"The Desolate Wilderness" is an annual piece published in The Wall Street Journal's opinion section on Thanksgiving Day. It gives a first-hand account from a settler of what the colonizers observed upon arrival in the Plymouth Colony in 1620. The passage refers to native people as "wilde men" and the colonists as cut off from "all the civil parts of the world." Today's action is to sign this petition requesting that the WSJ end this racist tradition and stop publishing this piece in their newspaper.