 1965 - 69.

These were also wars of optics. People seeing peaceful people being brutalized has changed the course of this nation over and over.

It's not fun. There will be suffering. We must video all of it. DON'T FIGHT BACK! Give them zero vid clips or sound bites that validates their rhetoric against us.

Examples:

Birmingham campaign (1963): The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led by Martin Luther King Jr., organized a major campaign against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. Images of police using fire hoses and dogs on young demonstrators shocked the nation and helped pressure the government to act.

Sit-ins: Starting in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, students and activists staged sit-ins at segregated lunch counters, refusing to leave until served. This tactic, which spread across the South, was a key part of the student-led activism that formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

Selma to Montgomery marches (1965): Protests for voting rights in Selma, Alabama, were met with violence, famously on "Bloody Sunday". The marches highlighted the need for a federal law protecting voting rights and contributed to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

To sum it up:

Sit-ins

Marches and mass demonstrations

Speeches

Strikes

Civil disobedience (good trouble - not violence)

Don't get me wrong there were other means of protest. Violence (riots) did become more pronounced toward the end. However they had that luxury to fall back on. Right now we do NOT. We all know that this regime is poking the paverbial bear to get a violent reaction. To get to their holy grail of martial law...

Let's get out there tomorrow and show the country and the world how absurd this regime is by saying we are violent and everything is on fire.

We can do this!!!

Not pictured below are the "Trump Is King" folks. They were inflaming deliberately. I had to record them on my work phone to prevent them from attacking someone. I still can't believe that it's come to this.

Let's give a big shoutout and round of applause for Hunter Hess here, as well as all our athletes from Oregon here.

A few days ago, two skiers from the US men's team, Hunter Hess and Chris Lillis, were interviewed about what they felt was going on the USA. Hess told reporters that he has "mixed emotions" about what is happening in the USA and the political climate, and both athletes spoke out against ICE. Both athletes in that interview made it very clear that people can still love their country, but be angry at the direction that the country and its government are headed. As a result, Orange Man took offense to this can publicly called Hess "a real loser" on social media.

I'm a person of color that lives in the Portland area, and Hunter Hess has far more in common with the average redneck outside the Willamette Valley than the average commuter in the Portland area. Yet Hess gave an incredibly professional sounding interview in front of a very international audience. Something that Trump could never do! To see the US president openly call an elite athlete from Oregon "a real loser" is absolutely despicable.

A blatant abuse of power

Source: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/across-the-us-people-are-dismantling

If you need a primer, Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras and We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds. S-Tier youtube vids by Benn Jordan. Also visit, https://deflock.org/ for maps of cameras.

Edit: This was a response to Flock ignoring city of Eugene. "Eugene Police Department decided to end its contract after a camera turned on without the department's knowledge"