Three Wins Today: June 22, 2025
I figured out a new order for getting these posts out, now, it didn’t exactly work, BlueSky deleted my Daily Dems draft, but, I think I figured it out and tomorrow, even this post will be out at least 90 minutes earlier. This probably makes no sense, but I’m excited if this really works. You know you’re an adult when scheduling makes you gitty.
Anyway, onto the wins!
Sat June 21 - Midcity Mercado is an Los Angeles pop up market, and yesterday’s was called “Unite For Immigrants” and in partnership with CHRILA, who also hosted a “Know Your Rights” training.
Today - Also in LA, but this time in Venice, Turks Pizza Party hosted “Food Fight: Culinary Resistance Against Predjudice” a bunch of local food related businesses, Little Dynamite Pizza, Estrano, Tehachapi Grain Project, Kabob Senpai, and Sunday Gravy, came together on the Venice boardwalk with all proceeds going to CHIRLA and Let’s Gather for Good. These are both incredible examples of using your skills for mutual aid. The phrase “mutual aid” doesn’t just mean one thing. No matter what you’re good at, there’s a place for that skill in the mutual aid space.
Sat June 21 - The Editorial Board at the Salt Lake City Tribune put out an editorial about how Utah’s laws and Republicans are responsible for the two totally preventable gun incidents last weekend.
Anytime a publication stands up, I will be there to lift them up, because, we’re not getting this a whole lot right now. Here’s how the editorial starts:
We may hate to admit it. But this is who we are.
We are a nation, and a state, where reasonable people are increasingly afraid to participate in public life, to peaceably assemble, to run for public office. The danger of being shot on the street, or in our own homes, is just too great.
It’s not who all of us are, and not all of the time. But it is enough of a factor that saying, as Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall did the other day, “This is not who we are,” has become another verse in the “thoughts and prayers” song our leaders sing when some innocent person is shot and they don’t know what to do about it.
Or they know what to do but don’t have the political pull, or guts, to do it.
More of this!
These are three wins that specifically embody…
Our voices are our superpower, but only when we use them!
Thank you
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