El amor cruza fronteras / Love crosses borders
As we wrapped up our morning shift outside the gates of the Atlanta ICE office and I started towards my car, I suddenly stopped in my tracks, aghast at the car carrier slowly making a wide turn in front of me. I took out my phone and snapped photos of the truck delivering the brand… Continue reading Whose Land Is This?
A small handmade bear can calm a frightened child—and soften a moment filled with fear. At ICE field offices, volunteers are offering comfort and solidarity through simple acts of care, stitched together one bear at a time.
What does solidarity look like when democracy, dignity, and due process are at stake? In a powerful speech delivered at Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Anton Flores-Maisonet reflects on the human cost of displacement, detention, and U.S. intervention abroad—and the ways Casa Alterna stands with asylum seekers in the fight for justice and humanity.
A quiet afternoon with Buddhist monks in metro Atlanta becomes a meditation on peace as daily practice, embodied hospitality, and the courage to become a living pilgrimage.
"Hope is not a mood or an idea—it is a practice. In the face of injustice and fear, we sustain hope through solidarity, courage, and small acts of care that bind us together."
This Thanksgiving, gratitude is more than a feeling—it’s a practice of truth, care, and solidarity. How can we honor Indigenous histories, support displaced neighbors, and let our gratitude move from words into action?
In the shadow of Atlanta’s ICE field office, heartbreak and hope meet. Through quiet acts of compassion, Casa Alterna volunteers remind us that love—especially in the face of cruelty—is a sacred form of resistance.
Casa Alterna’s radical hospitality transforms lives and shows love in public as resistance.
He arrived on his 18th birthday, facing detention or deportation—until one simple "yes" changed everything.
On a stretch of sidewalk outside Atlanta’s ICE office, a quiet revolution unfolds—where tenderness becomes resistance, and love dares to show up, morning after morning.
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