sashayed:

valencing:

jon shieber tweeted this, saying it’s “from an american friend of mine working with the un in iraq”:

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so if we’re worried about american image issues we better keep protesting

this is important for many reasons, but one of them is – i think we need to accept that we are going to lose a lot of these battles, and lose big, and it’s going to be fucking ROUGH. and in those moments we will need to remember that we can make a difference not just by winning, but by showing up to fight.