Patrick Hamilton
Patrick Hamilton is a Washington activist.
New club
With climate change bringing soaring heat waves and catastrophic floods on a mass scale around the world, the Sacramento Valley formational club of the Communist Party USA decided to take their efforts to clean up their community local—by adopting a highway.
“We give a damn in practical ways, service to beautify our slice of the world,” said Patrick Hamilton, who also independently adopted another section of Highway 99 near Sacramento. “I’d like to think our example inspires similar efforts within the Communist movement. This counters capitalist lies about us.”
“I think cleaning the highway is good for local ecology. It gives space for flowers to grow, which is good for pollinators, and it reduces pollutants that run off the road into the storm drains which discharge into irrigation ponds,” added Katy, another member of the new collective. “Given that we’re in rice and orchard country, that means clean roadways are good for our food supply.”[1]
Public Facebook group
Members of the Olympia Democratic Socialists of America public Facebook group, as of June 7, 2018 included Patrick Hamilton;[2]