Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Political signs

[Dick Margulis (dick]

On 9/8/2022 7:40 AM, David Entin wrote:
> . . . We are wondering if other cohousing communities have faced similar 
> incidents and what actions, if any, your community took in response.
One of our more creative and skilled members designed a really nice 
Black Lives Matter graphic. We had an inexpensive sign made that we hung 
on our construction fence (implication being that no one lived there, so 
nighttime mischief was highly probable). We had a few copies, and when 
the first one was stolen, we replaced it. If I recall correctly, the 
second one was taken down too, and we replaced it again. After that, it 
was left alone. The theory is that replacing the sign shows that you're 
not easily intimidated but that you're also not intent on escalation. 
Whether that is how this plays out in the mind of the perpetrator is 
something we can't know, of course.