Crossing to the Other Side of Fear

RadPod’s interview with The Ukrainian Night author Marci Shore

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Those who watch RadPod or attended our Happy Hour yesterday know that my eyes were puffy from pulling a late night to finish reading The Ukrainian Night: Intimate Stories from a Revolution by Marci Shore. I’m used to the lack of sleep — it wasn’t that. It’s just that every few pages the waterworks would start.

Shore, a Yale professor specializing in intellectual history, told the story of the Revolution of Dignity through the eyes of poets, musicians, fathers, mothers, warriors, all.

It’s the poetry that leveled me. The ‘orchids of catastrophe’ she wrote about.

The observation of Yanukovych’s mansion — a home of ‘tryanny, ostenation, and absurdity.’

That we in the US now must fight tyranny, ostenation, and absurdity is clear.

In our interview with Dr. Shore, she talks of the muted response to the 2024 election compared to 2016.

I blame the desk yobs paid to run malinformation campaigns.

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Unlike the Ukrainian people — whose internal radar picks up provocateurs, saboteurs, and titushky — Americans have no inoculation against hybrid warfare.

So when Russians in St. Petersburg larped for 18 months as angry women or men on the internet to terrorize and destroy the Women’s March movement, they succeeded. As I wrote in ‘The Translator Project’ report:

The Women’s March movement was infiltrated by the Russians and destroyed.

As the New York Times reported:

“Linda Sarsour awoke on Jan. 23, 2017, logged onto the internet, and felt sick.

“The weekend before, she had stood in Washington at the head of the Women’s March, a mobilization against President Donald J. Trump that surpassed all expectations. Crowds had begun forming before dawn, and by the time she climbed up onto the stage, they extended farther than the eye could see. More than four million people around the United States had taken part, experts later estimated. But then something shifted, seemingly overnight. What she saw on Twitter that Monday was a torrent of focused grievance that targeted her…

“More than 4,000 miles away, organizations linked to the Russian government had assigned teams to the Women’s March. At desks in bland offices in St. Petersburg, using models derived from advertising and public relations, copywriters were testing out social media messages critical of the Women’s March movement, adopting the personas of fictional Americans.

“They posted as Black women critical of white feminism, conservative women who felt excluded, and men who mocked participants as hairy-legged whiners…

“Over the 18 months that followed, Russia’s troll factories and its military intelligence service put a sustained effort into discrediting the movement…One hundred and fifty-two different Russian accounts produced material about Ms. Sarsour…

“Many people know the story about how the Women’s March movement fractured, leaving lasting scars on the American left…”

We were denied our historic movement — tainted by the lie factory, and we were too ready to believe the worst about women — always ready to shoot our own.

So if the response to our current dilemma is muted, I believe it’s because any movement that was ever any good in the last decade was infiltrated and destroyed by Russian and US Fifth Column warfare — and sometimes, they were staged from the very beginning.

The Ukrainians offer a model of Resistance.

Listen to Marci Shore’s interview and know that things can change in an augenblick:

She’s brilliant. And Bette members will have the opportunity to meet her at our upcoming Speakeasy zoom salon December 15. If you’re not yet a member, today is a good day to join:

Time to cross to the other side of fear.

In solidarity, reality, truth, and unity.

Heidi xo

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