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RESIST and DISSENT

1/3/2017

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PictureHomage, 1974, Modified Typewriter by Leopoldo Maler
This work -- Homage, 1974, Modified  Typewriter by Argentinean artist Leopoldo Maler -- startled me as soon as I saw it last month at the Hess Collection outside Napa, California The once-commonplace typewriter was the instrument Maler’s uncle used to voice his inflammatory political essays in Argentina. His acts of resistance triggered his assassination.
 
The typewriter-in-flames speaks to me of a call to action, specifically to RESIST and DISSENT in the face of the injustice, harassment, persecution, and dangerous authoritarianism threatened by President-Elect Donald Trump. This typewriter resonates with me as a writer, but it can symbolize whatever tools and talents each of us can best apply to the resistance required in the days years ahead.

 RESIST AND DISSENT Posts: 
What next for Senator Dianne Feinstein? 04/28/2017
She resisted: Marie Equi resists war plans 04/26/2017
Making a splash with the Oregon Historical Society 04/13/2017
The night before - April 5, 1917 04/05/2017
Coming soon - Oregon and sedition in World War I 03/25/2017
World War I resistance 100 years ago 03/08/2017

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