Massive protest against Trump deportations forms in downtown L.A. causing ‘major gridlock’

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.

And at large protests...

At this point why not just go out to farmlands and take people right out of the fields mid-work. See how that goes.

Follow her on Bluesky. She's always posting links to get in touch with people running workshops.

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.

I was just coming to say this, Trump is delighted people are taking to the streets to blame California and Newsom for his ICE gestapo raids. I mean I get you want to take to the streets to vent your fear and anger pushing for change, but to gridlock Los Angeles for something neither LA nor California want and are working as hard as they can to prevent, doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Buses to DC, to camp out in the tens of thousands would be more meaningful, though a great many of these people are probably targets of ICE in the frist pace, and that'd just be rounding themselves rounding them all up, and if they showed up in force to DC, Trump would deport them all, US citizens or not.

After having a little rethink, I get it now, Los Angeles is the safest place they can protest like this in these numbers. I support this.

Fascists consider being brown to be a criminal act. They say that to create apathy

This has been amended to "there may be some collateral arrests" which mean anyone near their target who's brown and first language isn't English is getting rounded up too

It's probably true, in the sense that anyone they arrest is automatically a criminal. Ever get a speeding ticket? Criminal, deported. Oh you say you're a citizen? This document is fake, criminal, deported. Resisting arrest? Criminal, deported.

You won't either because they've already done shenanigans including detaining an entire American family from Puerto Rico.

Well they say they are - so that means they are! And they know who all the criminals and gang members are without needing a trial too! ICE is amazing!

/s because we're in that timeline.

Trump decided to include anyone that is in the country illegally in the criminal category, and I'm sure they can find an even wider brush to paint with down the line (participate in an unsanctioned protest? Criminal! Say something bad about Trump? Criminal!).

I mean, if it were the 1950s, that would be kind of believable, but it's been like 75 years of this BS.

That's part of their plan. They start by more aggressively tracking down, arresting, and deporting the people with the most severe criminal records who have probably been already already convicted of a deportable offense. They can go around saying how they've got these actual criminals that "Biden allowed to stay" and be telling enough of the truth that it works.

The next step is to start going after people with mild criminal records, maybe shoplifting or an assault charge from a bar fight. People who wouldn't normally be eligible to deport. People who are here maybe legally maybe not.

Then they start revoking legal status from people by just accusing them of petty crimes and deporting them without due process. This is what the new law they just passed with Democrats support allows the government to do now.

If they keep deporting workers in the facility fields then there won't need to be a strike. The country will grind to a halt all on it's own.

Yes please. For the love of God it's not too late.

I get the feeling of defeat. It sucks. But we must come together and stop this fascist takeover before it's too late, whether you're a conservative, liberal, or leftist we need to join hands and fight for a nation for the people. Luigi was a right leaning libertarian.

Seriously, the train has left the station and if we don't derail this train now it's going to mean we're finally handing all of our remaining power to self important narcissistic billionaires. America isn't for sale and it's not a business, it's our home, it belongs to us. These gross conmen pricks who think they know more than us because they got lucky in life think they can just take everything away by force.

Sorry how would that help us? GOP already destroying industry and dismantling government services, I'm not going to help the GOP.

Great choice . I’ll know it’s real when the National Guard gets called in.

You know, these are brave people. They probably weighted the very real possibility to be thrown away of the country if they got raid. They still protested. But they weren't raid. Now they have shown the people can get to the streets and protest. The ICE will hardly do anything if the protests are big enough. I think there's hope.

I would have gone, but the first I heard of this was after the fact, right here on this post. You're right, it honestly surprises me that we aren't taking to the streets more though.

I can't miss work to protest the federal government.

I get that disruption is important, but I need little things like food and a roof, and I have to work to secure those things no matter how much I hate the administration.

Wow what an insightful comment that adds so much to the discussion.

I bet you weren't at the systemically silenced protests that nobody knew were happeneing either.

Use Briarproject.org to communicate via Bluetooth when there's no network.

In all fairness they have been dealing with a tad bit of fire.

If they would release a new iphone, more people would show up. This is just against fascism.

I knew something about this thread smelt like Tankie bullshit, good catch mate.

Hope do you know the people protesting today were criticizing the pro Palestinian protesters? What if the same people protesting today were also protesting then?