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[Beth Brenneman]

*Today at Safeway.  *

*Patricia Norris had said no one would be at Safeway Willits between 1 and
3.  Debbie and i decided to drive 1 hr. 20 min. to Willits and get
signatures...and then go shopping at Safeway after 3 PM.  We set up a tiny
tv table with info at a pillar to the  south side of the propane gas
machines.  There was already a table set up at the pillar right in front of
the northern entrance/exit of Safeway.  They were the American Legion and
they were accepting donations from customers going in and out of Safeway.
Within 20 minutes of our being there, the manager and the 2nd asst. manager
came out to tell us to leave.  I asked if they were familiar with the
Pruneyard vs. Robins Supreme Court decision and they said they would bring
me a letter which stated we needed to leave.  The manager did, i read it
and mentioned that the A. L. were taking donations which the letter
forbade.  I said i disagreed with the letter and what was the next step.
The manager said that he would get Safeway's attorney on his cell phone and
the attorney would explain why we had to leave.  This took more than a 1/2
hour to get the attorney; the attorney cited 2 cases that supported
Safeway's position.  The attorney asked me if i was on Safeway's sidewalk
or a public sidewalk.  I said i did not know whose it was; the attorney
offered to google map it with the manager and they would tell me whose
property i was on.  In the mean time, the 2nd asst manager was moving about
taking pictures, etc.  We waited until after 3 pm and no manager came to
show us google earth and their property.  We photographed the A. L. still
there and smoking directly in front of the door.  About 3:15 we decided to
leave since we are both sensitive to cigarette smoke.  I went in and found
the manager and asked what happened to the google map that the lawyer had
promised.  The manager said he didn't need it; it was Safeway's property!
I told him that we were leaving because his American Legion guys were
smoking right next to the door and we could not be around cigarette smoke.
He replied sarcastically, "Have a nice day."*


*It was 2 years ago that we WERE allowed to get signatures for Prop 37
(labeling GMOs) in front of Willits Safeway.  Now look!*
*Now i am partly writing this to share but also to document it.  I am open
to comments about how to precede.  This said, i know very well that our
rights as citizens are being taken away faster than 10 vultures on a deer
carcass.  If i (or we) do nothing, we are giving up more and more.  Just
look at the good Germans in Hitler Germany:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_.>..*

*I think something must be done.  So, any suggestions...*
Beth B
"The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've
seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as
speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.” Arundhati
Roy <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6134.Arundhati_Roy>
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