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”.
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
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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.