Afflicting the comfortable & comforting the afflicted one relationship at a time. Fan of ice sports, sans body checking. mom, special ed teacher, activist...
Reston, VA
Joined May 2012
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Helen Rose, she/her retweeted
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.
ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
Helen Rose, she/her retweeted
El dolor de nuestros hermanos nunca debería sentirse lejano.
Hoy Venezuela nos recuerda que la empatía también es una forma de unirnos. Porque las causas más importantes no tienen bandera, tienen personas, familias y vidas que merecen encontrar esperanza.
Que nunca perdamos la capacidad de acompañarnos y de creer que, incluso en los días más difíciles, siempre existe la posibilidad de volver a levantarse. 🙏🏽🇻🇪
Helen Rose, she/her retweeted
In Caracas our NRC team is seeing solidarity at its best.
Venezuelans supporting one another even when many have very little themselves: Doctors delivering babies in classrooms, teenagers running games for the young kids to give some joy in the midst of trauma, and taxi drivers transporting families free of charge.
Now aid needs to flow in and funding from international donors needs to be stepped up, so NRC and other humanitarian teams on the ground can scale up support and begin to provide longer-term solutions.
As NRC we are providing emergency shelters for families who have lost their homes and work with our local Venezuelan partners to set up social and emotional support and emergency education for children.
Already before this catastrophe almost eight million people needed aid in Venezuela. For many years, the international community has fallen short and has prioritised politics over humanity. This must not be repeated.
Families who lost everything due to these earthquakes must not also be forgotten.
See our latest
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Helen Rose, she/her retweeted
He pensado mucho estos días en la xenofobia y la deshumanización que tantos han promovido contra nuestros hermanos venezolanos durante los últimos años a causa de la emigración. 💔🇻🇪
Este terremoto ha demostrado lo que siempre han sido: un pueblo valiente, solidario y tan humano como cualquiera de nosotros.
Ojalá que quienes los deshumanizaron por emigrar aprendan a verlos con la dignidad y el respeto que merece todo ser humano. Y que quienes tanto hablan de amor y compasión también los practiquen con quienes más los necesitan.
Hoy y siempre, los pueblos latinoamericanos somos una sola familia. No nací en Venezuela, pero son mis hermanos. 🇻🇪❤️🇵🇷
Helen Rose, she/her retweeted
Praying for the Fairfax County rescue teams heading to Venezuela for one of the worst earthquake disasters in recent memory.
Fairfax residents are proud of you and the way you represent us! Heroes! #Fairfax #Venezuela
Helen Rose, she/her retweeted
BREAKING: Mayor Zohran Mamdani is urging Haitian and Syrian New Yorkers not to panic after the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing the Trump administration to end certain deportation protections.
“If you’re worried about what this means for your status or your family, call the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs,” Mamdani said, directing residents to the city’s immigrant assistance hotline at 1-800-354-0365.
Moments like this remind us that leadership isn’t just about policy, it’s about making sure people know where to turn when they’re afraid.
Helen Rose, she/her retweeted
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Helen Rose, she/her retweeted
Kevin González is only 18. He is suffering from stage 4 colon cancer and has days to live. He’s desperate to spend his last moments with his parents, but ICE detained his mom and dad after they tried to seek humanitarian asylum.
This is the total cruelty of Trump’s mass deportation machine. I'm asking for Kevin’s parents to be released immediately so that they can be with their son. nbcchicago.com/news/local/ch…
Helen Rose, she/her retweeted
Congratulations to the winners of the Goldman environmental prize! For the first time ever, all of its six winners are women activists. Each fighting for a greener, cleaner world.
Helen Rose, she/her retweeted
A wealth tax on the top .15% of the richest families would generate $6.2 trillion in revenue.
That could pay for:
Universal childcare
Millions of new homes
Slashing child poverty
Medicare for people aged 55+
Universal paid family leave
Tuition-free community college
And more.
Helen Rose, she/her retweeted
While we are encouraged by signs of progress in Venezuela, much work remains and the country is still not safe for return.
That’s why I signed a discharge petition to advance the Venezuela TPS Act that would extend protections for Venezuelans in the U.S. for an additional 18 months so they can remain and work legally while conditions continue to evolve.
This is about doing what’s right, standing with those who fled repression and making sure Congress acts.
Helen Rose, she/her retweeted
I had an experience today that I haven't been able to shake. I was waiting in line at Walgreens behind an elderly woman who was trying to decide between different sized bags of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (what she could afford). She was rummaging around her bag looking for coupons or credits. She said her nephew was coming to visit from Virginia, and they didn't have these there, and he loved them. I asked her if I could please pay, she accepted and slowly starting walking out with the help of the Walgreens cart for support.
After I paid, I asked her if I could help her to her car, and she shared that her nephew was coming up to see her before he got deployed to the Middle East. He is in the navy. She wanted to give him his favorite treat before he left. She is of course worried.
This broke my heart. All of it. The inequity. Who we send off to wars. And who, in this case, is sending them.
We have a 5x draft dodger making these decisions. He is unbridled, undisciplined and a know it all.Today the news is likely that he will use ground troops - for what? What are they giving their lives for? This woman's nephew, and so many sons and daughters might never come home.
Please remember the human side of what is happening. I can't shake this interaction.
Helen Rose, she/her retweeted
The America I love is the one that welcomes Arthur Liu - a refugee from communist oppression - and his daughter becomes an Olympic gold medalist! I don't love the America that tries to keep people like him out, or deports them back to their oppressors, as we are now doing with so many Cubans, Venezuelans, and others.
Helen Rose, she/her retweeted
Alysa Liu, daughter of a Chinese immigrant, born and raised in the SF Bay Area, is the first multiracial American gold medalist in Olympic ladies figure skating history.
She is the present and future of a country where 1 out of 10 Americans is now multiracial––the fastest-growing demographic in the U.S.
Helen Rose, she/her retweeted
Is it possible to get everyone together, bring back the stages and props, the grass-people extras, the Latin music singers, dancers, and musicians, and have Bad Bunny put on another show this Sunday?
Asking for the entire human civilization, around the globe. Thank you.
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
Helen Rose, she/her retweeted
Some of us ran for Congress on a platform of abolishing ICE in 2018.
We were maligned, called “radical” and “fringe” — but really we were just the canaries in the coal mine.
And devastatingly, everything we warned about has come to bear, and more.
