Amanda

I think that one of the beautiful things that has happened lately, maybe over the last five to 10 years, is that a lot of people who have never done it are showing up for protests.

That is incredible and great.

But what I think now people are starting to understand is the protest is not the everyday work.

Think of the protest as like the concert.

Okay, the protest is the concert.

It's like the public event that is the result of day in and day out the band practicing.

Okay, so lots of people at the protest are in the audience.

They're just like there for the concert.

The idea is to be in the band showing up.

So what those protests are is there are a lot of people that just come and are just there for the day.

If you could see the web beneath the people marching, what that protest is is a ton of different groups that have locally been meeting and organizing and talking to each other and getting on the same page and taking care of each other and serving their communities, right?

So these are tons of different organizations

They're all over your area.

You know, the groups fighting for immigrant justice and having meetings all of the time.

They are groups that are fighting for queer kids that are in the high schools that are doing the work to give them places to exist.

They are people that are fighting for zoning for people to have homes.

They're in a million different categories.

They're serving kids.

They're making sure there's free lunches.

There's a million different ways to get into this river.