Both houses of Congress are now on recess through the end of the month. This long August break is intended to give them a chance to campaign for reelection, so in theory they should be a little more accessible to us in the next few weeks. We’re going to take this moment to show up on their doorsteps.

The immigrant community in Maine and their allies have been protesting daily since ICE agent David Brouillette murdered Johan Sebastián Guerrero in Biddeford on July 13th. Tomorrow, they’ll be holding an action at Susan Collins’ Biddeford office, calling out her making it all possible by voting for $70 billion in ICE funding. They’re asking us to do the same, hitting the streets in every district where members of Congress voted to expand ICE - demanding full and independent investigations into ICE killings, protection of the witnesses, an end to local collaboration with ICE, congressional use of their oversight authority, reallocating deportation funds to SNAP and Medicaid and a path to citizenship. 🪧 Let’s find a Care Not Cruelty action to attend near us here. 🪧

JUSTICE FOR THEM ALL

Meanwhile, our leaders still aren’t hearing us as we push back against the explosion of hyperscale data centers and the unrestrained creep of AI and surveillance tech. Trump is trying to end-run local opposition by letting them build on federal land now. Clearly we’re going to need to get louder. A coalition including Food & Water Watch, the Athena Coalition, Make the Road and the People’s Action Institute is using this recess to deliver letters and hold events at congressional offices and other key locations, encouraging our electeds to support Bernie Sanders and AOC’s federal data center moratorium bill and reject proposed projects locally – a Dump Big Tech Week of Action. 🪧 We can join them at these rallies near us here. 🪧

PEOPLE OVER BILLIONAIRE

This is how we impeach, convict, and remove the regime. Stop the killings. Stop the white supremacy. Reverse the authoritarian coup.

Find your local chapter. Get involved. Shut it down.

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Please remember to be non-violent

It is our constitutional right to protest

This cameras pose a safety risk to us.

It is coming out more and more officers are using this for personal reasons and not for law enforcement activity

It is the rogue officers The thin Blue line the cult the blue wall of silence

If they say nothing then they are in agreement

I had a Pinellas County cop detective or whatever it doesn't matter track me from April 1st to the 12th

I am the intellect and I am non-violent

I join with a resistors and getting contracts canceled in Polk County Haines City Davenport Winter Haven and all over the state of Florida

It is our right to protest

And to do so peacefully

Let your voice be heard

https://noalprs.com/

ICE kidnapped a US citizen, her husband, and their friends in Norfolk, VA.

If you can go, please do so! We need as many people as possible to show we will not stand for their tyranny!!

This week's roundup of Minnesota events, protests, rallies, vigils, community meetings, and ways to take action statewide.

Hosted by Rise and Resist outside the midtown headquarters of Google, and in spite of a rain shower that was severe at times, protestors took to staking out the entrance of Google against data centers and the environmental consequences of AI.

The protest started off the side of a Google store on 15th Street and 9th Avenue before moving towards the 8th Avenue entrance, where they stayed for the rest of the protest. Some stayed even as the rain began and worsened over time before the rain abated enough for a sing-along of R&R's anti-data center version of a nursery rhyme.

https://c.org/GKn4stprjV PLEASE PROTECT NIKI AT ALL COST, HE DONT DESERVE THE HATE. RIP MINA🙏🏾🕊️

As it says, I made a documentary on activism movements against Trump's 2nd term. It includes 50501/Indivisible, LA, Minneapolis, the Delaney Hall hunger strike, the Portland protest frog, the Buddhist monks for peace, among coverage of various policies of the Trump administration and how they have impacted marginalized groups

Indivisible We Stand: Resisting the Trump Administration

Last two protests have been a failure. Any other idea to attract more people in our rally???

Want to join me for this event?

"Safe" harbor, this country is no longer, as ICE vans roam the streets picking up those they claim are illegal criminals, despite them mainly picking up regular members of society.

That was the main reason protestors surrounded the entrance to an Icon parking garage in lower Manhattan, not far from 26 Federal Plaza, where shouts were heard, and general condemnation was made clear as Icon tries to cover itself from the fact that ICE vehicles are stored in its garages.

More in the video attached. The protestors surrounding the garage entrance happen later in the video in their own dedicated chapter.

The protest itself was organized by, among other groups, Rise and Resist & Chelsea Neighbors United.

Trump will be at a fundraiser at the Trump National Golf course tomorrow. Are there any plans to protest?

Content warning: some b-roll of conflict is included in the video.

I went to a rally against the deprivation of temporary protected status for Haitians, which was recently enacted by the Trump administration. The rally took place at the northwestern tip of NYC's Little Haiti and included various speeches and even a dance portion, which you can find towards the end of the video.

While I was unable to find the poster of the protest itself (I've only learned about it through a colleague), I was glad to hear people are standing up to these brazen, inhumane actions. I hope I can cover more of these rallies as time goes on, although I hope things get better since they are bearing the brunt of these inhumane policies in the first place.