Take The Pledge of Resistance – Stop Mass Deportation!
By Eddie Wong. Posted November 9, 2024. Like many of you, I’ve had a rough week as the massive implications of Trump’s devastating victory on Nov. 5 trigger anger, sadness, revulsion, and a sense of betrayal. As an activist from the late 1960s, I firmly believed that the progress that we won by protest and…
Statement on Cognitive Concerns in the 2024 Presidential Election by Mental Health Experts
50 mental health experts have signed this Statement on Cognitive Concerns (about former President Trump) in the Presidential Election.
The Fast and Furious End of the 2024 Elections: MAGAism, new AANHPI videos, and Winning the Vote.
By Eddie Wong. Posted October 23, 2024 The fast and furious 2024 election is nearing its momentous conclusion. It’s astonishing to think that Harris and Trump are tied in a dead heat. What do people see in Trump? He has lied repeatedly about the 2020 election being rigged. He is a bigot who continues to…
Sweet Molly Mallon – A Story by Charlie Chin
By Charlie Chin. Posted October 17, 2024 “Dr. Gong, I have an urgent need of your opinion. Please meet me at the Southwest corner of Five Points. Signed, Detective Sean Carter.” Dr. Gong noted the date and time inscribed at the top of the note. 1: 00 PM, March 16, 1906. That was…
MOSF 19.18: Trump v. Harris: Catastrophizing the Electorate v. Reason, Growth, and Change (closing argument of a psychiatrist for Kamala Harris and the American People)
Dr. Ravi Chandra gives a succinct summary of the mass psychology behind Trump’s rise to power, and a closing argument for the candidacy of Kamala Harris. Including a link to the 16-minute talk on YouTube.
MOSF 19.17: Beethoven’s Ninth and the Ode to Joy – Symphony, Psyche, and the Brotherhood of Man
We’ve recently passed the bicentennial of the May 7, 1824 premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which includes the magnificent Ode to Joy. What does the Symphony continue to tell us about psyche? About struggle and triumph? About finding and choosing joy in adversity?
From Jesse to Barack to Kamala: The Fight for America’s Future
by Eddie Wong. Posted October 11, 2024. I wrote the following op/ed shortly after the Democratic National Convention as a vehicle to promote Asian Americans for Democracy. We are an all-volunteer group of veteran Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leaders and activists, who in partnership with CAPA21 political action committee, has granted $830,000…
MOSF 19.16: The GOP is Effectively a Domestic Terror Organization. Vote Blue for American Democracy!
We’re in the final push. The fact that this election is as close as it is reveals some unpleasant truths about America and mass psychology. We’ve got the message. Now it’s up to us to say no to Trump and the GOP’s program of domestic terror and psychological warfare.
MOSF 19.15: TrumpVance and their Proposed Advance of the Plantation of Lies and Weirdness
To paraphrase Walt Whitman, “If you stop this day and night with me, shall we possess the origin of all lies?” The foundational lie of America is White Supremacy. It is asserting itself with violent psychological force now. A thoughtful meander, ending with a new creation myth, the origin of stories themselves, and an urgent call for us to forge a new, inclusive story for a better future for all.
MOSF 19.19: Taking Stock – Engaging Our Ongoing Psycho-Spiritual-Historical-Electoral Struggle with Joy and Clarity
Rebecca Solnit wrote of “paradise built in hell” – how community forms in dystopic, tragic circumstances. Isn’t that what’s happening now? An uplifting message for the last week of the campaign.