Aghast and Distraught!!!

Two spreads in my Sketchbook - I needed to express how I’m feeling about the current paramilitary occupation of our cities by ICE, agents of our own government! I remind myself that this is how MOST Americans are feeling right now. I didn’t mention the word “ICE” because I couldn’t bear to have that word live on in my Sketchbook.

The worse it gets the more resolved I am to lean into helping. I spoke during public comment at the Marin County Board of Supervisors Meeting this week to demand they out the SCAAP Program on their agenda and vote to withdraw from it, which is a federal reimbursement grant for incarcerated immigrant “criminals” - and most likely hands over these people to ICE. I’m donating. I have protested. But I need to do more.

How did I make these pages? I taped the words on the page, then scribbled furiously with colored pencils (many; cathartic), removed the tape and added black ink.