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Dozens of suburban moms from around the country dialed into an Ohio-based Zoom training session last month with the same goal to learn how to combat the increasingly vitriolic rhetoric from parents whose protests over mask mandates and diversity education have turned school board meeting rooms into battlegrounds.
The lessons: Show up at meetings with fact-based speeches ready and create text groups for real-time strategizing. Wave jazz hands if told not to clap at meetings. Avoid using the divisive language of their opponents, such as CRT for critical race theory, and instead replace it with alternatives like culturally responsive instruction.
Katie Paris, the founder of Red Wine and Blue a national network of like-minded, mostly Democratic suburban women believes the only way to fight back is to present a calm face to counter the angry groups that have dominated and disrupted board meetings and in some cases threatened officials. Her network of more than 300,000 women recently broadened its focus to fight the rising number of book bans across the country, launching a case tracker on Jan. 31, and is running training sessions to help women testify and manage highly charged government meetings.
We believe its time to get off defense, Paris said. Why should we be the ones explaining ourselves? This is not why we moved to the suburbs. We moved to the suburbs for high-quality schools.
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'Blue' suburban moms are mobilizing to counter conservatives in fights over masks, book bans... (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Feb 2022
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Aristus
(66,446 posts)1. Lord love these fine women!
royable
(1,265 posts)8. Shouldn't those be "jazz hands"?
Deuxcents
(16,310 posts)2. Yes! And yes!
I hope they go national n some influential help would help. Another example of solidarity and never , ever give up. This is good news n I have high hopes..
JanMichael
(24,890 posts)3. GOOD
Lunabell
(6,105 posts)4. Great job, women!
And whatever men are doing too. Don't let these kkkrazytown idiots defile your children's lives with their hate!!
BigmanPigman
(51,625 posts)5. They have a good strategy.
More power to them!
Hassler
(3,389 posts)6. Awesome strategy.
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Hekate
(90,774 posts)9. They already have a network of 300,000+ women? Hallelujah.
I hope they have a mechanism for vetting new enrollees to make sure they arent trolls. I also hope lots and lots of DUs Finest join up!
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)10. K & R. Great strategy. Needs to be shared everywhere. N/T
gab13by13
(21,385 posts)11. Nitpicking but they aren't conservatives,
I now call them Magats.
samplegirl
(11,492 posts)12. My kinda women!!!
Putting the Trumpers where they belong👠
samplegirl
(11,492 posts)13. Sorry I've got to post twice on this thread
These women are what we need everywhere!! This post made my day!
mopinko
(70,197 posts)14. imho, this is huge. soccer moms are key.
glad to hear the soccer moms are scared. huuuuuge factor.
crickets
(25,982 posts)15. Great news! *jazz hands* K&R