Yeah, I could go tomorrow. It will be more predictable during the day - less chance of getting arrested (though that’s pretty small if you don’t want to get arrested) - less covidy.
1PM? If we want to distribute water/food/whatever I’m sure the people driven from the park won’t all have gone very far. In the unlikely event there’s nobody to help in the immediate area there’s a big encampment in Eagle Rock we could hit.
Sounds good. Anyone who wants in let’s get cell numbers. I’ll bring at least a case of water.
I have to work this Saturday. Let me know if you guys do anything Sunday.
Otherwise I’m hoping no OT tomorrow
Sucks if you can’t make it. Unfortunately I can’t stay too late tomorrow.
If you want to go get chased around by the cops tonight, I’ll do it. Long drive for you. I will be pot committed to going to sleep in about 30 minutes if I don’t hear from you.
Eta: time’s up.
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Yeah I had to work today. Overtime should be over next month
LFS and I went. Protest would have been weird. There was no one there. The park is fenced and no one is around other than the cops who are just sitting around. We went to Eagle Rock to another encampment and gave out water and granola bars, mostly just leaving them in the donation pile. Pretty uneventful, but getting out and doing something and having a little chat is a pretty big event nowadays.
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Only thing I’ll be catching is a case of elderly abuse.
Looks like we found our Howard Cosell
City of Long Beach is asking for donations (books, toys, money) for arriving migrant children: Long Beach Launches Book Donation Drive for Arriving Migrant Children
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If anyone is interested in going to an organized protest about immigration, here’s one at Darrell Issa’s office on July 22…
I think I’ll be going.
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It’s super hard to think what this is in the US right now. I guess local organizing with NGOs and just assuming both parties are a write off?
I did some activism with the local Democratic Party several years ago, that’s a good option. It’s a suburban area, it changed from red to blue mostly because of Trump, but I like to think we helped.
Democrats are a huge part of the problem. I wouldn’t be helping them if I was American.
Maybe even better than trying to get a tiny fraction of progressive dems elected nationally focussed on states or even smaller might be the right play. That’s how republicans have been able to gain federal power by controlling state level redistricting and maps.
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It feels like progressives need a grassroots version do the tea party to simply take the dems by force.
Yeah, but the tea party was anything but grass roots. The Koch Network spent tens of millions of dollars supporting it. The Democratic Party supporting rich people are ~all centrists.