I’m eagerly anticipating news not hearing of violent repression of the protest in major cities like NYC, Atlanta, Houston, Seattle, and SF.
One woman in one city does not a massacre make.
Edited - it’s not my intent to make it seem that I am eager for violence. I’m eager to hear of the mass protests, not the violent repression. However, I haven’t heard any news of mass protests outside of MLPS.
I’m not gonna make any sweeping statements about the country, but you did mention my city so I’ll just give my appraisal of the situation here. We’re not getting massacred in the street, but protests are big and frequent. They’re mostly nonviolent, and serve the purpose of connecting people with organizations they can continue to work with after everyone goes home. Mutual aid, bail funds, lots of other local orgs doing good work under the radar. Huge counterprotests too when fascists come to the city to hold rallies.
Police have still found “cause” to crack down on protests and disperse them with pepper spray, make arrests, etc. ICE still abducts people here, despite the best efforts of our reporting network and protests meant to slow down operations. And we haven’t seen a full-scale occupation yet like what is happening in Minneapolis. But we are gearing up to be ready when it happens. I of course wish more people were involved, but there is substantial work being done here.
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eagerly anticipating newsnot hearing of violent repression of the protest in major cities like NYC, Atlanta, Houston, Seattle, and SF.One woman in one city does not a massacre make.
Edited - it’s not my intent to make it seem that I am eager for violence. I’m eager to hear of the mass protests, not the violent repression. However, I haven’t heard any news of mass protests outside of MLPS.
I’m not gonna make any sweeping statements about the country, but you did mention my city so I’ll just give my appraisal of the situation here. We’re not getting massacred in the street, but protests are big and frequent. They’re mostly nonviolent, and serve the purpose of connecting people with organizations they can continue to work with after everyone goes home. Mutual aid, bail funds, lots of other local orgs doing good work under the radar. Huge counterprotests too when fascists come to the city to hold rallies.
Police have still found “cause” to crack down on protests and disperse them with pepper spray, make arrests, etc. ICE still abducts people here, despite the best efforts of our reporting network and protests meant to slow down operations. And we haven’t seen a full-scale occupation yet like what is happening in Minneapolis. But we are gearing up to be ready when it happens. I of course wish more people were involved, but there is substantial work being done here.
Glad to hear it.
Many more than one person has died. She was a breaking point for a specific city.
That’s because ICE is too chickenshit to come to large cities because they know they’ll get torn apart there.