Garrison Davis

What advice would you have for people?

If you're listening to this, you click on that link, you find this one half an hour from your house or whatever, like what advice do you have for those people?

I think if you're already an organizer, regardless of whether you've been in the immigrants' rights fight or not, now is the time when it really is all hands on deck.

So don't be afraid to get involved.

But also, like we were talking about before we started, is I think guarantee that there is...

some immigrants rights movement in your locale or somewhere close by.

And I think it's just so important to, you know, approach this work, not with the assumption that you are

starting, you know, launching this new campaign, spearheading this, you know, new previously untapped, you know, area of work, because I guarantee you that, you know, there, there are people who have, have worked on this before.

And so I think connect with, you know, connect both with people who have been doing this work for a long time and also try to connect with people who you might not otherwise have thought to connect with.

And yeah,

I think it's important to call out the NIMBYism, the not-in-my-backyardism of how some people are coming at this issue because they're worried about their property value.

But it's also something that we can capitalize on.

It's energy, and oftentimes it's people with capital and connections that you might not otherwise have had access to either.

So I think the connecting and the community organizing needs to go in multiple directions.

But I do think it's important to move fast.

Yeah.

Yeah, seriously.

That is a very constrained timeline.

Everybody has to be.

But that means it's also important to move respectfully, right?