Now is the time to fight back and stand up for our rights.

In a mere 4 months the federal government has abducted, jailed and/or deported an unknown number of students for exercising free speech rights, begun confiscating passports held by trans, non-binary and intersex people, sent 238 immigrants - at least 50 of whom have visas - to an overseas concentration camp without trials, hearings or charges, openly discussed sending citizens to such camps, stripped unionization rights from over 1 million union workers, arrested a judge and a mayor, begun a direct challenge to birthright citizenship, requested 20,000 national guard troops to conduct mass deportations, and proposed suspending habeas corpus.

The Trump administration is waging an escalating war on our most basic rights in order to silence its critics and turn back more than a century of gains made by working and oppressed people.

We are at a crossroads. We can hunker down, watching as our neighbors and co-workers are terrorized into silence and inaction, hoping this will somehow be the wiser choice. Or we can take this moment to create new connections with each other and strengthen old ones to build a movement capable of turning back this wave of repression - a movement that draws on labor’s ageless maxim - AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL.