<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Patriotic Americans are rallying tomorrow, June 30 to protest the inhuman separation of families and the incarceration of innocent children.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here in Sonoma County we are gathering </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>in Sebastopol at the Plaza at 10:00 AM</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>in Santa Rosa’s Courthouse Square at 10:00 AM</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>in Healdsburg at noon at the corner of Healdsburg Ave. and Matheson St.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>in Roseland Plaza at 8:00 PM</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>in the Sonoma Plaza at 10:00 AM</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For other areas go to <a href="https://act.moveon.org/event/families-belong-together/search/?zip=76196&source=crooked&s=" class="">https://act.moveon.org/event/families-belong-together/search/?zip=76196&source=crooked&s=</a> to find a gathering.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please share this widely.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Pity The Nation </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(After Khalil Gibran)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Pity the nation whose people are sheep,</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and whose shepherds mislead them.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">sages are silenced,</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Pity the nation that raises not its voice,</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">as hero</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and aims to rule the world with force and by</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">torture.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Pity the nation that knows no other language but</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">its own</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and no other culture but its own.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Pity the nation whose breath is money</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Pity the nation--oh, pity the people who allow</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">their rights to erode</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and their freedoms to be washed away.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">- Lawrence Ferlinghetti</span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>