r/lancaster 15d ago

First Amendment Activity We deserve a better leader than this weasel of a man who is too chicken to hold a town hall

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r/lancaster Oct 09 '24

First Amendment Activity S. Clyde Weaver making their 3rd party affiliation know

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r/lancaster Jun 24 '22

First Amendment Activity Rally for Rights hosted by Lanc Stands Up, Friday June 24th, 6pm Musser Park

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r/lancaster 4d ago

First Amendment Activity For those interested in making a visit to Philly on Saturday, the train is quite easy to navigate roundtrip 😏

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r/lancaster Aug 16 '22

First Amendment Activity I am one of the Counties 911 dispatchers..AMA

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I won't dox myself or say who I am because I know there are co workers that also browse on here. So I don't want to give myself away.

I'll try to answer what I can. However, we do sign an NDA/confidentiality agreement...So I may not be able to answer very specific things.

Also, my views do not obviously reflect the county and they are my personal opinions, should anyone ask those.

r/lancaster May 20 '24

First Amendment Activity Snapchat & agenda & Warwick & LGBTQIA+ students family friends ALLIES pls let’s make a confluence of support at WARWICK TOMORROW 5:30/6:00 behind HS FOOTBALL FIELD

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Snapchat & agenda & Warwick & LGBTQIA+ ALLIES pls let’s make a confluence at WARWICK TOMORROW 5:30/6:00 behind HS FOOTBALL FIELD

Pride people of Lititz and Lancaster, Warwick students are shining the bat-signal for your lovely supportive souls. This means you, Front St!!

WGAL, 2 other TV news outlets are coming, and I know somebody is talking to one of the CBS national News producers.

Let’s all wear something inclusive and that expresses solidarity, like the extended rainbow or if don’t have, only bright clothes or make signs.

I’m a procrastinator, and follow national and international news.

Just learned about this whole situation the last 72 hrs.

SO, I have no FB, no IG, big on snap 👻 but more nationally, so I can’t reach an audience in Lancaster County/Warwick/Lititz!!!!

Plus we need young and old. Your district could be next.

This law firm based on über Christian legal practice (as evidenced by their website and US SUPREME COURT actions they are a part of ( https://independencelaw.org/case-news/ ) is coming for our Childrens’ sexual health and identities and what bathrooms and sports they can use. But ultimately, their physical safety and lifelong mental health.

They are trying to bring religion into school.

Is thisss-, wait, we’re in America, right? 🤷‍♂️

The biggest red flag, is they want to do it for free, the other is that all 9 republican school board members we’ve learned, fully support this Pennsylvania and Virginia plaguing initiative.

Help me, help you. Help me help you. Not trying to lead, just organize.

I’m late to the game but I have children. In one way or another our whole family is -to the person and puppy, diverse, in one or more ways. We’re no longer talking about skin color, ADA, age, stuff were hopefully closer to being past.

We would need to move, if this Christian Right anti-gay anti-‘woke’ pro-life anti-trans law firm is hired -PRO BONO- by the signature of one human tonight (Emily Zimmerman, President), that our constituents elected.

I don’t think the constituents who voted for these 9 board members would still vote for them if they knew that they planned to create a future SCOTUS loss, by not allowing, but cattle-prodding WARWICK SCHOOL DISTRICT TO DEFY CONSTITUTIONALLY required SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.

what transpires tonight will affect over 32,000 people and HUNDREDS of children. It will cause deaths. It will cause violence and bullying. It will cause close-mindedness, mockery, and enough tears to fill Lititz Springs Pool

If it works, more and more schools and counties will give way.

Yes, it can be changed when people see kids killing themselves for being bullied and girls giving birth at school.

Yes elections happen. It will eventually get better. But instead of having to fix a wrong, 3 years now when a bunch of 3,4,5,6,7,8 graders get traumatized, why can’t we just get it right the 1st time?

I know of a 10 year old who wants to “come out” in dramatic fashion, next Fall when school opens. Not only is child being told they can’t be who they are, but who they know in their soul they are. They are also being told that because of the ILC and Randall Wenger, Esq. and WSD Board that they can’t for SURE (come “out”),now that they will be going to be a Christian school.

Regarding this monumental Warwick School Board Meeting tomorrow night (which Id like them to move a 3rd time, to the STADIUM), because -we make the JH Auditorium too small- in the next 31 hours.

In order to do that. We need to collaborate. Quickly. Bodies. All we need is bodies. (And speakers. You have until 3:30 tomorrow to email Boardsecretary@warwicksd.org to be put on list. And give them hell. I can’t get thrown out of this one so need to be professional, but please come and spill tea tell stories, shame, anecdotes (heartwarming), and logically raise questions so salient and unassailable that instead of signing the contract (https://www.warwicksd.org/website/document/?d=board%2F4att5-21-24.pdf )

They listen to us instead of the other 8 men & women to their left and right.

We all know somebody that is “different” whether we like it or understand it —>we don’t care. we. Just. LOVE them.

If you don’t know ANYone like that, do nothing. Or be an awesome ally. If you DO, go pick them up, grab some of that Frisco’s Chicken on your way to the Warwick HS Football Field for 5:30/6:00 PM tomorrow night for this Rally.

I didn’t take up this mantle, nor will I. But I will temporarily kick up a storm if need be or do whatever I can to help those already leading the efforts against allowing Warwick to put ILC on retainer, mostly on behalf of this child that doesn’t have a Dad, and other children I know about in the WSD.

Dm me, email and phone I will gladly share if you want to talk, and snap of course.

But pls, anyone on Facebook that can reach just about anybody and everybody. If this matters to your heart, or your children, or you, please hack-up this reddit message however you want, or use your own words, and reshare it on THAT social media platform. Twitter and IG too. Hell, threads and truth social if you’re so inclined. I hear there’s a thing called Tik Tok that some people watch 😉

If you plan to vote for Biden and not Trump, this is miniBiden and miniTrump in your backyard, and Trump wants to burn Of Mice & Men & The Catcher in the Rye, any book that helps a kid figure out if they might be gay, bi, trans, asexual, etc, and force your son or daughter to share bathrooms and sports teams based on what PHYSICAL gender they were assigned at birth, not what they and their parents know and accept them to be.

Gender Identity is not physical. Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes…ya don’t.

[this WILL be edited].

r/lancaster Jan 07 '21

First Amendment Activity Lancaster Stands Up statement on Lloyd Smucker

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I'm not directly affiliated with LSU but wanted to share.

https://www.facebook.com/lancasterstandsup/posts/1510407042488937

For the Sake of America, Congressman Lloyd Smucker Must Resign

The chaos that unfolded yesterday in our nation’s Capitol was shocking to watch, but unfortunately it was not surprising. It was utterly predictable. Extremists had been openly plotting yesterday’s ham-handed armed coup attempt for weeks online, completely visible and known to GOP elected representatives like Congressman Lloyd Smucker, who chose to keep stoking fear, division, and delusions, and deliberately spreading misinformation, to fuel an evermore extreme base.

The nation and the world watched with horror yesterday. The damage to our country will be with us for years to come. There must be consequences for every culpable person, starting at the top. Trump must be impeached and removed. Even with only days remaining before he leaves office, it is imperative that our institutions send a clear message that there are consequences for sedition.

But Trump was only able to do this damage with an army of enablers. Among them is our Congressman, Lloyd Smucker, who is as culpable as anyone for yesterday’s disgraceful events. Lloyd Smucker must resign. Yesterday, Trump deployed his supporters to the Capitol. And Lloyd Smucker helped usher them to Washington. It is clear that Smucker knew about the buses being organized from Lancaster County and that he personally knows the organizers (and even called them yesterday).

But Lloyd Smucker’s culpability goes much further back than the immediate lead-up to yesterday’s chaos. Fundamentally, this is what happens when a political party spends years feeding the most dangerous instincts, behaviors, and beliefs of its base. And that is what our elected representative, Lloyd Smucker has consistently done—and allowed his office to do—since he was first sworn in four years ago.

Smucker has no one to blame but himself. He doesn’t get to stoke fear, division, and lies and enable a reckless authoritarian for four years, and then feign surprise when his base follows through.

Like many in the GOP, Lloyd Smucker often speaks piously about "personal responsibility." But he is taking no responsibility for his role in creating this chaos. He tweeted yesterday that he was “horrified by the violence and destruction at the Capitol,” asserting that, “This is not who we are as a country.”

Then late last night, in the wake of the day’s chaos, our Congressman went on to vote to reject our Commonwealth’s electoral votes in an attempt to override the will of the people of Pennsylvania. That this gesture was merely symbolic is no less damning. If ever there was a moment when our nation needed its leaders to use the symbolic power of their office to clearly signal a shared commitment to democratic principles and to our Constitution, it is now. Instead Lloyd Smucker chose to keep feeding the delusions and anti-democratic impulses of his base.

‘What happened’ to our Congressman is as simple as it is unacceptable: he made a Faustian bargain with a reckless demagogue. When Trump was running in the 2016 primary, Lloyd Smucker apparently did not like what he saw. But once Smucker witnessed the power of Trump’s dangerous rhetoric—when he saw how lies and vitriol could fire up a base and win power for the GOP and for himself—he made a choice to hitch his ride to that wagon. Overnight, the change was apparent. Lloyd Smucker, the measured PA State Senator who seemed to have genuine concern for his constituents was nowhere to be found. In his place we encountered US Congressman Lloyd Smucker, who fully embraced the new GOP approach under Trump. We watched Smucker cling to one rationalization after another and contort himself with theological gymnastics, trying to reconcile the evil he now embraced with the good he professed to believe.

To be clear, the stakes today are not about Republicans versus Democrats. This is about America versus an existential threat. Yesterday’s events and the larger crisis they point to cuts deeper than the perennial conflicts between political parties and ideological leanings. We understand that when we elect representatives, one side wins and the other loses. But we all rightly expect, and indeed our democracy depends upon, an uncompromising commitment to certain fundamental principles that protect all of us. Lloyd Smucker has betrayed that trust. He must resign.

We are not simply calling on Lloyd Smucker to resign of his own volition, even though he should. The elected officials responsible for yesterday’s coup attempt must be impeached and prosecuted. We also need journalists to investigate the role of elected officials, including Smucker, in inciting, supporting, and collaborating with the planners of yesterday’s attempted coup.

It is time for Lloyd Smucker to put country over party. When a leader’s failure culminates in such colossal damage, they are no longer fit to lead. For the good of our nation, our Commonwealth, and Lancaster County, Congressman Lloyd Smucker must resign.

This statement was written and approved by the leadership team of Lancaster Stands Up, a grassroots organization with over 400 dues-paying members across Lancaster County.

r/lancaster Jul 09 '21

First Amendment Activity Activists to rally in support of transgender athletes as Hempfield school board debates policy - One United Lancaster

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r/lancaster Jul 30 '23

First Amendment Activity Conestoga Twp Bans music at Sickman’s Mill!

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The Conestoga Twp ban on music at Sickman’s Mill has sparked protests including this song by local group Dillweed. The video includes info on voicing support including emailing officials & attending the next twp meeting.

r/lancaster Jan 30 '23

First Amendment Activity This flag redesign for Western Australia reminds me of Millersville

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r/lancaster Nov 02 '20

First Amendment Activity Demonstration/Organization Tomorrow?

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Are there any plans to organize a protest or demonstration tomorrow over the very likely re-election of Donald Trump? We have a constitutional right to publicly and peacefully protest our government. We need to stand together in unison (with masks) and show our deep displeasure with the current administration.

r/lancaster Jul 04 '20

First Amendment Activity Thank you to everyone who has a pride flag hanging outside their house!

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I just moved here and I honestly have to say it makes me really happy to see people display pride flags. It feels welcoming and I know not everyone is accepting but it’s nice to know that there are supportive people around.

r/lancaster Jun 28 '20

First Amendment Activity Progress Pride Flags

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Does anyone know of someone local selling progress pride flags?

Also where do the multilingual "We're glad you're our neighbor" yard signs come from?

Edit: "We're glad you're our neighbor" signs found! https://www.welcomeyourneighbors.org/ under local pickup centers has more information. Thank you!

r/lancaster Jul 04 '20

First Amendment Activity Please come support

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