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Is there any context about local migrant communities, ICE activity, and anti-ICE organizing in Spokane that listeners should know for this conversation, people in other parts of the country?

Spokane is pretty split and divided.

Right.

We have a lot of different regions that believe in different things.

Right.

And on the outskirts, they're told that, you know, the inside inland, you know, where Spokane City is, that's the scariest place you could ever be.

That's where all the crime's happening.

This is what's happening all the time.

It's a lot of fear mongering that happens in our media.

But then we'd have a lot of activists who are out here with signs and, you know, petitions and all that kind of stuff to bring awareness saying like, no, we do love our neighbors.

And the city of Spokane tries to perpetuate that as well.

I used to make fun of them for their old unofficial slogan in comedy.

And so they changed it, in my opinion, because of some of that pressure.

But now it's in Spokane, we all belong.

And so there's the effort to do that, but at the same time, there's a fierce resistance.

We've had Trump rallies and Trump parkades.

I don't know what they're called.

Carcades? I'm sorry, I don't know what they're called.

We've had everything up and down.

Every Trumpy thing you see across the nation, it's here.

But at the same time, you have a lot of more liberal activists and stuff.

You have more progressive activists like myself who are out here trying to say like, hey, it's about creating that understanding.

It's about making sure that people have a... more of an open view about things rather than trying to limit the scope and just saying this side versus our side.

Right.

But it's hard to blend that and make people see that when people automatically shove you over as a leftist.