Lessons From the Road - Get Up & Get Activated!

Hey everyone, this is Derek Bros with the Conscious Resistance Network, and I am back home in Mexico. This video today is just a quick rundown of my thoughts, my insights into what I learned on my activation tour. Now, for those who don't know and you somehow missed it, I've been promoting it for the last 6 months. I went on tour, a US tour, 26 cities in May. We did the Southwest US, West Coast, went all the way up to Portland, Boise, Idaho, came home for a month and then went back on the road just now in July and did Texas all the way up to the Midwest, over to New York City, down to Florida. In total, 26 cities. And some of you may know also, this is my 5th tour I've ever done. Since 2017, I've been touring the United States. This was my 4th US tour. I've also done a Mexico tour. And I actually— let me just pull up the numbers real quick because I'm a nerd for statistics, so I like to, uh, I like to know the numbers. So just for your awareness, in 2017, I did a 51-city tour, insane, called Decentralize Your Life. In 2018, I did a 52-city tour called the Liberate Your Mind Tour. And in 2021, I did the first Activation Tour. This is, of course, during COVID-1984. That was 29 cities. And in 2022, we did the Mexico Activation Tour, 15 cities. And just now, as I said, 2026. It's 26 cities altogether. You guys can do the math on that. But just want to say, first of all, big thank you to everybody who showed up. First, to all my volunteers, everybody who helped make these events possible. Truly couldn't do this without you guys. And yeah, thank you so much for helping me come visit events and, you know, cities big and small, because it was great. We went to places I'd never been to or heard of, like Columbia, Missouri. And we went to places I've been many times, like Denver and Portland. And all of you were so kind. I really enjoy getting to meet you guys face to face, because when I'm back here at my desk and I'm just talking to myself at the camera, sometimes it can feel very lonely, especially because you guys know my work. I've been shadow banned for years. My accounts barely rise at all on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, and it's a real struggle to get my message, my documentaries, my books in front of people. And the way I try to counteract that is by going on tour, doing in-person events. And so to every one of you who came out shook my hand, gave me a hug, shared your stories, shed your tears, which some of you did, bought a book, bought a shirt. I mean, it really means the world. And as I told some of you, your kind words are the fuel I use when I get home and I'm sitting here at my desk and I'm uncertain, like, is anybody listening? Is anybody paying attention? I think about the things that you shared with me, and I remember people are watching, people do care. Stay focused on the mission. So big thank you to all my volunteers and everybody who came. And I just wanted to share a couple of thoughts, you know, now that I'm back home. For one, if you missed me, I'm sorry. I don't know if and when I will go on tour again. I'm not going to say never. Miriam and I has been— Miriam has been recently saying she missed kind of going on tour. She doesn't miss the long drive, but she missed meeting and seeing all of you amazing people. So there's a chance in the next couple of years we might go on tour again. But the reality is that, as I was sharing on tour, the focus of the tour, by the way, was about Exit and Build, which you guys heard me talk about, but also this concept of Liberation 2030. Right? Rather than focusing on just what they, them, those are doing, let's put our time, our money, our energy into creating the world that we want. And instead of just looking at the Great Reset technocracy Agenda 2030 and being like, oh, I don't like their vision, I'm just going to watch podcasts and think about it all day and do nothing for myself, redirecting that energy into what you do want to see in the world. And that's what I call Liberation 2030, which by the way happens to be a mini documentary that I released last year. I think you can find it wherever you're watching or on theconsciousresistance.com, search Liberation 2030. And it's also based on an essay I wrote a few years ago called Welcome to 2030: I Own Land, Live Amongst Like-Minded People, and Life Has Never Been Better. We're taking that whole you will own nothing and be happy crap and turning it on its head. And instead of just focusing on their vision, which we reject— because it's one thing to reject something, it's a whole different thing to know what you do want. And so the tour was very much about that. And what I've been doing the last 5 years since I went on tour Some of you know that I've been— that I moved to Mexico, that we have land now. We're building a community called the Conscious Agora Eco Village. And some of you also have seen the videos recently. We bought a farm truck a couple months ago. We picked our land, our home sites back in January. And I just recently bought 100 sugarcrete blocks. Sugarcrete is like hempcrete, but it's made from the waste of sugarcane. And we're about to buy more. We're going to start building our first little sugarcrete tiny house, starting to build on our home, starting to really bring this community to life. And in the next year, hosting events and things like that. So with all that said, I don't know when I'm going to have time to go on tour again. And I was sharing with people while I was on the road that I started to think over the last couple of years how much it would suck to be spending so much time trying to help you guys by writing articles, producing documentaries, writing books, doing interviews, doing the Exit and Build Challenge, doing public speaking, all this stuff, doing everything I can do, making music to try to wake up people, to empower people. It would really suck if I put all my energy into that and then we reach some kind of shit hits the fan scenario and I don't have my own home base taken care of. So I spent a lot of time now the last few years focused on home base, and that's why I didn't go on tour. And now that we're getting even closer to that, most of my energy is going to be going into bringing my Liberation 2030 to life. So I don't know when I will go on tour again. There might be a chance, but it's going to be a while. So again, thank you to everybody who came out. Now, a couple of things that come to mind. First off, I want to, I want to emphasize the importance of in-person events. My tour events, they were big and small. We had crowds up to 100 plus and we had crowds as small as 10. And I loved every single one of them. I appreciate getting to connect with each of you, any of you who choose to spend a few hours with us and letting me share my ideas with you, sharing your stories as well. Because not only was I speaking and traveling with a couple buddies of mine who were sharing their stories, Ethan and Manish, shout out to both of you, but also we were doing this community dialogue where we were asking people to share what are your successes and what are your challenges that you've had in your exit and build journey and your freedom journey? Since COVID-1984. And so it was really cool to have people— give people that space to communicate. But I just want to emphasize the importance of in-person events. Some of you out there, you still just don't get it. You just don't get it. Like, I, I talked to you about the People's Reset in Mexico that we host every year. March 2027 is going to be the next one. I'd love to see you down there. And some of you say, well, oh, Derek, that's too expensive. Mexico's too far away. I'm not going to make it. Fine. And then I come to your town and I do a free event and say, hey, come here, hang out with like-minded people and get to, you know, network network and meet people and, and hear my ideas and let's meet in person. And some of you still don't show up or don't see the value in it, and that's okay. But do you even bother getting plugged in with your own local activist groups, or do you start your own activist groups or anything like that? The reality is many of you don't, and I think that's very sad because you're missing out, my friends, because it is so important for us to be getting out from behind the screens. You know, a lot of you seem to be content just watching the podcast and the conspiritainment and infotainment and just consuming, consuming. Oh, look, look what Derek said. Oh, what James say? What Mark say? What Max say? What Jeff say? What, you know, whatever, whoever you listen to and just consume, consume, consume. And at some point you have to get, I hope, to a point of like, okay, what am I going to do with this information? Otherwise, what's the point of being awake and aware but not doing anything with it? This is why I talk about being activated, that we have to be actively working on the liberation of humanity because so many people seem to be content just just like I said, watching the podcast, watching the conspiratainment, watching the world get worse behind their screens, and you don't understand or care about the benefits of being in person with other people. And you're really missing out because there's a lot of great people out there who are looking for like-minded people like you. And so I just want to really emphasize that, okay, if you didn't come to my tour, no big deal, you don't have to, right? But get plugged into your community somehow. Come meet some other people in your backyard somehow, some way. Because if not, my friends, you're really missing out. You're really, really missing out on the opportunity to meet like-minded people and to focus on solutions. I'm not just talking about another activist group that gets together and, you know, talks about conspiracies and complains about how stupid the sheeple are all day, but actually gets together and focuses on real-world solutions. That's what Freedom Cells is about. That's what the People's Reset, the Activation Tour, Exit and Build— everything I do is about trying to motivate people to action. And if you haven't got that yet, if you're just watching me and watching other people, I don't think you're really getting it. You're definitely not getting my message. You're not— definitely, definitely not getting the message of the conscious resistance. And I'm not talking about just protests and rallies. I'm talking about focusing on your food, focusing on getting off big tech, focusing on your spiritual mental journey, focusing on getting out of the banking system, all the different methods that you can exit and build new systems. That's what is so important. And if you're just sitting at home going about your daily life, working your job and living with your family and going through your routine, but not taking real-world action, my friends, you're still going to get welcomed into the FEMA camp. You're still going to get welcomed right into the digital ID technocracy because you didn't do anything about it. You just sat online and figured, I'm smarter and better than everybody. All I need to do is watch podcasts. Sorry, that's not going to be enough. So point one, in-person events. So, so important. Whether you come to my events or do something else, get plugged in. And if you search local groups in your area and you find that there are no other people, I nominate you to start it because I guarantee you there are other people out there just like you. But they're also like, oh, there's nobody here. I'm alone. I guess I'll just keep watching the world get worse on my screen. But I can tell you from experience, when I started the Houston Freethinkers back in 2010, it was 2 of us. And then it grew and it grew. And eventually we're having meetings of 60-plus people on a monthly basis. And then sometimes it would go back down to 5 to 10 and it would go up and down again. But we found other like-minded people by getting out of our comfort zones, by going out to the streets, Passing out flyers, passing out DVDs back in the day, posting on the internet, of course, but also gathering in person, putting up flyers at your local coffee shop, at your local yoga studio, meditation studio, any bulletin board you can find, and saying, hey, are you awake? Do you want to do something about it? Contact me here. Let's start a group. Some of you are just so in your comfort zone and you're afraid to get out of it that you're just going to— you're going to end up becoming a slave because you don't want to take action. And your children will be slaves too, because you're too afraid, because you're too lazy, because you're— any other excuse you can come up with. that sounds harsh, but I'm just being real, my friends. And this is what I was sharing on the tour. I am sure my audience and those of you finding this video, you know what technocracy is. You know what the Great Reset is. You know what the Agenda 2030 is. You know about all those things. So you can't claim ignorance. So if you do nothing, even though you, you know what's going on and you're so awake and aware, guess what? You're failing the coming generations and you're betraying your ancestors and all the work that they had to do to get you here. So you can't claim ignorance. Instead, What is it? Is it laziness? Is it fear? Is it apathy? Only you know the answers, but I encourage you to push past them. Now, sort of a second but connected point here is that one of the things I noticed when I went on tour in 2021, which of course was the fall of 2021, is the height of COVID Everybody's in fear panic mode, and that fear panic mode is a strong motivator. And unfortunately, our, our silly human species, we don't act unless we feel threatened. there was so many more people at the events I hosted in 2021. We had up to 150 in some cities. You know, every, every city, I would say by and large, was bigger in 2021 than it was in 2026. And I asked myself, am I doing something wrong? What has changed? My audience has grown despite the shadow banning and despite being deleted off YouTube for 2021 to 2024. I've gotten on bigger channels than ever, like Redacted, Jimmy Dore, other big podcasts. You know, my work continues to grow slowly but steadily. So it's not that. Yeah. I am shadow banned. I am still dealing with that. But I really think the big factor is that people didn't feel this threat, even though digital IDs are racing forward, central bank digital currencies, stablecoins, facial recognition, flock cameras, the surveillance state. The technocrats are in the White House with Trump. All these things are moving forward. All the things you were concerned about in 2021 are still here, but people don't see it 24/7 on the TV, on the screens, on the radios, on everywhere else. Like with COVID you couldn't escape it. And that was a beautiful thing in a way, because it pushed people to say, oh my God, maybe I need to get my shit together. But without that unifying event bringing the human consciousness together, it seems like lots of you are just going back to sleep. And I posted this on my social media, um, let me just pull this up real quick, that one of the biggest lessons that I learned recently is that so many of the people who did come to my tour events are complaining and saying that, well, our events used to be huge and now people don't show up anymore. This is what I wrote: one of the most consistent messages I heard across the US from people who attended the Activation Tour was that ever since the threat of COVID-1984 subsided, most of the activist groups and action have largely died down. Over and over, I was told the story of groups meeting regularly and focusing on solutions during the COVID panic. But now most of them no longer meet, or they're meeting, but there's barely any energy and barely any attendance. And so, as I said, without this threat, people have kind of gone back to sleep or they're awake, but they're also just watching podcasts all day and they don't, you know, they don't see any value in doing anything. So to those of you who are in that position, if that was you, you were active during 2021, 2022, but you're not doing anything anymore because life has gotten busy and whatever else. This is your, this is your warning, your, your reminder, your activation, reactivation. Guys, the threats are not gone. If you were motivated in 2021, 2022, 2023, get motivated again because it's summer 2026 and their agenda is called 2030. Now, that doesn't mean on January 1st, 2030, they're going to win and get their way and everything's going to be technocracy. In fact, it doesn't happen like that. It happens gradually, incrementally. So they are passing these policies and these systems every single day while you're just being lazy or just watching the world get worse on the internet. So if this sounds like you, if you found yourself lost in doom scrolling and conspiratainment, I invite you to step up again and get activated in your local community. Watching podcasts won't prevent you from being swept up in the digital tyranny. Exit and build strategy is essential to thrive outside of the coming technocracy. And to those of you who expressed this and said, Derek, our groups don't meet anymore. We don't have anybody else coming. Like, what do I do? Remember, no one is coming to save you. You are the Avengers. You are the X-Men. You are the Superman. You are the ones who have to step up and take action. Okay, so don't sit around. I know it sucks sometimes to keep other people motivated, let alone yourself, but that's the cards we've been played. So if you know what's going on and you're the ones coming to my event and saying, Derek, why aren't there 100+ people here? Why isn't this standing room only? I'm disappointed. Well, guess what, my friends? You got to be the leaders. I'm sorry. I wish we had it easier, but that's that's just seems to be what we've you know what what we've been dealt here. So that's the other lesson is that it you know first in-person events are so important. Second, my events were much smaller in 2021, and I don't think it's just my tour. This is what people are telling me for all of their gatherings that there are way less people than there used to be. So that's a problem. This is why I went on tour, and I hope that my efforts were not in vain, and that the five weeks I spent on the road traveling to 26 cities and doing. community action days and volunteering and giving these presentations. I think I spoke for more than 28 hours at this point, not to, you know, just in presentations, not to mention networking and talking to all of you. So I've given up, you know, 100+ hours of my time, not to mention all the time on the road traveling from city to city. And I hope it was not in vain. But I know I'm not the only one out here trying this, but there are way too many people out there who are content to just monetize your fear, monetize your hopelessness, and give you no solutions. They have nothing to offer you, and they're okay with that because they're going to keep making money off you. Don't fall into that trap. Yes, watch my content if it's useful, but after a while, if you get it, okay, there's bad people doing bad things. Now what can I do about it? How can I put my energy into my Liberation 2030? And that's my third and final point. Go watch Liberation 2030. I'll link it below and wherever you're watching if you want to check it out. But most importantly, stop today and put— get out a pen and a pad, or pull out your phone or your tablet and write down what are your goals for 2030 and If you don't want their vision, what are you fighting for? What are you aiming for? What are you building? Because for me, I know what that is, and I'm putting all my time, my limited money, and my energy into bringing that to life. That's what I've been working on. I first wrote about the Conscious Agora Eco Village in my 2017 book Manifesto of the Free Humans. Then in 2020, we moved to Mexico. We started to look for land. We decided to move it from Texas to Mexico. We spent the last 5 years Putting together our conflict resolution process, our decision-making process, our entry and exit process, finding the right people, which is still an ongoing search, finding the land, getting the money together, doing it without a bank, focusing on our principles and our values, and now getting close to building our homes. It's taken lots of energy and effort and yes, financial investment to get to this point. And I'm not a rich person by any means. Neither is Miriam. None of our families come from wealth. But through dedication and persistence and and just consistency, we have been able to accomplish what we're hoping to build. And we're still at the early stages, but I know it's going to happen because I'm putting everything I've got into bringing that Liberation 2030 to life, to living with like-minded people, to having clean food, organic food, clean air, clean water, free-range kids running around, community education, permaculture, all these things. That's where my energy and my time is going to. Yes, I will continue to do journalism and I will show you guys the things that I think are important, but I'm also going to start documenting everything we're building. And use that hopefully as a way to motivate you towards your Liberation 2030 goals. You don't need to move to Mexico. You don't even necessarily need to build a community if you just want to get some land with your family. Or if you can't get land, then you do need to come together with community because that's the only way I was able to do it, is to buy this property by coming together with other like-minded people. But whatever your path is, you need to know it. You need to see it in your mind's eye. So tonight, when you have a little bit of time, pull out your pen and pad. Pull out your phone and really write down what it is you are aiming for. If you're an artist, if you're a creative person, draw it out, sketch it out. Or if you, you want to create a vision board, do something to take it out of your mind, your mind here, and to put it down into physical reality. The more you do that, the more likely you are to bring it into reality, to manifest it through hard work, through dedication. But you have to take it from here, and you have to really understand what is it that I'm after? What is my Liberation 23rd? And that's what I want to encourage you guys to do more than anything, because the other side— they, them, those— the Bilderberg Group, Peter Thiel's Dialogue, World Economic Forum, so on and so forth— they've got meetings, they've got white papers, they've got trillions of dollars invested into their agenda. They're working with every government around the world, multinational corporations. They're focused on this day and night. You need to be putting just as much energy into that. Don't only focus on what you don't want. just as much energy, if not more— hopefully more— into what you do want, my friends. And find out what your Liberation 2030 is, because that was my whole message of the tour. That was the whole reason I went on tour. So if you missed it, that's basically what I talked about. And so, yeah. And by the way, I will be releasing a full version of the entire presentation— not only my presentation, but the entire event. So if you, if you missed it and you want to see from beginning to end, stay tuned. We are going to be releasing that very soon. Thank you for letting me share some of my thoughts as I settle back into home and bring the Activation Tour to Again, I truly appreciate every single one of you who came to the events. All of my volunteers, please reach out to me if I can help you in any way. I want to help you as you build your exit and build dream and your Liberation 2030 goals in whatever way as I can. So again, thank you, thank you, thank you. And by the way, thank you to everybody who supports me on a monthly basis, paid subscriptions on Substack and Buy Me a Coffee. If you don't know, if you sign up for at least $10 a month, you get access to exclusive weekly subscriber livestreams, which I'm about to resume now that I'm home. Also, you get to help me decide on what I am going to investigate next. So for example, everybody who has signed up on Substack and Buy Me a Coffee, you can find a post on there that I recently shared that is called Help Me Decide My August Investigations, where you can vote on what I'm going to investigate this month. So thank you to everybody who supports me. You can find out more at theconsciousresistance.com/invest. And until next time, my friends, remember, you are powerful, you are beautiful, and you are free. Peace. Peace.