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Solidarity with the Border Agricultural Workers Project and all of our relatives from El Paso to Mississippi
We stand in grief and rage with our sisters, brothers, and familia in all border communities and communities of color facing the daily onslaught of trauma produced by militarism, capitalism, and white supremacy. We mourn with our comrades at the Border Agricultural Workers Project the loss of loved ones in their community as a result of the mass shooting in El Paso, TX by a white supremacist whose manifesto echoes Trump’s racist and violence inciting rhetoric.
We remain vigilant and ready to frustrate any attempt by those in power to use these acts of white supremacist terrorism to expand surveillance and policing of immigrant communities and communities of color. Trump has directly linked more stringent background checks to immigration reform, which under his watch can only mean more harm to our migrant familia. This year alone, 600,000 migrants have been taken by Border Patrol, and seven children have died in their custody. This, too, is a form of domestic white supremacist terrorism sanctioned and carried out by the state en masse. We recognize the same logic at work when police and vigilantes brutalize and murder Black women, men, and trans people with impunity. Furthermore both the criminalization of our movement such as the Black Lives Matter activists and environmental defenders right to resist goes hand in hand with the Trump administration emboldening and implicitly encouraging acts of racist vigilante terror. The dehumanization of Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples by white supremacist ideology not only motivates individual acts of senseless violence, it rationalizes war tactics by domestic law and immigration enforcement and normalizes the hyper-exploitation of millions of our brothers and sisters.
The same week of these devastating white male terror attacks in El Paso and Dayton, this administration also carried out the largest single state ICE raid in history, where hundreds of ICE agents detained 680 Latinx and Caribbean workers in the poultry industry in Mississippi. As It Takes Roots member Cooperation Jackson wrote, “Make no mistake about it, today’s assault was an assault on the working class. This assault was intended to terrorize a legally vulnerable and super-exploited sector of the class, largely drawn from Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, and get them and those in precarious situations to disengage from politics (including but not in the least ways limited to electoral politics) and public life. We must stand in solidarity against these deliberate acts of terror.”
Trump’s visit to El Paso was another act of violence against the survivors and their families.
There is no question that the current President of the United States is a racist, using his platform to empower and incite to violence those with a similar agenda to make America white again. In the face of this threat to our lives, our communities have continued to organize and to build alternative visions for a world where all of us can live in freedom, dignity, and a just relationship to each other and Mother Earth. We have continued to create and sustain hope. This hope is something we must not lose sight of.
We do not accept any of these conditions as inevitable. Even as we mourn, we continue to struggle for the world we, and future generations, deserve. We demand the freedom of all migrants in detention. We demand the abolition of the prison industrial complex–this includes ICE, police, state surveillance, and all cages from jails to detention centers. We affirm the right of any people to move in search of refuge. We affirm the sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples over their lands and livelihoods, including the rights of Indigenous Peoples of Central America and Mexico. We organize to end the wars abroad and the wars at home, because as Assata Shakur put it, “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.” Another world is possible.
Signed
It Takes Roots
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Climate Justice Alliance
Indigenous Environmental Network
Right to the City Alliance
Causa Justa :: Just Cause
About Face: Veterans Against the War
UPROSE
Mapuche Nation Support Committee,Edmonton
Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition
Food Not Bombs Lake Worth
Mujer
Future News Canada, etc.
Mid-Michigan Immigration Coalition
pineapple collaborative
St. Francis Xavier Parish
Wild By Nature, Inc.
Builders & Designers for Climate Justice
Elmira Peace Vigil
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC)
Northern Colorado Rights Network
Earth First!
Chainbreaker Collective
Mujeres Unidas y Activas
Terra Advocati
Brandeis University
City-Wide Tenants Union
Principles NOT Parties
Twin Cities Nonviolent
Native Justice Coalition
Arizona Justice Alliance
Central AZ National Lawyers Guild
CODEPINK
SouthWest Organizing Project. Con Mujeres
Soaw N.M
CEO Pipe Organs/Golden Ponds Farm
Grace UCC
Parallax Perspectives
Physicians for Social Responsibility Philadelphia
Wholistic.art
Street Level Health Project
Fund for Democratic Communities
Struggle for Miami’s Affordable and Sustainable Housing, Inc.
Power House Productions
The SELF Project
North American Climate, Conservation and Environment(NACCE)
Activist San Diego
Sunflower Alliance
Nollie Jenkins Family Center, Inc.
Environmental Health Coalition
Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala/NISGUA
Bellingham Deaf and Disability Justice Collective
Birchwood Food Desert Fighters
Earth Ethics, Inc.
Another Gulf is Possible
Organize Florida
Power Shift Network
ELCA
Urban Tree Connection
LELO
Beyond Extreme Energy
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