"I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad, "
This post is just asking: So, what are you doing about it?
My partner and I fled the US early this year. No regrets. Besides saving our own skin because I would 100% end up in a concentration camp, we’re now in a really good position to help others in our community find a way to safety.
We also love our new country and feel super welcomed
How? Did you have ancestry somewhere that let you immigrate back? Family still there? Something else?
I’d love to find a way out for my family, but don’t know of any options.
Work, school, and family are unfortunately the easiest ways to get a visa. I got lucky with my job and took the first opportunity that opened up, and I’m so glad I did because there haven’t been any more openings since then. Unfortunately I took about a 50% pay cut to move.
I commend and congratulate you! As a born American, it was never a problem for me. However, as a Jew I know full well the fragile and tenuous peace can vanish in a moment if any one or more ethnic groups become a convenient scapegoat for a regime. My grandparents got out of Germany literally with moments to spare. At the same time my grandparents were boarding a plane, SS were bashing down the doors to their home.
So if you are in a position that you could ever face persecution like that, getting the F out is the smartest thing to do. I sincerely wish you all the best and hope you make a peaceful life somewhere that isn’t headed down the hellish path that America is. Even being a white American, I still sometimes worry because of being Jewish. It can very easily happen again to my people, especially since antisemitism is in vogue again lately. And the biggest problem is that it’s familiar and comfortable for most people; my people are expected to have acclimated to oppression - hey aren’t you used to it?
I hope someday soon, the USA will be safe again for you, though I would further admire if you’ve made a life somewhere that is preferable even over a safe USA.
Kudos to you and your family.
I would love to do this, but my wife won’t leave.
How did you do it? Do you have any tips? I really want to get out, because I’ll probably end up in a concentration camp too if I don’t. It just feels like such an enormous undertaking I don’t even know where to start. Every time I look at the process to immigrate to another country it always seems like it’s basically impossible for a retail worker who lives paycheck to paycheck.
Experiencing mental distress.
Some examples from the past week:
- Being active and involved in my worker union (we’ve had a few recent wins).
- Attending and promoting rallies and counter-rallies for various causes.
- Cantributing to tactical discussions in political party meetings.
- Small financial donations to various causes (both social and political).
- Reducing my food and plastic waste.
Learned how to make thermite. Mutual aid to feed people here.
I’m a teacher. It feels like service to the future every single day.
In my huge city we have a big homeless problem, so I volunteer with the food bank and soup kitchen.
More than that, I ask each homeless person I meet their name and I try to remember it because more than likely I’ll be able to say “Hey, Brett!” tomorrow. I don’t always have a few bills to give but I can give a personal greeting.
You give enough! Money only goes so far, kindness lasts forever.
Doing org work (albeit light for now, hoping to increase next year).
