Re: “Detained Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil appears in immigration case” (March 21, Nation):
We will’t settle for denying rights to folks we don’t like. If we will shrug off Mahmoud Khalil’s freedom of speech as a result of we don’t like what he’s saying, another person can shrug off our freedom of speech. If we will shrug off Khalil being disappeared as a result of we don’t like him, another person can shrug off our being disappeared as a result of they don’t like us.
The one method we’ll get by this darkish interval in U.S. historical past is by sustaining a united entrance. We don’t abandon anybody. We don’t like trans folks or immigrants or whoever else is being focused? We don’t must. We simply want to acknowledge that if we permit different folks to lose rights, it is going to find yourself encompassing us, too. If we begin dividing folks into people who matter and people who don’t, that record of people who don’t matter will solely develop bigger.
We don’t go away anybody behind.
On April 5, protesters will rally at Angle Lake Park after which march to the federal detention heart close to the Angle Lake gentle rail station.
Let’s be part of this or one other of the nationwide protests on April 5 and once more on Might 1.
Johnny Townsend, Seattle, co-chair of Organized Employees for Labor Solidarity
