{"id":392,"date":"2008-03-17T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/03\/17\/it-starts-when-you-care-to-act\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T01:07:00","slug":"it-starts-when-you-care-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/03\/17\/it-starts-when-you-care-to-act\/","title":{"rendered":"it starts when you care to act"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The Low Road     <\/p>\n<p>What can they do<br \/>to you?  Whatever they want.<br \/>They can set you up, they can<br \/>bust you, they can break<br \/>your fingers, they can   burn your brain with electricity,<br \/>blur you with drugs till you<br \/>can\u2019t walk, can\u2019t remember, they can<br \/>take your child, wall up<br \/>your lover.  They can do anything<br \/>you can\u2019t stop them<br \/>from doing.  How can you stop<br \/>them?  Alone, you can fight,<br \/>you can  refuse, you can<br \/>take what revenge you can<br \/>but they roll over you.   <\/p>\n<p>But two people fighting<br \/>back to back can cut through<br \/>a mob, a snake-dancing file<br \/>can break a cordon, an army <br \/>can meet an army.   <\/p>\n<p>Two people can keep each other<br \/>sane, can give support, conviction,<br \/>love, massage, hope, sex.<br \/>Three people are a delegation,<br \/>a committee, a wedge.  With four<br \/>you can play bridge and start<br \/>an organization.  With six<br \/>you can rent a whole house,<br \/>eat pie for dinner with no<br \/>seconds, and hold a fund raising party.<br \/>A dozen make a demonstration.<br \/>A hundred fill a hall.<br \/>A thousand have solidarity and your own newsletter;<br \/>ten thousand, power and your own paper;<br \/>a hundred thousand, your own media;<br \/>ten million, your own country.<br \/>It goes on one at a time,<br \/>it starts when you care<br \/>to act, it starts when you do<br \/>it again after they said no,<br \/>it starts when you say We<br \/>and know who you mean, and each<br \/>day you mean one more.   <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Marge Piercy, from The Moon is Always Female.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Low Road What can they doto you? Whatever they want.They can set you up, they canbust you, they can breakyour fingers, they can burn your brain with electricity,blur you with drugs till youcan\u2019t walk, can\u2019t remember, they cantake your child, wall upyour lover. They can do anythingyou can\u2019t stop themfrom doing. How can you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}