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.
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Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Day
Our Olympia team was present on the Washington State Capitol steps in Olympia on Thursday for Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Day. We were there with another of our Immigrants Make America Great banners.
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What about the "legal vs illegal" argument?
Backbone Campaign deployed a banner over I-5 last week. It read "Immigrants Make America Great" a message that should be a truism that gets little reaction, but that wasn't the case. The rush hour commuters practically jumped out of their vehicles with enthusiasm. I've been doing this sort of thing for 22 years and this reaction was unprecedented. A photo taken by a driver went viral on multiple platforms.
The few negative responses online were mostly framed with the legal vs illegal dichotomy. So, this morning I thought it would be interesting to dig into that. The result was interesting.
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