Hello friends!  Tyler here, with another update about our networking and training endeavors.... I got an opportunity to visit communities on the Gulf Coast last month. I am very grateful to the California Allegory Fellowship, which helped make it possible by purchasing a couple extra plane tickets for me – I traveled to the Bay Area by a very circuitous route! After visiting the Earth First! Rendezvous in Ohio and participating in my first civil disobedience action of the summer, a lock-down blockade at an ICE office, and then a “Crisis Convening” hosted by Public Lab in New Jersey, in mid-July I flew to NOLA, where I saw some dear old friends and tried my best to get accustomed to the weather (to get a good sense of summer on the Gulf, imagine living in a sauna 24 hours a day, and the sauna is full of bugs and rats and without any exit). From there I continued on to Lafayette, where I did a workshop for members of a new DSA chapter as well as the local Indivisible group. It [...]