Dear Portland, I am so proud of you. Thank you for your peaceful, playful response to the brutal presence of ICE (U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement) here. Thank you for wearing those cheerful costumes , for the bubble-blowing , dancing , music - playing , Auntie Tifa knit-ins and the emergency naked bike ride , (“ U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet, ” Oct. 14). These fun-loving tactics combine to create an organic, sophisticated strategy to save our democracy and counter authoritarianism.

Thank you for showing the rest of us how to do it, with ridicule and humor. I can only hope and pray that the rest of the country takes note and follows your lead. God bless you.

Sharron Morita, Portland

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