Tag: Protest
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Save Our VA Tucson – 5/22/26
Save Our VA Tucson Protest – 5/22/26 Four of us anchored the picket line from 6:30-8:15am for the morning shift change at the Ajo gate of the Tucson VA. Responses were similar to the last few weeks, with about 80-90% definite positives. The others were mostly oblivious or noncommittal. There were a couple of obvious…
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Save Our VA Tucson Protest 5/15/26
There were only two of us anchoring the picket line at the Ajo gate for this morning’s shift change. We walked the line from 6:30am-8:15am. There seemed to be a little less response this morning than there had been for the last several weeks… perhaps 75-85%. There were only a couple of definite negatives, a…
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Save Our VA Tucson Protest 5/8/26
Four of us anchored the line outside the Ajo gate of the Tucson VA from 6:20am – 8:15am for the morning shift change. The response rate was about the same as it has been for the last few weeks, from 85%-90%. Was only able to pick out a couple of head shakes, ‘no’, one ‘flipped…
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The Kent State Massacre, 56 Years Ago Today
56 years ago today, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on college students at Kent State University, Ohio, protesting Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia. They murdered 4 and injured 9 or 10 other students. This was not the only incident of governments in the US using military personnel to intimidate and ultimately kill people exersizing their…
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Save Our VA – Tucson May Day Protest
Save Our VA – Tucson May Day Protest Four of us held the line this May Day from 6:30am-8:30am at the Ajo gate for the morning shift change. We received even more responses than we have in the previous couple of weeks, between 85%-90%, of those I could see (some had windows so darkly tinted…
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Save Our VA Tucson Protest – 4/24/26
Three of us held the line at the Tucson VA’s Ajo gate from 6:30-8:00am for the morning shift change. The responses were similar to last week’s, 75%-85%, from what I could see… Some people’s car windows are tinted so dark it’s impossible to see the response or lack thereof through them, especially with the rising…
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Save Our VA Tucson Friday Protest – 4/17/26
Four of us anchored the line at the Ajo gate of the Tucson VA this morning from 6:30-8:30am for the shift change. Response rate was similar to the last few weeks, with somewhere between 75%-85%, with 3 very observable negatives. There was a definite head skake of ‘no’, a bouncing ‘bird’, and a ‘get a…
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Save Our VA Protest – One Year Anniversary
Save Our VA Tucson Protest 4/10/26 – One Year Anniversary Three of us anchored the picket line at the Tucson VA’s Ajo gate for the morning shift change. We arrived at 6:30am and left around 9:45am. This was the one year anniversary of the Friday morning, Save Our VA Tucson protests. There was a rally…
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Save Our VA Tucson Protest 4/3/26 – “Good Friday”…
Three of us held the line again at the Ajo gate of the Tucson VA for the morning shift change. There were also about a dozen protestors ouside the 6th Ave. gate. But for a few pale cloud-smudges on the southern horizon, the sky was pristine, and the rising sun was bright. No redshift on…
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No Kings Protest – Reid Park – Tucson – 3/28/26 We stood the line with hundreds of people, perhaps a thousand, though I’m sure the administration and its MSM arms will claim it was only a few dozen or so. And that’s only for the Reid Park assembly. The larger one was from Speedway and…
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