Photo Essay: ICE Protest

Act of Oppression If it were safe for people to come and protest, they would. Every raid creates both fear and anger in the community. I know business leaders who are afraid to speak out against the raids because they feel they would be raided next. I know American citizens who are afraid to protest because, in the first Greeley raid, ICE deported a citizen, who didn't have his birth certificate on him. They are still trying to find out what happened to him.  Several ICE vehicles rounded the block a couple of times before parking close to us at the protest. They have a right to be there, but they also served as a warning to anyone thinking of coming ot the protest.

To me, you are coming from a place of priviledge when you decide that 40 people is pathetic. You are ignoring the larger climate and the power differential. These two issues cannot be ignored.

I also find it interesting that your points are in regards to the success and turnout of the protest and not the actual raids themselves. Whether or not a human rights activist acts alone or with thousands of people does not change the oppression of the act, in this case the raids.

"pretty decent?" If this were really such a burning issue, in a few weeks, several thousand would be "pretty decent."  40 is weak, at best.

On a Thursday afternoon... planned in only a few weeks. Sounds pretty decent to me.

40 Forty was all they could muster?

Gawd, that's pathetic.