Federal agents shot and killed Renee Good, a mother of three, on a street in my hometown of Minneapolis in January. Weeks later they shot and killed Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at the VA, while he was trying to help someone. The administration called him a terrorist. Then the video came out and proved that was a lie.
Twenty-three people have died in ICE detention since October. The U.S. bombed Venezuela without congressional approval and killed civilians in their homes.
A U.S. Tomahawk missile hit a girls’ school in Iran and killed 175 people, most of them children. The president denied responsibility even after video confirmed it. We are now in a war Donald Trump has no control over, which he is escalating by the minute.
This is not normal. None of this is normal. And when people of faith go quiet through something like this, it tells the world the faith community doesn’t have a problem with any of it. That is the wrong message, because we have a problem with all of it.
Five million people showed up for No Kings in June. Seven million in October. Saturday is being built to be bigger than both.
The organizers want this to be the largest single day of protest in American history, and faith communities should be right in the middle of it. That is exactly where Vote Common Good needs to be.
