Week One

We Are Home

In January 2021, immigrant communities, organizers, and their allies met the change in the US Presidential Administration with determination and courage, focused on ending the cruel, xenophobic policies from the Trump administration.

Envisioning a pathway toward healing, over 20 immigrant-led coalitions came together to launch the “We Are Home” campaign, delivering a clear message rooted in their undeniable humanity and worth.  With three concrete demands and an intersectional organizing strategy shaped by youth, worker, and multi-racial coalitions, the “We Are Home” campaign not only called out the dehumanizing policies that have long criminalized immigrants and immigrant families, but centered the essentially transformative role that immigrant communities have in a free and fair society.  “We Are Home” was, and is, a message of invitation - to become a country that truly welcomes, cares for, and celebrates all. 

Today, the current Presidential Administration threatens to enact even crueler policies than previous administrations. As exclusion and brutality become further codified in our nation’s practices and policies, “We Are Home” invites us to reflect honestly. Can any of us feel at home in a society that continues to deny the basic rights of millions of our friends, family members, and neighbors?

Watch/Listen

Watch the official launch video of the “We Are Home” campaign from January 2021, created by undocumented artists Samantha Ramirez-Herrera and Aline Mello.

Take Action

Family Activities

Read/Watch Together

Where Are You From

Written by Yamile Saied Méndez, Illustrated by Jaime Kim

Sing Together

Migrants Day 18 December 2024 : Migrants Day Kids Song

Do Together

Organize a fundraiser, like a lemonade stand or a bake sale, to donate to an organization near you that is helping asylum seekers!

Body Practice

Ritual: “under state violence, we harbor each other” 

by Rev. Alaina Alexander from sacred incantations: rituals of trans wisdom for every season

  • Time Needed: 5 minutes

  • Items Needed: A handful of dirt

  • Context: State violence looms large over our lives as a constant threat or worry.  Because of this we often feel as if we don’t belong here, wherever here may be, and we forget that we have existed and found shelter in each other since the beginning. 

  • Ritual

    • Find a place outside.  Sink your fingers into the dirt.

    • Pick it up, clutch it, smell it, experience it.  Remind yourself that we are creatures of this earth.  It is where we came from and where we return.  You belong.

    • Imagine the world before states and how we cared for each other.  Imagine collapse and how we support each other through.  Imagine you and the people you love free from the worry of governmental harm.  

    • Let the dirt slip through your fingers, and imagine how to bring pieces of that world to life now. 

Creative Practice

Mural or Collage

Listen to Ricardo Levins Morales’s invitation Dreaming of the Soil.  Then, create a mural or collage that responds to his invitation:

“What stories, what narratives, what beliefs – if they were widely disseminated in the soil of our communities – would make it easy to win?”

Journal Practice

Write about a vision of home where everyone has freedom, safety, and access to resources.

  • What’s one thing you can do now to make this vision a reality?