DREAMers and Immigrants - Indivisible Sonoma County
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Indivisible is not a race. There is no finite moment when all the battles will be won, and all the issues resolved. And let’s celebrate this, because we won’t all wake up some morning and learn a miracle has occurred. We will work for our miracles.
We won all of the battles over affordable health care so far. We know there may be another battle, and another battle aafter that one. But we won – because we were active, and assertive, and spent our time making certain Congress members know that we want affordable health care.
To do all this, and to continue to do it, has meant we had to learn. We had a lot to learn. We’ve learned about the power each of us has to influence those we elect. We’ve learned we don;’t always get our own way and yet we must speak up, respectfully. We’ve learned that words and actions matter – and that our words and actions counter those of the Republican Administration. There is still much to learn as we prepare for victory in 2018 and beyond.
And, we’ve learned to care about each other – about all our neighbors – in new ways, with passionate hearts.
Things continue to move quickly – which is part of our new normal. As we were drafting this text, the news came from Washington that the Republican President had reached an agreement with leading Democrats that would protect DREAMers and improve border security – but not by building a wall. Building a wall to keep people out makes us think of the Berlin Wall. And that’s not who we are.
