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Mountain View Vigil Protests Immigration Camps
On June 30, 2018 in Mountain View 2,000 people demonstrated to send a clear message to Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress: Families Belong Together! They demanded an end to cruel and unjustified treatment of immigrant children and their families. A year later, on July 12, 2019, members of Together We Will once again called upon the people to gather on the streets, for the situation has not improved. Quite the opposite, it has only become more dire.
Photos by Teri Vershel, Pro Bono Photo. Please credit the photographer.
Photos by Teri Vershel, Pro Bono Photo. Please credit the photographer.
On a warm Friday night, residents of Mountain View and nearby towns took part in a Lights for Liberty vigil, as part of worldwide protests against detention camps at the U.S.-Mexico border. Just as they did almost exactly one year earlier, demonstrators waved signs calling out the Trump administration for inhumane conditions in detention camps, mass deportation and deaths at the border.
Starting at the intersection of El Camino Real and Castro Street at 7:30 p.m., people lined the sidewalks of the busy intersection. They planned to end their demonstration with a candlelight vigil featuring a mass reading of the lines of poetry inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty from 8:45-9 p.m., but protesters eager to be seen by passing traffic continued to rally long after the scheduled close.
Ida Rose Sylvester, one of the organizers of Together We Will Palo Alto/Mountain View, said on a hopeful note that, "Over the last 2.5 years, energy has shifted from sad and chaotic, to very powerful, focused and truly ready for change." Together We Will, the national organization, was born from the upswell of political activism following the 2016 election. Since then hundreds of thousands have felt the call to action across the country.
Starting at the intersection of El Camino Real and Castro Street at 7:30 p.m., people lined the sidewalks of the busy intersection. They planned to end their demonstration with a candlelight vigil featuring a mass reading of the lines of poetry inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty from 8:45-9 p.m., but protesters eager to be seen by passing traffic continued to rally long after the scheduled close.
Ida Rose Sylvester, one of the organizers of Together We Will Palo Alto/Mountain View, said on a hopeful note that, "Over the last 2.5 years, energy has shifted from sad and chaotic, to very powerful, focused and truly ready for change." Together We Will, the national organization, was born from the upswell of political activism following the 2016 election. Since then hundreds of thousands have felt the call to action across the country.
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Most of us know about and are embarrassed and horrified at the way migrants are treated at our border. All of us, or our ancestors, are immigrants. We are a country of immigrants and we are better for it. Those sleeping under bridges or in cages at our border now have done nothing illegal. Because they are desperate, they have walked thousands of miles under the Mexican sun, many carrying children. It is unforgivable what our government is doing to these families. Instead of spending billions on a wall, why not spend billions on immigration judges and decent housing? Why not give the refugees a hearing, as they are entitled to?
Kudos to the photographer, Teri Vershel. Her photos tell how we feel about our government and its policy of separating kids from parents, of keeping people sleeping in tents and on sidewalks in Mexico, of putting children in cages away from their parents.
I am including here a poem I wrote about our government's policy on immigration.
Lady Liberty’s Lament
O! say can you see
your tired, your poor
can you see
by the dawn’s early light
your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free
O! say can you see
what so proudly we hailed
as the golden door for all
can you see
the wretched refuse
the refugees
on your teeming shore
O, can you see
tears
on the faces of children
torn away from their mothers
fathers dead
from the perilous fight
the rockets’ red glare
bombs bursting in air
O, say
does that star-spangled banner
yet wave
for the tempest-tossed
homeless
in the land of the free
in the home of the brave
Kudos to the photographer, Teri Vershel. Her photos tell how we feel about our government and its policy of separating kids from parents, of keeping people sleeping in tents and on sidewalks in Mexico, of putting children in cages away from their parents.
I am including here a poem I wrote about our government's policy on immigration.
Lady Liberty’s Lament
O! say can you see
your tired, your poor
can you see
by the dawn’s early light
your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free
O! say can you see
what so proudly we hailed
as the golden door for all
can you see
the wretched refuse
the refugees
on your teeming shore
O, can you see
tears
on the faces of children
torn away from their mothers
fathers dead
from the perilous fight
the rockets’ red glare
bombs bursting in air
O, say
does that star-spangled banner
yet wave
for the tempest-tossed
homeless
in the land of the free
in the home of the brave
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