Come out to show that ordinary people can raise their voices against the chaos and destruction of this Administration. Help remind folks that they, too, can stand up for their beliefs – and that there’s lots and lots of people who aren’t on board with the “cruelty as entertainment” behavior of Trump and Musk and the GOP.
We’ll have letterboards prepared with the message on the photo above. See The Visibility Brigade Toolkit (https://tinyurl.com/TheVisibilityBrigade)!
Come when you can, and leave when you must. You needn’t be present for the entire 2-hour stand-out.
Letterboards? Lots more bridges? Bridges over the Mass Pike? Signs and banners in front of Social Security? Picketing the local Fox news station (FOX LIES!)? Picketing Fox advertisers? Street theater and spectacle? What do YOU want to do?
The address “9 Mountain Park Rd, Holyoke” will get you there if you’re using Waze. (Mountain Park Road runs off Route 5, and is not accessible from I-91.) People have reported that some GPS systems bring you right under the bridge, but on I-91. That’s annoying!
Please park on the side of the road before the bridge. We can’t park on the bridge.
Please take everything you brought away with you, and leave the site totally clean.
If rain is predicted, we’ll cancel. If we cancel, you’ll receive an email notification.
We may see a counter protester. If so, the best thing to do is just ignore them and spend our time and energy waving to motorists. Let’s keep things 100% non-confrontational in words and body language.
We’ve found that roof rake sections make wonderful flagpoles and banner poles. If you have a roof rake (or 10’-15’ light metal poles or conduit) to contribute, we’ll be happy to take it off your hands!
Donations…we’ve purchased banners and grommets and flags and zip ties and bungee cords, and we’ll be getting more. We’ve purchased 20” x 30” letter boards for messaging we can change. All this costs $$$. We’ll have a bucket for donations, and if you could throw something in, that’d be great. And if not, that’s perfectly OK, too – your presence is what’s really important. See where the money’s going!
https://tinyurl.com/IN-SLWMProtestTeamFinancials
photo: Sue D.
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