If Not Us

6/➡️ You do NOT have to speak. The more bodies in the room, the better.
➡️ Show up. Stand up. Support our unhoused neighbors.
➡️ Tell the BOCC we need real solutions — not criminalization.

If not us, then who?
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5/anti-camping and anti-panhandling ordinance changes THIS THURSDAY.
Your presence matters.

🗓 Thursday, Dec. 11
⏰ 5:30 PM
📍 Ernie Lee Magaha Government Building
221 Palafox Place, 1st Floor — Board Chambers
Pensacola, FL 32502

➡️ Sign up to speak here:
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4/ Pensacola is better than this. Escambia is better than this.
We need policies rooted in dignity, housing, and support — not more penalties against people who already have the least.

📣 CALL TO ACTION: Public Hearing This Thursday

Escambia County will hold a public hearing on the proposed

3/This is about criminalizing poverty and targeting the very people who rely on community groups like Food Not Bombs to survive.

When we arrest volunteers for feeding people…
And then try to pass ordinances expanding penalties against the unhoused…
We are choosing punishment over solutions.

3/ harder, not easier.

Now the county wants to expand definitions so that resting, sleeping, or simply existing on public property can be treated as a violation — and make it even harder for people to legally stand on medians to ask for help.

Let’s be honest:
This isn’t about “public safety.”

2/ Bombs two Fridays ago, that’s because it is.

Two weeks ago, a longtime Pensacola volunteer was arrested at the weekly Food Not Bombs meal share at MLK Plaza — an event that has served our unhoused neighbors for 14+ years. The message was loud & clear: helping people in public spaces is becoming

🥣Two Fridays Ago at Food Not Bombs …and Now This?

Escambia County is now considering changes to existing ordinances to give deputies more teeth to crack down on things like camping on public property & panhandling in medians.
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If this feels connected to what happened at Food Not

3/folks scream “socialism” about when it helps everyday people instead of big industries.

Even farm groups warned: government checks don’t replace stable markets.

So if helping working families is “socialism”…
what do we call this?

#IfNotUsOfficial #IfNotUsPensacola #ListenLeadAct

2/bailout to clean up the mess his own policy created.
👉 $11B in direct government payments to farmers.
👉 Billions more set aside for commodities not covered.

That’s not the free market.
That’s not small government.
That’s government intervention and taxpayer-funded bailouts - the exact thing some

Let’s talk about this from an educational angle — because this is what “socialism for the powerful” actually looks like.

Trump’s tariffs triggered a trade war. China cut U.S. soybean purchases to almost zero. Prices tanked. Farmers suffered.

So what happened next?

👉 Trump rolled out a $12 BILLION

Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...

3/If it’s really about the rule of law, then the rules apply to everyone. Not just the people you don’t like.

Read it for yourself:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...

2/what? He didn’t even live in them. They were rentals.

That’s literally the same thing he’s accusing others of — & punishing them for. You don’t get to weaponize the law against your opponents while quietly benefiting from the same behavior yourself. That’s not accountability. That’s hypocrisy.

So let me get this straight

Trump & his allies are out here throwing around “mortgage fraud” accusations like confetti — but ProPublica just reported that Trump himself signed multiple mortgage documents claiming different Florida properties as his “primary residence” at the same time. 🧾

And guess

3/ time to finish what should have been done 160 years ago.

#ListenLeadAct #IfNotUsOfficial #IfNotUsPensacola

2/ racial injustice.

The good news? Rep. Nikema Williams and Sen. Jeff Merkley have introduced the Abolition Amendment to finally remove that exception & fully end legal slavery in this country.

Freedom shouldn’t come with an asterisk. It’s past

It hit me today that it’s been 160 years since the 13th Amendment was ratified to end slavery — and yet there’s a loophole in it that allows slavery “as punishment for a crime.”

That one sentence has huge consequences. It’s helped justify forced prison labor, mass incarceration, & generations of

Also, North Palafox Street will be reduced to ONE travel lane from Olive Rd (SR 290) to Burgess Rd (SR 742) on Monday, Dec. 8, 5PM – 6AM for beam placement at the overpass.

Plan ahead & allow extra travel time!
Details here: nwflroads.com/newsroom

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🚧 Traffic Heads-Up for Escambia County 🚧

Expect overnight delays on I-10 Westbound near the US 29 interchange (Exit 10). Traffic will be reduced to ONE travel lane and shifted south between 8 PM – 6 AM, nightly through Thursday, Dec. 11.

4/We’re watching this closely — and we should all be paying attention.

What are your thoughts on this? 👇

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3/Roe v. Wade, attack same-sex marriage, and now go after birthright citizenship.

Which side is truly coming after constitutional rights?

Watch what they do. Not what they say.

This isn’t abstract. This is about neighbors, classmates, coworkers, & the future of who gets to belong in America.

2/of children born right here every year could be denied citizenship based solely on their parents’ status.

And let’s be real for a moment. For years the right has said the left is coming for your constitutional rights — and yet they haven’t. But we’ve all watched the right successfully go after

Big news with HUGE implications: The Supreme Court is going to hear a case that could end birthright citizenship as we know it.

For over 150 years, being born on U.S. soil has meant you are a citizen — full stop. Now that basic constitutional guarantee is being challenged. If overturned, thousands

• Speak up for students, educators, and intellectual freedom
• Share this post so more of our community is informed

Public schools belong to the people. Let’s act like it.

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3/We believe in fully funded schools, empowered educators, and students who are taught how to think — not what to think.

👉 CALL TO ACTION:
• Attend the next School Board meeting
• Email School Board members and demand transparency & accountability
• Speak up for students, educators, & intellectual

2/ are instead being used to fight over what students are allowed to read.

This isn’t just about books — it’s about:
⚖️ How our tax dollars are being spent
📖 Students’ access to diverse ideas and stories
🏫 Trust and transparency in our local education system

📚Community Update: Escambia County School Board & Book Bans

The Escambia County School Board has spent an extraordinary amount of public money on legal battles tied to book removals & censorship. Funds that could have gone to teachers, classroom supplies, mental health support, or library resources

7/ Sincerely,
[Your Name]
[City / County]

Silence is what they’re counting on. Don’t give it to them.

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6/meeting expecting public input. Instead, we were given a PowerPoint and no chance to speak. That is not transparency — and it is not democracy. Mid-decade redistricting without real public participation is a power grab. I demand open hearings, public testimony, and fair maps drawn in the sunlight.

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4/ express outrage and demand accountability. We urge EVERYONE to do the same. Flood their inboxes. Demand transparency. Demand a voice.

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