{"id":13536,"date":"2026-04-08T16:07:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/?p=13536"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:07:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:07:32","slug":"red-letter-christians-rlc-protest-of-lockheed-martin-ends-with-20-people-arrested-on-good-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/red-letter-christians-rlc-protest-of-lockheed-martin-ends-with-20-people-arrested-on-good-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Letter Christians\u2019 (RLC) Protest of Lockheed Martin\u00a0Ends with 20+ people arrested on Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Dr. Linda Alvarado-Arce<\/strong><\/p>\n

King of Prussia, PA- On April 3, 2026, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, outside of Lockheed Martin, which is the \u201cleading global security, defense, and aerospace contractor\u201d in the world, a peaceful protest for immigrant rights and anti-war took place. The protest had approximately 200+ diverse ethnic groups in attendance, from small children to older adults and everyone in between. They were singing, chanting, and writing the names of the children who had been killed by the products manufactured by Lockheed Martin on t-shirts, cardboard cemetery headstones, crosses, poster boards, and long strips of white material that swayed in the wind as the marchers walked towards the entrance of the manufacturing facility.<\/p>\n

As the protesters walked in a procession towards the entrance of the largest manufacturing company of drones and war missiles, to kneel and pray for an end to these unjust wars. They also prayed for Lockheed Martin employees to quit making weapons of mass destruction used for the killing and bombing of communities, nations, schools, hospitals, food banks, churches, children, and families. They stood collectively there to say: human lives are not collateral! <\/strong><\/p>\n

This was a moment of conscience\u2014for corporate leaders, public officials, and all who choose courage over convenience, people over profit, and humanity over fear. To acknowledge, according to Shane Claiborne, founder of the RLCs \u201cthat ammunition is designed to wound and to kill when it is purchased and carried by agencies with a record of abuse and inadequate oversight, it doesn\u2019t stay an abstraction. It becomes a real injury, a real funeral, a real child growing up without a parent. And that is not only a policy failure\u2014it is a moral wound.\u201d This is what happens when we answer migration with military logic: weapons instead of welcome or sanctuary, force instead of fairness, and when defense contractors design, build, and profit from this military war infrastructure, off the back of our people, our communities, and our RAZA.<\/p>\n

Border policy has become a marketplace for surveillance, control, and economics, and the war on immigrants and immigration is not any different. <\/strong>The villainization and dehumanization are all the same. Causing us to lose sight of the line between security and occupation. Between what is right and fair, and what is wrong and just. It is founded on pure greed, racism, discrimination, biases, patriarchy, and cultural dominance and hegemony. Because safety does not require turning civil spaces into war zones, and justice does not require treating human beings and movement like enemies and an invasion.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It is not right for anyone to ever live, immigrant, citizen, or not, in constant fear and terror! The fear of having law enforcement pull you over on your way to work or to drop off your child at school. This constant \u201clooking over your shoulder fear,\u201d as told to me once by a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient. It isn\u2019t fair for anyone, especially a small child, to have to live in this fear and terror because they or someone in their home is in the U.S. irregularly.<\/p>\n

Many Latinx children fear leaving their parents behind to go to school. I have spoken to children who are afraid to even get on the school bus because of their detention center experience, when they were being moved about from one detention center to another without their parents. There is even a fear of going to church or of that late-night and or early-morning knock on the doors by ICE officers with their guns and masks taking you away to a place you do not know, and more likely another detention center in a state miles away from your immediate family.<\/p>\n

Therefore, if we keep showing up\u2014peacefully, persistently, and together\u2014every person, regardless of where they were born, may actually, because of these movements, have a life without being hunted, harmed, or disappeared. Because militarism doesn\u2019t stop at the border, it stretches from our ports of entry deep into the fabric of our communities and our souls. From armed checkpoints and surveillance towers at official crossings, to drones, sensors, and militarized policing, all along the northern and southern U.S. borders and within the 100\u2011mile border zone that extends from the national border into the U.S.<\/em><\/p>\n

The \u201c100-mile border zone\u201d is where millions of people are constantly living under a state of scrutiny and policing. It includes rural communities and entire cities, like Toledo, Cleveland, Lorain, Detroit, and where I am from, the border town of Laredo, Texas. All the places we have watched Border Patrol and ICE tear holes in communities through raids, detentions, and family separation. Whatever your politics, we should all be able to agree on one moral line: that no one should be brutalized or terrorized for the act of trying to survive. <\/strong>Therefore, on Good Friday<\/em> of 2026, I chose to use my voice to speak, my ability to write, and my body for those who can\u2019t. I was one of the 20+ who chose on that day to be arrested.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>That day I chose what is right and just over what is wrong and just pure greed. I put my life and body on the line, nonviolently, to stand up to the truth through love, while also praying for those in the war zones, in detention centers, and for a pathway to citizenship, similar to what the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) is advocating. I would hope that one day, if you are in a similar position, you will join me on the right side of history and stand to protect and advocate for those less fortunate.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in joining FLOC and signing a petition for a pathway to citizenship, please visit https:\/\/www.floc.com<\/a><\/p>\n

If you are interested in joining the Red Letter Christians, please visit https:\/\/redletterchristians.org<\/a><\/p>\n

If you are interested in joining the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)-USA, please visit https:\/\/forusa.org<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Protesta de Red Letter Christians (RLC) contra Lockheed Martin\u00a0<\/strong>Termina con 20+ personas arrestadas el Viernes Santo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Por la Dra. Linda Alvarado-Arce<\/strong><\/p>\n

King of Prussia, PA- El 3 de abril de 2026, en King of Prussia, Pensilvania, afuera de Lockheed Martin, que es el “principal contratista global de seguridad, defensa y aeroespacial” del mundo, tuvieron una protesta pac\u00edfica por los derechos de los inmigrantes y contra la guerra. La protesta cont\u00f3 con la asistencia de aproximadamente 200+ grupos \u00e9tnicos diversos, desde ni\u00f1os peque\u00f1os hasta adultos mayores y todos los que hay entre medias. Cantaban, coreaban y escrib\u00edan los nombres de los ni\u00f1os que hab\u00edan muerto por los productos fabricados por Lockheed Martin en camisetas, l\u00e1pidas de cementerio de cart\u00f3n, cruces, y largas tiras de material blanco que se mec\u00edan al viento mientras los manifestantes caminaban hacia la entrada de la f\u00e1brica.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Mientras los manifestantes caminaban en procesi\u00f3n hacia la entrada de la mayor empresa manufacturera de drones y misiles de guerra, para arrodillarse y rezar por el fin de estas guerras injustas. Tambi\u00e9n rezaron para que los empleados de Lockheed Martin dejaran de fabricar armas de destrucci\u00f3n masiva utilizadas para matar y bombardear comunidades, naciones, escuelas, hospitales, bancos de alimentos, iglesias, ni\u00f1os y familias. Se pusieron all\u00ed en conjunto para decir: \u00a1las vidas humanas no son una garant\u00eda colateral! <\/strong><\/p>\n

Fue un momento de conciencia: para los l\u00edderes empresariales, los funcionarios p\u00fablicos y todos los que eligen el valor sobre la conveniencia, las personas sobre el beneficio y la humanidad sobre el miedo. Para reconocer, seg\u00fan Shane Claiborne, fundador de los RLCs, “que la munici\u00f3n est\u00e1 dise\u00f1ada para herir y matar cuando es comprada y transportada por agencias con antecedentes de abuso y supervisi\u00f3n insuficiente, no se queda como abstracci\u00f3n. Se convierte en una lesi\u00f3n real, un funeral real, un ni\u00f1o real que crece sin un padre. Y eso no solo es un fracaso pol\u00edtico, es una herida moral.” Esto es lo que ocurre cuando respondemos a la migraci\u00f3n con l\u00f3gica militar: armas en lugar de bienvenida o santuario, fuerza en lugar de justicia, y cuando los contratistas de defensa dise\u00f1an, construyen y se benefician de esta infraestructura militar b\u00e9lica, a costa de nuestra gente, nuestras comunidades y nuestro RAZA.<\/p>\n

La pol\u00edtica fronteriza se ha convertido en un mercado para la vigilancia, el control y la econom\u00eda, y la guerra contra los inmigrantes y la inmigraci\u00f3n no es diferente. <\/strong>La villanizaci\u00f3n y la deshumanizaci\u00f3n son todas lo mismo. Lo que nos hace perder de vista la l\u00ednea entre seguridad y ocupaci\u00f3n. Entre lo que es correcto y justo, y lo que est\u00e1 mal y es justo. Se basa en la pura codicia, el racismo, la discriminaci\u00f3n, los prejuicios, el patriarcado y la dominaci\u00f3n y hegemon\u00eda cultural. Porque la seguridad no requiere convertir los espacios civiles en zonas de guerra, y la justicia no requiere tratar a los seres humanos y al movimiento como enemigos o invasi\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

No es justo que nadie viva, inmigrante, ciudadano o no, en constante miedo y terror. El miedo a que la polic\u00eda te pare de camino al trabajo o cuando dejes a tu hijo\/a en el colegio. Este constante “miedo a mirar por encima del hombro,” como me cont\u00f3 una vez un beneficiario de la Acci\u00f3n Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA). No es justo que nadie, especialmente un ni\u00f1o peque\u00f1o, tenga que vivir con este miedo y terror porque ellos o alguien en su hogar est\u00e1n en Estados Unidos de forma irregular.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Muchos ni\u00f1os latinos temen dejar atr\u00e1s a sus padres para ir a la escuela. He hablado con ni\u00f1os que tienen miedo incluso de subir al autob\u00fas escolar debido a su experiencia en centros de detenci\u00f3n, cuando los trasladaban de un centro a otro sin sus padres. Incluso existe el miedo a ir a la iglesia o a esos golpes nocturnos o tempranos en la puerta de agentes de ICE con sus armas y mascarillas que te lleven a un lugar que no conoces, y m\u00e1s probablemente a otro centro de detenci\u00f3n en un estado a kil\u00f3metros de tu familia inmediata.<\/p>\n

Por lo tanto, si seguimos apareciendo\u2014pac\u00edficamente, persistentemente y juntos\u2014cada persona, independientemente de d\u00f3nde haya nacido, puede, debido a estos movimientos, tener una vida sin ser cazada, da\u00f1ada o desaparecida. Porque el militarismo no se detiene en la frontera, se extiende desde nuestros puertos de entrada hasta lo m\u00e1s profundo de nuestras comunidades y nuestras almas. Desde puestos de control armados y torres de vigilancia en los pasos oficiales, hasta drones, sensores y polic\u00eda militarizada, a lo largo de las fronteras norte y sur de EE. UU. y dentro de la zona fronteriza de 100 millas que se extiende desde la frontera nacional hasta Estados Unidos. <\/em><\/p>\n

La “zona fronteriza de 100 millas” es donde millones de personas viven constantemente bajo un estado de escrutinio y vigilancia. Incluye comunidades rurales y ciudades enteras, como Toledo, Cleveland, Lorain, Detroit y, de donde soy, la ciudad fronteriza de Laredo, Texas. Todos los lugares donde hemos visto la Patrulla Fronteriza y el ICE destrozan comunidades mediante redadas, detenciones y separaciones familiares. Sea cual sea tu postura pol\u00edtica, todos deber\u00edamos estar de acuerdo en una l\u00ednea moral: que nadie debe ser brutalizado o aterrorizado por intentar sobrevivir. <\/strong>Por eso, el Viernes Santo<\/em> de 2026, eleg\u00ed usar mi voz para hablar, mi capacidad para escribir y mi cuerpo para quienes no pueden. Fui uno de los 20+ que eligieron ese d\u00eda ser arrestados. <\/em><\/p>\n

Ese d\u00eda eleg\u00ed lo correcto y justo por encima de lo que est\u00e1 mal y pura codicia. Pongo mi vida y mi cuerpo en juego, de forma no violenta, para enfrentar la verdad a trav\u00e9s del amor, mientras rezo por quienes est\u00e1n en zonas de guerra, en centros de detenci\u00f3n y por un camino hacia la ciudadan\u00eda, similar a lo que defiende el Comit\u00e9 Organizador de Trabajadores Agr\u00edcolas (FLOC). Espero que alg\u00fan d\u00eda, si est\u00e1s en una situaci\u00f3n similar, te unas a m\u00ed en el lado correcto de la historia y protejas y abogues por los menos afortunados.<\/p>\n

Si est\u00e1s interesado en unirte a FLOC y firmar una petici\u00f3n para una v\u00eda hacia la ciudadan\u00eda, por favor visita https:\/\/www.floc.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Si te interesa unirte a los Cristianos de la Letra Roja, por favor visita https:\/\/redletterchristians.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Si est\u00e1s interesado en unirte a la Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)-USA, por favor visita https:\/\/forusa.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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