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”.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    Non-violence won Civil Rights, and it ended the draft, and ultimately the Vietnam War.

    There is a place in the process for non-violent protest, but violence always sits on the shelf, in plain sight of everyone, just in case it’s needed. It is best used as a threat, in case diplomacy fails. We still have a few legal steps to take before we deploy the Violence option.

    The crazy thing is, they WANT violence, because they think they will prevail, and subdue us once and for all, but that’s just their virtuosic incompetence talking. I don’t care how many soldiers they have, they are outnumbered 1000 to 1 by patriots who have been raised on national fables of revolution and resistance to kings and kaisers and fuhrers and tyranny.

    In addition, they have kicked out all their competent military leadership, and are left with those who are either cowards, traitors, or…sleeper agents who are remaining in power, biding their time until their are ordered to do something heinous, and then they will turn their troops against the administration. If that’s the case, certainly the "retired"officers are in touch with those Sleepers, and making plans.

    Do we really think all those retired military leaders, agency leaders, lawyers, etc. are all just slinking away from their jobs quietly? That’s what MAGA thinks, that they’ve been humiliated and are too weak and embarrassed to ever show their faces again, but I have a hard time believing that. I doubt they are just sipping scotch and screaming at the TV. There are surely opposition plans to take this country back if it goes full Nazi, with round ups of citizens and dissidents, and concentration camps. These people didn’t spend their careers carefully climbing the military later, protecting America and Freedom the entire way, only to have a frat-boy putzes like Trump and Hegseth destroy it all.

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      You don’t understand what violence is, isn’t not just destruction of property, there is economic violence, which is what led to the civil rights bills, there is psychological violence which led to the end of the draft. There is neglect which would deny access to food and shelter. And of course collective violence.