There’s Something’s In My Eye

Seven million are singing and filming

When they started singing “This Land Is Your Land,” I lost it.

People for the American Way and the Dolores Huerta Foundation for Community Organizing released a short ad on Monday that urges “Americans to reject the cruelty and denial of due process of the federal ICE raids—and to meet this moment with creative, peaceful non-cooperation.”

This fictionalized account offers an aspirational example of community strength and solidarity, reminding us how, throughout history, vulnerable groups have been indiscriminately rounded up while others stood by in silence.

In “The People, United,” survivors of the Holocaust and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II intervene as an ICE agent zip-ties the hands of a grandmother who has lived in the U.S. for forty years. Through visceral narrative storytelling, the film delivers a clear message: we must not repeat the painful mistakes of the past.

Yeah, Donald Trump’s sure to threaten their nonprofit status.

“In our news feeds, we have seen disturbing scenes of ICE agents treating even law-abiding immigrants and their supporters with callous disregard for their humanity and basic civil rights,” said Svante Myrick, president of People For the American Way Foundation. “This short narrative film offers an inspiring vision—one where justice prevails because enough of us remember our history and have the courage to show up for our neighbors.”

Share it widely, especially in the land of MAGA where the shadows lie.

We are only beginning to see the back end of No Kings 2. Already the movement is generating songs and videos to meet the moment. No Woody Guthries out there yet, but one may hit.

Here are a couple tunes friends have run across.