Summary
Thousands protested in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday against a surge in ICE raids under President Trump’s administration.
Demonstrators marched from Olvera Street to City Hall before blocking lanes on the 101 Freeway, leading to major traffic disruptions.
The California Department of Transportation confirmed freeway closures, while LAPD reported gridlock across key streets.
Trump has intensified deportations since taking office, prompting widespread demonstrations in major cities. Authorities have yet to confirm arrests or further enforcement actions.
Labor strikes will be coming soon
The only thing that can topple the oligarchy at this point is a general strike. The economy would collapse in a month if a relatively small percentage of the population simply refused to work and stopped buying everything except food.
You want universal healthcare? You’d have it in 1-2 weeks if 20-40% of the population stopped working and consuming non-essentials.
The oligarchs lose all their power when the workers stop feeding their wealth. They can strong arm protesters out in the streets, but they can’t strong arm millions of people chilling at home.
The UAW’s working on one, but they’re targetting 2028 to get around solidarity strike laws.
We need unions to spearhead one, trying to organize a general strike without union backing is doomed to fail because it’s basically impossible to organize enough people without structures protecting them.
Good luck to them having the same laws in 2028, I guess. I agree it won’t happen without union coordination.
Strikes? More like labor shortages. Where do these wealthy assholes think all their underpaid below minimum wage labor comes from? You can’t deport them, AND oppress them at the same time.
And the sad thing is, that’s where we are in this world. Where the best arguement against ruining an entire group of families lives is that they’d no longer be useful to a group of people who value them so little that they not only don’t pay a living wage, they break the law to do so.
That is where we are as a society.
If it were up to me, the legalization process would be instant, and unless there’s some valid reason to say no, EVERYONE would be legal.
For what it’s worth, the wealthy people aligned with Trump want a collapse so they can create their own fiefdoms. Their fiefdoms will allow immigrants in to do the “undesirable” jobs. They don’t want the US to be the richest most stable country, they want to OWN the richest most stable country, and they think tho only way to do that is start with deregulation and collapse. That part of the plan just happens to align with state actors who would love to see the US decline on a global scale. Really unfortunate that they’re rich enough to not have to worry about if the plan works or not, they’re happy to go along with the first part and just see what happens.
Hell yes.
It’s like in some authoritarian regimes, where there is a protest against some ‘little’ issue.
I mean, calls for Trump impeachment/decent rule of law and democracy seem more effective, isn’t it?
FFS, don’t Los Angelenos have enough going on right now?
Yeah - like everything ICE is doing on top of their recent fires
Glad to see people in solidarity there pushing back
You’d be complaining about Rosa Parks and the peaceful sit ins in the 1950s-60s, wouldn’t you
What the fuck are you on about? My meaning was that ICE should leave these people alone because they have enough to deal with right now.
Idk, i thought it was really clear and i was confused by the downvotes.
Your comment does not make that obvious. Interpreted as is, it sounds like you’re complaining about the protesters.
When somebody says that someone “has enough going on” that means that you should leave them be because they have enough going on, don’t make it worse. It really should have been pretty clear. It’s a common expression.
This is an article about protests to ICE raids, not the raids themselves. Therefore your comment appears to be reacting to the protests unless you provide clarification.
I honestly read it both ways. I was confused and looked at your further comments for clarity but people before me didn’t have that luxury. What is a Los Angelenos? To a progressive it means anyone residing in the city limits (or once did), to a right-wing definition it would be the registered approved-citizens (blah blah).
This article also centers around the premise of the protests, so by saying “they don’t need this right now”, it seems you’re demeaning the protests and not the ICE actions which have been on-going. It’s apparent after reading more, but your first comment wasn’t a clear, concise, and easily communicated premise or else you wouldn’t see all of the confusion obviously
- Title: Protest in LA
- You: Don’t they have enough going on?
See how it looked? Maybe you should work on your communication.
You probably only think so because you already saw it downvoted and got on the downvote brigade.
Regardless, you misinterpreted.
Will you say this when ICE starts deporting firefighters?
What? Yes. Stop deporting people and let them live their lives.
Everyone seems really confused here
Looks like a lot of people have difficulty figuring out that this comment is directed at ICE leaving citizens alone and think you meant the people doing the protesting.
Man leftists are so bad at infighting
