#SOS2025

Gray background. Top Left quadrant: black text reads, "Be sand. Find a gear." Top right quadrant: image of gears. Bottom right quadrant: black text reads, "Be seed. Find a field." Bottom left quadrant: photo of a field of sunflowers. Center image is a logo for the Summer of Solidarity showing a signal of a sunflower over a cityscape, red barn in foreground and green fields.

Be Sand. Be Seed.

By michelle

Images and videos from across the country are still coming through after Saturday’s record-breaking turnout in solidarity for the No Kings protest. Like millions of others, I woke up that morning not quite certain what to expect. Escalations in Los Angeles, a place I called home for over 25 years, weighed heavily on my mind and in my heart. How has our country found itself again at this threshold?