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”.
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.
lol. I’m already in the process of leaving the country because I’m not a fool. After this past year, the direction of the country’s next few decades is crystal clear. Right wing authoritarian rule for the foreseeable future. You’ll find out in October when some form of military control happens. Martial law or probably “Freedom Law” or something ridiculous like that. Voter suppression left and right. It will overwhelm the courts, nothing will get done, government shutdown, martial law. Or something to that effect.