POP-UP PEACE CHOIRS
TO RESIST IMMIGRANT DETENTION

The Pop-up Peace Choir creates musical demonstrations – often directly outside of ICE detention facilities – to resist the inhumane arrest and detainment of immigrants without due process in the United States. 

It promotes the rights of immigrants, children, and humanity at large, and believes that music can play a role to usher in an era of peace and compassion for everyone on Earth.

By gathering in song, the peace choir seeks to remind those who are detained inside these facilities that they are seen, remembered, and deeply valued. 

At the same time, choir members hope to remind the owners, employees, and federal agents operating at these facilities that unless they are Indigenous, most people in the United States (or their ancestors) were immigrants. Everyone in this country deserves a right to due process, humane treatment, dignity, compassion, and respect – whether they are an immigrant or not. 

The choir also affirms that no amount of time is safe for babies and children to be in detention and that they should immediately be released into the care of their families or trusted members of their communities. 

Singing together in the name of peace can usher in the optimistic, compassionate, diverse, and united future we believe this country is capable of and ready for.