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Division is a threat to resistance. Here’s how to build a stronger coalition | David C Turner III and Eric Morrison-Smith
People won’t join us just because we’re right. They’ll join if we make them feel like they belong
“Settle your quarrels, come together, and understand the reality of our situation. Understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying that could be saved, that generations more will live poor, butchered lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.”
George Jackson wrote these prophetic words more than 50 years ago. At that time, he and his comrades were enduring unimaginable violence inside California’s prisons – a microcosm of the fascism already alive in the United States.
Show up, even when it’s uncomfortable.
Talk to people whose politics aren’t perfect.
Work with those still in process because they, too, have revolutionary potential.
Refuse to turn on the people closest to us and focus on the real enemy.
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David C Turner III and Eric Morrison-Smith · Sun, Apr 19, 2026, 4:00 AM
US news | The Guardian
People won’t join us just because we’re right. They’ll join if we make them feel like they belong
“Settle your quarrels, come together, and understand the reality of our situation. Understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying that could be saved, that generations more will live poor, butchered lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.”
George Jackson wrote these prophetic words more than 50 years ago. At that time, he and his comrades were enduring unimaginable violence inside California’s prisons – a microcosm of the fascism already alive in the United States.
Show up, even when it’s uncomfortable.
Talk to people whose politics aren’t perfect.
Work with those still in process because they, too, have revolutionary potential.
Refuse to turn on the people closest to us and focus on the real enemy.
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