Garrison Davis
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And we can agree that, you know, we're not going to have 100% unity of ideas, but we can have a unity of action.
And, you know, we can save these debates on, you know, I mean, whether someone is illegal or not.
You know, we can continue to have them along the way as we are also identifying the very concrete ways that we can work together.
And I'm thinking of one, for example, I work pretty closely with some staffers for different members of Congress.
I mean, in terms of like uplifting, you know, human rights and civil rights abuses that we see in detention centers, because as part of my work,
I go inside detention centers, immigration detention centers in Georgia pretty frequently, also federal prisons.
And we'll meet with people and learn about the conditions that they're facing.
And we'll, you know, fight for them to get released and also share what I learned from them with, you know, different members of Congress.
I mean, to be frank, you know, I've never initiated correspondence with a Republican, but I think I kind of just assumed that they wouldn't want to... Yeah, yeah.
That I wouldn't get anywhere with them or that they wouldn't talk to me.
effective in working with this coalition of residents is some of these people, I mean, yeah, like they, I, you know, they've been card carrying Republicans for a long time and feel that they, you know, can wield influence over, you know, certain Republican elected officials and, and one of them, you know, I mean, well, I, I don't know how many of them, but, um, but a number of these local residents, um,
have gotten republican you know mike collins to come out against this ice facility yeah that's especially right now in the republican party and like uh that that could be very difficult for them to do a sort of once not hugely sympathetic to republican politicians and i would still like to see them get better like this we want people to get better that's the whole thing and like i think
For these people whose politics may not be the same as ours, sharing the space, sharing the movement, sharing the struggle, I hope it makes people better.
I hope being exposed to people who are not of the same background as you, be it class-wise, race-wise, politics-wise, whatever, makes people realize that
Things are not quite how they're presented to them on the television or in the media they consume.