To: Women's March and The United States House of Representatives
March on the Border
We have concentration camps at the border. Help us create a March on the Border in support of current local non-profits of the size and scale of the March on Washington.
Why is this important?
We need to face one of the greatest domestic humanitarian crisis that our country has seen since the Japanese Internment Camp post World War II and Segregation.
Sadly, the approach of the 'resistance' has not been enough to face this crisis. We need to join non-profit local advocacy groups that are actually protesting at the border through a nationwide effort to take buses to the border.
Currently, protesting at the border is much more dangerous than protesting in Washington. This is because the number of activists and the location of the protest is remote. Authorities currently have the power to punish local activists with felony charges - while protesters in DC get off with a slap of the wrist. The reason for this is lack of nationwide support for this issue. Yet - millions of people donated to Raices - a non-profit organization that helps people at the border.
Unfortunately, Raices is limited in its power to stand up to the government's authority on separating children from their parents...thousands of which have gone missing. Active protest is needed even more than legal action.
Mass bus protests to the south have a long history. Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. If it were not for the support of people that went to the South from across the country, voting rights would never have been enforced in this country.
We believe that this kind of mass mobilization is necessary today at the border. Join us now to support the movement to bus it to the border.
Please note by signing you are not committing to marching on the border. We are in the initial stages of this effort, to see if there is any nationwide interest, beyond the groups that currently focus on this issue.
Thank you for your participation!