I don’t tend to make statements on Facebook or Twitter, I prefer to make them with my life, I have no need to announce them to the world. A new task for the Army Of Good.

Today, I feel I do wish and need to make a statement, about the terror attacks throughout Europe and the Middle East and also about the need to speak truth to power and send a message to the many good refugees and immigrants in our country that they are welcome, cared for and trusted.

I am going to send $1 to the hard-working people at RISSE, the refugee and immigrant support center based in Albany, N.Y. Last year at this time, during the dawn of this hateful period in our history, someone burned down the RISSE headquarters and offices. RISSE offers learning and day care for refugee and immigrant children and adult classes for their parents and familes.

This year, I hope they receive a different message at RISSE, a shower of small donations, coming like cherubs from the sky.

If like-minded people reading this send RISSE $1, they will be reminded of the true brave and generous spirit of Americans, the real America, not the fake one they keep seeing on television. It is simple to send $1 to RISSE, they accept major credit cards and Paypal and all donations are tax-deductible.

You are welcome to send $5 or even $10 or more, but the purpose of the donations is to let them know how many of us there are and how committed we are to the idea of a just and tolerant and welcoming America. I think $1 is a good safe start for many people.

I will continue to pass along fund-raising requests on behalf of RISSE and especially the 100 children they are helping and teaching in their overwhelmed classrooms.

I have been blessed to meet many refugees and immigrants in recent months, they are not here to harm us, steal our jobs or services. Many have braved great dangers to come here, and the warm and honest refugees and immigrants I have met want nothing more than I want or you want: to live in the land of the free and the brave,  be good citizens, find meaningful work and raise their children in safety.

Had they been left behind and unable to come here, most of them and their children would have perished, often in  horrible ways.  Many of their family members have been left behind, left in peril by the new immigration polices of our government.

Today, our President further blackened our name and outraged many political and community leaders in England, who are working hard for harmony and justice as well as security. Leaders of both parties there have condemned his statements and are urging the Queen to cancel his upcoming state visit.

In one of his several angry and hateful tweets today, he accused the much-respected mayor of London, who is a Muslim, of being soft on terrorism and politically incorrect by urging Londoners to remain calm as they see a vastly increased police presence on the London Streets tomorrow.

You can read the full statements of the mayor of London and the President of the United States here. You don’t need to take anyone else’s word for it. Words do speak for themselves, there is such a thing as truth. And compassion.

I do not tell other people what to do or preach and lecture. If you share my feelings about sending RISSE a message today, you can do so quickly and easily by going here. I understand that there seem to be few universal truths in America right now, and I will continue to respect those differences.

I hope the people reading this will embrace this campaign to ask people who believe in an open and compassionate country to send a dollar to RISSE to show them how so many of us feel. As always, I hope you follow your own conscience.