On July 23, the 3rd Annual Henry A. Wallace Symposium will feature insights from movement leaders, policy experts, and elected officials on how to protect hard-earned rights and frontline communities, confront corporate power and Pentagon profiteering, and renew our democratic institutions from within.

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    It would take most people rising up in protest and resisting to make this happen.

    Even on a non-violent level, we’re going to have to fight. Noncompliance works when implementing things like general strikes. Conservatives will buckle when they’re having medical crises and are faced with understaffed hospitals. Or they can’t buy brisket at the local grocery store, because they had to close due to understaffing.

    Even if they hate to admit it, were interdependent on one another. If we’re refusing to do our part, that’s going to have a negative impact on them. Most of them aren’t as self-sufficient as they believe they are, even if they own guns.