PSL organizer speaks directly to crowd at anti-ice protest. Kennesaw State University, January 20th, 2026. Photo Credit: Tye Brown/The Sentinel
Recently, many students at Kennesaw State University and colleges nationwide have contributed to protests against ICE. These protests include speakers, chants and walks around the campus. For many students, it’s difficult to find people with the same beliefs and same points of view.
One person going around the rallies was Luca Compiani, a member of the new KSU Christian Left club. The club was founded out of a desire to create a space for the university’s progressive Christian population, who didn’t have a true home until the club’s creation.
The Christian Left Club formed because most students have the experience of running into groups on campus who have signs up. You talk to them and “quickly realize that they are not in any way following a message of Christ,” Compiani said.
These groups also have a social aspect. “They eat donuts and [talk] to each other,” Compiani said.
The group formed to endorse their beliefs and to “help people as instructed by Christ,” Compiani said.
The group consists of “acts of service, protests, and political statements that connect directly to [their] faith.”
The Christian Left Club consists of Christians of many different denominations, including Catholics, Orthodox, Methodist and Protestants. Compiani said that “it’s a bunch of different groups that are coming together at once…”
One speaker at the protests, Nathaniel, said that he believes that is ICE “is being used as a terror organization.”
He goes on to specify that he views it as mainly “people who do not have as much of a voice, people who are oppressed, and people who live in a system that only perpetuates that kind of oppression.”
Nathaniel believes that programs like ICE or Border Patrol are not what the country needs.
When Nathaniel spoke at the protest, he called for resistance from oppression in his speech. “When movements like these begin to grow, there are bound to be the ruling class who grows fearful, and when it starts to grow larger and get wins and victories, they will begin to press back in the forms of oppression, and that can come in social media platforms, it can come through other digital surveillance, like censorship, and it can come through policing on campus, bettering students from speaking out…” Nathaniel claims that repression is a tool being used by those that are fearful.
He believes that being unified and staying organized together is where our true strength lies.
These protests are a communal space, where students can see that together, they are bigger than any of those above them.
Throughout speaking with people at these protests, everyone shares a same general belief– united together, the people can fight what they believe is wrong.
