Participate in Create to Liberate from the comfort of your couch
Create to Liberate Idea No. 26
50501, Indivisible, Women’s March, Hands Off! and other organizations are mobilizing protests across the country for April 5, 2025.
Their motivation is to put an end to what right-wing sects are doing to our country and the Constitution. These protests are big deals and the understandable language used by these groups includes “reject,” “attack” and “fight.”
Create to Liberate on April 19 is something different. For it, Abbetuck is encouraging artists, creatives and arts enthusiasts to fill our world with art, art activism and acts of creative resistance. Small ones. Medium-sized ones. Large ones.
Wherever you are and whatever you want to do.
We can’t even get protest calendars to accept our Create to Liberate because (a) our location is the “everywhere” in the United States of America and (b) our activity may be as small as wearing a t-shirt or buying a book to as big as organizing a parade of giant puppets in the neighborhood or projecting a light art installation in a metropolis.
Abbetuck’s true intentions
Our hope is that you will:
- help others value creative freedom and the arts.
- remind friends and neighbors about the historical power of language arts, the performing arts, and visual art when it comes to social justice and democracy.
- focus on the artists and art disciplines that government officials will suppress if America fully turns the corner toward totalitarianism.
- share the beauty, joy, poignancy and/or motivating message of works from all arts disciplines.
And, if possible, be a little wicked.
Creativity is a positive force appreciated by the same people who appreciate a healthy and smart society.
Please, don’t get up!
Here’s the good news. You don’t need to get up and out of the house to support April 19 actions. You can be an art activist from the comfort of your La-Z-Boy and laptop or mobile phone:
- Post YouTube videos of your favorite songs, whether they are your favorite because they are beautiful or because they have social impact. Tag your posts with #createtoliberate. We’ll find it and re-post.
- Find photos of your favorite visual artists or favorite works of art and architecture and share those online. Tag your posts with #createtoliberate. We’ll find it and re-post.
- Leave a encouraging messages on posts other creatives make. Tag your comment with #createtoliberate. We’ll find it and re-post.
- When you can, double-down when you post or comment and tag your local news station, newspaper, social media group or media personality.
In summary, for Create to Liberate on April 19, you don’t need to create a thing, perform a thing, or wear a thing. Just sit right there and make a handful of #createtoliberate posts.
Don’t get too comfortable with your sofa, however.
That’s where J.D. Vance went bad.
“From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.”
Dan Rather
We invite individual visual and performing artists, writers, bookstores, book clubs, brave non-profit or government organizations and other individuals or groups across the USA to independently “flood the zone” with creativity, for Create to Liberate, Saturday, April 19, 2025.
Think of the idea above as a pilot light for the creative fire within you (if yours needs to be lit.)
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