A haphazard collage of scraps of history I instinctively feel are worth preserving.
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“NYC Deportation defense hotline
If you see
ICE
Snap a picture and
Call or text
+1(229)304-8720
Give us as much information as possible!
We will alert the neighborhood!”
i love that star wars comic where padmé's surviving handmaidens hold a last stand against vader but honestly if i were them i would have dedicated the rest of my life to the most comprehensive and inescapable fake haunting in the history of the galaxy. man should not be allowed two successive heartbeats without seeing his dead wife's face gazing soulfully at him across the room and slipping away before anyone sees. literally what else is the point of being a highly trained operative capable of perfectly imitating your best friend if not to torment her husband for decades after she's gone.
Love the fact that in any other time period or country, a presidential assassination attempt is constant headline news worldwide, but at this point it's like, "oh, someone took another shot at trump? ... he dead?... no, then why are you bothering me?... Let me know when he's dead."
I'm too worn out to repeat information that's already been reported on elsewhere. I'll share some of the reporting on the event, and then add what I have to add.
The rally included a wide range of Jewish organizations that do not always work together, particularly as debates over Israel have divided J
Read more about the Jews Demand ICE OUT national day of action
Speakers talked about how all Jews there were immigrants, about ancient Jewish identity as migrants, about the laws in the Torah about treating the ger, the stranger/sojornur/migrant, with the same rights as a citizen—a directive that is repeated an incredible 36 times. "God is on the side of migrants," they said. Many signs evoked the story of the exodus from Egypt, "Resisting Tyrants since Pharaoh." A shofar was blown to wake listeners up from the silence of complicity. Several people had brought the own shofars and joined in. There were chants of "Jews demand: ICE out" and calls for NY to pass the New York For All Act to stop local law enforcement from being deputized to help ICE. The crowd mourned the loss of Alex Pretti and Renee Good and others, and cheered for the release of Mahmoud Khalil.
There were cops there from the start, and volunteers in high-viz vests directing traffic, and photographers. Some double-decker busses passed and people turned their heads.
They taught the crowd songs and chants and outlined the plans for the march a couple blocks from the park to the ICE detention center. When the march began, they started by symbolically parting the red seas. People on either side held banners of blue cloth like water that everyone else walked between while singing "no one is getting left behind this time, no one is getting left behind, we get there together or we never get there at all" in a somber minor key.
The clergy blocking the street, holding signs and posters with the faces of people killed by ICE, while those on the sidewalk sing "I will not stand on the blood of my neighbor, I will not stand idly by":
There were crowds of cops the whole time. I don't know for sure, but it really looked like they didn't want to arrest anyone. There was a lot of waiting. Uniform cops got on the phone. Then a cop in a blue shirt arrived in a cop car. He got on a phone. Then a cop in a white shirt and a fancy hat arrived. He got on a phone. It looked like it kept getting bumped up the line, but who knows. Some people began to leave. At some point the clergy sat down in the street.
Eventually some cop came with a megaphone, and a while after that, an automated voice repeated a message saying something along the lines of You are blocking the street, if you move to the sidewalk now, no charged will be filed against you. This repeated for what felt like a few minutes, and onlookers got quiet, chanted and sang, and got quiet. Then the message changed to say that they were going to be arrested. And a police van was brought in and cops took out zip ties and arrested those in the street and put them in the van.
As they were being led to the vans, some onlookers chanted "That's my rabbi!"
At the end an organizer did a mic check and announced in so many words: We are here today, we will be here tomorrow, we are paying attention and will not relent.
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