Tag: Protest
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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…
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Save Our VA Protest – 10/17/25
Save Our VA Protest – 10/17/25 Only four of us out walking the line today… Observations from the Ajo entrance to the VA at shift change this morning (about 6:40am – 8:30am: Only two middle fingers greeted us today; only about 60% of those entering responded and much less for those leaving; it appears that…
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Save Our VA Protest – 10/10/25
Save Our VA Protest – 10/10/25 There were only 4 of us at the Ajo gate this morning. But responses were very good, unlike last week. We only had one negative response from an apparent maga diehard nut, whose assumption seemed to be that anyone out protesting, even if to save the VA from privatization,…
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Save Our VA Protest
Save Our VA Protest – 10/3/25 There were five of us protesting this morning. We were at the Ajo entrance of the VA during the shift change. We protested from 6:30am to 8:30am… Positive responses were not as numerous as last week. Unfortunately, a majority of those going in and out, pretty much ignored us.…
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Save Our VA Protest 9/26/25
There were 7 or of us for this moning’s protest. It was looking like we might get wet for a while, but the rains stayed away … again. Of those I could see through their car windows, somewhere between 80 and 90% of those changing shifts responded positively. Of course, there were a few (less…
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