20 MANTRAS FOR 2025

  1. Don’t rush grief

  2. This shit’s exhausting and I can unplug and rest, without guilt or shame

  3. Sometimes I can’t or won’t want to resist and fight back–and that’s okay

  4. Honor the people I might lose or those I’ve already lost

  5. Bury your feet firmly on the ground and reconnect with the essence of why you do what you do

  6. We must continue organizing and building worker, member and people power

  7. We must have our ear to the ground and be moved by what moves our people

  8. I don’t need to have hope to have determination

  9. Embrace and fulfill the artist in you

  10. It comes down to our vision versus theirs, our dreams versus theirs

  11. Our lineage is resilient and radical

  12. Be safety and refuge for others

  13. We’ve always been sci-fi world-builders; we are each other’s political home

  14. It is a strength to land softly, tenderly, lovingly and vulnerably

  15. There’s beauty in the small and the slow

  16. The change we make in society will only go as far as how we treat others in the here and now, especially how we treat the people we may have power over

  17. We are a movement, *not* an election

  18. We still have the power of breath and we must inhale and exhale  deeply & intentionally

  19. No elected official or political party has ever or will ever save us, “only the people save the people”

  20. This is a class war… and there’s more of us