Fw: Another UPDATE - Outreach for our Resistance Lab Project

[Lee Bruch]

Heh Neighbors
We who live on Meridian from 80^th to 85^th are doing our part to rally support for Social Security and resistance to Trump and the Oligarchs. 

We encourage you to join us for a massive photo shoot on Sunday  April 13 at 2:00 at the site of Seattle's first Social Security office at the Alaska Building on 2^nd Ave near Cherry Street.

See below

And see below about the testimonials we are asking people to write on “What Social Security Means To Me” 

Lee Bruch

    206-355-4282 cell & text

    Lee....@outlook.com

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From: John Owen <johno...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 7, 2025 2:10 PM
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Subject: Another UPDATE - Outreach for our Resistance Lab Project

 

Hey Resistance Lab Team:

Jean has created a post on the “Now and Then” blog to try to get as many participants as possible to show up for the Social Security photo shoot on Sunday.  Please share this link with friends, family and on any social media you happen to be connected with.

Cheers,

John

Now & Then photo op – at the Alaska Building, Sunday, April 13, 2 PM pauldorpat.com

On Apr 2, 2025, at 3:17 PM, John Owen <johno...@gmail.com> wrote:

UPDATE:

We now have a location, date and time for the photo shoot!

Location:  Alaska Building 618 2nd Avenue

Date:     Sunday April 13

Time: 2:00 PM

Note: Bring your Social Security Card

Marcia asked whether we should use a specific subject line for the email for the “What Social Security Means to Me” essays.  I think that is a great idea

Let’s make the subject line “What Social Security Means To Me”.

Please send your submissions to:

Jean Sherrard

sher...@gmail.com

206-909-9032

Although the newspaper copy will be using only snippets of your essay, Jean plans to post all of them, in their entirety, on his “Seattle Now and Then” blog.

Please try to recruit friends and family for the photo shoot.  Jean’s goal is to have at least ’dozens’ of people in the photo.

Thanks for showing up!

John

On Apr 1, 2025, at 6:37 PM, John Owen <johno...@gmail.com> wrote:

Update on the project we sketched out in our breakout session on Sunday:

Jean just reported that he has a green light from his editor for the ’Then and Now’ column on Social Security.  He is hot on the trail of details for location of the first Social Security office in Seattle.  The plan is to get the ’Then’ photo of that location and pair it with a ’Now’ group photo of as many people as possible in that same location with each person holding their Social Security card.  

Action Items:

- Show up for the photo shoot

Jean would like to have all of the people from our watch party be in the photo if possible.  

- Recruit family and/or friends for the photo shoot

What would be even better than just bringing yourself to the photo shoot would be if we could all bring as many friends and family as we can rustle up.

- Write a short testimonial

Jean is requesting that each person write a short testimonial about what the institution of Social Security means to you 

(and/or a loved one or society in general…), why you feel it is important, etc .  It doesn’t need to be a long essay - he will be picking out a sentence here or a phrase there to sprinkle into the article.  The more personal the story is the better.

Time Frame (SHORT):

SOON: Jean plans to publish the piece in 2 weeks.  We don’t yet know the location or date/time of the photo shoot but will provide that info as soon as available.  

NOW:   It is not too soon to start thinking about/writing your testimonial today.

NOW:   It is also not too soon to recruit other people for the photo shoot

Thanks,

John