Katie Phang

The videos of what happened that morning started to circulate in WhatsApp chats and Facebook groups.

I called the same members who had called me who I knew live near South Broad.

And we came together and we split up to knock on doors with Know Your Rights materials and to invite community members to our centers.

That's how you start.

You just start.

You set up a phone tree to check up on fellow Elizabeth members throughout the city and we organized a town hall the following evening.

More than 300 people attended with less than 20 hours notice.

What we came to see, what we always come to learn, is that people are searching for community.

And we kept that way, shocked but organizing, organizing in shock, reminding ourselves that our liberation is not found in any administration, but in our collective efforts.

When the fight of our outcome, when the outcome of our fight has never been more important, I can say that the union is strong if we remain strong.

Every day, I choose to organize.

And every day, hundreds of thousands of people across America choose the same.

And together, even in the midst of so much violence, we will win.

Trump is making cuts to healthcare to funnel billions to ICE to build concentration camps in our backyards.

They're using commercial warehouses that have been converted into concentration camps with floor maps that look like slave ships.

Concentration camps where they're holding children and adults who have been kidnapped, citizen or not, for the crime of being black or brown or poor or Palestinian.

In Roxbury, New Jersey, in Social Circle, Georgia, in San Antonio, Texas, in Surprise, Arizona.

All across the country, in all of our backyards, fascism is rampant.

And we have to ask ourselves the question, who are the puppet masters?

They are the billionaires standing behind Donald Trump, pulling the strings.