From RefuseFascism.org:

Reaching Out to Immigrants Rights Activists

October 16, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

Over the last couple days I have been meeting with activists, and people from several immigrants’ rights groups. One of them is a newly ordained minister who has spoken up for DACA students. After I read the Call for Nov 4 to her, she asked me what is fascism? She didn’t know, so we got into that. She had a sense that bad things are happening, but didn’t see the whole picture, particularly the taking away of what have traditionally been people’s rights – that kind of clicked with her. I’m not sure if she fully agreed with all of that, it’s circulating in her head, but she much more confronted the scope and scale of what is in those panels – the Indictments. Off this, the minister signed up to endorse Nov 4.

From our conversation, she was thinking through “Who do I know.” She attends a church in a neighborhood with a lot of progressive people. Her minister has been published in national publications speaking out against things like Charlottesville. So, I went to the church and caught the minister on Sunday, between services. Maybe not the best day to go, but I didn’t want to let time waste, and I knew I could follow up. I told her about the 4^th, and she said that it sounded like the right thing to do, but wanted to think about her role – like I said, she was basically on her way from one service to another. She connected me with the church’s social justice coordinator who is also a minister. I gave him the Faith letter on the spot, and followed up with the original Call from Refuse Fascism. And resent the faith letter – because you give people something and they put it somewhere… So I’ll go back and talk to them to follow up.

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