Rose Marie Berger: The First Few Days After a Coup are Critical

Sam Goldman (@samanthagoldm19) talks with Rose Marie Berger about the strategy and power of non-violent resistance as we count down the days to the 2020 election and resist Trump's coup. Find further resources for non-violence trainings linked from Sojourners magazine. Then, Sam outlines some of the important plans posted on RefuseFascism.org for this weekend and the critical days next week during and after the election.

Rose Marie Berger, senior editor at Sojourners magazine, is a Catholic peace activist and poet. Her article “Seven concrete steps to safeguard the integrity of the vote” in the November issue of Sojourners magazine, along with “In the Event of  Tainted Election, the Faith Community Must Rise Up” by Barbara Williams-Skinner and  Adam Russell Taylor, focuses on post-election defense of the vote and strategic nonviolence in the event of a power grab by either presidential candidate. As part of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, a project of Pax Christi International to return nonviolence to the heart of the Catholic Church, Rose co-edited Advancing Nonviolence and Just Peace in the Church and World. Her most recent book of poetry is Bending the Arch: Poems. Her earlier book, Who Killed Donte Manning: The Story of an American Neighborhood is set in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., where she lives. Follow Rose on Twitter at @RMBerger and @Sojourners.

Sign up and help organize to resist the Trump coup at RefuseFascism.org. Support the movement to drive out the Trump/Pence regime:

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Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown.