As we’ve been telling you, Williston Vermont is the surveillance nerve center of ICE’s operations across the country. The work ICE does in Vermont is fraught with error and is both dangerous and unconstitutional. Vermonters and allies have been showing up, shutting shit down, and demanding justice all year. But despite our protest, we’ve also …
What a week! Just a quick recap of the AMAZING Shut Down ICE VT week of action that 198 methods was proud and honored to support. See below for highlights and check back at the website for future actions and announcements. And it’s always a good time to help us keep ICE’s national tip line …
Trump’s fossil fueled fascist regime want to seize as much power as possible. And all year (and long before) we’ve been talking about how to fight back. Redistricting to strip Black voters of representation. Raiding offices of nonpartisan get out the vote operations in the middle of an election. Claiming fraud in honest elections. Here …
We told you last week about Lorenzo Salgado and Johan Sebastian, two fathers, workers, and community members murdered by ICE just days apart. On July 13 in Biddeford, Maine, ICE agents killed 26-year-old Johan Sebastian. A witness watched his partner fall to her knees looking at her husband’s body on the ground. His three year old …
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July 27 – Just a quick report back from the weekend of action: Across the country, partners organized more than 300 vigils, rallies, and other gatherings to demand: Justice For Lorenzo. Justice For Johan. Justice For All. ICE Out. Thousand of social media posts and dozens of media stories have covered the day already. Take …
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May 28 Update — For the past several days, federal agents in masks from ICE and CBP have attacked and pepper-sprayed protesters — including a US Senator — organizing against brutal conditions at Delaney Hall immigrant detention center in New Jersey. This is just one of the many detention centers nationwide where activists and local …
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May 26 update – We won! For now. This is why we do not comply in advance. back in January when we first started calling for a freeze on all new funding for ICE and CBP, War powers resolutions to constrain Trumps illegal wars for oil, and more, it wasn’t clear whether or how we …
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Drew Hudson (@greenmtndrew) May 20 update – A quick update after the Vote: Thousands of Vermonters called, texted, and emailed their Representatives in favor of UnMasking ICE, but a group of most House Republicans and a few House Democrats banded together to defeat the amendment by …
If you’ve been watching the news lately, you’ve likely seen footage of federal agents using tear gas to suppress and disperse protestors. After being teargassed outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility near Chicago, Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss said “It was impossible to breathe, and really, really scary.” Congressional candidates and elected officials like Mayor …
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Last April we told you about student protests against the Israeli genocide in Gaza, one of the leaders of the Columbia University protest was Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian American permanent resident and Columbia University graduate student. We told you at the time that fossil fueled fascists were calling for violent mobs and military crackdowns on …