How and when did you become an activist? I’d lived abroad for nine years and wasn’t very politically aware. My wife and I moved back to the U.S., to Austin, in 2014, and got active after the 2016 election. I did nothing for a while, fuming and venting my frustration at the TV! My first …
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Q & A with Cat Yuracka of the Resistance Choir of South Central Texas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOzyCBLEJWE The Resistance Choir of South Central Texas was the brainchild of TX21 Indivisible activist Cat Yuracka, who in April 2017 pulled together like-minded, “more enthusiastic than talented” activists to partake in the joy of communal singing. Since then, the Choir has brought traditional and contemporary protest songs, songs of social justice and “revolutionary snark” …
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Activist Spotlight: Karen Collins
Karen Collins is everywhere. She’s on an I-35 overpass holding a “Repeal and Replace Ted Cruz Banner” (copies of which she has sent to activists all around Texas). She’s counter-protesting Nazis. She’s attending civil-disobedience workshops. She’s registering voters at candidate forums. She’s blockwalking. She’s organizing in the Indivisible Rosedale Huddle. Karen is also the subject …
Activist Spotlight: Susan “George” Schorn
Susan “George” Schorn is active with TX21 Indivisible and Indivisible Austin. She leads workshops on protest safety and verbal self-defense, and is honing her skills as a prankster in the LOLt-right Marching Band aka “Clowns for Truth.” How and when did you become an activist? Born that way. As the youngest of five, you develop …
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