I love peaceful protesting and all, I think it makes me feel better

But I'm the type of person who would appreciate active activism as well. Things like disrupting ICE raids, maybe not violently but more being as annoying as possible. Pooling money together for lawyers for random immigrants that may need legal resources. Reporting ICE whenever you see them.

Things like people all together actively not spending money but holding onto it like the Latino Freeze Movements but for everyone. I mean I know that we have to spend on some things but if you can figure out what makes a dent in very specific areas of the US rich population, then do that.

Actively trying to sabotage our work places, not to the point of doing any harm to anyone but slowing things down purposefully, hitting businesses who roll back their DEI policies by bankrupting them somehow. And I'm not saying the type of sabotage that they'd know it was you either but passively doing what you can to hurt them.

Community organizing thru underground communications maybe by radio and more community policing of neighborhoods to keep cops in check ✔

That sort of thing I'd appreciate, I want things that make a purposeful dent.

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ElwoodBlues · M

Hmm, ICE raids, I've been thinking about them too. Last week in the news it was reported that ICE had detained an American citizen, a veteran no less, without a warrant and without probable cause, and that's illegal.

Seems this veteran was caught up in an ICE sweep and deprived of his rights. Now imagine if other citizens who happened to look and dress a certain way were collected in similar sweeps. Imagine the lawsuits, imagine the internal reprimands going up the chain of command. The Tяump approach has been to suspend the presumption of innocence in ICE raids. A few citizens among the detainees might restore that presumption.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@ElwoodBlues not that I want USK citizens to be locked up but the right to representation would slow down deportations and if you think about it, would provide people the benefit of a lawyer because I couldn't imagine Trump's no representation thing lasting if they keep arresting people like veterans.

I honestly think as it goes on, more people are going to get caught up in it.

I was mistaken for Latina once, I do my makeup very specific sometimes because when I was little, I listened to a lot of Spanish music and would do my makeup like the women. I forgot what place it was but the women have a very specific eye style from some region I forgot. And when I was trying to practice makeup it's the only reference I had so that's what I did 😂

Well at Subway once, a lady turned around and spoke Spanish to me, when I looked at her as if I didn't have a clue she was surprised. She thought I spoke Spanish because of my look and apologized. I told her not to apologize cos I didn't take any offense really. I was even a little surprised lol.

But the point I'm making is that if I learned Spanish and just did my makeup how I normally do, I could see me getting arrested by ICE just because of that.

And I could see them trying to figure out where I was born and denying my rights to representation. I could easily see it.

I think back on that and if I had my makeup on, spoke Spanish and ICE was around, I'm willing to bet I'd be picked up. Especially if I naturally got nervous seeing fascists and ran from them.