BBCRC would like to thank everyone – artists, presenters, musicians, organizers, and attendees and financial supporters – who made our 2025 Railroad Days “Migrantes Valientes” event such an incredible success. An estimated 250 people visited BBCRC on Saturday, making this one of our larger events ever, with many others also attending BBCRC sponsored events in Dunsmuir on Friday. Throughout the event we were able to center the issue of migration as a basic human right, to draw connections between railroads and migration, and to provide a counter-narrative to the attacks and vilification of migrants in the current national discourse. While not planned that way, our event ended up being very timely as issues around migration, and resistance to attacks on migrants, exploded into the news in California and the whole nation this month. We are working on documenting the event on our website with photos and other content.
