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Deth

@dethim.bsky.social

dad of daughters, community agitator, systems thinker, co-laborer for justice. This is my personal bluesky account unrelated to my employer

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Deth@dethim.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote a piece about how we organize and train for collective action in this moment @protectdemocracy.org @chriscrawford.bsky.social @mariajstephan.bsky.social @fianational.bsky.social The Faithful Fight Toolkit: Organizing and training for collective action protectdemocracy.org/work/organiz...

The Faithful Fight Toolkit: Organizing and training for collective action - Protect Democracy

President Trump’s administration acts like he was elected to be a monarch. Each day of his term has felt like a daily assault on vulnerable people. It’s clear the administration’s plan was to overwhel...

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Chris Crawford@crawfordstuff.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is, indeed, a moral moment. Today, @protectdemocracy.org and Horizons Project are launching "The Faithful Fight", a series of toolkits that provide uplifting stories and concrete actions that religious communities can take to counter authoritarianism. protectdemocracy.org/work/the-fai...

The Faithful Fight: Toolkits for countering authoritarianism - Protect Democracy

The Faithful Fight brings together strategies from religious leaders across denominations to help communities mobilize against authoritarian actions.

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Jeff Yang@originalsp.in · 2y ago

Shocked, but gratified to see that 90 law professors at Harvard signed this letter denouncing the lawlessness of Trump’s attacks on equal protection and freedom of speech and affirming commitment to the rule of law (especially after its dean did not join in the prior letter stating similar things)

We are privileged to teach and learn the law with you. We write to you today—in our individual capacities—because we believe that American legal precepts and the institutions designed to uphold them are being severely tested, and many of you have expressed to us your concerns and fears about the present moment. Each of us brings different, sometimes irreconcilable, perspectives to what the law is and should be. Diverse viewpoints are a credit to our school. But we share, and take seriously, a commitment to the rule of law: for people to be equal before it, and for its administration to be impartial. That commitment is foundational to the whole legal profession, and to the special role that lawyers play in our society. As the Model Rules of Professional Conduct provide: "A lawyer is ... an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice." The rule of law is imperiled when government leaders: • single out lawyers and law firms for retribution based on their lawful and ethical representation of clients disfavored by the government, undermining the Sixth Amendment; • threaten law firms and legal clinics for their lawyers' pro bono work or prior government service; • relent on those arbitrary threats based on public acts of submission and outlays of funds for favored causes; and • punish people for lawfully speaking out on matters of public concern. While reasonable people can disagree about the characterization of particular incidents, we are all acutely concerned that severe challenges to the rule of law are taking place, and we strongly condemn any effort to undermine the basic norms we have described. On our own campus and at many other universities, international students have reported fear of imprisonment or deportation for lawful speech and political activism. Whatever we might each think about particular conduct under particular facts, we share a conviction that our Constitution, including its First Amend…