[FRIAM] Wow! He did Good!

[Tom Johnson]

"Wider community support" could mean, "Are you prepared to hide people in
your basement for an extended period of time?"


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On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 9:30 PM, Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Nick, I'm not sure what you mean by a "wider community."  Do you mean
> those who just blah blah and sit on their asses and not take action to
> respond to what's happening?  The Council chambers were packed last
> night--standing room only, and hundreds of people standing for hours
> outside the Council watching on t.v. what was going on inside.  The wider
> activist community were all there.
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net
> > wrote:
>
>> Merle,
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>> Hence my suggestion that the City may need support from a wider community
>> sometime in the near future.
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>>
>> Nick
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>>
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>>
>> Clark University
>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>>
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>>
>> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Merle
>> Lefkoff
>> *Sent:* Thursday, February 23, 2017 9:19 PM
>> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
>> friam at redfish.com>
>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Wow! He did Good!
>>
>>
>>
>> Yep.  He's a comer.  Check all the boxes:  young, handsome, Hispanic,
>> gay, ambitious.  I was at the City Council meeting last night about the
>> Sanctuary City resolutions.  "Sanctuary City" doesn't protect anyone--it's
>> just a bandaid to make people feel better and less helpless.  ICE can move
>> in as soon as they have a name.  But what DOES help protect immigrants is
>> directly connected to the policing issue.  As soon as an undocumented
>> immigrant is arrested and booked-- there is no way to stop ICE from picking
>> them up--their names go immediately to the data base.  America is known for
>> arresting people of color at the drop of a hat, so the fact that Javier has
>> linked protection to how our local law enforcement behaves is really
>> important...it goes to the systemic level of intervention.  The city, like
>> all cities in the U.S. is broke, so it's both brave and foolish to face the
>> risk of losing federal dollars.
>>
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>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Nick Thompson <
>> nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> To the local congregation:
>>
>>
>>
>> Your Mayor, being firm with NPR’s Robert Siegel.
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>> http://www.npr.org/2017/01/25/511655818/despite-trump-action
>> s-santa-fe-mayor-vows-to-remain-a-sanctuary-city
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>> To the Diaspora,
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>>
>>
>> If this gets ugly, Santa Fe might need your help.
>>
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>>
>> Nick
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>>
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>>
>> Clark University
>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>>
>>
>>
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>> --
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>> Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
>> President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy
>> Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
>> merlelefoff at gmail.com
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>> skype:  merle.lelfkoff2
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> Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
> President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy
> Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
> merlelefoff at gmail.com
> mobile:  (303) 859-5609
> skype:  merle.lelfkoff2
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