In Los Angeles local soccer moms adopted Home Depots where they could video the masked men who showed up in SUVs with out-of-state tags. In Chicago locals hosted community trainings to mobilize neighbors with whistles who could alert one another when their blocks were invaded. In Charlotte, North Carolina, neighbors gathered in local churches to learn practices of nonviolent resistance when Greg Bonino’s CBP officers marched through their streets. In Minneapolis, folks who grew up waiting through long winters for the ice to melt have called for a national shutdown to refuse to cooperate with an illegal and immoral occupation that all of our tax dollars are funding.
You can find the people coming together in your community to demand “ICE Out” today, January 30th, here.
As we link arms with neighbors to resist assaults on the people and places we love, it is worth pausing to consider how a distorted vision of home brought us to a place where a tyrannical regime insists it has a “mandate from the people” to occupy our streets, violate our Constitutional rights, and shoot our neighbors in cold blood.