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Went to a #StrongerTogether-organized letter-writing event. There were over 100 people there, almost all women, though there were three men at my table. My dude came along.
They had postcards and a stapled-up printout of the addresses of a number of people, representatives, organizations, and such that we could write to. The postcards were in two main stacks: One that had the Women’s March logo and said “Thank you” on it, and the other that had a fill-in form on the other side that said, basically, “to: [___] I am [_____] from [_____] and am writing to you about [_______] because [large white space]. I urge you to keep this in mind as we go forward in the first 100 days of the new administration. Sincerely, [______]”
And then there was a stack of postcards with, wait, i think I took a picture.
Which is a Republican-held district that completely surrounds the City of Buffalo (which is Democratic). I work in the 27th district. But they didn’t have this rep’s address on their sheet! I looked it up and shared it with the table, and a bunch of us sent some nastygrams to Chris Collins, R, 27-NY.
I also wrote 1 to John Faso, R, 19-NY, which is where the farm is.
I wrote a supportive postcard each to my senators, a pointed postcard of specific encouragement to my rep, who has been a spineless collaborator, two really nasty notes to Paul Ryan, a gentle nudge of encouragement to our city’s mayor (”I understand that we have a special relationship to refugees and support this with all my heart, but I wonder why, when [smaller Central NY City] is a sanctuary city, we can’t be?”), and meanwhile my dude wrote some really powerful little notes of obstreporous language to our senators. (He told Chuck Schumer that he needed to get “that odious bag of dicks onto a leash”, and told Gillibrand to stay strong against “whatever loathsome toad is inevitably nominated to the Supreme Court”.)
Our table was cheerful, motivated, dedicated, and churned out a bunch of cards on a variety of topics. Mixed bag of positive and negative cards, but we all agreed that it was a good idea going forward to get in the habit of sending supportive ones!
I do intend to get some nice notecards to send to the local synagogue, and the local Muslim organizations, supportive notes, because they surely could use it. Several local organizations had sponsored refugee families that were to arrive imminently who now cannot come, and it’s heartbreaking for them; they’d already made space in their homes, their schools, their hearts, and now they cannot help. It’s awful to think about. So, sympathy cards, I suppose, if nothing else. I have some, around here somewhere, I know.
Went to a #StrongerTogether-organized letter-writing event. There were over 100 people there, almost all women, though there were three men at my table. My dude came along.
They had postcards and a stapled-up printout of the addresses of a number of people, representatives, organizations, and such that we could write to. The postcards were in two main stacks: One that had the Women’s March logo and said “Thank you” on it, and the other that had a fill-in form on the other side that said, basically, “to: [___] I am [_____] from [_____] and am writing to you about [_______] because [large white space]. I urge you to keep this in mind as we go forward in the first 100 days of the new administration. Sincerely, [______]”
And then there was a stack of postcards with, wait, i think I took a picture.
Which is a Republican-held district that completely surrounds the City of Buffalo (which is Democratic). I work in the 27th district. But they didn’t have this rep’s address on their sheet! I looked it up and shared it with the table, and a bunch of us sent some nastygrams to Chris Collins, R, 27-NY.
I also wrote 1 to John Faso, R, 19-NY, which is where the farm is.
I wrote a supportive postcard each to my senators, a pointed postcard of specific encouragement to my rep, who has been a spineless collaborator, two really nasty notes to Paul Ryan, a gentle nudge of encouragement to our city’s mayor (”I understand that we have a special relationship to refugees and support this with all my heart, but I wonder why, when [smaller Central NY City] is a sanctuary city, we can’t be?”), and meanwhile my dude wrote some really powerful little notes of obstreporous language to our senators. (He told Chuck Schumer that he needed to get “that odious bag of dicks onto a leash”, and told Gillibrand to stay strong against “whatever loathsome toad is inevitably nominated to the Supreme Court”.)
Our table was cheerful, motivated, dedicated, and churned out a bunch of cards on a variety of topics. Mixed bag of positive and negative cards, but we all agreed that it was a good idea going forward to get in the habit of sending supportive ones!
I do intend to get some nice notecards to send to the local synagogue, and the local Muslim organizations, supportive notes, because they surely could use it. Several local organizations had sponsored refugee families that were to arrive imminently who now cannot come, and it’s heartbreaking for them; they’d already made space in their homes, their schools, their hearts, and now they cannot help. It’s awful to think about. So, sympathy cards, I suppose, if nothing else. I have some, around here somewhere, I know.
