Sue Hirsch
3 min readJun 22, 2021

My COAR

No. COAR’s not misspelled. It’s just missing it’s dots. It’s an acronym that stands for Cotati Organized Against Racism.

Founding the organization is one of the proudest moments of my life.

Two of her members are now City Council members, and C.O.A.R is becoming more of a force to be reckoned with, all the time. The city council is trying (unsuccessfully) to ignore C.O.A.R and brush off their requests for an ad hoc police oversight committee. As their founder, I had this to say to C.O.A.R:

What about getting a small amt. of defunding of the police on the agenda, as a