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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 18h

ICE is the modern day version of the fugitive slave patrol.

The regime is using this force among other pillars to prop up white supremacist hierarchies.

What we fail to repair, we repeat.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 20h

The persistence of authoritarian divide & conquer politics requires taking fandom organizing seriously.

@nataliegreen.bsky.social @levin.bsky.social & I shared some of the lessons we've learned bringing Andor fans into our movement for freedom from fascism & white supremacy.

"Remember this. Try."

Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 1d

"We saw an opportunity in the final season of 'Andor' and now many more people across races, backgrounds and genders have joined our ranks for truth and reparations — and have already dealt major blows to the MAGA regime’s agenda."

More about Project Fulcrum⬇️
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/why-...

Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.

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Sonya H @sonyah.bsky.social · 22h

As @glider.bsky.social once said in a presentation at A-Kon, fandom is powerful. Fandom has great economic power, for starters.

Also, many stories that have fandoms have strong political narratives. These stories can be didactic, especially science fiction.

Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 1d

"We saw an opportunity in the final season of 'Andor' and now many more people across races, backgrounds and genders have joined our ranks for truth and reparations — and have already dealt major blows to the MAGA regime’s agenda."

More about Project Fulcrum⬇️
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/why-...

Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 23h

Also, watch Andor.

Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 1d

"We saw an opportunity in the final season of 'Andor' and now many more people across races, backgrounds and genders have joined our ranks for truth and reparations — and have already dealt major blows to the MAGA regime’s agenda."

More about Project Fulcrum⬇️
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/why-...

Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Waging Nonviolence @wagingnonviolence.org · 1d

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Star Wars” fan community, showing the potential of cultural organizing.

Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 23h

The sort of organizing we're doing here is honestly crucial right now. If your organization wants to learn more about organizing fans, ping me!

Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 1d

"We saw an opportunity in the final season of 'Andor' and now many more people across races, backgrounds and genders have joined our ranks for truth and reparations — and have already dealt major blows to the MAGA regime’s agenda."

More about Project Fulcrum⬇️
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/why-...

Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 1d

"Bucking tradition" is such a nice way of saying "making a white supremacist authoritarian power grab."

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 1d

"We saw an opportunity in the final season of 'Andor' and now many more people across races, backgrounds and genders have joined our ranks for truth and reparations — and have already dealt major blows to the MAGA regime’s agenda."

More about Project Fulcrum⬇️
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/why-...

Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 2d

"How do you advance Black reparations when the federal government has fully embraced anti-Blackness and is hellbent on wiping out racial justice and Black history itself?

The answer? Just do it."

💯💯💯💯💯

www.laprogressive.com/california-p...

Fixing the Future

Despite national headwinds of racism and authoritarianism, California’s Black legislators stay on task with reparations.

www.laprogressive.com

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We Make The Future Action @wmtfaction.bsky.social · 9d

The Trump regime is using the government as a weapon against our people.

And corporations like Disney are responding by silencing criticism of MAGA.

But this victory shows that we are more powerful when we join together.

As @nelini.bsky.social says, organizing gets the goods.

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We Make The Future Action @wmtfaction.bsky.social · 9d

As soon as Jimmy Kimmel was suspended by Disney, groups like @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social gave people concrete ways to take action across colors & cultures to boycott and fight back.

It took only a few days of people-powered pressure for Disney to reinstate Kimmel.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Disney reinstates Jimmy Kimmel after suspension over Charlie Kirk remarks

The late-night comic's show will return to air after Disney said it had "thoughtful conversations" with him.

www.bbc.com

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 9d

When we organize together, we win.

This fight has always been about more than one comedian, it’s about contesting fascist control of media & their white supremacist demands to take away our freedom of speech and silence anyone who doesn't look, live, or love like them from speaking truth to power.

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Movement victory

This fight has always been about more than one comedian, it’s about contesting fascist control of media and their white supremacist demands to take away our freedom of speech and silence anyone who doesn't look, live, or love like them from speaking truth to power.

When we come together across race and place to organize for equality, we can and we will win

Join Project Fulcrum through the link in our bio

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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 11d

It’s a 3:3 knockout! People organizing to boycott and protest made it happen.

We did. We can. And we will win freedom for all. @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social @wgaeast.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social

www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/m...

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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 11d

Look who caved. Nexstar is next up.

When we organize, we win.

Join friends everywhere @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social

www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/09/...

Sinclair-owned ABC stations will bring 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' back to air Friday

Broadcast station owner Sinclair will begin airing "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" after three days of preempting the program since its return.

www.cnbc.com

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 11d

Today, members of @50501newyork.bsky.social , @wgaeast.bsky.social, and Get Free’s Project Fulcrum rallied in front of the Nexstar’s corporate office in NYC to demand they free the airwaves, show Jimmy Kimmel, and refuse to comply with future regime attacks on truth and freedom.

Sign that reads: the death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands… we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest - Mon Mothma”

Sign: nexstar - refuse to comply with the MAGA regime/imperial censorship

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Elisa G. Schneider @elisagschneider.bsky.social · 13d

I'll be here, will you?

Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 13d

And if you're in NYC this Friday, join our free speech rally outside Nexstar corporate offices NYC at noon to demand they free the airwaves and end their role in MAGA regime-backed censorship.

RSVP: events.boycottdisneyabc.com/events/0fb71...

Free Speech Rally - Nexstar Corporate Offices

Sep 26, 2025, 12:00:00 PM - GMT-4 - Calyon Building, 1301 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10019, United States of America, 1301 6th Avenue (New York) - “The Imperial need for control is so desperate because ...

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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 13d

And join with other young likeminded fans on our discord: discord.gg/5ePYDHCEc4

Join the Get Free Discord Server!

We’re building a youth-led movement to repair past harms, remove ongoing barriers to equality, and realize a future where freedom is for all. | 747 members

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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 13d

I’ll be there, who will join me??

We have friends everywhere.

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 13d

And if you're in NYC this Friday, join our free speech rally outside Nexstar corporate offices NYC at noon to demand they free the airwaves and end their role in MAGA regime-backed censorship.

RSVP: events.boycottdisneyabc.com/events/0fb71...

Free Speech Rally - Nexstar Corporate Offices

Sep 26, 2025, 12:00:00 PM - GMT-4 - Calyon Building, 1301 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10019, United States of America, 1301 6th Avenue (New York) - “The Imperial need for control is so desperate because ...

events.boycottdisneyabc.com

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 13d

Star Wars Fans of conscience: join members of 50501 and Get Free’s Project Fulcrum to demand Nexstar and Sinclair free the airwaves, show Jimmy Kimmel, and refuse to comply with future regime attacks on truth and freedom.

RSVP to a rally near you:
friendseverywhere.network

JOIN THE STAR WARS FAN FREE SPEECH RALLIES
OUTSIDE NEXSTAR & SINCLAIR OFFICES
FRIDAY, SEPT 26 AT NOON LOCAL TIME
RSVP & TOOLKIT @ LINK IN BIO

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 15d

By making Disney/ABC change course on Jimmy Kimmel, we showed that when we unite and act together, we win!

Celebrate this victory, call on Nexstar and Sinclair to follow suit & demand these corporations refuse to comply with future MAGA regime attacks on our freedoms."

Keep up the pressure.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15d

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 18d

If Disney-ABC, Nexstar, and Sinclair keep caving to white supremacist demands to silence our freedom of speech, it's time we speak in the only language they seem to respect - their money.

Andor fans: join the rebellion #BoycottDisneyABC

Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 18d

🚨CALLING ALL ANDOR FANS: BOYCOTT DISNEY-ABC🚨

We have the power and responsibility as Andor fans to demand these corporations stop bending to the MAGA regime. Not one more dollar if they keep caving to white supremacist demands to silence our freedom of speech.
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Boycott Disney-ABC

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 18d

“The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.” - Nemik's Manifesto.
#BoycottDisneyABC

Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 18d

🚨CALLING ALL ANDOR FANS: BOYCOTT DISNEY-ABC🚨

We have the power and responsibility as Andor fans to demand these corporations stop bending to the MAGA regime. Not one more dollar if they keep caving to white supremacist demands to silence our freedom of speech.
secure.everyaction.com/iGih_Z5w20-x...

Boycott Disney-ABC

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 18d

🚨CALLING ALL ANDOR FANS: BOYCOTT DISNEY-ABC🚨

We have the power and responsibility as Andor fans to demand these corporations stop bending to the MAGA regime. Not one more dollar if they keep caving to white supremacist demands to silence our freedom of speech.
secure.everyaction.com/iGih_Z5w20-x...

Boycott Disney-ABC

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 19d

Demand the Mississippi Governor, the Chief of Police, and Delta State University President conduct a transparent investigation so we can reckon with the whole truth of how Trey Reed’s life ended - and take steps to defend Black lives for generations to come.

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Trey Reed’s Family Deserves the Truth

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