We’re looking for donations (George Soros isn’t helping us out this time!) (or any time, for that matter)

HERE IS THE CURRENT LIST OF GENERAL SUPPLIES WE NEED TO COLLECT DONATIONS OF FOR THE 50501 #SOCALUNITES 4/5 PROTEST IN DOWNTOWN LA!

Please circulate within your friends/family to see if they are willing to help us out - especially for the easy things like bottled water and snacks! Everybody has that laying around already so the more we can get donations of those things, the easier it will be for us to put our budget toward bigger items like A/V.

If you have something to donate, let me know so that we can coordinate pickup / drop off of donations to get them all in one place BY THIS FRIDAY 4/4.

Masking tape
Electrical tape
Black sharpies / permanent markers
Ziploc bags
Rubber bands
Paper towels
Bottled water
Snacks (granola bars, trail mix, protein bars, etc)
Masks
Hand sanitizer
Clorox / antibacterial wipes
Sunscreen
Benadryl cream / gel for allergic reactions / bug bites
US flags (any sizes)
Arts and craft supplies (markers, chalk, etc)
Gift cards to help with printing expenses (Staples, Office Depot, etc)
Gift cards to help with other supplies (Lowe’s, etc)

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This is powerful:

Following Press Secretary Leavitt’s stunning response to French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann’s statement that France should reclaim the Statue of Liberty because the US no longer upholds its original values, Glucksmann doubled down last night.

Dear Americans,
Since the White House press secretary is attacking me today, I wanted to tell you this:
1. Our two people are intimately linked by History, the blood we shed and the passion for freedom we share, a passion symbolized by this Statue that was offered to the United States by France to honor your glorious Revolution.
2. As the press secretary for this shameful Administration said: without your nation, France would have "spoken German." In my case, it goes further: I would simply not be here if hundreds of thousands of young Americans had not landed on our beaches in Normandy.
3. Our gratitude to these heroes and their sacrifices is therefore eternal.
4. But the America of these heroes fought against tyrants, it did not flatter them. It was the enemy of fascism, not the friend of Putin. It helped the resistance and didn't attack Zelensky.
5. It celebrated science and didn't fire researchers for using banned words. It welcomed the persecuted and didn't target them.
It was far, so far from what your current President does, says, and embodies.
6. This America, faithful to the wonderful words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, your America, is worth so much more than the betrayal of Ukraine and Europe, xenophobia, or obscurantism.
7. We all in Europe love this nation to which we know we owe so much. It will rise again. You will rise again. We are counting on you.
8. And it is precisely because I am petrified by Trump’s betrayal that I said yesterday in a rally that we could symbolically take back the Statue of Liberty if your government despised everything it symbolizes in your eyes, ours, and those of the world.
It was a wake up call.
9. No one, of course, will come and steal the Statue of Liberty.
The statue is yours. But what it embodies belongs to everyone.
And if the free world no longer interests your government, then we will take up the torch, here in Europe.
10. Until we meet again in the fight for freedom and dignity, we will be the continuators of our shared history and the protectors of our treasure: more than a statue of copper and steel, the freedom it symbolizes.

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