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Yesterday at the interfaith prayer vigil in LA with Bend the Arc CEO Jamie Beran

Friend, 

Last night, I stood with hundreds of neighbors at an interfaith vigil in LA. The message was clear: families are sacred, our immigration stories are sacred, and no one can take down our city.

LA, my home, is one place where Trump’s fascist playbook1 is unfolding:

Step 1: Threaten community safety with ICE abductions of workers, protestors, and even labor leaders like SEIU California's David Huerta.
Step 2: Manufacture a “violent” crisis by inflaming public resistance to the ICE abductions.
Step 3: Use the “crisis” to "justify" and expand authoritarian actions. Repeat until you achieve a total police state.

Our communities say No. Jews say No. People of many faiths say No. Immigrants will not be pawns for authoritarianism. Our cities will not be a staging area for a dictatorship.

What you can do right now to fight back and prepare your city:

🪧 This Saturday, June 14, join a local No Kings: Nationwide Day of Defiance protest with your neighbors <[link removed]>

✊ Learn how you can support detained immigrants through the LA Immigrant Bond Fund <[link removed]>

▶️ Watch and share Rabbi Susan Goldberg, founding rabbi of Nefesh and Bend the Arc board member, interviewed in LA on NBC’s Meet the Press Now <[link removed]>
📧 Email your Senator to demand they reject the Republican’s cruel budget bill that would expand ICE’s power and reach <[link removed]>

As communities in LA rise up against raids designed to tear families apart, Trump has chosen to escalate the conflict that he created with the National Guard. And now, the Marines.

As the Trump administration fans the flames, their goal is not to make anyone safer. It’s to grow support for their own violent, fascist vision for the country.

That’s why we’ve been fighting the MAGA budget proposal that passed the House and is now moving to the Senate: it would funnel billions of dollars into ICE and immigration enforcement, supercharging the mass kidnapping we are witnessing in LA and around the country.

Take action by emailing your Senator and demanding they reject any funding for Trump’s cruelty. <[link removed]>

Thank you for all the ways you are rising up to stop state violence against our immigrant neighbors and the communities rising up to protect all of us.

In solidarity,

Anjuli Kronheim Katz 
Campaign Director, Bend the Arc


Sources:
1. Three Pillars of Fascism, Kai Cheng Thom <[link removed]>

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