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What have you done?
We already asked you. And you've caved at answering. But you acted all high and mighty, so we're waiting on your actual response.
In middleschool some peers and I helped run a fundraiser and helped organize in 2003 against the war in Iraq (kinda started here, cuz I naiively thought we were past that as a species)
When living in America during my teens, attended every protest I could physically go to to march against KKK and NeoNazi rally's, we even (foolishly) got physical with them.
November 2011 was at Occupy Wall St. where 800+ of us were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge. (first time being arrested at a protest)
2012-2013 worked with Greenpeace, Wilderness Society, and alongside with Bob Irwin (Steve Irwin's dad) in his Fight for the Reef campaign to protect the Great Barrier Reef from coal shipping expansion (successfully managed to delay the Australian coal industries plan for a whole year, sadly they dredged the GBR anyway but I'd like to think we gave them a headache.)
2013 onwards - Attended every protest but at this point I'm past yelling and shouting, nowadays I hand out bottles of water and information on rights and what to do if you're arrested or confronted by police.
2024 - Helped defend Plymouth UK from the fascist pogroms, same as above except also using my body as a shield to protect others from bricks. Hurt like a bitch but i'd take a million more. Also help run classes and leftist meetings alongside socialist members of government to teach members of the public everything from history of anti-fascism to safe resistance to mutual aid and preformative politics to cybersecurity to fascist dog-whistles and local fascist groups.
Currently diagnosed and disabled from Graves disease, but if a march were to happen outside say millionaire or billionaire gated communities i'd defy my doctors orders to show up.
Happy? This is kinda my hobby.
EDIT - If you NEED proof I can dig up the video I took back in 2011 of us marching onto the Brooklyn Bridge, but that would take effort and I don't see why I should waste that effort on you.
That other commenter had to be a bot keep the fight going man America's worth saving by actual Americans not a billionaire narcissistic psychopath of an orange shit gibbon Russian asset
"Earnest Hemmingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."
Yes, anyone that presses someone to back up thier claims is obviously a bot 🙄
That's all we were asking for, thank you.