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Julia S
@juliacsmith.bsky.social
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She/her. Recent transplant to NJ from Chicago. My newsletter = short, energizing examples of community organizing, mutual aid, arts, & more. Subscribe at https://here-for-you.ghost.io/ "what we pay attention to grows." - adrienne maree brown
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#GoodNewsOfTheWeek 🥳 Librarian fired for protecting inclusive books sued and won $700,000! In the end, she said, “It’s been a rough road, but I will never regret standing up for the First Amendment.” buff.ly/QDLlKoG
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I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. Don't leave FSA funds on the table at the end of the year. LOTS of places like homeless shelters etc... would love donations of FSA eligible items. For the past 2 years, I've used left over funds to shop here: fsastore.com - then donate the items.
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Speaking of things I appreciate…I love our local School of Rock.
Happy birthday @prisonculture. I listened to your most recent Movement Memos convo last night. Continually grateful for all that you put out into the world!
Happy birthday @prisonculture.bsky.social Much respect and admiration for all you are and do and make possible.
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like this is vicious.

they waited for the grandmas to go home so they could do this.
LAPD now shooting 40mm foam rounds at people, some narrowly missing photographers who were stuck in between the line and protesters. Just absolutely evil shit.
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FATED STATES PHONEBANKERS: you can join the Sister District phonebanks to help send a blue wave through Virginia for the statewide elections there on November 4. State legislatures are the first and foremost line of defense against authoritarianism. Sign up to phonebank (with training!).
2025 Sister District & Partners National Phonebank! · Sister District
**Sister District and our National Phonebank partners are BACK in 2025!** Join us to help elect top-priority Dem candidates to the VA House of Delegates, drive votes up the ticket to help flip the Gov...
www.mobilize.us
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I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
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The coalition that put this together is hosting a mass follow up call on Tuesday 10/21.

But local groups can use the momentum to actually offer concrete ways for people to do things together. Take the opportunity. Folks want to be involved.
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New Yorkers, please help us to spread the word. Make copies of our zine and share it across the city!
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Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).
OPERATION INFLATION
www.operationinflation.com
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If you like to sing, want Zohran to defeat Cuomo & have a few hours in Manhattan to spare Sunday please join us
HEY NYC #skyfriends (pls share): Urgent call for singers for an anti-Cuomo, pro-Zohran PARODY SONG VIDEO filming SUN. 11/19, 3-5:30/6pm. DM for location.

Returning to Bsky after 6mos bec. I cowrote this for @jfrejnyc.bsky.social & some of our singers got sick. We need a few more!

Can YOU join us?
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There won't be weekly mass mobilizations. But there will be people organizing weekly. We can all do so.
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“Why should I go to a No Kings protest?”
A few more photos from #NoKings in Hightstown NJ today. 500+ people showed up! CC @njindivisible.bsky.social
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If you were out in the streets today, thanks. If you left feeling inspired, please seek out local ways that you can keep organizing with others.
If anyone wants to copy this and incorporate more family/kids programming at future events, 1) I’m happy to connect and talk about what we did, and 2) you can find activity sheets in the conversation guide (plus the link to buy the poster map) here-

www.socialchangemap.com/we-are-the-b... #NoKings
Introduced a new generation to @deepaiyer.bsky.social and We Are the Builders at #NoKings in Hightstown, NJ today. 🌞

Who needs monarchs or authoritarians when you’ve got Storytellers, Caregivers, Healers, and ppl who fit all the other roles on the Social Change Ecosystem Map?
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Chicago, stay strong and take care of one another.

For help for your family or to report ICE activities, call 1-855-435-7693 (HELP-MY-FAMILY)

Para ayuda para su familia ó para reportar actividades de ICE, llame al: 1-855-435-7693

National Lawyers Guild Chicago Legal Support Hotline: 872-465-4244
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Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.
Before dawn this morning --
Disruption at Port Elizabeth: "The Nonviolent Way to Stop a Genocide Is to Stop the Shipment of Weapons"
accuracy.org/release/disr...
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It's always the people taking consistent action who feel they aren't doing "enough." Let that shit go. You are doing more than 85% of others.

I am personally at more than capacity. What we need is for others to do their part(s) too.