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Georgina Sanchez: Arizona Vigil. After 10 weeks of holding vigil outside of Arizona’s capitol building in protest of the state’s harsh new immigration law, on July 6 Georgina Sánchez and more than a dozen individuals took their vigil to the White House. Learn more at the website of the new organization Promise Arizona. Video produced by Anne Thompson. via We Are America.
SANCTUARY’S DAUGHTER
A little while ago, Mason Funk wrote on blog about the documentary, Sanctuary’s Daughter. Recently, Leanna Creel, producer and co-director, gave a phone interview to Patheos.co
“Three years ago, filmmaker Leanna Creel had never even heard of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Now, she and co-filmmaker Mason Funk are making the final cuts on a documentary about a mother and daughter who sought sanctuary in their church when the mother received her final deportation papers. Sanctuary’s Daughter shares the story of one family’s journey to stay together and puts a personal face on the immigration system that threatens to break up four million young Americans and their undocumented parents.
Voices from The Ground: The Arizona community speaks to The Sound Strike. (via Producciones Cimarrón).
This was the Rosa Parks moment, the time that gay people stood up and said no. And once that happened, the whole house of cards that was the system of oppression of gay people started to crumble.
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Lessons from other Social Movements:
Lucian Truscott IV, journalist for The Village Voice, quoted in the review of Stonewall Uprising.
David Cho at the Campus Progress National Conference
Conor Oberst for The Sound Strike via the Sound Strike.
Read more here (via the Indypendent): Understanding the Artist Boycott of Arizona Through Bright Eyes
Day after cruel day passes, and desperation begins to take hold of the human spirit. David reports to me that his marriage has ended as a result of his deportation, as there is little hope that he could safely return, and his 3-year-old daughter has more of a future as a citizen in the U.S. It appears as though there is nothing more messy, complex, or heart-wrenching than the malicious tearing apart of families and lives.
… I am convinced that God’s good vision is for us to be the church by living as one, free of barriers and in compassionate abundance. But I ask your prayers for those who are beaten down and need that strength and hope now more than ever, and prayer for all of us, complicit in these deportations.
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Maryada Vallet writes in “Deportations that Destroy the Human Spirit” for God’s Politics. Vallet works with No More Deaths, a humanitarian initiative on the U.S.-Mexico border that promotes faith-based principles for immigration reform.
Prayer Vigil in Front of the White House: via @AmericasVoice
This is a difficult debate — we all know this — but for us it is no longer just about laws or policies or ideologies. It’s about the very real struggles of people we know and love, people desperately wanting to honor God and provide as best they can for their families. Knowing their stories doesn’t erase the complexity of this issue, but it certainly does reframe it.
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Lynne Hybels writes in her post for @CCIR, Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Lynne is the advocate for global engagement at Willow Creek Community Church and author of Nice Girls Don’t Change the World.
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