#Parking in #Regina, part 3...

I submitted a "service request" about paying for #parking meters downtown, because they're going "app-only", and I have no mobile phone.

I got a #contemptuous email telling me I'd said I was "not comfortable with technology". Fuck you, I'm a software engineer of nearly 3 decades. I responded to say a) I didn't say I wasn't comfortable with tech, and b) it was insulting.

So I got a second reply today, including this fantastic line:

> We apologize for the stress caused to you due to the transition of paying
> for the parking #meters.

Somebody at City Hall is feeling awfully passive-aggressive.

Then, today, I got a phone call. This person tried to convince me that this isn't a problem for me, and tried to offer "solutions" which I had already explained were not applicable in my original request:

1. Park off-street in a private lot. No: it's more expensive, I have no income, and the nearest ones are multiple blocks away from where I need to go. Not practical for someone with #mobility issues, and there are lots of us out here.

2. Buy a special "park for free at meters" pass. Cost: $1040 plus taxes. This is a giant "up yours" suggestion.

3. JK, there are no other solutions.

So I said, "Is it the city's official position that I'm #screwed and can't park downtown to receive medical treatments?" and she said yes.

I'm fucking tired of #bureaucrats making decisions without caring how it affects #residents.

#YQR #SK #fauxpology #CityHall

Dobbs v. Jackson, One Year Later | Perspectives on History

#Dobbs has become a bellwether for other, related efforts to contract civil liberties, efforts that stem from #movements #contemptuous of the #rights of millions of Americans, especially #women, #LGBTQ+ people, and people of #color.

https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2023/emdobbs-v-jackson/em-one-year-later

The activism of the past can help us to understand how we might respond in the present.

Learning about resistance in the past—often through the histories of race and gender—offers insights for navigating contemporary attacks on speech, thought, and identity.

When abortion was criminalized, thousands of #physicians risked their careers—and prison time—to offer women safety and dignity as they sought to end pregnancies.

#Young #Jewish #immigrants working in dangerous #garment factories, themselves vulnerable to charges of incitement and disloyalty, nevertheless challenged suffragists to articulate a vision of citizenship that recognized the value of women’s labor.

#Black #women throughout the South, well aware that they were unlikely to receive justice through the courts, nevertheless pursued charges against white men who terrorized them throughout the 20th century.

#Historians’ work of identifying brave resisters and the conditions that make inequality possible continues.