Lafayette

I don’t need to remind you that if you watch the news, it’s going to feel like a dumpster fire.

But people are truly getting mobilized, and that is also something to behold. Rebecca Solnit, who often writes about movements and social change, shared that she told her friend, “I think we’re winning” though “it will be a long time before we can say we’ve won.”

And then Mark Provost write wrote this on Facebook:

“Friday’s protests were so widespread I had to cross check common city names to identify which state it was in. For example, there was a big march in Lafayette near Berkeley, California, as well as a protest in Lafayette, Indiana, home of Purdue University. Two nights prior, the community of Lafayette, Louisiana protested against local police cooperation with ICE.”

(P.S. Shoutout to my friend Ben who reads this blog from Lafayette, Indiana).

When we add our presence and skills together, people are more powerful than they know.

—Renee Roederer