2006 WSU students respond in a non-violent way to the Campus Republicans' "immigration wall"

WSU Students made history today. Undergraduate and graduate students from different sectors of the WSU community responded in a non-violent way to the Campus Republicans' "immigration wall" erected this morning on the Washington State University campus.

The students responded by creating a sacred-political space of love, peace, community, and unity, very much in contrast to the "wall of hate".  They shared stories of their own migrant/immigrant/colonized experiences and how this WSU land grant they stood on was once indigenous. "We did not cross the border, the border crossed us"!

During the Dia de los Muertos procession they held candles, pictures of dead migrants, and yelled "Let's build bridges, not walls" across campus and college hill, all the way to the Latino House and back to Wilson Hall.

They stopped in front of the "wall of hate" and prayed for all those immigrants who died trying to cross the border for a better life and education for their children.

For more informatoion contact:
Jose Alamillo
Assistant Professor
Comparative Ethnic Studies
WSU/Pullman