this event: Saturday, June 30th at The Unitarian Church, 10am-12pm.

I had a Facebook outburst last week.

It was when the Executive Order came out, this past Wednesday.

Immediately after the EO was announced, someone posted:

“We prayed in class this morning to release the children, and voilá! The children were released! I told you prayer works. Smiley face, smiley face, smiley face.”

I've always promised myself never to participate in Facebook threads like this.

I broke that promise on Wednesday, and I posted. 

I pointed my finger, and I admonished.

I shook my fist and slapped at wrists.

I then went on a rant, making sure EVERYONE on Facebook knew that the Executive Order did nothing -- that it actually made things worse, and that it is all still horrible.

I’ve been told (mostly by my mother, but others as well) that I can lean toward self-righteousness and intolerance from time to time.

Well, that was proved — wholly and for an extended period of time (like…all day long) — this past Wednesday.

I’ve since vowed never to post on Facebook again.

That being said, in the Facebook outrage that overtook my entire day, I discovered Allegra Love, an Immigration Attorney, based in Santa Fe, NM. 

I found this talk she gave, the evening that the EO was announced.

She starts her talk with:

“You will only go so far in your activism if you say, “This is wrong”. Everyone knows it’s wrong…it’s not morally complicated. You need to start building up facts and education so you can say “this is wrong, and this is why,” because if we understand why it happened, and why it’s happening, we are going to be able to find our way out of it.”

The other weird thing that happened this week, was that in two separate podcasts I listened to, both mentioned loneliness as being the beating heart of an authoritarian regime. That it is the disconnection from one another that allows totalitarianism to over take a country. Not that that is news to any of you reading this newsletter, but interesting that it came in different forms, from two very different kinds of speakers and interviews.

I’m choosing the second one I heard, The Moral World in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt for Now, to share with you.

Lastly, the subject line of this email.

This event is being held at The Unitarian Church so that Ingrid Ivett Encalada, who is currently in Sanctuary there with her two children, can participate.

Ingrid and Ana Karina Casas Ibarra, both who have been directly impacted by this administrations horrors, are organizing this event.

It would be great to see you there .

"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
-- DESMOND TUTU

With Warmth,
Joanna