| Please join ICOM and our hosts Edina Community Lutheran Church at our Vigil at the Whipple Federal Building at 7:30 am on Tuesday October 11, 2022. Theme: Walking with asylum-seekers Speakers: Karen Newcomer and Mark Joffe from ACT-TC and Beth Nelson Chase from LIRS |
| Poem by Brian Bilston. Meant to be read aloud, first from top to bottom and then reversed.They have no need of our help So do not tell me These haggard faces could belong to you or me Should life have dealt a different hand We need to see them for who they really are Chancers and scroungers Layabouts and loungers With bombs up their sleeves Cut-throats and thieves They are not Welcome here We should make them Go back to where they came from They cannot Share our food Share our homes Share our countries Instead let us Build a wall to keep them out It is not okay to say These are people just like us A place should only belong to those who are born there Do not be so stupid to think that The world can be looked at another way (now read from bottom to top)This excerpt of “Refugees” by Brian Bilston |
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| Edina Community Lutheran Church, 4113 West 54th Street, Edina, MN 55424. info@eclc.org phone 952-926-3808 The vigil will be held in-person at the Whipple Federal Building located at 2 Federal Dr, St Paul, MN 55111 or can be attended online with the zoom link. |