To protect immigrants, let’s de-polarize the U.S.’s political culture.

Many problems that are plaguing the U.S. are rooted in various kinds of polarizations.  Oppressors use a “divide-and-conquer” strategy to disempower ordinary people so the oppressors can grab more power and enrich themselves financially.  They polarize us by pitting race against race, religion against religion, straight people against LGBTQ people, and native-born people against immigrants.

They also polarize us by emphasizing nationalism, so they pit nation against nation.  They promote wars and nuclear weapons.

All of these polarizations draw from the same roots.  In order to protect immigrant rights — and all people’s rights — and in order to prevent nuclear war and achieve peace — we must DE-POLARIZE the U.S.’s political culture.

I wrote this flyer and handed it out to many people at the immigrant rights rally in Olympia on Saturday June 30, 2018:

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Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org