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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Friday, June 13, 2025

Observercast

A Long Walk To Protest ICE

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On foot and carrying flags, they crossed the Mason-Dixon line – the old American border between slavery and freedom – walking to Washington, DC, over the course of three weeks in May. They canoed across the broad, grand Susquehanna River. They walked more than 300 miles from New York to deliver a peace protest to Congress and the people they met along the way: “We affirm and defend everlasting human rights across all borders.” They […]

Jamie Stiehm
Jamie Stiehm
Jamie Stiehm is a Washington journalist and public speaker who writes a syndicated column on national politics and history for Creators Syndicate. Her commentaries and op-eds have appeared in leading newspapers across the nation, such as American Heritage, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and San Francisco Chronicle. She wrote several essays for The New York Times’ “Disunion” series on the Civil War, one of which, The War Comes Home for Lee, was chosen for their hardbound collection, Disunion, published by Oxford University Press [2016].