#City Council

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A quick and dirty way of adding more activism to your daily diet is to look up your local council members, and if they have one sign up for their email newsletter.

I'm disabled and I have about as much energy as a potato, but just signing up and reading the dang newsletters actually gives me a lot of opportunity to take what action I can. Often the newsletters have things like links to zoom meetings for comments on projects/issues, polls and other opportunities for feedback, notifications for position openings on the council, project announcements, status updates on issues, and more goodies. Just being informed of what's going on, as well as the priorities of the council and the council member in question, gives you a huge leg up on action planning.

Read them when you can. Show up when you can. Just doing what you're able, even if you feel like you should be doing more, keeps pushing the rock up the hill. Oh, and do this for all your council members, not just the ones you like. Reading a council member's newsletter is a really good way to find out who's a bastard if you don't know already. It lets you put targeted pressure on the problem people and when it comes time to vote, you'll know their stance on issues.

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WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS 1.02 - City Council

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[itgetsbetterproject]

Just a PSA: you do NOT need to be old enough to vote, eligible to vote, nor registered to vote to attend and speak up at your local School Board or City Council meetings!

The media usually focuses on the "big elections" but your school board and city council are often the ones making the big decisions that affect your daily life on a smaller, day to day basis (bathroom policies in schools, anyone?).

The good news is that anyone can speak up at these meetings - grab some friends and stand up for LGBTQ+ youth-supporting policies.

Courtesy of __lawyerbae on our TikTok.

[tribow]

Sorry to join the tumblr americans that are posting about elections, but I'm tired of seeing people acting like it's the end of the world or some shit because orange man is elected.

Here's a secret: Voting doesn't mean shit. Should you vote? Absolutely, but American culture ensures that the average American is severely un-educated about politics. Most Americans are completely loyal to a specific party. They're politically raised to be sheep.

Your vote matters, yes, but it also matters so little to the cultural zeitgeist. Unless something is done about the average American's political awareness, votes will always be dominated by sheep.

Presidential elections never had to be a "pick between two poisons," our culture simply convinced us that there are no other options and trying to change anything is useless. Sheep.

Now all I see are Americans wallowing in their despair. Waaahh there's nothing that can be done woe is me. Y'all really invested all of your hope in a vote that has such miniscule power because you're falling for the sheep mentality politicians want you to have.

Do you know what the common American citizen can do that's more powerful than voting? You can be an active participant in city council/town hall meetings. You can find out when they happen on your town's website. They are recorded so you can listen to one even if you missed it. Can't show up in person? These meetings are streamed. You can participate in the safety of your own home.

Send mail to the mayor. Speak about the problems you face that are local to where you live. If you have the priviledge being able to speak to townsfolk, bring it up in conversation if they seem comfortable. "Did you see the city council meeting?". Even if you never say anything or send mail to city council meetings, simply being aware is better than the average American.

Being aware puts pressure on your city. Being a person that speaks out about problems locally. This is where the common citizen holds the most power. I'm 100% certain my town would never have attempted to make bike lane and sidewalk plans if the townspeople didn't semi-regularly show up and complain about it every single meeting. We have a huge housing crisis and a bunch of homeless people that 10 people at town meetings constantly speak up for. What if there were more?

And another thing, do you call or mail your Senators and Representatives about any issues? Were you one of the many Americans completely silent about things like the Affordable Connectivity Program dying out? While similar to the miniscule power of voting, this does put at least a little bit of social pressure on those in political standing. Yes, many calls and mail are discarded, but they have to receive them. It gets recorded for data.

Again, the average American participates extremely little and it's not even just because they don't want to. It's because they don't even know they can. The Tumblr populace does not represent the average American in the slightest, in fact, I see people encourage calling Senators and Reps on here fairly often, but maybe do the same about city/town meetings. Push against the cultural zeitgeist of sheep mentality or nothing will change. Stop wallowing in your despair and maybe use that strong emotion towards something that matters even more; doing something about it.

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We have every right and every obligation to object to our cities’ investment in genocide profiteers.

This is a perfect model of locally-based activism that all liberation orgs should be working towards. Divestment of local funds is a huge step towards dismantling genocidal powers.

Repost from @alx4palestine:

Palestine is a local issue. We demand divestment now! #VAforPalestine #DismantleVIAB

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All seven members are women.

Six are women of color.

All are under 40.

All are Democrats.

Well done, St. Paul!

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Stephen Millies

The New York City Council unanimously approved a resolution on June 22 calling for an end to the cruel U.S. economic blockade of Cuba. The next day a news conference was held in front of City Hall to celebrate this victory. “This blockade must stop,” declared Council member Charles Barron, who was the resolution’s prime sponsor.

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Sometimes I listen to wtnv on my alexa mounted on my wall, and pretend it's a mandatory broadcast from the city council

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a fun lil something about episode 229 of wtnv: when Cecil tell us how Vaquero got Dana free from jail, both dates they mention are actual days when wtnv uploaded new episodes!

Dana kills her double (or the double kills Dana, no way to know for sure) on ep 19 (The Sandstorm) which was released on the 15th of March of 2013. And murder officially became a crime in Night Vale on the 15th of August, 2013, episode 29 (The Subway).

however, if you go to ep 29, you won't hear anything about murder at all throughout the transmission. that's cause Cecil actually covers the story one episode before! on ep 28 (Summer Reading Program), which came out on the 1st of August, Cecil reports that, during a debate that day, The City Council had finally declared murder illegal and that this law would go into effect in two weeks. so yes, the act of murdering only became a crime on the 15th of august, 2013, in our weird little town of Night Vale and the lovely Dana Cardinal did not violate any laws during the doppelganger incident!

damn, Cecil was right! that Vaquero really is the best in the business, respect.

[days-of-storm]

I'm honestly not okay

And when I say this I mean, I, personally, will be okay. I am a white woman with a middle class, stable job. I have savings. I have health insurance.

What I am not okay with is how fucking awful roughly 20% of the population of Germany are to vote for a party that is certified fascist, is quite literally a cult for its members (including social isolation, gaslighting, and making it almost impossible to leave without repercussions), have opportunistic leaders and have one of the worst party programs that I have ever seen (I mean, the Republican Party is currently winning that stupid competition, but I digress).

People are voting against their own interest, and all for the sake of racism, fear, lies and the notion that they are victims somehow and it's boggling my mind because that means that literally everyone who is working class, poor, out of a job, not white or not a German citizen, or both, not cis or straight, not Christian or atheist, will have a really fucking hard time in the future. People have lost the plot and are enjoying being hateful bigots and it's really fucking terrifying.

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WTNV doodles :):)

The first two are 100% my favorite

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WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS 1.02 - City Council

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Skeksis are a violent evil species who all fight each other and backstab. Not SkekEkt and SkekAyuk. They hang out, gossip, discuss their tastes and health, and SkekAyuk held a welcome home banquet just for SkekEkt. There is a reason why the fandom has shipped them and seen them as the Gomez and Morticia of TDC for years.

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I am a bit... confused in regards to urban life and organization in Westeros. On one side you have highly developed urban centers like King's Landing , Oldtown and Stony Sept; On the other, their administrative characteristics do not (through a cursory observation) resemble much of what I know of Medieval urban centers such as the HRE cities.

Are all westerosi cities and towns held directly by some lord? Mitgh there be some sort of oficial city councils in at least some of them, be their membership elected, inherited or something else? What sort of rights, privileges, protections and duties would a westerosi living the urban life have that a peasant would lack? How influential you think are guilds on westerosi urban politics and how they exert that influence?

You have put your finger on the button of an issue that's been bothering me about Westerosi cities for a long time. On the one hand, these are all cities that we know have urban charters - and we can see some areas in which those charters are functioning, in that these cities have walls, they have markets, they have warehouses, they have ports, and they have guilds and guild charters with guildhalls and the like.

What we do not see at all is any form of municipal government in any Westerosi city - King's Landing is directly ruled by the royal government, Oldtown is directly ruled by House Hightower, Lannisport by House Lannister, and so forth. The closest we've seen to a city council is various informal pressure groups of master smiths who liased with Tyrion about the boom chain.

So it seems like, when it comes to political rights, Westerosi urban charters are probably much more limited than their historical counterparts, largely because GRRM didn't want to write about city councils. Now, there are definitely urban officers, especially when it comes to collecting taxes and running the ports, but they would be appointed by the ruling lord of the city rather than being elected. Moreover, there seems to be a tendency for these officers to be selected from the ranks of younger sons of the nobility, scions of cadet branches, etc. But their subordinates in the bureaucracy are smallfolk, and sometimes they manage to scramble upwards.

In terms of burgher (or borough) rights, the fact that Westerosi cities are so demographically enormous suggests that there is a strong appeal for the smallfolk to move to cities. This suggests a certain amount of social opportunity, so urban residency probably means a freer legal and social status - they're definitely not serfs, but then again I don't think most Westerosi peasants are either. But "What sort of rights, privileges, protections and duties" are remains a bit vague.

As to the influence of guilds, it's definitely weaker than in Essos or actual medieval Europe, but it is there.

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LA CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERS FUNDING FORMER IDF SOLDIERS TO PATROL ITS STREETS

https://theintercept.com/2024/07/18/los-angeles-city-council-idf-magen-am/