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”.

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[–] 10 points 10 months ago (7 children)

The tactics of the civil rights movement worked THEN. They will not work NOW.

General strikes and Civil disobedience won't work now?

Kinda running out of options that don't involve guns bud.

You just cannot accept that this country is done

Oh gotcha you're just not even wanting to try anything at all. Thanks for clearing that up.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    You're both right, but seems like you're both just trying to prove the other wrong. Keep protesting, keep showing up, but imagine how much more effective it would be if those protesters were armed. Openly armed. You don't even need to bring ammo, just make it clear that the left - that most Americans can fight too.

    We're probably not voting our way out of this, we'll just vote it back into the shadows. ICE has been around for decades, surveillance state for decades, broken police system for centuries (?), liberal/neoliberal economy for decades, our government more and more a plutocracy for decades which has held the monopoly on violence.

    Solutions via option A or B would be great, but the threat of option C must be on the table. If you're holding a gun and I'm holding a sign, then we aren't negotiating on equal footing.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    General strikes and Civil disobedience won't work now?

    Are they happening now? Or is everyone having another "We Don't Like Trump Convention" for a weekend before they clean everything up nicely and go home in time to be at work on Monday?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Are you doing anything other than judging others online? You are welcome to organize something.

    But in context of the conversation they said that the methods used during the civil rights movement wouldn't work now. Those methods were general strike and civil disobedience. Hence why I was asking why the commentator thought they wouldn't work today

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Are you doing anything other than judging others online? You are welcome to organize something.

    Fucking Americans. "Why isn't somebody else doing this for us?"

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    Ah so you're not even American and are basically only familiar with what you get from the news or lemmy.

    No I don't expect you to come here and fix things. Better?

    Also totally ignoring what the original context was. So cool

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