Monday's one thing
As Prerna Abbi-Scanlon illustrated yesterday, we are in the "First they came" poem right now.
ICE has "disappeared" a Columbia student, green card holder, and husband to someone eight months pregnant, for exercising his right to free speech. If you're not caught up, here's a Democracy Now! story and some background from Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, plus a piece from The Intercept about the Columbia WhatsApp group that has been targeting pro-Palestine students.
Item 1
If you have U.S. Senators ➡️Use this extremely short script from Rachel Hands to leave a message with their staffers today. (Phone numbers here.)
If you or your friends are in NYC and can hustle over this afternoon ➡️ there's an emergency protest at Javits Federal Building at 4pm.
Keep equipping yourself and your neighbors ➡️ Marco Rubio has no authority to "revoke" green cards, but clearly that won't stop him (or the vigilantes who feel empowered by the billionaire bros).
We need to throw sand in these gears wherever and whenever we can.
Resource reminders:
- Red cards, wallet-size, to DIY print or order
- Another set of printable Know Your Rights materials in multiple languages and for multiple situations (i.e. at work, in your car, at the airport, etc)
- And another bystander intervention trainings (hbystander intervention training next week, this one specifically about supporting immigrant communities
What else should readers know about? Hit reply if you have something I should share.
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