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- news@lemmy.world
ICE Out for Good vigils and rallies are being tracked online by Indivisible, the group behind the No Kings protests
More than a thousand protests are planned across the US this Saturday and Sunday after an ICE agent killed US citizen Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis this week.
“This weekend, people all over are coming together not just to mourn the lives lost to ICE violence, but to confront a pattern of harm that has torn families apart and terrorized our communities,” said Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of Indivisible, an organizer of “ICE Out for Good Weekend of Action”.
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I was followed home by two unmarked SUVs today and was so scared that I didn’t even go into my dinner shift, I have resorted to writing numbers on my arm in case I am collected like the guys at Target who were both US citizens too… we are living in Nazi America now! Something has to change and this has to stop!!! I even have a safe word with my friends because I am so scared to go to work everyday!! No one should feel like that!
Peaceful protest and forceful resistance are wings on the same bird. We need both.
I like to say that peaceful protest is an opening offer, and it only means something if there’s a path to escalation when it’s rejected.
There is always a path to escalation. Whether or not it has a chance of succeeding is another matter.
Good! Keep them going, come back every week, build momentum. This is the first step, don’t stop now. Motivate people by showing that you are here and you won’t let them get away with it. Gather into specific spots like you did for Occupy, block roads, unionize and organize yourselves.
won’t let them get away with it
Using what leverage?
Peaceful protests have an implicit threat. We are peaceful so far. If it is ineffective, some elements might go aggressive.
A good example is the Irish troubles. The protests often started out peacefully. They could explode into civil unrest very easily however. Also, they are backed by the actions of the IRA. If the UK government tried to crush them, the IRA would have struck back HARD. They also moderated their own attack level. They didn’t want to drive people away from the political and protest wings, but make sure the UK government felt it. E.g. by calling in attacks before detonation. Thereby limiting civilian casualties, while maximising economic damage. They were more than capable of getting nasty however.
Without demands it’s not even a protest, it’s a limited time echo chamber rally.
So what does “ICE Out For Good” and protest signs reading “Abolish ICE” mean to you?
Meaningless gestures, they’ll head to the voting booths and elect politicians that have no interest in eliminating ICE. In case you don’t remember, there were also calls to defund police and defund ice in 2020 and the Democrat response was to increase ice and police funding to the highest levels they have ever received while greatly expanding detention centers across the country.
In typical fashion of people that do not know how to protest, they protest individual cogs in the machine and not the machine itself
Got it,
youryou’re just spouting nonsense and making up reasons to complain. You made the comment that these protestors had no demands, I gaveproudproof to the contrary and you just continue on with your rant. People like you really need to shut up and getit ifout of the way. All you’re trying to do is throw a wet towel on anything someone else tries to do. Leave and do your whining somewhere else.Those are not demands, if they were demands they would be demands of the entire system, not just what’s going on right now.
Things are heating up. Melt the ICE
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Oh yes the “you need to literally forfeit your life attempting to start an armed revolution or you might as well do nothing” comment.
Well go ahead you first
Until this guy gets the revolution started everyone else keep up the protests and civil disobedience
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Frankly I can’t think of any movement or resitance in history that didn’t involve either a protest or violence at some point.
You refuse to accept that protesting builds movements to the point where they can create large action. Certainly was part of the civil rights movement.
I definently support the people actually going to and organizing protesters a whole lot more than someone bitching online that this isn’t enough. Go ahead be the change you want to see
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The tactics of the civil rights movement worked THEN. They will not work NOW.
General strikes and Civil disobedience won’t work now?
Kinda running out of options that don’t involve guns bud.
You just cannot accept that this country is done
Oh gotcha you’re just not even wanting to try anything at all. Thanks for clearing that up.
Nothing can happen until the November election.
No Kings needs to organize and flip every red seat they can. It seems likely the House will flip. It’s POSSIBLE (but unlikely) the Senate will flip.
Nothing can happen until the November election.
If you do nothing until November they will spend that time making sure nothing happens in November: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/house-passes-gops-sweeping-anti-voting-bill/
That’s just the way elections work. There’s no process for changing things midstream and the Democrats are not in power.
Once the election flips the House and possibly the Senate, then we can move forward.
The #1 thing people need to do before November is organize. Get people registered, get people to vote. Make it clear that the Republican party is intellectually, fiscally, and morally bankrupt.
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Not sure what makes you think No Kings and 5051 are dead, they’re still going and will only get stronger as we get closer to election season.
There will be a next election because elections are run at the state and local levels, the feds can’t stop it even if they wanted to.
