Standing for our Immigrant Brothers and Sisters

On the heels of last week's bannering that went viral, Team Backbone was back over I-5 on Thursday morning. This week we had two teams greeting commuters coming to Seattle from the north and south. Our banners read "Immigrants Make America Great" and "Who Would Jesus Deport?" We reached an estimated 60k people with nearly 50% of them waving, honking and expressing a palpable sense of relief and gratitude. 

Scapegoating immigrants while enshrining the oligarchs is not going to deliver working people change we can believe in. Equating people who are essential to our economy with terrorists and threats of a Guantanamo concentration camp is shameful. 

When people are disheartened and fearful, is exactly the moment when when standing up with backbone in a public and principled way matters most.  

We need a populism that appeals to the best in people, not the worst in them. That means we need to stand up for each other, including rural places and workers who have been literally left behind.

We cannot afford to be silent, or we may forget how to stand up and speak up. This work is only possible because of people like you.

We invite you to join us. 

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  • Lucy Larkin
    published this page in Recent Actions 2025-01-31 17:00:12 -0800