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Dear Fellow Activists,

​​Thank you for reading and sharing Rise Up Times. With a mainstream corporate media that is beholden to powerful financial and political interests that do not have the good of the people at heart, we need to share and discuss information and activism more than ever. Here are a couple of very significant victories in Minnesota:

Mike Madden with his MSP airport sign

ROSARIO: A ST. PAUL VETERAN’S ARREST AT AIRPORT PROTEST ENDS IN VICTORY AT TRIAL

Euric Rutherford, of Inver Grove Heights, asks for a moment of silence. Photo: MinnPost

FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS CONFIRMED IN VERDICT IN TRIAL FOR PROTESTING THE KILLING OF PHILANDO CASTILE

Some inspiration:

OUR RELATIONSHIPS KEEP US ALIVE: LET’S PRIORITIZE THEM IN 2018

FOR THE LOVE OF LIBERATION: LET’S STOP BELITTLING OTHERS AND START ORGANIZING

We can win campaigns without healing trauma, but we will lose each other in the process.

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Like many other independent news and media sites, Rise Up Times has noticed a decline in the number of people looking at articles due to censorship by Google and Facebook. Independent journalism has become the last bastion in seeking and telling the truth as government and corporate lies are promoted by the mainstream corporate media. In the name of democratic rights for all please support us now and share articles widely. The people, Yes!

Sue Ann Martinson, Editor, Rise Up Times

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Trump represents a system that is driving us toward an authoritarian regime that profits the 1 percent and decimates the 99 percent’s resources in a regime built on hate and on violence of many kinds.

Now in year two of the Trump regime, our Resistance continues. People continue to organize against the evils of the Trump administration and of a system that is violent and corrupt and moving us closer and closer to totalitarianism.

We the people continue to rise up and resist in many ways — on the streets, in the legislatures, in the courts, in the cities and towns, in the universities, as we rise against this monstrous machine locally, nationally, and globally, creating solutions grounded in the common good while challenging corporate militaristic globalism based on racism and white supremacy.​

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, we shall fight on the streets, we shall fight in the courts, we shall fight in the ballot box and in the courts, we shall fight in the cities and in the towns and on the ranches and farms, we shall fight in the the arctic circle, in the hills, the desert, the fields, the mountains, …we shall fight throughout the land, we shall never surrender…

Carl Sandburg knew:

The people yes. The people will live on. …
In the darkness with a great bundle of grief the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people
march:
“Where to? what next?”
—Carl Sandburg

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Thank you. Your continued support does make a difference, as does every phone call you make, every email you send, every protest you attend, ever​y action you take for peace and justice.

THANK YOU!

Sue Ann Martinson, Editor
Rise Up Times

P.S. Your donation will help Rise Up Times continue to inform and engage people to fight in every nonviolent way possible for compassion and caring for the people of our country and the world and against the corporate greed that drives militarism and climate change and the loss of the commons in the gradual destruction of our planet. 

Rise Up Times encourages you to click on the links at the top of RiseUpTimes.org that contain timely articles with commentary on current events, including the Trump Presidency, organizing strategies, actions, and much more. The links are listed below and also appear at the top of the RiseUpTimes.org website.

• ABOUT RISE UP TIMES

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​Why Rise Up Times? The name Rise Up Times was chosen because these are the times to Rise Up and be heard. “Times” refers not only to the Times we live in but, as you know, is also a common name for newspapers and other media. We continue to Rise Up!

Resistance is no longer an option, it is now a matter of life or death. The lights are going out on democracy across the globe and the time to wake up from this nightmare is now.     Henry A. Giroux

“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”   Audre Lorde