30 Days of Love 2025
INHABITING OUR FREEDOM DREAMS
Now is the time to practice that which we seek to grow in our world—deeply, compassionately, and at the scale of relationships in our communities. As the governing and power structures of our world rely more and more on domination, exploitation, and disposability to consolidate power, we must hold onto and grow ours.
Our power is grounded in our values that proclaim the transformative power of love and harness the enduring power of community. We are the antidote to our fear.
Our collective work is to practice the new world we seek to build, drawing inspiration from abolitionist and emergent strategies for liberation, as explored in Andrea Ritchie’s Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies. Liberation is our North Star guiding us through these times.
This year’s theme, Inhabiting Our Freedom Dreams, draws inspiration from Robin D.G. Kelley’s Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, tracing the prophetic affirmations and spiritual work of justice movements as guides to how each of us can call new worlds into being.
Week One | We Are Home
In January 2021, immigrant communities, organizers, and their allies met the change in the US Presidential Administration with determination and courage, focused on ending the cruel, xenophobic policies from the Trump administration.
Envisioning a pathway toward healing, over 20 immigrant-led coalitions came together to launch the “We Are Home” campaign, delivering a clear message rooted in their undeniable humanity and worth. With three concrete demands and an intersectional organizing strategy shaped by youth, worker, and multi-racial coalitions, the “We Are Home” campaign not only called out the dehumanizing policies that have long criminalized immigrants and immigrant families, but centered the essentially transformative role that immigrant communities have in a free and fair society. “We Are Home” was, and is, a message of invitation - to become a country that truly welcomes, cares for, and celebrates all.
Today, the current Presidential Administration threatens to enact even crueler policies than previous administrations. As exclusion and brutality become further codified in our nation’s practices and policies, “We Are Home” invites us to reflect honestly. Can any of us feel at home in a society that continues to deny the basic rights of millions of our friends, family members, and neighbors?
Watch/Listen
Watch the official launch video of the “We Are Home” campaign from January 2021, created by undocumented artists Samantha Ramirez-Herrera and Aline Mello.
Take Action
Join Rooted in Our Power: Defending Immigrants Movement Call with the Detention Watch Network on February 4, March 4, or April 1
Sign up for this training: How We Used Trump’s Threats to Recruit More People & Defend Our Communities with Defend and Recuit on Feb 11
Advocate Alongside Refugee Community Members Using Refugee Council USA’s “January 2025 Refugee Advocacy Toolkit”
Tell Congress: End violation of sensitive locations and protected areas
