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Mia Wong

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
6381 total appearances

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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Yeah, it reminds me a lot of this line from Peggy Seeger, who wrote an anti-fascist song called Song of Choice. And one of the verses that's always stuck with me is, Today the soldiers took away one, tomorrow they may take away two. One April they took away Greece, but surely they will never take you. And, you know, I mean, that's the thing that people in the 30s woke up to, right?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Yeah, it reminds me a lot of this line from Peggy Seeger, who wrote an anti-fascist song called Song of Choice. And one of the verses that's always stuck with me is, Today the soldiers took away one, tomorrow they may take away two. One April they took away Greece, but surely they will never take you. And, you know, I mean, that's the thing that people in the 30s woke up to, right?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Is, you know, if you're in this country and this is the thing that you're waking up to now is that, yeah, the soldiers are taking people away. And every day they're taking away more and more people. And one day you wake up and they've taken entire countries. And the only way that you can stop this is by making sure that the action that you're taking is not just waking up and going back to sleep.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Is, you know, if you're in this country and this is the thing that you're waking up to now is that, yeah, the soldiers are taking people away. And every day they're taking away more and more people. And one day you wake up and they've taken entire countries. And the only way that you can stop this is by making sure that the action that you're taking is not just waking up and going back to sleep.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Is, you know, if you're in this country and this is the thing that you're waking up to now is that, yeah, the soldiers are taking people away. And every day they're taking away more and more people. And one day you wake up and they've taken entire countries. And the only way that you can stop this is by making sure that the action that you're taking is not just waking up and going back to sleep.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

You have to take a stand. You have to fight because no one is coming. The only person who is coming for these people, the only person who is coming for the people coming next to them, and inevitably the only people who is coming to save you when they come for you is going to be you. And, you know, there are enough of us to stop them, right? There always have been.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

You have to take a stand. You have to fight because no one is coming. The only person who is coming for these people, the only person who is coming for the people coming next to them, and inevitably the only people who is coming to save you when they come for you is going to be you. And, you know, there are enough of us to stop them, right? There always have been.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

You have to take a stand. You have to fight because no one is coming. The only person who is coming for these people, the only person who is coming for the people coming next to them, and inevitably the only people who is coming to save you when they come for you is going to be you. And, you know, there are enough of us to stop them, right? There always have been.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

That's always been a thing about fascism, is that it relies on us not fighting them. It relies on us, on our passivity. It relies on us not caring enough about the people that they take first, you know, to sit back and do nothing and think that we can wait. And you can't.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

That's always been a thing about fascism, is that it relies on us not fighting them. It relies on us, on our passivity. It relies on us not caring enough about the people that they take first, you know, to sit back and do nothing and think that we can wait. And you can't.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

That's always been a thing about fascism, is that it relies on us not fighting them. It relies on us, on our passivity. It relies on us not caring enough about the people that they take first, you know, to sit back and do nothing and think that we can wait. And you can't.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

You have to start right now, and you have to stop them before they advance any further, and you have to roll back what they've already done. And this is our opportunity to do that.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

You have to start right now, and you have to stop them before they advance any further, and you have to roll back what they've already done. And this is our opportunity to do that.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

You have to start right now, and you have to stop them before they advance any further, and you have to roll back what they've already done. And this is our opportunity to do that.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Yeah. Do you have anything else that you want to add before we head out? And we will put links to a whole bunch of things in the description to this. Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Yeah. Do you have anything else that you want to add before we head out? And we will put links to a whole bunch of things in the description to this. Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Yeah. Do you have anything else that you want to add before we head out? And we will put links to a whole bunch of things in the description to this. Yeah.