Tag: VA
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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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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 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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Save Our VA Tucson Protest 3/27/26
Four of us held the line at the Tucson VA’s Ajo entrance from 6:30-8:30am for the morning shift change. The percentage of responses today was similar to last week’s, somewhere between 75-85%, with only two negatives that saw. I just continued to smile and nod… Tomorrow morning, we’ll be on the line for the No…
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Save Our VA Protest Tucson 3/20/26
Three of us held the line from 6:30-8:15am at the Ajo gate of the Tucson VA for the morning shift change. Responses were about the same as last week’s, about 80%. There were no outright negatives that I saw today. Progress, or at least the ‘negatives’ just didn’t feel like responding at all, rather like…
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Save Our VA Protest 3/13/26
Yes, I know, Friday the thirteenth… Fortunately, I’m not superstitious. Four of us held the line at the South (Ajo) entrace to the Tucson VA for the morning shift change, 6:30-8:15am. We had an 80-90% response rate again today, with only two negatives that I could see.