Stop MAGA Tyranny: Build a National ICE Out Coalition Minneapolis has electrified the movement resisting Trump’s armed forces on US streets. Labor unions; community, church groups, and student groups; political organizations; and others successfully organized a citywide civic shutdown in the depth of subfreezing winter weather.
To build on this, we need to strengthen and spread the movement nationally by creating democratically organized national coalition of unions, ICE watch organizations, immigrant rights groups and all those opposed to Trump’s murderous and oppressive plans and actions. Like the Civil Rights Movement, today’s activists use non-violent civil disobedience which help derail the efforts of police and provocateurs to justify use of the Insurrection Act. Nevertheless, these tactics did not prevent armed ICE and Border patrol agents from murdering Renee Goode and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The reaction of Minneapolis took the next step by going from civil disobedience and resistance to mass action that shut down the whole city. The people of Minneapolis have provided us with a model to follow wherever and whenever Trump’s goons try to take over a city or state. We urgently need to form a unified national resistance organization with a strategy to build on the example of the mass civic strike in Minneapolis. We can learn from the history of the Civil Rights Movement and the Labor Movement. The racist anti-immigrant offensive of Trump and his minions’ clearly aim to undermine the mid-term elections and endanger the hard-won right to vote. Nevertheless, the Democratic Party governments of Minnesota and Minneapolis failed to stop ICE’s invasion, showing that defense of basic rights requires more than mobilizing maximum voter turnout in November. We simply cannot elect our way out of Trump’s march to tyranny. We need to build the broadest local coalitions, linked together in a national organization, around ICE OUT!, and look ahead to November to demand Defend the Right to Vote! Underlying both is the demand of “No military and no militarized police on US streets.” The organization needed must be democratic, led by working people and should include all sectors of the population opposed to Trump’s attacks on basic rights. It should support and encourage troops to use their constitutional rights to petition Congress to protest Trump’s misuse of the military. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40719): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40719 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117867188/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
