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”.
You say this as mass protest is currently forcing change in Iran. Mass protests directly led to multiple regime changes around the world in just the last 6 months.
The only ones who don’t want you to protest are those in power. Hence why places with less well enshrined rights to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly keep passing laws to try to ban effective methods of protest
And how many people died in those protests? You need to be ready to defend yourselves and until Americans are willing to do anything with the slightest risk to it nothing will change.
That was not the United States. Focus.
So…you’re saying that protest which has worked and is currently to effect change in other countries, and which has worked previously in the United States, can’t possibly work right now in the United States as we enter an election year?
Enjoy licking those boots!
How many people died in the protests in Iran?
What is the argument that you’re trying to make? First it’s “protest isn’t effective” then it’s “protest doesn’t work anymore” then it’s “protest doesn’t work anymore in the US” and now it seems to be “but protest can be slightly dangerous sometimes?” Your arguments are disingenuous at best.
If protest wasn’t effective the governments being protested wouldn’t be attempting to make the protests illegal nor killing protestors and civilians.
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This is self-evident. Different forms of protest can be more or less effective in different contexts. But protest in general has been effective the world over for many centuries
If protest was ineffective the government wouldn’t be trying to ban it, they’d be saying “oh there was a protest? I didn’t notice!” instead of passing legislation to stop them
Rejection of the manufactured consent that Republicans have been trying to pass a guise of. Protest creates unity for those protesting, encourages further action and increased political awareness and participation. It breaks media narratives. A protest with hundreds of events spread across 50 states with 7 million participants shows a strong rejection of the actions of the federal government and completely breaks all talk of the Republicans having a “clear mandate from the voters” like they were trying to claim at the beginning of 2025. These are not tangible effects but they are extremely important when the federal government not only fails to represent its population but turns its guns upon its own people
So what are you doing then? At least we’re out here protesting and not taking it lying down. Change doesn’t happen overnight and it takes work.
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