in the face

“In the face of crisis, the lesson is, don’t scatter. The instinct has to be to immediately find and connect with each other and to know that the circle will be strong,” Harris said.

"I don't understand how you'll be able to look yourself in the face," Moskowitz said.

But this year activists say the fight is more important than ever in the face of an executive branch challenging the rights of workers, immigrants and queer people, as well as a legislative branch that appears unwilling to challenge the president.

"We have to show ourselves as a space, and that's what May 1 is. It's a coming-out party to show ourselves as a group of neighbors willing to create a community coalition in the face of a growing threat to all of us."

In the face of the Diemist repression, these persecuted southerners called for Hanoi to fight back, which led to the formation of the NLF and the commencement of a coordinated “armed struggle.”