Heat Advisory: Tuesday 6/24 cancelled

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People feel alone. Let’s show them that they aren’t. Rt 5 (Northampton St.) between Hampton St and Dwight. Heavily trafficked but unlikely to draw unnecessary attention to neighborhoods where people are at higher risk of being targeted by the administration. Location and day/time open to discussion.

Trying a Sunday standout again, for those who can’t make our weekday afternoons. It’s a kid-friendly space on a lightly traveled roadway. Let’s make this thing GROW!!! Come out to show that ordinary people can raise their voices against the chaos and destruction of this Administration. Help remind folks that they, too, can stand up for their beliefs - and that there’s lots and lots of people who aren’t on board with the “cruelty as entertainment” behavior of Trump and Musk and the GOP. ### Recent DOT Visits A Department of Transportation employee has visited twice in the past three weeks prior to 5/20 to ask that people NOT attach anything to the fencing. On 5/20, he parked and waited until everything was removed from the fencing. It seems reasonable to expect that DOT enforcement will continue. ### How to Get There The address “9 Mountain Park Rd, Holyoke” will get you there if you’re using Waze. (Mountain Park Road runs off Route 5, and is not accessible from I-91.) People have reported that some GPS systems bring you right under the bridge, but on I-91. That’s annoying! Please park on the side of the road before the bridge. We can’t park on the bridge. ### Other Stuff Please take everything you brought away with you, and leave the site totally clean. If rain is predicted, we’ll cancel. If we cancel, you’ll receive an email notification. We may see a counter protester. If so, the best thing to do is just ignore them and spend our time and energy waving to motorists. Let’s keep things 100% non-confrontational in words and body language. ### A Few Requests We’ve found that roof rake sections make wonderful flagpoles and banner poles. If you have a roof rake (or 10’-15’ light metal poles or conduit) to contribute, we’ll be happy to take it off your hands! Donations...we’ve purchased banners and grommets and flags and zip ties and bungee cords, and we’ll be getting more. We’ve purchased 20” x 30” letter boards for messaging we can change. All this costs $$$. We’ll have a bucket for donations, and if you could throw something in, that’d be great. And if not, that’s perfectly OK, too - your presence is what’s really important. See where the money’s going! https://tinyurl.com/IN-SLWMProtestTeamFinancials photo: Rob Robertson