NOT IN OUR TOWN!

[loyalsister]

4. The family requested no signs

They don't want to politicize it. They only want to protect the funeral peacefully.

"They have been planning since we found out about the tragedy. As he said, this is for the family, it is not a protest."

https://www.facebook.com/events/460316447320687/

"Not in our town" is a non-confrontational community response we have adopted as a strategy based on a movement we adopted in reaction to a hate group in Billings MT.

http://www.niot.org/action-hub/local-lessons

When a NAZI group applied and received a permit for a parade here, the human rights commission got together quickly to create an event that would keep people away from it. It was essentially a BBQ\picnic with free food and music. We celebrated the diversity of our community. It was very well attended and only a few people stood back and observed the parade.

That group targeted our town because the university publishes a newspaper in Spanish. We quietly did as you suggested and raised money for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

According to the literature they have distributed, they are protesting "for their 1st Amendment rights, homosexuality and a myriad of "other sins." This young man was engaged to marry a woman, so I am not sure what advocacy organization this family would want to support.

Note: We have had time to coordinate this response because they had to apply for a permit, and they have coordinated with law enforcement to protect the red wall.