Dani
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So if all of a sudden they lose access to every grant dollar, they lose access to their Fed 330, they were scheduled to draw down on a grant that was going to cover a whole bunch of upcoming expenses, but they haven't done it yet. And then they can't, like in very real ways, that may mean that the doors are closed and the place goes under and that no one can get care there.
And there is this real challenge of, you know, how do we decide what is the best thing to do? But for me, and what sort of started working with, in our agency at least, to organize around this, is that, like, this is an anti-fascist practice. It is the right medical thing to do. It is the right ethical thing to do. But it is also our chance to take an anti-fascist stance against this government.
And there is this real challenge of, you know, how do we decide what is the best thing to do? But for me, and what sort of started working with, in our agency at least, to organize around this, is that, like, this is an anti-fascist practice. It is the right medical thing to do. It is the right ethical thing to do. But it is also our chance to take an anti-fascist stance against this government.
And there is this real challenge of, you know, how do we decide what is the best thing to do? But for me, and what sort of started working with, in our agency at least, to organize around this, is that, like, this is an anti-fascist practice. It is the right medical thing to do. It is the right ethical thing to do. But it is also our chance to take an anti-fascist stance against this government.
Because if we don't stand now for the very first group they're coming for, then the next group, which is without question trans adults and undocumented people, then those groups will fall just as quickly. And then at some point we're doing the poem, the first they came for the socialist thing. And I just refuse to be a part of that.
Because if we don't stand now for the very first group they're coming for, then the next group, which is without question trans adults and undocumented people, then those groups will fall just as quickly. And then at some point we're doing the poem, the first they came for the socialist thing. And I just refuse to be a part of that.
Because if we don't stand now for the very first group they're coming for, then the next group, which is without question trans adults and undocumented people, then those groups will fall just as quickly. And then at some point we're doing the poem, the first they came for the socialist thing. And I just refuse to be a part of that.
Yeah, I think the organizing side has been challenging but also hugely rewarding, right? It became really obvious really early on that both from the federal government's perspective as well as from our organization's perspective that the uncertainty was where they wanted us all to live and die. That was the place that served them and their goals the most.
Yeah, I think the organizing side has been challenging but also hugely rewarding, right? It became really obvious really early on that both from the federal government's perspective as well as from our organization's perspective that the uncertainty was where they wanted us all to live and die. That was the place that served them and their goals the most.
Yeah, I think the organizing side has been challenging but also hugely rewarding, right? It became really obvious really early on that both from the federal government's perspective as well as from our organization's perspective that the uncertainty was where they wanted us all to live and die. That was the place that served them and their goals the most.
And so how does uncertainty sort of foster? Well, people don't talk to one another, right? Like this is true kind of in organizational senses across the board, right? If you're in a union, you don't talk about your salary. It doesn't benefit you. It benefits the boss.
And so how does uncertainty sort of foster? Well, people don't talk to one another, right? Like this is true kind of in organizational senses across the board, right? If you're in a union, you don't talk about your salary. It doesn't benefit you. It benefits the boss.
And so how does uncertainty sort of foster? Well, people don't talk to one another, right? Like this is true kind of in organizational senses across the board, right? If you're in a union, you don't talk about your salary. It doesn't benefit you. It benefits the boss.
And so if we're not talking to one another about where our lines are, who we're going to treat, whether we're going to keep doing it or listen to them, what we're being told or not being told, that we're consulting lawyers, all these other kind of things, then we're all just alone in the dark kind of, you know, trying not to scream and cry about the horrors that are happening around us.
And so if we're not talking to one another about where our lines are, who we're going to treat, whether we're going to keep doing it or listen to them, what we're being told or not being told, that we're consulting lawyers, all these other kind of things, then we're all just alone in the dark kind of, you know, trying not to scream and cry about the horrors that are happening around us.
And so if we're not talking to one another about where our lines are, who we're going to treat, whether we're going to keep doing it or listen to them, what we're being told or not being told, that we're consulting lawyers, all these other kind of things, then we're all just alone in the dark kind of, you know, trying not to scream and cry about the horrors that are happening around us.
So we pulled together folks with conversation here, conversation there, folks who before anything was going on internally, you know, made really bold statements about what they would and would not do around this kind of stuff. And now all of a sudden there's an internal network that's looking at, well,
So we pulled together folks with conversation here, conversation there, folks who before anything was going on internally, you know, made really bold statements about what they would and would not do around this kind of stuff. And now all of a sudden there's an internal network that's looking at, well,
So we pulled together folks with conversation here, conversation there, folks who before anything was going on internally, you know, made really bold statements about what they would and would not do around this kind of stuff. And now all of a sudden there's an internal network that's looking at, well,
okay so individually we can keep doing this care because it's the right thing to do but as a group if they start coming after us we have a lot more power there's a lot more that we can do and i suspect and you know haley's getting at this point that like there are probably a network of us across the entire country in these kind of settings that are not talking amongst ourselves at our workplace but are really not talking about it amongst ourselves on a national level