Crossing the Line: It Really Is Safer in the Front
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Crossing the Line: It Really Is Safer in the Front
On Saturday, January 24, in response to the murder of Alex Pretti, demonstrators gathered outside the ICE facility in Portland, Oregon.
A participant describes the experience of collectively crossing the line into resistance and discovering that, when everyone does this together, our oppressors’ power evaporates.
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"In the middle of the chaos, someone yelled, 'It’s safer in the front!' The crowd surged forward together, larger and more unified than before.
"What happened that night was grief turning into action. It was rage turning into protection. It was the understanding that when the government murders someone for defending others, the only moral response is to stand up. Together.
"As a consequence of that kind of solidarity, not one single person was snatched by the feds for crossing their blue line."
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