Above Photo: From Itsgoingdown.org
Almost one year to the day that the Abolish ICE movement first kicked off across the United State; blockading ICE offices and in some cases, closing facilities. The movement has now sprung up again, in the wake of the tragic deaths of multiple migrant workers and their children and Trump’s call for mass roundups and ethnic cleansing. Like in the years following the depression, Trump is hoping to tap into far-Right bred resentment against migrant workers in order to distract from his administration’s blatant assault on poor and working people and the deepening social, political, and ecological crisis that defines our age.
Currently, protests are popping up across the US at an increasing rate, generally directed at ICE facilities and against corporations and banks that are funding private prisons and detention centers. Acts of sabotage, from attacks on ICE vehicles and Republican buildings, to graffiti, banners, and posters have proliferated in many areas. Workers at the Wayfair furniture store even led a wildcat strike in Boston after they learned that their products were being sold to ICE facilities. One thing is clear: anger is growing.
The Trump administration now faces a crisis which may explode in their face, and working class and poor Americans face a choice: to either sit back and watch as thousands are rounded up and herded into concentration camps, or stand in solidarity and start to fight back.
With new rallies, protests, and direct actions being called everyday and momentum building towards a mass of actions on July 12th, there is no better time than now to get organized and act. What follows is a timeline of resistance to ICE and mass detention. View upcoming events and protests here.
Timeline Of Resistance:
June 18th: Occupy ICE PDX launched 24 hour encampment and protest outside of ICE building in Portland.
We’re outside of the ICE building right now! Comrades are asking for food and drink donations, along with solidarity! #AbolishICE #OccupyICEPDX #occupyice pic.twitter.com/MgJ7nopAQJ
— OCCUPY ICE PDX (@OccupyICEPDX) June 18, 2019
June 21st: Rally outside of detention center in Chicago, IL.
June 21st: Rally outside detention center in Aurora, Colorado.
June 22nd: Anti-ICE flyers and stickers placed up throughout New York City.
Someone said ICE is coming to town? Fuck those gestapo pigs. pic.twitter.com/FUL7g7g0VV
— Brigada 71 (@CosmosAFA) June 22, 2019
June 22nd: Occupy ICE LA holds an overnight protest outside ICE facility.
Los Angeles Antifascist Bloc@LAAB23362986This is what solidarity looks like!Cactus Collective @NoNaziRiverside coming through and @la_abcf delivering the goods right on time! We love you
¡NO PASARAN!
June 22nd: March and rally against ICE detention in Chicago, IL.
Little Village Solidarity Network@littlevillagesnArticle on yesterday’s demo to close @heartlandhelps Rogers Park child migrant prisons
Heartland Alliance:
Shut down the prisons!
Release the child hostages!
No collaboration with ICE!@IGD_News @ChicagoCityDSA @cdsa_lsc @chicagoGDC @BlockTheWall https://www.univision.com/local/chicago-wgbo/activistas-protestan-contra-un-centro-de-detencion-de-ninos-en-rogers-park-video …Activistas protestan contra un centro de detención de niños en Rogers Park
Los manifestantes están exigiéndole a la organización que se encarga del centro que suspenda sus prácticas de detención de menores y enviaron mensajes de solidaridad a los que se encuentran recluidos.
univision.com
June 22nd: Anti-ICE rally in Los Angeles.
June 22nd: Anti-ICE posters put up in Oakland, CA.
Oakland Reddit@OaklandRedditAnti-ICE poster in Oakland http://dlvr.it/R75lfM
June 23rd: “Fuck ICE” graffiti in Lansing, MI written on Republican Center.
Laura Cox
✔@MIGOPChair
Over the weekend, @MIGOP was vandalized attacking my previous role as an @ICEgov agent.
This criminal act by the radical left will not intimidate me or my staff. @realDonaldTrump is working to fix the crisis at our border and this deserves serious discussion, not graffiti.
June 23th: Banner drop in Oakland, CA.
June 24th: Survivors of Japanese internment camps protest ICE detention in Oklahoma.
Former Japanese prisoners of American internment camps peacefully demonstrated in front of a former internment camp facility that is being set up for indefinitely holding immigrants. A military cop interrupted and began shouting aggressively at them to leave. pic.twitter.com/STrSGG1FiJ
— 🏴 (@leftkist) June 24, 2019
June 24th: Anti-ICE protests in Philadelphia.
K.R. Luebbert@teacherinphilly
Right now. Protests at ICE in Philly. We need to #CloseTheCamps #NoPersonIsIllegal
June 24th: Anti-ICE protests in Milwaukee.
WISN 12 NEWS
✔@WISN12News
Dozens gather in Milwaukee to protest planned ICE immigration raids http://www.wisn.com/article/dozens-gather-in-milwaukee-to-protest-planned-ice-immigration-raids/25148882?utm_campaign=WISN&utm_content=5d119431b35fc8000145cf8c&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=trueAnthem%3A+New+Content …
June 24th: Anti-ICE protest in NYC.
Brooke Pierce@BPie7
June 24th: Graffiti again written on Republican Center in Lansing, Michigan.
It’s Going Down@IGD_NewsMore anti-ICE graffiti found on GOP headquarters in #Lansing. Taking a page from Alt-Right trolls, GOP officials are claiming that the words spray painted are an “attack on free speech,” thus portraying those running the #ConcentrationCamps as victims. https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2019/06/michigan-republican-party-headquarters-vandalized-again-with-anti-ice-graffiti.html …
Michigan Republican Party headquarters vandalized again with anti-ICE graffiti
The Michigan GOP headquarters in Lansing was vandalized twice in the last week with anti-ICE graffiti
mlive.com
June 24th: Billboard liberated in San Francisco, CA.
June 24th: Anti-ICE rally in Norfolk, VA.
June 24th: Anti-ICE rally in Milwaukee, WI.
June 24th: ICE vans tires attacked in New Orleans, LA. Communique here.
AMW English@amw_englishAttack on ICE Vehicles in New Orleans
From: @IGD_News #ChingaLaMigra #FuckICE #DirectActionhttps://www.amwenglish.com/articles/ice-vehicles-tires-slashed-in-new-orleans/ …
Attack on ICE Vehicles in New Orleans | AMW English
This weekend a few who didn’t feel like being afraid went out and disabled a handful of ICE vehicles that were parked on the street in New Orleans.
amwenglish.com
June 24th: Anti-ICE Rally in Philadelphia, PA.
June 25th: Anti-ICE protest San Jose, CA.
June 25th: Rally and banner drop in El Paso, Texas.
June 25th: Anti-ICE protest in DC.
María Peña@mariauxpenScenes from a protest at the Russell Senate rotunda against ICE operations
June 25th: Anti-ICE banner drop in Las Vegas, NV.
Paul Lee Ticks@PaulLeeTicksBREAKING: Demonstrators hang sign from Trump Tower in Las Vegas, protesting the Trump administration’s undocumented immigrant detention centers, unsafe and unsanitary conditions.
June 25th: Anti-ICE rally in Philadelphia.
June 26th: Anti-ICE graffiti in Phoenix, Arizona.
𝐤𝐚𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐭@kaputtkabuttThe scene in central Phoenix. More of this and more of everything else to turn the tide.
Fuck ICE, fuck Border Patrol, fuck borders.
June 26th: Protest against ICE in Palo Alto, CA.
Palo Alto Weekly@paloaltoweeklyOn Tuesday, about 70 people spoke out against the alleged mistreatment and separation of undocumented families at the U.S. border from the corner of El Camino Real and Embarcadero Road in #PaloAlto. https://bit.ly/2JeSU7E
June 26th: Wildcat strike and walkout of of Wayfair workers in Boston and beyond after company refuses to stop selling furniture to ICE detention camps. As one report wrote:
Hundreds of employees of Wayfair walked off their jobs at the Boston-based online furniture retailer to protest the company’s decision to profit from sales to migrant detention centers. They were joined by hundreds of supporters, including many who had heard of the protest on social media, in a rally in Copley Square.
Lucky Tran
✔@luckytran
Meanwhile employees are also walking out of a Wayfair center in Maine.#WayfairWalkout @wayfairwalkout
Lucky Tran
✔@luckytran
Lots of applause for @wayfairwalkout employees as they entered Copley Square. This is what solidarity looks like!#WayfairWalkout
Lucky Tran
✔@luckytran
Wow! Look at the hundreds of people gathered in Copley Square, Boston in solidarity with @wayfairwalkout workers. Thank you!#WayfairWalkout
Lucky Tran
✔@luckytran
Meanwhile employees are also walking out of a Wayfair center in Maine.#WayfairWalkout @wayfairwalkout
June 27th: Anti-ICE banner drop in Lawrence, KS.
Anarchist Black Cross – Lowell/Lawrence@LowellABCDefund ICE and It’s Contractors: @FangCollective #StopTheCamps #End287g #ShutDownICE
June 27th: FANG Collective blockade in Milford, MA against DOC. FANG Collective writes:
In Milford, MA blockades have been launched at the headquarters of the Massachusetts Department Of Corrections. Three entrance gates have been locked while the main entrance have been blocked by folks locked into concrete blockades. The Massachusetts Department of Corrections holds a 287(g) agreement with ICE, allowing local law enforcement to act as ICE agents. We are demanding the Mass D.O.C. end their 287(g) agreement and all collaboration with ICE.
CALL the Mass DOC: 508-422-3300
CALL Massachusetts Charlie Baker who oversees the DOC: (617) 725-4005
Demand they end their 287(g) agreement.
FANG@FangCollectiveBREAKING: Mass Department of Corrections entrances are SHUT DOWN. Two people are locked down and demanding the D.O.C. ends their 287(g) agreement with ICE. #End287g #ShutDownICE
June 27th: Rally against ICE roundups in Vienna, Virginia.
Mike Revollo@mike_revollo
June 27th: Protest in Baltimore, MD against ICE.
Indivisible Baltimore@indivisible410HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of people at today’s immigrant rights protest in front of the ICE office in downtown Baltimore.
We will protect our neighbors from this criminal administration.#CloseTheCamps #FamiliesBelongTogetherAndFREE
Jaisal Noor@jaisalnoor“We need to speak out against fascist GOP and too many complicit Democrats” – @ZackBergerMDPhD
Jaisal Noor@jaisalnoorJohns Hopkins students criticize president Ron Daniels for refusing to cancel their contracts with ICE despite sustained protests
June 27th: Protest outside ICE field office in Merrifield, Virginia.
Northern Virginia Branch of Metro DC DSA@dsa_novahttps://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1PlKQLXzXDnxE …
DC DSA NOVA Branch🌹 is live
DC DSA NOVA Branch🌹 @dsa_nova
Northern Virginia Branch of Metro DC DSA@dsa_novaDude yelling NO WALL from his apartment
June 27th: Caravan to Clint, Texas arrives at border patrol and rallies against ICE.
Leigh@NorCal_LCThe #caravantoclint arrived. Over 200 people are here. #FreeTheChildren @MSNBC
Briana Sanchez
✔@brie_san11
Protest with #CaravanToClint and BNHR at Clint border patrol station in Clint, TX @elpasotimes
June 27th: Protests continue outside of Homestead child detention facility in Miami-Dade, Florida.
Shaunna Thomas@SLThomasProtest of immoral and illegal detention of children at #Homestead
June 27th: Protests in Boulder, Colorado against BI, Inc, which is a part of Geo Group, which runs private ICE prisons.
Call Cory Gardner 202-224-3121@momscienceBoulder protest ongoing against BI, inc. a subsidiary of GEO Group (runs ICE detention centers).BI INC has received more than a half billion dollars from #ICE over the last five years. BI INC and #GEOGroup are enforcers of systemic racism. #abolishice #KidsInCages @Lights4Liberty
