The following is an adapted version of Owen Jones’s remarks at “The Anti-Inauguration,” an event in Washington, DC, on January 20. You can watch the event in its entirety here.

Above all else, I’m here because of one word: solidarity.

Because the problems and injustices that we face differ in specifics and in scale, but the similarities that bind them are striking indeed. The people we are up against are the same. Injustice does not stop at the border, and the struggle against it must not, either. In the coming months and the coming years, we’re going to have to stand together, and that’s the spirit I’m in and standing here today.