changing the stories we tell

[tielan]

I woke at 4am thinking of all the insurrectionists today who will wake up to phone calls from media companies trying to interview them.

Well, actually, I woke from a dream where my stepbrother's old cat died in my arms, and I found my chooks slaughtered.

So. That's my emotional state right now.

But I lay in the dark early this morning and was furious at the thought of those white supremacists being given more airtime to jabber on about their conspiracies and feelings.

STFU.

So I got on Twitter this morning and responded to my regular news site - Guardian AU's twitter link to an article about Barr condemning Trump, to tell them that I'd like to see more stories about the get-the-vote-out organisers on the ground in Georgia, along with stories from first-time voters. What brought them out, perhaps after a lifetime of non-voting? So many stories to be told and I WANT TO HEAR THEM.

I don't know if it will do any good. I'm just one drop person in a sea of others. But maybe if there's a few more drops asking for stories about the people who made change happen instead of the people who tried to stop it, we might get somewhere?

Now I have to work out who to else contact and whether they'll listen.

Comments

[kore]

It sounds tailor-made for one of those oral history projects!