A Weekend of Resistance: Immigrant Communities Rise Up

Plus, another 'Day Without Immigrants' protest and Shakira's inspiring Grammy acceptance speech to migrant communities.

Good afternoon! It took me all morning to compile a partial list of large pro-immigrant protests across the country over the weekend. The sheer amount of videos we found from actions in solidarity with immigrant communities was so vast, we can’t even share them all here due to Substack’s limits on email length. Let’s jump in, anyway; but before we do — 

It’s worth noting that this weekend’s protests were entirely grassroots. That is, the tens of thousands of migrants and allies out in the streets Los Angeles to New York City, St. Louis to Idaho Falls, Charlotte to Phoenix, aren’t waiting for institutional permission or support to get loud for their families, friends, and neighbors under siege by ICE.

This is an extremely hopeful development. Make no mistake: the next four years will be hard on migrant communities, but the weekend’s protests made clear that migrants are not alone. Migrant families have champions who are willing to get loud in the streets alongside the most vulnerable Ame…