LAPD called the demonstration “non-permitted,”
That’s entirely the point, you goose-stepping morons. SMH.
Yup, “designated protest zones” with a permit were designed to preserve the illusion of protest while removing the efficacy in the wake of the civil rights movement, removing protest from the eyelines, profit operations, and governmental operation of those being protested.
If a protest isn’t disruptive, it’s masturbation. Might feel good, but it won’t do shit.
Just as with our American free speech, it’s been neutered into not mattering, and it will be silenced on for profit media and buried/quieted on for profit social media if it’s an opinion the oligarchs don’t want to be spread, just like Luigi when they realized nothing they could propagandize using their for profit bully pulpits would turn our crony capitalist beaten citizenry against him.
If a protest isn’t disruptive, …
TIL I don’t have a problem, I’m just a chronically bad protestor.
Cue Arrested Development cage for protestors
Time for a national strike/shutdown.
If they keep deporting workers in the facility fields then there won’t need to be a strike. The country will grind to a halt all on it’s own.
Yes please. For the love of God it’s not too late.
I get the feeling of defeat. It sucks. But we must come together and stop this fascist takeover before it’s too late, whether you’re a conservative, liberal, or leftist we need to join hands and fight for a nation for the people. Luigi was a right leaning libertarian.
Seriously, the train has left the station and if we don’t derail this train now it’s going to mean we’re finally handing all of our remaining power to self important narcissistic billionaires. America isn’t for sale and it’s not a business, it’s our home, it belongs to us. These gross conmen pricks who think they know more than us because they got lucky in life think they can just take everything away by force.
“Massive protest” - a few hundred to low thousands. For a city as large as LA this barely registers as a protest. I guess its better than nothing, but look at Berlin which has roughly the same population. There the Nazis arent even a majority power yet and the recent protest was still in the 200k range. USAmericans really are indifferent huh?
I can’t miss work to protest the federal government.
I get that disruption is important, but I need little things like food and a roof, and I have to work to secure those things no matter how much I hate the administration.
USAmericans really are indifferent huh?
Yeah this was a bit harsh i admit. The fact that it has gotten to the point where so many people are actually just too poor to take the time to protest is a whole level of craziness by itself.
Still i think they wont have a choice other than overthrowing their government this time. Unless they somehow reign in their leadership they wont stay “just” poor they will struggle to survive at all. If things continue at the current pace the US will have tens of millions of additonal jobless and homeless people in a few months. Nevermind the complete infrastructure collapse due to lay offs in critical public sectors and budget cuts.
You know, these are brave people. They probably weighted the very real possibility to be thrown away of the country if they got raid. They still protested. But they weren’t raid. Now they have shown the people can get to the streets and protest. The ICE will hardly do anything if the protests are big enough. I think there’s hope.
Wow what an insightful comment that adds so much to the discussion.
I bet you weren’t at the systemically silenced protests that nobody knew were happeneing either.
Use Briarproject.org to communicate via Bluetooth when there’s no network.
I would have gone, but the first I heard of this was after the fact, right here on this post. You’re right, it honestly surprises me that we aren’t taking to the streets more though.
Personally I believe part of the problem is that corporate capture of our social interactions has effectively meant folks can’t get the word out and (sadly) they don’t realize it? Trying to organize on Facebook? That’s a mistake.
I’m not saying it’s what happened here but there’s a possibility it’s what’s going on more broadly. And by design.
Personally I’ve started building a tool (for the fediverse) to help make civil participation free of corporate interest. I’m sick of my town and local municipal services (and volunteer organizations) only posting to Facebook (and I’m not in the US!)
Existing tools are, in my opinion, not widely used and too clunky to appeal to those who’ve been lulled into using big-tech solutions.
In all fairness they have been dealing with a tad bit of fire.
If they would release a new iphone, more people would show up. This is just against fascism.
Why don’t they go protest where no one will notice - is what was said when pro Palestinian anti apartheid protesters did the same.
Where are these people now?
Hope do you know the people protesting today were criticizing the pro Palestinian protesters? What if the same people protesting today were also protesting then?
they probably are the exact same people
Americans: look at LA and see what they are doing. these are your brothers and sisters. they know what’s at stake. they are pushing back
Under Trump’s new orders, ICE is now allowed to target migrants at sensitive locations, like schools and churches, for arrests and potential deportations.
And FUCKING HOSPITALS. And quizzing people about their immigration status when they seek help for a medical emergency.
It would have taken fewer words to just not excise hospitals from your partial list of “sensitive locations,” but I can see why you wouldn’t want to talk about it. It’s real fucked up.
And at large protests…
Police do not have freedom to easily arrest people at large protests. This whole protest was breaking the law at various points and the article didn’t even know if anyone has been arrested.
This is what allies are for.
This is what guns are for.
Both can be true. But only if you have enough people in either case.
If you want for the police to get an excuse to mow you down with a tank that is. They so wish some of you have guns so they can kill you and have a ready and ironclad excuse
It’s not like they’re above shooting unarmed protestors. Just compare how cops dealt with cop city with the Bundy occupation.
All they need is one agent provocateur for that, then.
Are you saying illegal immigrants should illegally obtain firearms?
At this point why not just go out to farmlands and take people right out of the fields mid-work. See how that goes.
I loved how we all united today.
Hit Little Tokyo bakery before the protest.
No matter how bad it gets, people still show up. Love that “Don’t bite the hands that feed you” sign.
If anyone’s interested, the Red Card resource mentioned in the news coverage “created by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) and are available in 16 languages from Spanish to Haitian Creole to Tigrinya.” Anyone wanting to leave these lying around, you don’t need to order them. Just buy a few business card printer sheets and DIY. …
“It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.” - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, sometime yesterday
Follow her on Bluesky. She’s always posting links to get in touch with people running workshops.
I overheard (coworker on break) a video saying ICE in NYC was only targeting criminals and gang members. So far I haven’t found a real source for that ‘fact’
That’s part of their plan. They start by more aggressively tracking down, arresting, and deporting the people with the most severe criminal records who have probably been already already convicted of a deportable offense. They can go around saying how they’ve got these actual criminals that “Biden allowed to stay” and be telling enough of the truth that it works.
The next step is to start going after people with mild criminal records, maybe shoplifting or an assault charge from a bar fight. People who wouldn’t normally be eligible to deport. People who are here maybe legally maybe not.
Then they start revoking legal status from people by just accusing them of petty crimes and deporting them without due process. This is what the new law they just passed with Democrats support allows the government to do now.
I mean, if it were the 1950s, that would be kind of believable, but it’s been like 75 years of this BS.
Trump decided to include anyone that is in the country illegally in the criminal category, and I’m sure they can find an even wider brush to paint with down the line (participate in an unsanctioned protest? Criminal! Say something bad about Trump? Criminal!).
Fascists consider being brown to be a criminal act. They say that to create apathy
You won’t either because they’ve already done shenanigans including detaining an entire American family from Puerto Rico.
It’s probably true, in the sense that anyone they arrest is automatically a criminal. Ever get a speeding ticket? Criminal, deported. Oh you say you’re a citizen? This document is fake, criminal, deported. Resisting arrest? Criminal, deported.
Well they say they are - so that means they are! And they know who all the criminals and gang members are without needing a trial too! ICE is amazing!
/s because we’re in that timeline.
This is just going to fuel his ego. He wants LA to suffer and be angry.
Great choice . I’ll know it’s real when the National Guard gets called in.
Get your p100 before there is a rush and see you there
Vive la resistance
Fucking good.
(Anyone else here (also) because the thumbnail looked like there was a diplodoc type of skeleton on the bridge?)
