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Town Hall Meetings are Imperative
Town Halls Are The New Protest Marches
It’s time to transition to direct confrontation of representatives
I’m of the generation of protesting in the streets.
Not that I had access to any important streets growing up in my tiny Texas town, where even if we had marched, there would have been a total of ten of us.
As soon as I grew up and moved away though, I joined protest marches. None of the ones I joined made any great difference, but the ones before I was old enough to join — against the Vietnam War, and for Civil Rights — impacted those in power and brought about change.
The Black Lives Matter marches after George Floyd’s murder helped draw attention to issues of police brutality, and started a small sea change, with his murderer and others being convicted as a result. Protests and the Rule of Law won out. At least for a few and for a short while.
Since then, though, I haven’t seen much change initiated by protest marches. I’ll certainly continue to attend them, but I believe now Town Halls are the way to both get our Senators and Representatives to hear us, and to get the media focused on our issues.
