Dear Tim [Jackins],


How things have changed since I saw you last month. Hope you’re well and dealing with a reasonable amount of everything.


My regular RC activities include mini-sessions with my contacts in El Salvador and Morocco. I have noticed that the more I can discharge well in my turns as client online, the better others can discharge. Sometime people discharge best during my sessions. My ability to discharge has improved by long-term RC practice and many sessions as client connecting with my counselor, even when I didn’t necessarily feel connected at first.


On the climate change front, I have supported the Chase bank protests (Chase has been one of the world’s biggest financial supporters of the fossil fuels industry and a backer of genocide against Indigenous people). In January, about a hundred Extinction Rebellion members met in the parking lot of the Hollywood (California, USA) branch of Chase bank. The group was going to go through the bank urging customers to close their accounts. However, the bank found out we were there and closed for business that day. So we had a “die-in” outside and some people tore up their bank cards. 


When I closed my Chase account in my neighborhood, the employee thanked me for explaining my action and said she would convey the message and that my voice would be heard. I then opened a credit union account. At work, when some of my trusted allies talked about what they did over the weekend and asked me about my weekend, I told them I had shut down a bank in Hollywood. That got discharge and questions about how it happened. Chase has since made some concessions in the Arctic, but not enough in the world as a whole.


Love,