We Are The Leaders In Difficult Days Ahead-Attend October 18 No Kings Near You

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​I'll start this post the same way I’ll end it:

* Use phone calls, e-mails and personal conversations to organize. Use channels that will be more difficult to monitor and shut down. 
* You don’t need to be part of a formal group. You can start your own group. You can join friends and stand up for freedom in ways that work for you.  
* Big crowds and important actions can happen with not much money involved. 
* Voting clearly matters, but elected officials are disconnected from our challenge. Don’t count on them or wait for them. 
* We must accept some measure of risk. We are opposing lawless, authoritarian, white supremacists. They are in positions of power and their followers are in some cases now above the law. 
* Collect and maintain a list of phone numbers, e-mails and even addresses of people you would trust in a crisis and would have useful knowledge in a crisis. 

Above you see a list of all currently-scheduled 50501 No Kings protests in Texas for Saturday, October 18.

Here is an article from the Reuters news agency today that outlines Trump plans to criminalize dissent. It is worth reading. The intent is to go after non-violent mainstream groups and persecute ways of thinking and believing. It is what they are going to do and we just have to proceed. We know there is no violent organized left. The people coordinating these attacks on the right know this as well. 
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The main Houston No Kings event is 2 PM-6 PM at Houston City Hall. I’m one of the speakers as part of my work on the Houston Democracy Project. No elected officials are speaking. The challenge ahead is ours to lead.

With this post are also links to No Kings protests in the Houston-region. Elected officials who want to take part can join the large expected crowd Downtown or go to one of the many events across the area. The No Kings protest in Katy this past June had a crowd of 1700. I wager they would appreciate and be heartened by a state legislator joining them.

Pretty much all these protests in Texas and the nation are volunteer-organized. There is no budget other than what people contribute or buy at the store on their own to make things work. 

There is not much complicated to say. No Kings protests offer an opportunity to organize ourselves and to connect with one another. We are going to need one another in the difficult days ahead. We will show up in great numbers on October 18 and then move on from that point. 

Here are Houston-region October 18 No Kings protests: 

50501 Houston at Houston City Hall, 2 PM-6 PM. More details to come. 

Katy No Kings 2 at 21010 Katy Freeway. They had a large crowd here for the big No Kings day in June. They should do well again.

No Kings Conroe, 12 PM-4PM, 300 N. Thompson

​No Kings Pasadena, 12 PM -2 PM, RSVP for location. 

No Kings La Porte, 10 AM-12 PM, 604 W. Fairmount Parkway. 

No Kings Richmond, 12 PM-2 PM, 401 Jackson St. 

No Kings Cypress, 10 AM-12 PM, RSVP for location

No Kings Kingwood, 9 AM-11 AM, West Lake Parkway and Kingwood Drive.

No Kings Brenham, 11 AM-2 PM, Easement in front of the Taco Bell, 2607 Texas-36.

No Kings Pearland, 12 PM- 2 PM, Ivy Park-Lower Kirby District, 11050 Modern Grn. Dr. 

No Kings The Woodlands, 10 AM-1 PM, Lake Woodlands Dr. & Six Pines Dr. 

​No Kings Clear Lake , 4 PM- 6PM, RSVP for location.  

​No Kings Bryan/College Station, 10 AM-12 AM, 175 Century Square Dr. 

No Kings Navasota, 10 AM-1 PM, 306 E. Washington 

No Kings Coldspring, 9:30 AM-12:30 PM, 1 TX-150 

Here is the link  for all No Kings events in Texas and across the nation. 

Again:
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* Use phone calls, e-mails and personal conversations to organize. Use channels that will be more difficult to monitor and shut down. 
* You don’t need to be part of a formal group. You can start your own group. You can join friends and stand up for freedom in ways that work for you.  
* Big crowds and important actions can happen with not much money involved. 
* Voting clearly matters, but elected officials are disconnected from our challenge. Don’t count on them or wait for them. 
* We must accept some measure of risk. We are opposing lawless, authoritarian, white supremacists. They are in positions of power and their followers are in some cases now above the law. 
​* Collect and maintain a list of phone numbers, e-mails and even addresses of people you would trust in a crisis and would have useful knowledge in a crisis. ​

I'm on the Egberto Willies Politics Done Right Show every Thursday from 6 AM to 7 AM for the Houston Democracy Project segment. You can hear the show on the radio, stream it on KPFT or watch later Egberto's YouTube channel.​​​​

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