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Words don’t really do it at this point.
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For this, we bring ourselves, however we can, front and center, peaceful protests YES…signs YES… I’ve added NO KINGS to my HANDS OFF DEMOCRACY sign that all can see when they come to our apartment complex BUT more than words, more than marches, more than signs, WE TAKE OURSELVES TO THE POLLS NEXT YEAR AND EXERCISE OUR MOST FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AS CITIZENS, WE VOTE!
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UNBELIEVABLE!!!! And yet nothing he does anymore is surprising …
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I’ve come back to say that this is personal. I commented about this on a few other blogs but need to also put it here:
We rent an apartment and last year, the owner sold the building to a young Mexican American couple who own a stucco repair, construction and painting business and also own some rentals in Albuquerque. They wanted to own a small building here in Rio Rancho. They are proud members of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, all of their employees are Mexican and I suspect that some do not have papers. Their crew repainted the entire building and many of the workers only spoke Spanish. I did not tell anyone that I am Spanish because I enjoyed “lurking” listening to their stories, and jokes without their knowing that I understood them…guess that makes me kind of a jerk!
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security declared 23 of the 33 counties in New Mexico as sanctuary places and are breathing down our necks,; my county, Sandoval, is one of the sanctuary counties. To further add to this unease, the border between New Mexico and Mexico (south) is now patrolled by US Army troops. This long introduction is important to the story below::
Here in New Mexico we primarily use evaporative cooling aka swamp coolers. Temps have been rising and the other day, ours stopped working so a service order was placed with our landlords. The young, well groomed Mexican man who came to fix the cooler, yesterday was well dressed, nicely trimmed mustaches, spoke English with an accent but totally understandable. When the work was done, he came inside to check the programmed unit that works with the cooler. He quietly looked at me and asked if he could shake my hand. I was surprised but said yes and he said, he had noticed my sign, “Hands Off Democracy” stuck in my pot outside. He said it deeply mattered to him to know that I had put that sign out, made him feel that he was in a good home…I was so moved by what he said that for a moment, I simply had no words of response. Then I thanked him for letting me know and I did so in Spanish, not English which startled him so I told him how I am the daughter of Spanish immigrants and we chatted. He does have a green card but did not say anything more and I did not ask and will not ask. The point of all of these words is that we are in this together and anything, anything at all that we can do, we should do because we never know how it could matter
Update: A Walmart is located about 5 minutes from my home. I have just learned that on Thursday, June 5th, ICE arrested several people in the parking lot:
“RIO RANCHO — The Sandoval County Sheriff’s Office confirmed June 6 that United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement made arrests in the Walmart parking lot off of Unser and Southern boulevards June 5. Lt. John Castaneda stated SCSO was asked to assist as backup in the ICE arrests in a Homeland Security Investigations case.”LikeLike
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It is so frustrating that we have a “wealth” of news (opinion) sources but so very few report factually. Network news literally whitewashes the news so as not to ruffle feathers, most cable news seems to be little more than opinions or downright lies. It’s maddening and meanwhile innocent people suffer. I am grateful for the sharing of information in spaces like this, where we can hear/share real stories of real people that can move us to act or at least not bury our head in the sand.
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Marti’s
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i want to read this a few more times
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i don’t know either…it’s painful
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your’s are good words from the heart
may we all hang on to each OtherLikeLike
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Marti…i read and re read because i know these places from my
time living in N Mex. love reading how the community is shaped and
woven into BALance those needing a goood place to live those wanting to provide that those employed by them and making a living for their own families
the WellBeing, good of all that CAN happen
there’s still more i want to say but search for words but in the meantime, thank you so so much for thisLikeLike
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