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August - Groundcherry
AUGUST {Groundcherry}
“Greetings Forestians, thank you for being here today. I am honored to greet you as the Vice Chosen One-elect. I would not be here without the people who came before me and fought for the rights I now have today. There’s another woman whose name isn’t known, whose story isn’t shared. Another woman whose shoulders I stand on. And that’s my mother — Petal Chupie Ash. When I was 5, my parents split, and my mother raised us mostly on her own. Like so many mothers, she worked around the clock to make it work — packing lunches before we woke up — and paying bills after we went to bed. Helping us with homework at the kitchen table — and shuttling us to church for choir practice. She is the motivation behind my every move, and I am honored to call her my mother. She taught us to be conscious and compassionate about the struggles of all people. To believe public service is a noble cause and the fight for justice is a shared responsibility. And at every step of the way, I’ve been guided by the words I spoke from the first time I stood in a courtroom: Pine Ash, For the People. Thank you all for being here and taking time out of your day.” Pine Ash addressed the crowd of distanced Tarot-Ash supporters.
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This was her first address to the Forest and the Forestians. It was only a couple of days earlier that Argo Tarot chose Pine Ash as his running mate for the Chosen One race.
A week later, significant protests were sparked again.
Lennox Huey was shot seven times in the back by Calvin Goro. Calvin Goro was an officer with the Animal Fuzz. There was a dispute, and the officers tried to put cuffs on Huey. Huey then walked around his hooptie and reached into his hooptie. Calvin Goro then shot him in the back seven times. His three children were in the backseat.
Later, Calvin Goro and the other officers said that Lennox Huey admitted to having a blade in his hooptie. This blade was later found on the bottom of the car. A statement released by the Huey family said that Lennox was paralyzed from the waist down.
Protests erupted, much like the Chip Rocky protests, which were only
AUGUST {Groundcherry}
three months earlier. They were in multiple regions of the Forest and all around the world. These protests went through the night of the 23rd of Groundcherry till the morning of the 24th of Groundcherry.
