Oppositional Politics is not enough: Imagining Another World is Possible in Grand Rapids

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Jeff Smith (GRIID)'s avatarGrand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy

Four years ago lots of people couldn’t have imagined that Donald Trump was just a few months away from being elected President of the United States.

Within days of the elections, people all across the country took to the streets to protest the election of Trump and to signal the need for a resistance movement that would have the capacity and vision to respond to what was to come.

In Grand Rapids, we wrote about how the Democratic Party was scrambling to respond to the fact that they had lost power. An event was organized in Grand Rapids entitled, Surviving the Trump Apocalypse, an event was focused exclusively how an electoral strategy. At the time, March of 2017, we wrote

The opposition to the new president is refreshing in some ways, but this is a pattern amongst liberal and progressive circles. Liberals and progressives tend to get activated when…

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