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Home, by Warsan Shire (British-Somali poet)

no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark.

you only run for the border
when you see the whole city
running as well.

your neighbours running faster
than you, the boy you went to school with
who kissed you dizzy behind
the old tin factory is
holding a gun bigger than his body,
you only leave home
when home won't let you stay.

no one would leave home unless home
chased you, fire under feet,
hot blood in your belly.

OWS stands in solidarity with Dreamers.

Lyrics:

Just a child, when she crossed the border
To reunite with her father
Who had traveled north to support her
So many years before
She left half her family behind her
And with a crucifix to remind her
She pledged her future to this land
And does the best that she can do

"Yo Soy Inmigrante" is a song based on real stories of immigrants in the U.S and has been performed by more than 50 musicians from all over the world representing more than 26 nationalities.

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A very powerful song by the Killers touching multiple social issues.

Lyrics:

Can't wipe the wind-blown smile from across my face
It's just the old man in me
Washing his truck at the Sinclair station
In the land of the free
His mother Adeline's family came on a ship
Cut coal and planted a seed
Down in them drift mines of Pennsylvania
In the land of the free

Visit a center in El Paso that has welcomed hundreds of thousands of refugees and immigrants.

This film documents the work of Annunciation House and its guests. Join us as we watch volunteers struggling with their place of privilege in the house, while we see migrants preparing for the next leg of their journey deeper into America.

Where today would Jesus give his love and attention? For Ruben Garcia, the soft-spoken founder and director of the Annunciation House in El Paso, TX, the answer is obvious: to the poor, the frightened, and the persecuted. Decades ago he noticed the sad stream of poor migrants fleeing abysmal conditions in Mexico and coming to the US with nothing but hope.

"Running To Stand Still" comes at a time when concerns about immigration are front and center. Millions of people around the world are on the move, forcibly displaced from their homes by powerful forces including gang violence, climate change, and war. They come from South America, the Northern Triangle of Central America, the Caribbean, and elsewhere. First and foremost, "Running" seeks to go beyond the headlines to put a human face on the migrants themselves: vulnerable human beings whose heartbreaking stories are sadly missing from the daily news cycles.

Oh Mercy gives a face and a voice to these children, women, and men who have been compelled to leave their homes in North and Central America by forces beyond their control, but have yet to find hope in the promised land to the north to which they have traveled in search of safety and freedom.

Farm to table can really strike a chord. Connects us to our collective past... to something we're missing. Maybe to a time when food felt simpler, when life felt simpler. The farmers on the field before dawn... planting, tending, raising animals, growing produce. A truck driver loading up a haul and heading down a dusty highway to the next stop on the journey. Assembly line at the processing plant, grocery store shop, farmer's market tent, chef's cutting board... there's a whole lot of work along that road. Hard back breaking work. Sometimes dangerous, often thankless...