#start local

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Our stand against waste

Karen, Richard, and Matt are professional relations: business partners who are also family members. This issue, Karen interviews her husband

Karen, Richard, and @merelymatt are professional relations: business partners who are also family members. This issue, Karen interviews her husband Richard about the upcoming Action on Climate Emergency (ACE) Settle and area clothes swap he’s organising, with editing by their son @merelymatt.

[coldpapernightmare]

I'm sitting here forcing myself to listen to my local city council meeting broadcast on facebook reminding myself and others, that if you want to be more active in politics and public good

LEARN TO BE OK WITH BEING BORD

this stuff is boring as all hell, but it is still unspeakably important.

if I didn't force myself to use my precious day off to listen to this I wouldnt know about the debate about making exceptions to the local "no public trade of needles in the local parks" for intramuscular narcan needles for overdoses vs sticking with the nasal application

I wouldn't know that the on going efforts to fund extended parking space in the downtown area is in a deficit and the plans to gap that deficit with higher on street parking fees and possibly trading out all of the meters for new meters that work second hand with some App and the council woman that made the good ass point about "Hey if we wanted to back out of this deal do we get to keep these new meters or does this app own them now?" And also how the heck does this effect the people working downtown that have to park on the street?

its boring as hell,

politics in general tends to be boring, I want to switch to some youtube channel so bad, but I owe it to the people who's life could be saved by narcan, and the people who work downtown (small as it is) to listen and be as informed as I can, and if you want to really help your fellow people and know what the heck is going on in your town then LEARN TO BE BORD

[denofmalcontent]

Something all these radicals demanding for a revolution don’t seem to understand is most all revolutions that were successful were because they were backed by the military. Yes, even the American Revolution had the backing of the military belonging to the French and the Spanish. Any of you know of a military, foreign or domestic, who are willing to back this revolution you all are calling for?

We are all sick to death of the two-party system but no other candidate will ever have a chance if the only time they show their face is for the national election. They need to start local and build their base from there. And you all need to start caring at the local level. Start local and build through the state level before you go for the national level. The power to affect real change begins with our mayoral elections, the school board, city council, your state senate, your state legislature. If you’re only focused on the national level nothing will ever change.

[mxkoifish]

still genuinely don't care if you don't wan a vote for the president like whatever that's your own business but voting for senators/house reps is like. actually important.

[ipreferlush]

I will be attending my first Gubernatorial Forum tonight. This one will be focused on LGBT issues. I’m not really sure what to expect, but it’s a step towards being an active ally, not simply a mouthpiece.