The fight came to my neighborhood on Thursday.
I awoke to the sound of helicopters early in the morning. My first thought was, “Oh shit. What now?”
My support staff (guides/intuition) let me know that it was not ICE/fascist administration-related, and I fell back asleep.
Indeed, it’s true that the copters were not overhead due to the government. Well, it’s mostly true. There was an apartment fire on Rockwell right across from Indian Boundary Park, a few blocks from us. It’s our favorite place to take the pack in the city, and I’ve posted numerous photos of it here on this blog. There were deaths and major destruction, and the news copters were lining up in the sky all morning, day, and into the night for their chance at getting footage. Off and on, I have heard them again today.
The FAA has currently made flying drones illegal in Chicago’s airspace, along with much of the surrounding areas.
I repeat, the FAA, due to the edict from the powers that were, who are still pretending to run this country, have outlawed the flying of drones here. So, they are indirectly responsible for the noise from the copters, since the news agencies could not use their drones.
Jesus, this is sounding so dystopian, isn’t it?
Soon after waking for good on Thursday and getting some coffee in, I started seeing reports on social media that ICE was staging near our neighborhood and would be a heavy presence here in West Rogers Park, along with the rest of Rogers Park, West Ridge, Lincolnwood, Evanston, and Skokie.
All day long, in between clients and other work, I read and shared reports online of sightings of ICE and DHS and stories of people being kidnapped by ICE and DHS just blocks from where I live. Meanwhile, the whirring sounds of the copters with their noisy engines persisted.
Fire and kidnapping, death and destruction.
Whistles are being handed out everywhere so people can alert others to the presence of the kidnappers. Chicagoans are attending training on how to protect community members. They are also attending training on how to protect children as they exit their schools, since the kidnappers have been a presence there, both interfering with the children and abducting parents who have come to pick them up. Businesses in our heavily Latino areas are dying, sitting empty, as non-white people in these communities are afraid to leave their homes.
Blackhawk helicopters landed on an apartment building last week, as camouflaged Proud Boys dragged people and children out of their homes in the middle of the night and zip-tied them; many of them were black, American citizens. Some were disappeared.
Along with the kidnappings, abuses of power, pepper-spraying, tear gassing, and shooting of people with lethal rounds (2 that we know of so far in Chicago), the community is fighting back with protests and actions that go far beyond marching and chanting.
People are swarming our schools, creating human shields, protecting our children, bringing food to those afraid to leave their homes, spending money at businesses that are suffering, sharing information, and doing so much more to support our most vulnerable. Our Governor, Mayors, Representatives, and most of our Alderpersons, some clergy, and many other community leaders are on it as well, either out in the streets with the people on the side of justice or behind their podiums holding the line and supporting the resistance.
Our community has remained peaceful and strong while ICE and DHS perpetrate violence upon us.
Pluto goes direct on Tuesday in Aquarius. It is currently out of bounds to the south and will continue to be out of bounds for ten years. Pluto in Aquarius will not tolerate this inequity. Pluto out of bounds to the south is historically a revolutionary vibe. Justice is slow and long, as is Pluto’s transit through Aquarius, 2023 - 2044. I am afraid it’s all going to get worse before it gets better.
If you’ve been silent until now, you may find you can not be any longer. If your silence has been a way to try to keep the peace with people who still support these atrocities and their vote for it, there is no actual peace, and there never was. You’ve been living in a fantasy. If you’re keeping your mouth shut due to financial concerns, a fear of losing clients or business, then your soul is hurting. The losses you fear and are trying to prevent will happen anyway.
It’s time.
Speak up.
No justice. No peace.
I talk to every single person I encounter about the fascist coup, the stealing of our government, the brainwashing, and the cult, from the barista who made my coffee this morning to the sales clerk at the store, and everyone in between. I insert these conversations into my secret agent of love mission.
Truth and love - they are intertwined.
It is going to be up to us, the collective, to change this. This change will not come from the power and money horders on down to us, as change for the better never does. Our criminal top-down power structure is the problem. The billionaires have co-opted this world for themselves. Most of our elected officials, media, and corporations are complicit, due to that money thing I mentioned above. Anyone silent is complicit as well.
Will you be complicit, or will you be the agent of change you incarnated to be?
The fight came to our neighborhood this week, and we are not backing down.
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Your piece is truly Powerful!!! THANK YOU! And thank you for your posts,its how I know what's happening in Chicago. I am so so horrified at the way the world management team has decided to fight to remain in power. I find it all unbearable. Yet here we are. I have gotten out my megaphone and let elected officials that we NEED this to STOP. I just had another medical procedure yesterday and find ways to do whatever I can to not be complicit,which for now is making calls and writing. I love your title to this piece. I am maintaining my usual woo of holding a personal loving energy. ( mostly).