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”.
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.
Using what leverage?
The thing they are most afraid of is NUMBERS. The Conservative Propaganda Machine tells MAGAs that they are the overwhelming majority in America, while ALL polls confirm that they are a shrinking minority. But their followers don’t believe that, because they’ve been carefully brainwashed to reject truth.
So as the massive crowds grow in EVERY part of America, even in small towns that are supposed to be MAGA territory, it begins to have an effect. They aren’t seeing any crowds of MAGAs counter protesting, just their opponents, and they are growing.
MAGAs are cowards at their core. They think their strength derives from massive acceptance and guns. When they see that the massive acceptance isnt there, they may think of the guns, but when they see those giant crowds, they know they’d get overwhelmed fast.
Suddenly, their advantage doesn’t look so good, and hopefully they start to think that maybe it’s best to slither back under the rock and wait for a better opportunity.
The No Kings protest had record numbers of people and achieved nothing. That’s because it had a limited time frame and a mandate to not be disruptive.
It doesn’t matter how many people you have if you annouce ahead of time “we will gather until 10:00pm, then clean up after ourselves and go home.” That just tells the people you are opposing that they can ignore you and you will leave on your own.
Those numbers only matter if you take action with them until you get results. The protests need to be every day and continuous until Trump is removed from office. Not “evenings and weekends while we still continue to go to work and provide value to the oligarchs.”
Those crowds carry an very clear implicit threat: “We’re here, we’re pissed off, and we’re getting angrier, and we’re ORGANIZED!”
MAGA leaders understands the danger those crowds represent, and they are afraid of them, make no mistake. What they are probably too stupid to figure out is that for every person out there protesting, there are an equal number at home, spreading the message online, among their family and friends, etc.
IF the Peace Levee breaks, it’s going to get really dark for MAGA, and they KNOW it. They are covering their cowardice with transparent fake bravado, and they are desperate that we don’t see it whenever Hegseth, Noem, Bondi, Patel, Homan, PeeWee Himmler, Besset, etc. blather.
And yet despite those crowds, here we are. The crowds and numbers did not prevent this. Action is needed.
You remind me of the posts I was seeing after Jan6, with people whining that the Traitors would totally get away with it. Eventually, over a thousand were convicted, and MANY went to prison, many for YEARS. You have to give the system time to play out.
We are just getting started, and the Midterm Election is the next big milestone. Until then, the mission is to keep amping up the threat until they finally surrender.
If not, we deploy the threat, but there are still important legal steps to get through first. They’re response to those steps will determine how far we’ll have to go, but we aren’t there yet.
And Trump gave a blanket pardon to all of them.
I’m sure the people in Venezuela, Mexico, and Greenland will be glad to hear that action might be taken after the midterms. Plenty of time for Trump to destroy NATO with his illegal invasion of an “allied” nation.
All the people being kidnapped and shot by ICE just need to wait until the midterms!
After they’d spent a significant time in prison. Even one day in prison is a serious punishment that you will NEVER forget.
It’s also attached to their permanent record and will follow them forever. I own a business, and hire people regularly, but no MAGA, and certainly no Jan 6 traitor, will ever work for me. I don’t care one bit if you were pardoned. If you hid it from me, and I found out, I’d fire you the first second I discovered it.
Also, when MAGA is removed from office, the entire MAGA administration should be ruled invalid, and all legislation, executive orders, and especially pardons should be rolled back. Round up the criminals, and put them back in prison, including the Jan 6 Traitors.
Or maybe we should load them on planes, and just drop them off at obscure rural airfields all over Russia. Land without permission, kick them off the plane, and just fly off, and leave them behind. Russia created this mess, let them deal with it.
No Kings is run by idpol libs who think a return to normalcy is somehow the path forward. When normalcy is exactly what got us here.
They also had no demands. They believe targeting a cog in the machine like Trump instead of the machine is going to be effective for change.
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.
At the very least, the pressure of seeing that the people, multiple dozens of millions of them, are so against tyranny that they are in the streets every week or every evening.
This will make cowards and wannabe turncoats stop sucking the dictator’s dick and start acting against him because they feel legitimate to do so and aren’t afraid to be alone against tyranny anymore.
If noone ever moves, noone will ever move. If you show your discontent only by being sarcastic on the internet and waiting for the democrats of all people to act, they know nobody will oppose them.
And the movement actually realizing, growing and staying will feed the movement itself and has a chance to make the protests evolve into something more too.
It needs to be every day. It needs to be desrupting day to day functions, and it needs to have an end goal not an end time.
Staying in your designated spaces on Saturday and Sunday then going back to work on Monday just means you can be ignored until you give up.