Mi ACLU Estamos Unidos: Day 1, City 2 – Stockton

We headed down to Stockton, CA after our launch event at the 24th St BART in San Francisco.  We were really lucky that there was no traffic... we got there pretty fast, and boy was it freaking hot there!  We ended up going to a flea market and we set up our table, speakers, banners, etc and started petitioning.  I stayed for a while and took some photos, and then hopped in a volunteer's car and went to St. Mary's Church where we planned on petitioning some more. View all photos from the tour: CLICK HERE We went to St. Mary's church next to wait for mass to end so that we could ask people to sign the petition, but unfortunately it did not end in time to collect names.  But we did get to meet the nice people who were selling food and other stuff... This is a very nice homeless woman who is completely fluent in Spanish - she explained to me (in English) that the woman who owns the booth pictured above is very kind because she is trusted to watch over her items when she is not there.  She lives in the parking lot, and looks forward to the vendors every week. Last but not least, some pretty roses growing in the courtyard next to the church. The van came to pick me up at this church. I met the manager of the rectory, and older gentleman in jeans and a buttondown shirt (he looked like a gardener/handyman). I needed a pen, and he offered to give me one, and invited me inside to look at his photos. It was awesome because he was so unassuming, and the next thing I knew he was telling me about the Canon 5D Mark III and Lightroom 4... whoaaa! The van picked me up outside the church and we left for Fresno. I edited photos the whole way in the van to and from our destinations and have been posting them on the Mi ACLU Facebook page... You can view them HERE. Next stop, FRESNO...