Why is it important for you to show that resistance defines our quintessential American story?

As a long-time chronicler of American social movements, and as a participant in what historian Howard Zinn called the “unreported resistance” since the early 1980s, I felt a deeper story of American resistance needed to be brought out of the shadows today. That our various resistance movements today needed to be rooted; otherwise, we risk burnout, divisions, and this sense of being overwhelmed in these Trump times.

This is what I believe: In dealing with the most challenging issues of every generation, resistance to duplicitous civil authority and its corporate enablers has defined our quintessential American story.
Resistance has put the backbone in democracy; or rather, the resistance has given democracy a backbone.

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