Protest Thread #39-- Fuck #ICE!
Well, I wanted to rage and there wasn't a solidarity protest with DC just yet (as there have been in some other cities already!). So I went to an anti-ICE protest that was already planned.
The evening began with some chants, and the leaders were thanking each one of us for showing up and making noise. They said the detainees inside the building can hear the crowd and they know we are fighting for them.
And CaloNews has details for peaceful protest locations on August 12, including MacArthur Park, Board of Supervisors, Placita Olvera, and Federal Detention Center
“Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.”
John Adams wrote this to Abigail Adams on April 26, 1777 in a moment of despair and hopelessness. It was eight months after the Declaration had been signed, and there were years to go before the war would end.
"HAPPENING NOW: A crowd of protesters has formed in front of the White House. DC will not allow Trump to take the capital.
"If you are able and willing, please join the crowd of protesters at the White House."
Trump had to TACO his ass out of LA and the same will happen with DC. We the People are just not going to live in a police state.
"In ways large and small, the #Trump administration is failing.... The tide has turned, but the Mad King wades deeper into the swelling surf, commanding the waves to retreat. It is only a matter of time (and hard work on our part) before he will be swamped.
"Watching the spectacle is difficult because legacy media outlets are reporting breathlessly on each dramatic but futile gesture while ignoring the slow but inexorable rising tide."
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/looking-past-the-performative-cruelty
The #LosAngeles protests outside the #ICE facility go 24/7, and the night #protests have faced significant unprovoked brutality from the DHS goons, sometimes abetted by LAPD.
Protesters, especially women and POC, have been beaten and arrested on false charges, which get dropped because there's video showing ICE attacked unarmed, peaceful people.
Yet both the anger and the night crowd continue to grow.
They wanted fear; they'll get rage.
Another protest outside the #Tesla diner that #Musk inexplicably opened in occupied #LosAngeles. I guess enough ketamine makes anything seem like a good idea? 
"Could’ve gone to some great parties, but oh wait… #TeslaTakedown IS A GREAT PARTY 
"
It certainly looks like it was! 
#Trial to start on whether deployment of #NationalGuard to #LosAngeles violated federal #law
A federal judge in San Francisco will consider evidence & hear arguments on whether the Trump admin violated federal law when it deployed National Guard soldiers & US #Marines to #LA following #protests over #immigration raids this summer.
https://apnews.com/article/california-trump-national-guard-lawsuit-924491849641549828c4f52a41d54e6b
You didn't think the people of #WashingtonDC were gonna stop protesting, did you?
Of course not, and because they reject the curfew they're saying everybody should be in the streets after curfew.
In his first term, #Trump called up #NationalGuard soldiers & federal law enforcement personnel to forcibly clear peaceful #protests during the #BlackLivesMatter protests after the #police killing of #GeorgeFloyd in 2020.
Unlike a #state’s governor, #DC does not have control over its National Guard, giving the president broad leeway to deploy those troops. [Which is why they weren’t called up #Jan6 till Trump’s supporters had left]
Most of the agents will be pulled from their regular duties at the #FBI’s Washington field office….
The troop activation in #Washington comes after the deployment this summer of nearly 5,000 #NationalGuard troops to #LosAngeles with orders to help *quell* #protests that had erupted over #immigration raids & to *protect* the federal agents conducting them. All but about 250 of those National Guard #troops have since been withdrawn.
@EugeneMcParland
Ha! Here we go. I knew Alaska resisters weren't going to let this happen unchallenged.
The revolution is not being televised.
https://www.reddit.com/r/anchorage/comments/1mn3lj1/alaska_stands_with_ukraine_demonstration_on/
Via 50501 Reddit:
Ace message for a bridge protest
Placer County Dems say:
"The elusive Congressman Kevin Kiley was spotted in the wild at the Nevada County Fair visiting the Republican booth. He was peacefully confronted by two concerned constituents. Every Republican who voted for the BBB and continues to be complicit in the #Trump Administration's authoritarian actions MUST be pressured day after day after day.
"Thank you to Kathy Dotson and Paul Huntley who got this video of Kevin Kiley."
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNMfoaqM7I9/
#protests #50501movement
@f800gecko A couple of years ago, during the last #Canadian #wildfire crisis, which turned the sky into an #orange #BladeRunner #hellscape, I joined a small #XR contingent in #TimesSquare chanting "we need clean #air!", which was met by empty stares from #tourists. Not sure if the entire sky has to turn black, and not orange, for more people to turn out for #protests in #NYC
via @MaryAustinBooks
the posts stand on their own and are important even without the link.
More stuff CBS won't show you: this video [insta] shows a brave #LosAngeles resister trying to talk to the LA city council about the life and death emergency the city is in.
"It’s important that people know how local governments are treating the scared citizens right now. This is the LA City Council. People are telling their government they are scared and they aren’t listening. As you can see, they are interested in anything but what I’m saying."
“OHIO…
Thousands link arms to form human chain 8 miles long… to protest against #ICE.”
Encouraging, but protests like this are underreported, and it’s imperative that Americans know that the anti-authoritarian, pro-immigrant, democracy movement is flourishing in the US, especially in red states.
#Democracy #Immigrants #Protests #USPol
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNLpw4dOxfD/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
More stuff CBS won't show you: this video shows a brave #LosAngeles resister trying to talk to the LA city council about the life and death emergency the city is in.
"It’s important that people know how local governments are treating the scared citizens right now. This is the LA City Council. People are telling their government they are scared and they aren’t listening. As you can see, they are interested in anything but what I’m saying."
https://www.europesays.com/2318606/ UK police arrest 522 over support for Palestine Action at London protests | Civil Rights News #CivilRights #Europe #Government #GreatBritain #HumanRights #IsraelPalestineConflict #News #police #Politics #protests #UnitedKingdom
trump talks to putin in Alaska
“ VLADIMIR,
I JUST WANT TO SAY HOW MUCH I RESPECT YOU!”
