Freedom Writers 2/12/25
The Promise of Greatness
Hello, Freedom Writers!
In Today’s Post:
The Promise of Greatness
Action 1 - Do Something! on President’s Day, Feb 17th
Action 2 - These Weekly Indivisible Meetings are Good for Your Mental Health
Actions 3-6 - Use the ‘5 Calls’ App for These Actions
You are a trusted source. If not now, when?
The Promise of Greatness
It was the promise of greatness
That drove Édouard de Laboulaye
To build her sandals, her fingers
Her torch
With eyes fixed on the future
She has been our greeting committee to greatness
We The People who believe in The People
… over tyrants … over bloodlines
Greatness attracts Greatness
The huddled masses yearning to breathe free
Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein
They came and built OUR great mills, OUR Erie Canal …
OUR transcontinental railway, OUR spaceships
And, yes, some promises were broken
Because We The People are deeply flawed
As all people are
But still, after all these decades …
We have the audacity to hope for greatness
And, as sure as she holds her torch to the sky
We the People
Will not be denied
Action 1 - Do Something! on President’s Day Feb 17
Indivisible is sponsoring lots of actions / protests / rallies on Feb 17 while our congress people are home in their states for their Congressional Recess Feb 14-23. To find an action in your area, go to Mobilize and search for “50501.”
For a ton of info on how these actions got organized and how you can organize your own, read Indivisible’s google doc, “Musk or Us - Congressional Recess February 14 - 23.”
Action 2 - These Weekly Indivisible Meetings are Good for Your Mental Health
If you think you’re alone, you’re not. These weekly training meetings will show you that!
Indivisible is a national network of action groups mobilizing to resist the Trump Regime. If you haven’t started attending their weekly training meetings with cofounders Ezra and Leah on Thursdays at 3pm ET, try it!
The literature says, to overthrow a dictator, we’ll need a critical mass of 3.5% of the population who are ready to take to the streets. We’re not there yet, but we’re getting there. And you can help by joining these weekly calls.
Before you click the link below to sign up, note that it will send you to a page that lists several regular meetings, not just these weekly ones on Thursdays. You can check those out too, if you wish!
Sign up for the Thursday training meetings with Leah and Ezra HERE.
Actions 3-6 - Use ‘5 Calls’ App for These 4 Actions
1) CALL BACK: Oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services (2 Calls)
2) Defend Section 504: Protect the Rights of People with Disabilities (1 call)
3) Fight the Constitutional Crisis (3 calls)
4) Protect the Mission of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
You are a trusted source. If not now, when?
Think about it.
You know some people who are afraid of what Trump will do next. And they know you.
You are a trusted source for 5, maybe 10, people. Maybe more. If you help them get started in taking action, they will feel more powerful in the wake of what’s happening to our country. And you will feel better knowing that you’ve helped us swell our ranks.
Share this Substack with them. Share the 5 Calls app and the weekly Indivisible Meetings with them. They may surprise you. Let them. : )
The big question is: If not now, then when? We need to be realistic. This window that we have right now - where it’s still relatively safe to share information like this - may be closing.
Think about it.
Thank you for helping us save our democracy,
EB Freed and Billy J