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READY TO STAND UP [1]
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Date: 2025-02-08
I went to the protest in Olympia, Washington that was part of 50 in 50 (50501) on Wednesday 2/5/25. Fifty protests in Fifty states. The initial protest there was promoted online by One America, highlighting immigrant rights. Not a huge crowd but somewhere over 2000. (The Tacoma News Tribune said 1500-2000.) The interesting thing: it was just people who turned out from that online call. No organizations. Nothing really organized. Just signs and banners that people made themselves. Lots of creativity. Mostly calling out Musk for being unelected and usurping powers. Some signs calling out Project 2025. The largest sign was a 20 foot or longer yellow banner with professional lettering that people were holding up along Capitol Way. It read “People Before Profits”. I asked what group it was? “No group” a woman explained. She said her boyfriend had made it. There was lot’s of welcoming energy and solidarity all around. Wearing my union jacket, I heard many thanks for being there.
Some people are ready to stand up and be counted. Do we have leaders to lead us?
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