tiny protest, #8

[nosrednayduj]

Valerie's church organized a very small protest. Apparently they are going to do these every Wednesday at 5 PM for an hour, perhaps with different themes. Don't know if I'm going to go every week. There were about 25 people there.

Yesterday's theme was immigrants. Mostly people honked in a supportive way. There was one pedestrian who started yelling about Laken Riley, which I'd not heard of. So we got our phones and looked it up, and apparently this person was murdered by an undocumented immigrant, and now there's a whole congressional act about detaining undocumented immigrants if they have been charged with any type of minor crime. I'm like, you're more likely to be murdered by a good old-fashioned white boy, but statistics don't make good press.

There is going to be some big nationwide thing on June 14 protesting the whole Trump making himself out to be a king thing, and it turns out it's going to coincide with Boston Pride. Should be fun!

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[lauradi7dw]

Argh, Laken Riley. She didn't deserve to die. I don't feel that her mother deserves to become famous hating immigrants.

I knew that the protest is June 14th (probably chosen because of Trump's horrific parade in DC, not because it's Flag Day). I knew that Pride is June 14th. For some reason I didn't stop to think about that being the same date and location, more or less. I hope the T will be having a good day.

[lauradi7dw]

Looks like the T won't be ideal. OK for me (on my end of the Red line), but some work on almost every line
https://mbtashutdowns.info/all

[nosrednayduj]

I'll be able to take the commuter rail and just walk around wherever I need to go downtown. Which is very convenient. (And cheap now that I'm old!)