Notices by Sue is Walking the Earth 🌱 (susankayequinn@wandering.shop)

PORTLAND FRIENDS! I will be arriving in your fair city in time for tonight's #Solarpunk Film Festival (5:30pm)! And I have two extra tickets (some friends sadly aren't able to come):if you'd like to see some cool films & meet up, I would love to see you there! DM me!
https://filmfreeway.com/SolarPunkFilmFestival

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After seeing all the beauty of the coastal redwoods and the lush diversity of the forest, it’s hard to see the part ravaged by fire.

So much more burning ahead in our heedless changing of the climate.

#SueWalkstheEarth #climatechange

We are in denial about how the world has already changed.

Climate disasters are *already* costing us.

Housing insurance is *untenable* in the face of escalating damage due to climate disasters.

Fascism is being used to consolidate power before it all goes to hell.

https://prospect.org/environment/2025-06-20-climate-change-will-bankrupt-country/

#Climatechange

I've brought a ridiculous amount of stuff along on my #SueWalkstheEarth adventure (almost 4,000 miles so far since June 1st! From Pittsburgh to LA and up the coast, currently NorCal heading to Portland soon).

I look like some kind of Temu princess, hauling my boxes and bags into and out of the hotel/motels. But carrying a bit of home with me has been really nice. 10/10 would do it this way again. Maybe learn to pack a little better.

You can tell a lot about folks by how they react to what’s happening in the US right now.

The “oh shit, this is bad” folks have an accurate read.

The “everything will work out” contingent does not. And possibly is actively in favor of making things worse.

first, show support for the protests

share the hell out of it on socials

you know the media is gonna downplay it, so there's your work for Saturday sorted

If you can't protest or share (we all have our lanes/abilities, no worries)...
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It's really important to remember that protests are just *one* part of the fight. There are so many people, institutions, science, art, libraries, knowledge itself UNDER ATTACK... pick the lanes closest to you and let others work their lanes.

Super hard to remember (for me) but so important.
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A friend (
@teffeau.bsky.social
!) reminded me of this graphic which is so good... www.socialchangemap.com

So much of cultural change work is done outside the headlines and the limelight, before (and after!) the flashpoints, in ways no one sees or trumpets but is critical work.
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We are in a moment of great cultural change.

When I say that, people think I mean the fascists are dragging the culture *backward* and that is certainly happening. They think that fascism on the *rise* means a culture of equality, justice, rule of law, sustainability must be *falling*...
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Any time is a good time to protest all the fuckery.

If you're able *Saturday Jun 14th* is an especially good day. www.nokings.org

Trump won't like us crashing his tanky birthday party
show solidarity w/ LA
outrage re:ICE everywhere
Did I mention Trump won't like it?

But if you can't protest...
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I try to keep an open mind when visiting a place, but Phoenix, y'all have no water and it's hot AF.

Anyone who lives here and is a climate denier is in a special category of delusion...
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I'm one week in to my #SueWalkstheEarth epic roadtrip across the USA and Canada and it's doing all I'd hoped for: allowing me to deepen connections with friends with the magic of meeting in-person, helping me get into the headspace of this plants-and-families solarpunk novel I'm writing, plus the bonus climate-weather adventures! I'm also talking with people about their wishes for a better world and that's a hella grounding thing to do while the world is on fire.

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LA is a megacity > 10M inhabitants with pollution you can see from space (in the daytime, obvs the massive light pollution visible at night).

It practically invented the words "urban sprawl".

But sure, Martial Law is a thing you can do there🙄

Good luck.

(catching up on news; plants are better)

Really good summary of the LA situation.

No rioting. No looting.

Despite Trump's *fervent desire* to have something to violently suppress—and brag about at UFC—people are just resisting kidnappings by armed/masked terror units.

And a skater flipping them off.✊🖕

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKpIqEHMj2N/

Trump is actively trying to provoke the people through his lawlessness so he can crack down more and gain more power.

Part of resistance is understanding this and working to undermine it (it's why skater boi was so effective)...
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We need to break the hold of that narrative—the people will riot! Government must show up to establish order!—when it's always, entirely, the cops/military that provoke, enact, and escalate the violence.

(friends are reminding me the many ways police terrorize people to *provoke* and *torture*)🧵

Violence-thirsty conservatives will keep beating that drum—riots are about to happen! Must be bad if they have to call in the national guard!—but way too many normies believe that narrative & it's what allows it to happen.

Maybe the LA kidnappings by Trump goons will erode/break that narrative. /🧵

How you know you're in a red state+: the absolute PROLIFERATION of billboards about Jesus and sex toys++

++not usually on the same billboard BUT SOMETIMES

+or the red part of a blue/purple state