Hello Everyone, 

I hope that you all are doing well. Our Bridge Brigade Crew is still out there every Friday morning except in the pouring rain. We learned that it is hard to see us in the dense fog. We had extra brigades around the Prop 50 Election. Kings County had 50% of the voters turn out and this is good. It still did not pass in Kings County but the gap is closing. You can see election results here: https://www.countyofkingsca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/39147/638993204390530000

UPCOMING EVENTS

This coming week is concentrating on the Consumer/People Power with an Economic Blackout. 

https://www.blackoutthesystem.com

https://bigbeautifulboycott.us

https://www.themassblackout.com

TOMORROW 11-24 Evening: Bridge Brigade at 12th Avenue and 198 Overpass  4:30-5:45 with newly built lighted letters. 

BIG BEAUTIFUL BOYCOTT

Friday Bridge Brigade back at 12th Avenue and 198 Overpass from 9am to 10:30

Message TBD

Weekly Bridge Brigades are on Fridays 7:15am to 8:30am. at either Douty, 12th, or 19th Overpasses

Just contact Karla if you would like to attend and you will get details for that week. 

We might do a big Saturday protest in December if the Remove the Regime movement continues. 

MUTUAL AID

-The Kings County Democrats is doing a food drive and donating to the Episcopal Church Soup Kitchen where we also volunteer each month

Items most helpful: Peanut Butter and Jelly, Pasta and Sauce, and other canned goods

You can drop off at The Kings County Democratic Party Office at 621 A Irwin Street (Between Bare Beauty Shop & A Barber Shop)

Tuesdays 10am to 2pm

Wednesdays 2pm to 6pm (Karla is in the office at this time)

Thursdays 10am to 2pm 

STICKERS ON SALE: See Karla on Wednesdays 2pm to 6pm at KC Dems Office 

$7

– WOKE isn’t the insult you think it is

– RESIST

– FROG Born to Dilly Dally Fighting Fascism

– Abide No Hate

$4

– No Kings

In the KC Dems Office, we are hosting a crafting group and a game night group. 

If interested, contact Karla. 

This mail list is for anyone who has attended or interested in activism events in Kings County. 

If you want to be removed from this list, please just reply and make the request. 

If you are interested in Democratic Party events, also reply and I can you to the email lists about our meetings and campaign events. 

In Solidarity, 

Karla 

This past week was a busy one for the committee and club. Thursday Night Market Place ended its season with a surprise Signs of Fascism march through the grounds of the event (Court House Plaza) and ended with a Bridge Brigade on Friday.

Bridge Brigades Continue on Fridays and maybe this Wednesday. 

7:15am  to 8:30am Contact Karla.

So far, we’ve staged an event every week since mid-August except one week when it rained. We have, so far, three locations: 198 & 19th in Lemoore; 198 & 12th and 198 & Douty in Hanford.

Enjoy the photos below, in ascending order (most recent at bottom).

Please let us know if you can attend and watch this space for more on the coming events. Come join us!

In Solidarity, 

:o) Karla 

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Where: Sierra Pacific HS Cafeteria, Hanford

When: Saturday, May 10, 2025, 10a to Noon (it’s a wrap!)

Speakers: Dr. Randy Villegas, COS professor. Dr. Dan O’Connell, author of In The Struggle. And Laurie Pessante from the Sierra Club. Congressmen Valadao and Fong were invited to speak too.

It turns out that two hours were not enough to get to all the questions submitted by the audience (chits were distributed at the outset for attendees to write out their questions for panelists to answer). Afterward, attendees & guests mingled amongst themselves amiably. It was a joyous event, though we did miss our members of Congress … If you missed it, click here to watch part 1 and here for part 2.

Thank you to all the organizers who put on the event. We hope we can do it again sometime in the future.

This was the second town hall event so far over recent years; Mark Arax was among our invited guest at our Water Town Hall held at the Civic Auditorium several months ago. More to come..

Daily Kos has an article which explains well the xenophobic tendencies of some in our society. “Unless we are consistent with efforts before there’s an incident to have the kind of measured conversations about race and racism, we’re never going to get out of this kind of cycle,” said Elaine Gross, with the group Erase Racism.

✔️$370 billion climate/energy funding
✔️Medicare negotiates rx prices
✔️Medicare out-of-pocket cap: $2,000
✔️Medicare insulin cap
✔️3-year Affordable Care Act $ extension
✔️$5 billion drought resiliency
✔️15% corporate minimum tax
✔️1% excise tax stock buybacks
✔️Extra IRS enforcement

As it turns out, Joe Biden & the Democrats in Congress actually did work on behalf of working-class Americans.