Tag: Protest
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Save Our VA Protest – Tucson 12/26/25
There were only three of us walking the line at the Ajo gate for the shift change (6:30am-8:30am) for the Tucson VA. The traffic was lighter today than usual, and not just because of the holiday. The VA has not been filling critical positions for a while now and has laid off many for “efficiency”…
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Save Our VA Protest – Tucson – 12/19/25
There were only 3 of us at the Ajo gate, but around 30 at the 6th Ave entrance for this mornings shift change. The 6th Ave gate was covered from around 7:30 AM on. We covered the Ajo gate from 6:30-8:30 AM. Responses today were similar to last week, from 70-80% responding and no negatives…
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Save Our VA Protest – 12/12/25
There were only 3 of us out this morning at the Tucson VA’s Ajo gate for the shift change. We arrived at 6:30 AM and left at 8:30. It was pretty chilly, both temperature and responses, at least at first. But responses picked up pretty quickly to about the same as last week’s. And only…
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Save Our VA Protest – 12/5/25
Only 3 of us walked the line at the Ajo Gate for the shift change this morning. But we had good responses, about 80%, like last week, and only one overtly negative … a bouncing thumb down… Ob, and some yelled at us that regardless of our protest, Trump still loves us… which generated a…
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Save Our VA Protest – Black Friday – 11/28/25
Save Our VA Protest – 11/28/25 We arrived at the Tucson VA’s Ajo entrance at 6:35 AM as the dawn was beginning to roll down Ajo. The sun finally cleared the eastern clouds around 7:20. We left the site by 8:30 AM, after the shift change. There were only three of us walking the line…
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Save Our VA Protest – 11/21/25
5 of us walked the line for this morning’s Save Our VA protest. for the 7:00 AM shift change at the Ajo gate. There was also a bigger protest at the 6th Ave. gate, with about 20 people with signs surrounding that gate. We had about the same percentage of responses as last time, with…
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Save Our VA Protest – 11/14/25
Our little group sported seven of us for this morning’s protest at the Ajo gate of the Tucson VA. Responses today were similar to last Friday’s, from 70-75% of those entering and leaving for the morning shift change (we were there from 6:30-8:15 am) responded. There was only one blatant negative response. All the rest…
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Save Our VA Protest 11/7/25
We arrived at the VA’s Ajo gate at 6:45 am. It was chlly for the morning shift change, but we were dressed for it… There were eventually 6 of us walking the line today. We dispersed by 8:30 am. The percentage of responses this morning was similar to last week’s at between 70% and 75%.…
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Save Our VA Protest – 10/31/25
Save Our VA Protest – 10/31/25 Only four of us for today’s protest. But we had good responses today. It seemed like around 75% responded this morning for the Tucson VA’s morning shift change through the Ajo gate. We did get a couple of negatives, but the rest were positive. Don’t know if that’s indicative…
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Save Our VA Protest – 10/24/25
There were 5 of us protesting at the Ajo entrance to the Tucson VA this morning. We arrived at 6:30 am and stayed until 8:30 am for the night to day shift change. The other 3 protesters joined us around 7 am. It was a bit chilly this morning, about 55F when we arrived. Temp…