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2026-03-28 23:08 UTC
The main strip above the international fountain has… how do I say this politely…? Corporate pride vibes.
There are a lot of disparate organization booths. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing, that’s how organizing works. You find common ground.
Not all of them are united in messaging though. The best example I can find is this booth advertising Sawant.
Sawant was one of the politicians who, in my opinion, crashed previous anti fascist protests. Maybe it was even no kings.
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@Haste@mastodon.social 2026-03-28 23:10
Sawant’s campaign is, if you’re willing to be EXTREMELY generous, at best tangential to the work that’s being done here. Just a couple hundred feet from that exact spot, an attendee remarked to me, unprompted and without relation: “voting is great but we can’t vote our way out of this… voting is how we got here”. I specifically remember Sawant as being one of the politicians to drop in as a speaker in Cal Anderson last year, only to change the topic to her campaign instead of immigration.