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There's a campaign near me to protect valuable old trees which are slated for destruction. These trees are on public property and being killed to make way for a parking deck. The misguided decision makers have already made it "legal" for them to do this, and some of us intend to fight.

I would love to hear any stories or tips on how to approach strategies for raising public awareness, staging actions, and the like. Tree sitting is already a given. I think our situation is at the point now where we cannot prevail via the legal system. They're doing the murder by the book. I think the only leverage we have is to turn public sentiment so hard against these actors that the political cost for them is too extreme. And even that's a longshot.

Thanks and much love.

Update: I welcome discussion of all methods and actions! After reflecting further I wanted to say I'm particularly interested in agitprop and messaging strategies. Perhaps this is discussed in the Ecodefense link - will be checking that out shortly.

Me: Daughter, isn't it weird how every Guild member, when they get the upper hand on a member of the Port Mafia or Agency, they remark how they're only fighting because it's a job, and without their job they'd be dead or on the streets? It's very similar to how in the real world, people take on and stay at unfulfilling jobs, or even jobs that are detrimental to society as a whole, instead of doing what they really want to do. People are forced into these situations and they can find themselves performing morally questionable deeds because the alternative means losing their job, losing the means to support themselves, and could even lead to them losing their lives.

The Guild characters in part represent the modern alienated worker, and in this way offer a critique of the western capitalist mode of production, namely its reliance and insistence on worker alienation and precarity...

Her: Hey Dad, aren't Chuuya and Dazai so cute and gay together?

Me: Yes.

The show really has something for everyone.

Perfect day for some Sketches

got to hear this at one of Simon's DJ sets in the early '00s and it's been one of my favorites ever since