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Demonstrating is Unifying!

Baton Rouge hosts weekly and monthly protests every Tuesday at the corner of Perkins and Kenilworth from 4 PM to 5:30 PM and the first Saturday of every month from 10:30 AM to noon (with rotating locations), respectively.

Recently, Indivisible Baton Rouge sent out an email to people who signed up for the No Kings protests (1 and 2) as part of ongoing research to prove that peaceful protests work, but only when people show up.

The email was to encourage more people to join us as often as they can to grow the size of the group. If only the same people repeatedly show up to demonstrations, eventually we will become invisible to others, and this fight is too damn important to lose.

The other day, I received an email reply from a lady that I will call Matilda ( German for “mighty in battle” ) to keep her anonymity, as per her request. She permitted me to share her story and thanked us for notifying her of these protests:

“Hi, thank you for the heads up! My mom passed away in mid-October, so I’m a little out of the loop at the moment. We lived 200 miles apart, and visited when we could, but talked EVERY Sunday evening. I was so excited about protesting at the No Kings on October 18, that we had our weekly call that Saturday evening instead.
I sent her pictures and videos. She was very happy for me that I was getting off my butt, stopped complaining, and stood up and did something! We talked about the 1960s when I was very young, and she said she had never attended a protest, and that she never got to burn her bras, lol. She was very proud of me getting on the streets of Baton Rouge with my sign and joining the hundreds and hundreds of like-minded, democracy-loving people!! I’m so happy we had that time to talk about it cause she was gone by Tuesday, the 21st at 3:30 AM. I will continue to do what I can! And, yes, I will bring others!! My mom would love it!! Sincerely, M.”

Baton Rouge, in the recent elections (Tuesday, Nov 4th), we had a glimmer of hope that the tides are turning. We have to keep this momentum going, but it will be up to WE THE PEOPLE to do it. Now, please go find your inner Matilida and hopefully we’ll see you at a local demonstration soon.