It’s a message for us to organize harder, more and concentrate more on our communities and rebuild this country that we all love. They are not a message to us to change course.
senator, Catherine Cortez Masto.ĭespite the losses of this election, the national results are hardly a mandate. Or Nevada, where members of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226, many of them immigrant women, went to work on an impressive ground campaign to elect the country’s first Latina U.S. Just look at Arizona, where labor and the community came together to defeat the anti-immigrant Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The progressive movement in this country doesn’t need to run scared, we have muscle. “We resolve to fulfill the yearning of the human spirit for liberty, justice and community to advance individual and associational freedom to vanquish oppression, privation and cruelty in all their forms and to join with all persons, of whatever nationality or faith, who cherish the cause of democracy and the call of solidarity, to grace the planet with these achievements.”Įven though times are uncertain, there actually is reason to be hopeful about the future. The preamble of the AFL-CIO constitution states: I work at the AFL-CIO and come from the labor movement, so solidarity is a verb, it’s an action. This is exactly the time that will require all of us to stand up in solidarity. It’s not a promising time, it’s not a time where people are hopeful or joyful, it’s a time where all of us are very worried about where our country is going. There’s no doubt that for people who talk like me, who look like me, for people of color, for Muslims in this country, for immigrants across the country, this is a very, very frightening time. There are many other immigrants and refugees like me who come to this country because it is a beacon of hope for those brave people who want to be free.
I walked for 93 days through the Sudanese desert to find freedom. I came to America when I was 15 years old, escaping an authoritarian regime in Ethiopia as a political refugee. “Be there for people of color, for immigrants, be there for the Muslims because they are scared right now.” We’re coming off of an election that reminded us we still have considerable work ahead in the struggle for freedom and civil rights, and on Martin Luther King Jr. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” - Dr.
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