The Next Three Months

An Invitation to Matter

We’re in a tumultuous time.

I have been listening to the O’Parables podcast. Octavia E. Butler’s trilogy is prescient. She wrote it in the early’90s, set in the 2020s. She is literally describing conditions so many are already experiencing and most of the rest of us (the non-billionaire class) are heading into. The podcast features Adrienne Maree Brown (please read Emergent Strategy if you haven’t already) and Toshi Reagon: they are absolutely brilliant together, breaking down each chapter for the lessons “Octavia tried to tell us” and applying them to now.

Here is info I have culled to date:

This What If episode (RadioLab) lays out the possible path to a coup. There is a transcript if you prefer to read (scroll down a bit).

This powerpoint from Xtinction Rebellion plots resistance actions at the key inflection points.

If you’re interested in trainings, see this Election 2020 National Resources and Trainings to Stop a Coup. (I met Joanne Sheehan last fall, 2019. She’s been with the War Resisters League basically her entire life.) The organization “Protect the Results” seems to be the easiest for finding an action near you. The first training I’ve taken was called Timeline to a Meltdown, 2020 Election Simulation hosted by ShutDownDC. Their exercise was modeled on the ‘war game’ reported on by Radiolab.

A few years ago I trained to be a peacekeeper/safety monitor at nonviolent…