Posted on 02/24/2017 10:25:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
MUSCLE SHOALS -- Groups opposing the agenda of President Donald Trump are springing up all over the nation and the Shoals is no different.
Members of the organization claim when the Indivisible Guide was released as a Google document file in December, it was downloaded more than 1 million times. It contained ways to keep up with what's going on in Congress, and how to influence your member of Congress through grassroots activism.
Today, there are roughly 7,000 Indivisible groups across the country, including at least 25 in Alabama.
Indivisible Northwest Alabama came together in late January, and a recent visit to Northwest-Shoals Community College has been mentioned on the Left in Alabama website, the left leaning news site Daily Kos, and the Thom Hartmann radio show.
Group spokesman Charles Rose said about 10 members planned to take a letter to the office of U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Haleyville, which is located in the Bevil Center on the Northwest Shoals campus. The congressman was not in his office, but his field representative, Kreg Kennedy, said they could slip the letter under the office door.
After meeting at the Bevill Center, nine members of the group went inside to finish writing messages on Post-It notes they were going to leave on the office door. Once inside the lobby, they attracted the attention of security.
Campus police arrived before they could get to the congressman's office and asked them to leave the building. Rose said he accompanied a campus police officer, who slid the letters under the office door. In all, Rose said there were a total of five law enforcement vehicles that responded, including an unmarked patrol car and a Tuscumbia police cruiser. The Bevill Center is located in Tuscumbia.
Northwest-Shoals Community College spokesman Trent Randolph said once Assistant Dean of Recruitment, Admissions and Financial Aid Tom Carter was notified, he went to the Bevill Center. Randolph said Rose's group had already been informed the office was closed, and were asked to go outside because of the classes being held in that building. He said the group was allowed to stay on the property outside.
Rose said once outside, the group posed for a few photos and videos.
"Individuals are always allowed to schedule meetings and meet with Rep. Aderholt's office representatives," Randolph said. "However, groups that desire to protest must follow college policy published in the NWSCC catalog."
Rose said the group had no desire to protest.
"We had an array of signs to hold for our photo," Rose said. "We never intended to picket, protest or disrupt in any way."
Randolph said the college's catalog states that groups that want to protest must first obtain permission from Carter's office.
"The college is happy to work with any group as long as they follow this policy," Randoph said.
Rose said there are Indivisible groups based in Cullman, Decatur and Huntsville. The group based in Alabama's Fifth Congressional District drew 400 people to a recent meeting when they had anticipated about 50.
Rose said the Shoals group's guiding principles are: "Donald Trump’s agenda will take America backwards and it must be stopped," and "to work together to achieve this goal, we must model the values of inclusion, tolerance and fairness."
He said Indivisible emphasizes action at the federal level, primarily by lobbying members of Congress.
While the group has several older members, there are younger, college-aged members and minorities in the group.
The University of North Alabama has a similar policy for speakers and protests.
Lawful and peaceful demonstrations as an expression is premitted and protected, but the university will not tolerate "substantial disruption to its educational mission," the policy states.
Substantial disruption is defined in part to include activies that deny the rights of other students, the faculty or the university staff; restricts the movement of persons on the campus; or substantially disrupts or obstructs educational and other essential activities and operations of the university; or interferes with the right of peaceful dissent of others.
I thought it was in “shuls”. Oy vey!
The picture says it all.
Since Trump’s agenda is pro-American, these people are self identifying as anti-American.
They’re too old for shuls. They are not receptive to learning that is uncomfortable to their established perceptions in any case.
I have noticed the majority of INDIVISIBLES are nasty OLD women. They must have spent their lives being programmed by OPRAH CNN, TODAY SHOW, all of the daytime sitcoms, and now they are ready to rally for the ‘cause.’ DISGRACEFUL.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-7
The Dangers of the Last Days
3 You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times. 2 For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. 3 They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good. 4 They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God. 5 They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that!
6 They are the kind who work their way into people’s homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires. 7 (Such women are forever following new teachings, but they are never able to understand the truth.)
Please note...there’s virtually no one in the middle-class 25-to-45 year old group. As always, this particular Democrat is missing from the picture and part of the long-term trend...a losing effort for the Democrats until they convince that middle-class Democrat to return.
There are some leftists everywhere, even in Alabama or Mississippi.
Looks like a gathering of hippie pinkos, +50 years.
The yellow and black signs are a tip-off that some Marxist group is behind them, usually the Stalinist “Workers World Party” and its’ front, IAC -International Action Center, ANSWER - Act Now to Stop War & Racism, or the Party of Socialism and Liberation (a WWP split off).
Sometimes their signs are Orange and Black. You’ve seem variations of them in Ferguson, Baltimore (Peoples Power Assembly, Blue and White), NYC, DC, Chicago, etc.
Now if anyone recognizes the old leftists in this photo, let us know. There have always been reds in Birmingham and a few university towns in Alabama, so from the looks of these people, they could be some of them. Or they could just be loony liberals with nothing better to do with their time, like house, feed, clothes, and educate Syrian refugees.
Everyone thinks that because someone is a granny that she’s a nice honorable caring person.
The Manson family killers are pushing their 70s now.
They are all white folks.
Strange...
We must be vigilant. The enemies are everywhere.
Seriously over weight.
Already in our midst.
I think the problem is trust, these people trust democrats and big government. That is bad.
Gosh - almost couldn’t fit all 9 in the picture....
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