Threads of Resistance Project

Here are two quilts entered for the 

Threads of Resistance project (see threadsofresistance.org).

Fill 1,000 Seats.
Art quilt made for entry to the Threads of Resistance Show.
http://threadsofresistance.blogspot.com/p/call-for-entry.ht…

Shortly after the presidential election, we read that Democrats lost more than 1,000 legislative seats between 2008 and 2016: 11 governorships, 13 senate seats, 69 house seats, and 913 state legislative seats. We’ve since learned that those numbers are slightly exaggerated and that every president’s party loses seats during the term. But we were shocked at the numbers and the implications of these losses. We also realized that getting democrats elected at all levels would be a positive focus for our anger, fear and disgust at the new administration. Not instead of demonstrations, letters, petitions and phone calls, but in addition to those actions. 

This quilt focuses on the idea that we need to fill 1,000 seats with progressive democrats at every level of government to restore decency and sanity to the nation. There may not be exactly 1,000 chairs on the quilt, but we came close to that number in the custom-designed and printed wallpaper fabric . . .

Please vote, participate, and work to fill legislative seats. It will take all of us to get this done. It will take time, but we can do it. 

Julie Weinstein and Fran Sharp
Sudbury and Maynard Massachusetts

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Sisters, Persist! by Fran Sharp

Our heroine, Lady Liberty, holds a torch in the air, a battle cry to remind us to raise our fists in the air, to resist, insist, assist and persist. 

We have power! We must recognize that and not waste the power we have. We are stronger together than we are individually, and our collective power can and does change the world.