A vigil today led by the “re-sisters” for people who have been detained by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) — and then have often become difficult or impossible to track — featured a 180-foot long scroll of butcher paper held up by 30 people.
Organizers had used markers in different shades to scrawl out thousands of names. Names like Seung Hun Baik. Sixto Garcia-Garcia (son of Diocelina Nuñez Hernandez.) Roger Molina-Acevedo. Some of those names were read out loud, and in response demonstrators would, in chorus, say “We send you hope” or “We send you peace.”
It was one of the more unusual events yet led by the re-sisters, a group that emerged several months ago to protest authoritarianism and the assault on civil liberties. Some demonstrators, who met at the corner of Mangrove and Vallombrosa avenues, were moved to tears, and re-sisters founding leader LeAnn Jenswold looked close to tears.