By Janice Garry
Our community is motivated. Our League has a steady stream of new members, existing members renewing and community members asking to be on the What You Can Do email list. Energizing, positive protests are visibly representing rejection of the actions that are unjust and questionably legal in our nation’s capital. It is a time to be proud of the work of the League and lean in to defending democracy.
Please join us for the Annual Meeting and dinner on June 27 at 6 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, Youth Building. Are you a new member (less than one year)? You’ll be partnered with an experienced League member to help you figure out what’s going on and create a new friend. We’ll break bread together, conduct business, give out awards and have fun. Your invitation will come by email.
The What You Can Do ad hoc committee is organizing a League group to join the June 14 “No Kings” protest from 10 a.m. – noon. It will be at the traffic circle at South Main and Depot Avenue. Protests are planned nationwide; this is the Alachua County version. We need you! The vision is a large group of League members, dressed in white as a nod to the suffrage movement, with protest signs standing on the pavement at the center of the traffic circle. The League of Women Voters banner will be prominent. We’ll be noisy and make good trouble, as the League has always done!
What’s that? You don’t have a protest sign? No problem! On Wednesday, June 4, from 6-7:30 pm, we’ll have a sign-making party in the garage at Janice’s home. Supplies and ideas will be available. info [at] lwv-alachua.org (subject: No%20Kings%20Protest%20Signs) (Please RSVP for sign making to Janice). Put “No Kings Protest Signs” in the subject line, please.
On June 14, we’ll protest in the center of the traffic circle. Arrive early, around 9:30 a.m. Wear white. Bring cow bells, a pot and spoon to beat, American flags and swag. Can anybody dress like the Statue of Liberty? Does anybody have a megaphone? Who can be a chant leader? If you want to carpool, meet at Janice’s home and we’ll pile in together.
