Stupid hired protesters turn to economic disruption to fight ICE

Let's see how that works out when the bills come due.

Losses due to activism are not tax deductible.

Protests against the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement
operations have spread across the country in the wake of federal agents’
killings of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota last month. 

The latest protests, billed as a nationwide shutdown, draw inspiration
from a one-day general strike held in Minneapolis last month, and
embrace economic disruption as a new strategy to resist the Department
of Homeland Security’s militarized occupation of Democratic-led cities. 

The fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti drew bipartisan
outrage and sparked a new round of protests on Jan. 30, when people
across the United States missed work and school as part of an anti-ICE
shutdown. 

In Los Angeles, dozens of businesses closed their doors and thousands of
demonstrators marched through Downtown to voice their opposition to
Trump’s crackdown on immigrant communities. 

“We are marching against ICE, telling them that their terror will not be
accepted,” said Andreina Kniss, an organizer with KTownForAll who
attended the Downtown L.A. protest. “We don’t want them in our
communities, we don’t want them in our city.” 

Jennifer Flack Okin, who attended the protest with her children, said
protesters’ “ultimate demand is to abolish ICE.” 

Many protesters emphasized how important economic disruption could be in
resisting the Trump administration’s policies. 

“Humanitarian interests and genuine empathy [are] not enough to convince
this administration to stop what they are doing with immigrants in this
country, so I believe an economic protest is more than necessary,” said
Naima, a political content creator who attended Friday’s protest. 

Kniss echoed that sentiment, saying that “one of the most powerful tools
we have in our arsenal to fight back against a society that only cares
about money is interrupting that money, interrupting that time, making
sure deliveries don’t get to their locations, making sure that ICE
agents don’t have hotels to sleep in, that restaurants don’t serve
them.” 

But even some workers who participated in the one-day shutdown said more
sustained action would be necessary to affect meaningful change. 

“A lot of people are very open to this kind of economic disruption, at
the end of the day. It needs to be longer. One day is not enough,” said
Cole Cyccone, rental manager at the camera rental shop CSLA, which
limited its hours on Friday. 

Bart Gold, a Writers Guild of America union member, said that Americans
should “take a lesson from France and how their national strike effected
change when their government wouldn’t listen to what the people wanted.”

Some local elected officials also attended the protest, including L.A.
City Councilmember Nithya Raman. 

When asked whether she was in favor of a long-lasting general strike,
Raman told Capital & Main, “If that’s what it’s going to take to move
the needle, then I’m all for it, but it’s going to take incredible
organization, and I stand ready and willing to work with people, unions,
all of our organized institutions to help do that.” 

After thousands of protesters marched from L.A. City Hall to Boyle
Heights, a few hundred demonstrators, including 87-year-old
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, gathered in front of the Metropolitan
Detention Center in downtown where the Department of Homeland Security
has held detainees. Protesters stood off against federal agents, who
swung batons, rammed riot shields and deployed tear gas, pepperballs and
irritant spray against the crowd, injuring protesters and journalists. 

On Saturday, President Donald Trump said in a rambling, 450-word post on
his social media platform TruthSocial that “under no circumstances are
we going to participate in various poorly run Democrat Cities with
regard to their Protests and/or Riots unless, and until, they ask us for
help,” and that he had “instructed ICE and/or Border Patrol to be very
forceful in this protection of Federal Government Property.” 

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Translation: killing morons for cause and the greater good.