Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

civil disobedience

  • When the state makes enemies of protestors, it uses the language of violence as cover to use violence against them, to disempower them.

  • The way we refer to technophobic people as luddites isn’t just wrong. It is doing the work of the people the luddites fought against.

  • Jesus tells stories that engage our assumptions; and drive us to consider what it is that we’re really avoiding.

  • We associate it with candy and flowers. The side of Valentine’s Day we rarely see is the side in which its true power resides.

  • It has been a week. A week since peaceful protests were transformed into an uprising. A week since the eyes of the world descended on the city to watch images that, since the dystopian experience of those living the protest and militarized police response in Ferguson, MO last year, have become increasingly familiar: flames, destruction…