A massive protest formed in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday in response to President Trump’s crackdown on immigration and emphasis on deportations, where protestors were on and off the 101 Fre…
  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Americans: look at LA and see what they are doing. these are your brothers and sisters. they know what’s at stake. they are pushing back

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Yeah ok but LA didn’t even vote for these Fascists to begin with, so the effectiveness is pretty limited as far as possitive political outcomes.

    • Allonzee@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Yup, “designated protest zones” with a permit were designed to preserve the illusion of protest while removing the efficacy in the wake of the civil rights movement, removing protest from the eyelines, profit operations, and governmental operation of those being protested.

      If a protest isn’t disruptive, it’s masturbation. Might feel good, but it won’t do shit.

      Just as with our American free speech, it’s been neutered into not mattering, and it will be silenced on for profit media and buried/quieted on for profit social media if it’s an opinion the oligarchs don’t want to be spread, just like Luigi when they realized nothing they could propagandize using their for profit bully pulpits would turn our crony capitalist beaten citizenry against him.

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    20 days ago

    Under Trump’s new orders, ICE is now allowed to target migrants at sensitive locations, like schools and churches, for arrests and potential deportations.

    And FUCKING HOSPITALS. And quizzing people about their immigration status when they seek help for a medical emergency.

    It would have taken fewer words to just not excise hospitals from your partial list of “sensitive locations,” but I can see why you wouldn’t want to talk about it. It’s real fucked up.