@IveyJanette I admire you for even considering going. Lupus is much more fatiguing than nearly anyone realizes. I will say that *finally* people brought extra camping chairs for our senior and disabled communities. The weather was perfect: not too hot nor too cool. We had equal areas of sun and shade. So, it was important to make the venue as comfortable as we could. But, you would have still had to drive, or get a ride. And that means we are not being inclusive enough.

There is zero interest in organizing a local protest in my own town. We are 80% Black and Hispanic, but honestly I think a lot of my neighbors had to work.

So, I had to drive quite a bit further away. I did talk to people who had attended a bigger city slightly further away, and two others about an hour to 90 minutes away. None of us considered attending the one in Atlanta, because public transit and traffic is a nightmare. I'd literally rather drive two hours South.