Fundraiser/Protest Update

Thanks to everyone who came to our fundraiser and donated to SUWA. Hopefully you got some good gear out of your donation. We had so much gear donated! Companies were really generous. I was amazed! This was all really encouraging: it made me realize that we CAN make a difference. We put this together in just one week! We raised more awareness and some money for a cause we really believe in. It all started with group of friends in a living room complaining about something, and deciding to actually DO something.

Earlier that day, Friday, our group, Visual Cacophony, had a little protest/demonstration outside the BLM office in Salt Lake City. Everyone poured black paint, representing oil, over Hasenpfeffer who was sitting in front of our sign "drill something else." Lots of people have made comments about how "stupid" we were for doing this. But what they fail to see is two things: 1) This "stunt" got our issue on the front page, rather than somewhere lost in the depths of the newspaper, and 2) This kind of thing is really fun to do/put together/participate in. People need to have more fun with things, and stop taking themselves so seriously, yes? Read about it here.