Good morning, snowy Baja!
Woke up this morning to a winter wonderland, first thing I did was grab my camera. Maybe we'll get some cool pics in the comments (hint)
We enjoyed this so much last week, thought we might try it again this week. This is a great place to just chat, to share personal stories, links to non-kos articles you may be enjoying, discuss Baja activism, or whatever is on your mind ....OPEN thread.
It's been an eventful week, sí?
Cheering to most I think is a story from the Washington Post about Gabby's progress, which Kyrsten Sinema tweeted us this morning. Do please follow us @BajaAZKossacks, and we will follow you.
This is a week of activism everywhere, worldwide it seems, and Baja AZ is no exception.
Well, one exception is that our annual Tucson Peace Fair is, well, annual, and didn't need a spark. Still, I hear tell people ventured out into the cold specifically to sign Brewer recall petitions and stayed to meet all kinds of gentle Tucson souls and talk about their amazing work. We didn't go this year, I was over-tired, but we saw you all on the news though and cheered for you. I re-posted some pics on our facebook page, (go to "wall")if you have "friended" us, they could have shown up on your news feed. If not, please friend us now.
We also didn't go to the MoveOn labor rally, but lots of other people did. I am always amazed to hear strong union support in the "right-to-work" state. You were also on the late news and we cheered for you. Photos, please
Of course, there is the movement to become America's 51st state. Tongue in cheek perhaps, tilting at windmills probably, still a wonderful way to express our disgust with the oppressive policies and behavior coming from Phoenix. It has been pointed out that businesses afraid to move back to the 19th century but still liking our general fine weather and laid back lifestyle, might choose Baja or Flagstaff instead of Arpaio-land. Come to think of it, maybe they aren't so laid back there. They were never part of Mexico.
We DID go to Friday's SB1611 protest downtown, brought some sound equipment and took some photos, and wondered where you all were...
I will list the anti-immigration bills summarized at the protest in a comment - but every unconstitutional attack on immigrants is an attack on all of our civil rights. Two human rights activists described being arrested as soon as they came into the Seanate building to visit their state senator- the young woman said she was dragged by her hair into a separate room by unidentified men without uniforms. This is America? Whay are so few outraged? because she is marginalized?
First they came for.... the gays...the immigrants...the Muslims...the poor...the ones who needed transplants... do we still need a roadmap to know that we are ALL vulnerable next? Since we didn't defend .... the gays...the immigrants...the poor...the ones who needed transplants..., because we are not gay, we have papers, we are employed and have health insurance and we didn't want to risk being associated with a marginalized group, see, then they freely marginalized the rest of us and now they come after ...labor...women's health...the children's education... and we know that white, straight, childless businessmen don't understand that the voracious multinational tax-evading corporations are eating their lunch too - until it is too late, and they too become lunch..
Seriously, I am questioning inside myself how we will ever win against people who scatter attacks all over the landscape if we each just respond to our own prime issue and never come together as one united Baja front?
So here is my question to you all. How do we organize a BAJA resistance movement? Who could organize such a coalition? How can we help?