"Revolution" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

"there they were, singing and showing up despite,
and this was the moment that made me believe
in the path—not just the grand marches toward freedom,
but also the thin trails marked with courage and creativity,
small moments I can follow like bread crumbs
till this country again feels like home."

https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2025/04/05/revolution-2/

You may need this. https://www.findingsteadyground.com/

Jewish tradition teaches: “You are not obligated to complete the task, but neither are you free to desist from it” (Pirke Avot 2:21). I'm not Jewish but this speaks to me.

Progress requires that we protect Civil Rights.
Protect Section 504. Protect all Civil Rights.

https://nixonspeechandlanguage.com/progress/

SLPs & audiologists, review how executive orders could affect you.

Families, reviewing to know how your child's care (medical and education) could be affected.

https://www.asha.org/advocacy/executive-orders-impacting-audiology-and-speech-language-pathology/

"...some ideas if you want to help stand for a world with tolerance and love, racial justice and acceptance of all people." https://wagingnonviolence.org/links/resistance-guidebook/ and https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PnA86CvqKNo1le3TEczIBQftX6Pq1n7G5ROHxS_fj1E/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.zbrky7na9owb

I'll just leave this here in case you find yourself in need of it. https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2023/08/we-are-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-poems.html

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, & you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be…This is the inter-related structure of reality.”

—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Another post on advocacy and the legislative process: Actions You Can Take for Active Transportation: Following a Bill. https://bikestylelife.com/2025/01/12/actions-you-can-take-for-active-transportation-following-a-bill/

If you missed our Advocacy Roundup on December 16, you can now listen to the replay on our YouTube channel. This session discussed AEBC’s advocacy activities over the past year, future plans, and the importance of self-advocacy. We reviewed our advocacy committee's efforts, successes, and ongoing issues, and discussed the importance of members raising their concerns and building a network of stakeholders for advocacy projects.
https://youtu.be/rHQAjqz560Y?si=ZW41-6d2HNP3en97
#AEBC #advocacymatters #blindcanadians

"They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving."
-- Rebecca Solnit

You may need this poetry collection I put together last year. https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2023/08/we-are-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-poems.html

William Whately, English Puritan, addresses reasons some might have not to give to the poor. Some might object, if that person had wronged them, but we are to commanded to feed our enemy (Rom 12:20), and remember God loved us while enemies (Rom 5:10). We are to imitate God in this way.

Today, do religionists teach us to remember every wrong by a migrant, so as to have less compassion on the group?

How can you feed an enemy today?

A bit about how I came to be doing the work I do now---getting on my bike led me to find my calling and my sweetheart.

http://bikestylespokane.com/2017/03/12/came-fork-road/
#BikeTooter #cycling #transportation #AdvocacyMatters #advocate #Life #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeLove

On my personal blog, a round-up of poems that speak to activists and advocates.

http://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2023/08/we-are-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-poems.html