Brittany Packnett Cunningham

Maybe they don't have the support.

Well, that's where you come in, right?

Maybe they're not connected to the other organization that they need to be connected to.

Maybe that coalition table has not been built.

If that's the gap that you're seeing, you're seeing it because you were meant to fill it.

That's where you come in, right?

If you know that you live across the street or next door or down the block from people that ICE would target, that's where you come in, right?

Do I have your phone number?

Are we on the email chain, a text chain, a signal chain?

Do we have a plan for if you can't come outside?

Who's going to cover your rent?

Who's going to make sure your bills are paid?

Who's going to drop off groceries to you?

Who's going to walk your children to school?

That's not us asking you as an individual person to create an entire ecosystem of change.

That is me asking you to go knock on your neighbor's door.

We are capable of doing that when there's a hurricane, when there's a tornado, when there's a snowstorm.

My neighbor from across the street just called us.

And when my husband went outside to shovel the snow, he went and shoveled the snow in front of their houses, too.

He already had the shovel in his hand.