Demonstrations will be held across the US, with flagship event in Twin Cities, where ICE fatally shot two people
A third No Kings protest will be held on 28 March, organizers announced today. Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, one of the groups coordinating No Kings, said that he expects it to be “the biggest protest in American history”.
Protests will be held nationwide, with a flagship event in Minnesota’s Twin Cities – Minneapolis and St Paul – where this month federal immigration agents killed two residents, Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good, amid their escalated operations in the region.
Levin said No Kings 3 is a response to many Americans’ growing outrage over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) “reign of terror” in communities across the country. The coalition behind the No Kings protests also hosted a mass mobilization “weekend of action” immediately following Good’s death, which included more than 1,000 protests, vigils and other events. According to recent polling from YouGov, more Americans now support abolishing ICE than oppose it.
They don’t care, holding signs and chanting for 2 hours on a random Saturday doesn’t disrupt the system
Did you read the comment? That part that says that’s not the point then goes on to explain the point?
Neither does making these pointlessly demoralizing comments, but that hasn’t stopped you.
Protests are powerful, especially in autocracies. This is because they undermine, in full view of everyone, a key source of legitimacy for autocrats: that they represent the true will of the people. It also undermines the instrument of power that all autocrats rely on: fear.
Those same people will go on to vote for that autocracy. They are not afraid of signs and chanting for a few hours on a random Saturday. They don’t even have demands of change to be made. Today’s rallies claim to be protesting Trump’s ICE when they should be protesting ICE as a whole.
Until their power is threatened they don’t care.
There is some truth in that. But we will not be able to gather a revolutionary mass in the near future, neither in the US nor here in Europe. One thing is certain, however: under a US as Trump envisions it, any work toward that goal will become impossible, or at least life-threatening. That is why I am in favor of forming alliances with liberals to preserve room for maneuver.
Protesting to replace a cog in the machine will not change how the machine functions. You’re going to find that liberals are toxic liberation movements. They want to work within the confines of white supremacy, reform it into something that they are comfortable with. They have no interest in dismantling it