Take your community from outrage to action:

join the Hope knows no borders
book club & Webinar series

SPREAD KNOWLEDGE, NOT FEAR.

Co-founded and co-facilitated by Sarah Towle and Dora Rodriguez, whose memoir of crossing the Sonoran Desert in 1980 is due to hit bookstores on July 5, 2025, and in the company of other collaborators featured in Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands, this Book Club and Webinar series aims to grow a learning community across borders of geography, politics, the coincidence of birth, and traditions of faith, by engaging one and all in a collective journey of discovery as we strive to be beacons of hope, lighting the way through these deeply troubling times.

All Welcome!

Great for faith- and community-based organizations with a social justice focus, human and immigration rights advocacy groups, activist and nonfiction book clubs.

ENJOY THE RECORDING OF OUR Launch event HERE:

“We’re not the Statue of Liberty country.”

As the ICE Gestapo fills its 200+ prison Gulag with our neighbors, family, colleagues, and friends abducted off the streets and forcibly disappeared by US federal agents, the time is NOW to call this country to its conscience.

Or melt down Lady Liberty.

Next Event, APRIL 27 —

Changing the Paradigm: Finding the Words to Fight the Fascist Onslaught

Sarah and Dora together in Organ Pipe National Monument paying respects at Dora’s “sacred spot” where the Sanctuary Movement was born, now immortalized by Alvaro Enciso’s commemorative crosses.

Following the kick-off event of our burgeoning learning community on March 30, with featured speaker Reverend John Fife, co-padre of the 1980s Sanctuary Movement, in conversation with Sanctuary providers Reverends Babs Miller and Jim Rigby, we enjoyed a collective discovery of when the movement began and why and how we must revive it to meet the demands of today.

Our next discussion also promises to meet this historic moment head-on: Dora, Sarah, and special guests (names to follow) will provide tools and resources for finding the words to fight Fascism because language does matter.

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) illustrated this truism just this week when he called out what Trump & Co and ICE are doing to our family members, colleagues, neighbors, and friends.

They are abducting, not arresting, them.
They are trafficking them, shackled in manacles and chains, to offshore back sites, a violation of the Convention Against Torture.
These are renditions, not deportations.
Deliberately returning people to harm is an international human rights violation called refoulement, not a mere removal.
And who are the true terrorists? Trump & Co and ICE, of course, for disappearing people into notorious torture camps where people go in and never come out.
These actions are quite simply crimes against humanity.

It’s time we all learned how to call them out at the dinner party, in the grocery store line, on the bus, etc., to enlighten our brainwashed loved ones and dear friends, as well as total strangers.

Dora and Sarah invite you to bring with you to the workshop your examples of success and/or failure, i.e., when you wished you’d said something or said something better but didn’t know where to begin.