It's 2017, and I was just protesting on Boston Common, chanting "What did the president know, and when did he know it?" [That is a quote from 1973, at the time referring to Nixon and Watergate, and a different stolen election.]
One of the speakers read us part of the Justice Department rules about prosecutors/staff members recusing themselves from investigations, to back the point that Sessions should not be involved in investigating Russian involvement in the 2016 election.
This rally was a few hundred people, and the only elected official was a Democratic state committeewoman* who was the first openly transgender elected official in the state. She was a very good speaker, as was the 16-year-old student activist; we also heard from the director of Common Cause**, who is promoting a law that would make voter registration automatic; from a law professor who had a lot of good if often ahistorical bits but badly needed an editor to stitch them together into something more coherent; and a few other people.
The people who were there were quite enthusiastic. The rally mostly focused on this one issue, but speakers did talk about other problems with Trump and his cronies, especially racism.
The organizers handed out postcards for us to write to the governor, demanding that he be one of the first Republicans to call for a special prosecutor, and drop them in a basket for hand delivery tomorrow. I included my name and address, on the theory that it might help and can't hurt.
(I heard about this rally about 10:00 last night, from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
adrian_turtle, who happened to notice it on Facebook, and who met me there. The organizers said there were other actions they want people to take over the next week, go to their Facebook page for more info; I really don't like Facebook, but needs must.)
*there's a reason you probably haven't heard of this office; it's internal party organization, not legislative, executive, or judicial branch.
**People sometimes sneer at them, they're a "good government" group that, as part of promoting democracy and voter involvement, does things like organize debates.
One of the speakers read us part of the Justice Department rules about prosecutors/staff members recusing themselves from investigations, to back the point that Sessions should not be involved in investigating Russian involvement in the 2016 election.
This rally was a few hundred people, and the only elected official was a Democratic state committeewoman* who was the first openly transgender elected official in the state. She was a very good speaker, as was the 16-year-old student activist; we also heard from the director of Common Cause**, who is promoting a law that would make voter registration automatic; from a law professor who had a lot of good if often ahistorical bits but badly needed an editor to stitch them together into something more coherent; and a few other people.
The people who were there were quite enthusiastic. The rally mostly focused on this one issue, but speakers did talk about other problems with Trump and his cronies, especially racism.
The organizers handed out postcards for us to write to the governor, demanding that he be one of the first Republicans to call for a special prosecutor, and drop them in a basket for hand delivery tomorrow. I included my name and address, on the theory that it might help and can't hurt.
(I heard about this rally about 10:00 last night, from
adrian_turtle, who happened to notice it on Facebook, and who met me there. The organizers said there were other actions they want people to take over the next week, go to their Facebook page for more info; I really don't like Facebook, but needs must.)*there's a reason you probably haven't heard of this office; it's internal party organization, not legislative, executive, or judicial branch.
**People sometimes sneer at them, they're a "good government" group that, as part of promoting democracy and voter involvement, does things like organize debates.