Shoutout and BIG love to everyone who went to their first protest this weekend. We’re so happy you’re here. WELCOME. We need you.
There are some protocols for some things out on the protest lines.
Those practices are to keep each other safe. Keep your ears, mind, and heart open to the guidance that some of the more practiced folks are giving you regarding what to wear, where to stand, how to respond to certain actions by police or other protestors. Your community has leaders. Your job as someone new to the movement is to stay humble, find them, and make sure they have coffee. ❤

For those of us who have been here a while … Don’t do that fkn thing.
You know … The woke olympics … where we start overly criticizing the ones who just arrived for not knowing everything we know.
Teach with love and humility. One on one. No one needs to be killed in their comment section because they’re learning. We need numbers and the virtue signaling isn’t actually helping.
And it’s always
::looks at white skin::
us. We have this thing where we carry so much harm done in our DNA and some of us are called so strongly to be a counterweight to that oppression.
That’s honorable. That’s heart. Just watch for your ego.
We can’t always see it and not only will it trip you up, it will cause your weight to fall on the fam with less privilege if people get turned off to the movement because of your egoic actions.

“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.”
—Susan Sontag
Organize. Centralize. (And remember to) Revitalize.
I love you and you can’t do $%!? about it.
—andru defeye
Flommist Andru Defeye is the Emeritus Poet Laureate of Sacramento. Copyright © 2025 Andru Defeye. Photos via Yahoo/The Sacramento Bee.
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