I want to be this much of a bad ass when I’m 77 years old:
“I’m 77-and-a-half years old and I hate the destruction of democracy in this province,” this woman says while being escorted out by two security guards.”
“Ester Reiter lived through discrimination as a Jew in Cold War America, marched to protest the Vietnam War with two babies in tow, and visited a mass grave in a southern Poland forest where her grandparents, aunts and uncles were likely murdered in the Holocaust.
When she woke up on Wednesday morning, the 77-year-old didn’t hesitate to stand up for what she says is another great injustice — the Ontario government passing legislation that a judge ruled violates the Constitution.
[…]
“How I honour my identity as a Jew is to get my ass out and protect everybody, to protect the rights and freedoms of everybody and really try to struggle against any injustice,” she said.”
I haven’t seen anyone talking about the Statue of Liberty protester
The lady who climbed the Statue of Liberty on July 4th was Congolese immigrant and activist Therese Patricia Okoumou
She was protesting ICE, and she’s quite plainly an icon for doing this.
She’s being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in NYC, however Rise and Resist—her affiliate organization has her a lawyer and is working with her.