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Justice and Accountability March for Brenda

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Date:
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Time:
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type:
Protest
Organizer/Author:
MILPA East Salinas
Location Details:
339 Melody Ln, Salinas, CA 93901

Please join us for the Justice and Accountability March and Vigil Honoring the Life of Brenda Mendoza.

Join us at the MILPA office at 3pm as we peacefully march to City Council Chambers at 200 Lincoln Ave.
Added to the calendar on Sat, Mar 16, 2019 12:55PM

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by Voices of Monterey Bay
"Oh, how I wished these people could have seen the Salinas Police Department’s war zone tank parked in the middle of one of our poorest neighborhoods to contain a 20-year-old woman. In my wild imagination, the Facebook commenters would understand that the last thing their neighbors need — after worrying about lack of adequate housing, hunger, mental health issues and a myriad of issues that go hand-in-hand with poverty — is to worry about having police officers where school counselors should be placed. Maybe these neighbors would see that having a swarm of officers in an already traumatized community to deal with a very distressed community member only creates more trauma, resentment and fear.

"I hope they saw the footage. I hope they read a story in the Monterey County Weekly that describes Brenda Berenice Rodríguez Mendoza, 20, as suffering from postpartum depression and as having run out of her meds. I hope they saw she was living in a car and was desperate because she wanted to recover her baby, but because she was homeless and had a history of drug abuse, she knew she was facing a mountain of hurdles. Seen through the lens of postpartum depression, the hurdles must have looked to Brenda the size of Mount Everest."

Read more:
Uneccessary trauma
https://voicesofmontereybay.org/2019/03/13/unnecessary-trauma/
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