the times are inexpressibly evil, the times are inexhaustibly good.

“The times are inexpressibly evil,” Daniel Berrigan wrote. 
“And yet—and yet … the times are inexhaustibly good. 
In this time of death, some men and women, the resisters, work hardily for social change. We think of such people in the world and the stone in our breast is dissolved.”

“People have to go to the capital city,” said Roger Hallam, the co-founder of Rebellion Extinction and a researcher at King’s College London, who spoke to me from London. “That’s where the elite is, the business class. That’s where the pillars of the state exist. 
That’s the first element. Then you have to have a lot of people involved. 
They have to break the law. There’s no point in just doing a march. 
They have to literally close down the streets. They have to remain nonviolent.
That’s absolutely crucial. Once you get violent, police and the state have an excuse 
to remove you. 
It’s got to be cultural. You make it into a sort of Woodstock affair.
Then thousands more people come onto the streets.”
 

i thought of what would happen if some mega, or maga, country imposed sanctions 
on the u.s. what then would happen here? would extinction rebellion operate in a country under siege, invasion, coup? it won't happen here, they say. 911 was just a pretext 
for global dominion, we were already everywhere, we are the world, alas, and even more now we trump the world. we dump the world. and yet, there's also something inchoate, something marginal at the heart of the matter, some anti-matter, impossibly rising, inexpressibly good.