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“A cage cannot hold an idea. A cage cannot hold our voices. A cage cannot hold our hopes of a liberated community.” - Pablo Alvarado, Executive Director of @NDLON’s opening remarks at our luncheon with #ElPasoFirme artists and families directly affected by the aug 3rd shooting.
“Nosotrxs no estamos immigrando por qué queremos...Nosotrxs que tenemos el color de la tierra, por que tenemos que huir? Estoy aquí por todas las mujeres de Juárez y todas las mujeres de America Latina que están siendo asesinadas.” - @RebecaLane6
“Estoy aquí para dar todo mi corazón.” ❤️ - Marisol of @lasantacecilia #ElPasoFirme
“Esto no puede estar pasando. Simplemente por que somos Mexicanos. Porque somos diferentes. Yo creo que tener un arma en nuestra casa no es la solución.” - Margarita, su hija se encontraba en el Walmart durante el tiroteo el pasado 3 de agosto.
“Why a concert? That’s how we heal. After all that happens to our families. Our gente heals with music.” -@ErikaAndiola, RAICES Chief of Advocacy
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This weekend’s cultural resistance in El Paso, Tx left us humbled & with a sense of renewed commitment and hope towards our fight for justice. We remain strong - firme - and resilient. Because no wall or cage can restrain a song. 🎶 Somos #ElPasoFirme! Check out the highlights 👇🏾
We kicked off the events on Friday protesting outside a detention center by joining our voices with artists like @lasantacecilia, @Icryduringsex and @DosDueto who serenaded the migrants locked inside in a beautiful act of ❤️ and resistance.
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"No reaccioné hasta que leí el manifiesto. Ahí me quedó claro que venía a matar mexicanos. Venía a matarnos." - Guillermo Glenn, activista local.
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📢🎶❤️We are calling on our sister communities across the country to join @BNHR and the El Paso communities in an exercise of collective compassion and solidarity on September 7th.
As communities of immigrants and refugees, El Paso has a place in all of our ❤️: A community that straddles borders & cultures, a symbol for safety and inclusion for people from around the world, citizens and non-citizens alike - a symbol of hope and of home.
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2 tendencies have intersected that invariably lead to violence: The uncontrolled access to weapons of war that has enabled mass atrocities time and time again + the white supremacist political agenda at every Trump rally & tweet.
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Yesterday, we testified before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Laredo.

We talked about how difficult it is giving legal counsel to our clients in detention, how we're stymied every day by ICE.

We also heard a lot of terrible stories from others:
We heard from an Angolan refugee who had all her documents taken away from her at the border—a result of discrimination against her, she said.

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She requested medical assistance, but there weren't enough doctors to see her.

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She had to stomach it all. She can't go back, she has no family there, she's pleading for asylum.
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