Get into the Game... There Is Still Time to Win!

January 14, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

 

The following is taken from street corner agitation by Sunsara Taylor in Washington, DC, January 14.

Sunsara Taylor speaking in the street on January 14

 

January 14, Washington D.C., 5pm

Everyone knows that even the best teams can be beat in the right conditions, everyone knows that no game is over until it’s really over. Well, what we are up against isn’t even the best team—it’s just the most thuggish, snarling, and hideous team, the one that has even the refs so intimidated they won’t call their fouls... but we have some plays we haven’t run yet, some really good plays, and their team is fighting and squabbling with each other. And we have some reserves and some plays that could win this game. Yes, even at this late hour...

What are they? The reserves are the millions who hate what this regime stands for and is promising, the millions who’ve been told they have to accept this. Those millions right now are still in the stands, still watching, or planning to “come in” later on. But if those millions stood up right this weekend and flooded the streets, it could change the whole dynamics of this game, which is not really a game at all... it has enormous stakes, for the lives of millions and millions of women, immigrants, Black people, Muslims, people around the world, the planet itself... it’s not a game... and we cannot sit back and fail to play to our real strengths, our tremendous strengths, the millions and millions...

Where are these people? They are all over, they are sitting in the cafes and church pews, they are walking with their heads down to class, they are at the day labor corners and in the ’hoods, they are in the high schools, they are in the arts and the professions...

Who’s going to go get them? We are! We are going to go out tonight, through the rain and the cold, calling out to those in the cafes and on the street... we are going to send this out through social media... we are going to call them forward... all of us here, we are going to do this, and we can do this—why? Because we speak for millions... How? By calling forward those millions... by shattering the brainwash that we have to look up for a savior from “on high” [government], instead look out at and rally onto the field the real force that can stop this, the millions and millions of people just like us... rallying hundreds to thousands... thousands to millions... growing in strength and numbers, night after night...

Tomorrow—surrounding Trump Hotel...

We have the power to stop this... no, not a guarantee, but a very real chance... extraordinary things are possible at a time of such great dangers... at a time when even at the top they are gripped with sharp conflicts and things aren’t all sewn up... right now, if we act with daring and determination, if we act with creativity and imagination... if we are relentless and dogged... if we don’t take no for an answer... if we stretch our arms out broadly and draw in all those who are unsure... who are new... who are perhaps afraid to hope but who are sick at heart and who together have tremendous power... we have a real chance...

History is filled with examples where people fought against tremendous odds and were victorious... it is also filled with examples where people sat back, passively hoping to wait things out only to be swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined...

History is unwritten and which one we get is up to us.

Now is the time to rise to greatness... to rally others to greatness... we have what we need to do this... let’s make it happen—in the name of humanity!

 

 

       

 

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