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Philadelphia: #OccupyICE continues, July 3, 2018.

Ant Smith: 13 hours strong shutting down the ICE detention center! 13 hours of disrupting DHS, immigration, and police "work". 13 hours of get the fuck outta here. Mass incarceration, the mass kidnapping of black and brown children, the violent deportation has to end, one way or another.

Stephanie Marie: We out here! We need water, umbrellas, ice, bodies! Come to 114 N 8th St, Philadelphia

Photos: Ant Smith and Chenjerai Kumanyika

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Link to tweets

Can we get some notes on here? 

Be a shame for something this epic not to become a real event in history.

PS Hey, go big or go home right? I just used Fox News to help me know which celebrities to message. And of course, it’s not a party until you invite the Jedi Master and HRH the Dutchess of Cambridge.

Update, Nationa Day Of Action Against ICE is Tuesday, July 17th. Knitters, look for your closest #OccupyICE encampment and carpool with your knitting circles. Bring chairs and knitting supplies. ❤🌻⛺🌃🌇🗽🌈✊❤

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Bearing the Marks of Jesus: A testimony from #OccupyICEPHL

Here’s a testimony from a Friendly Fire comrade on being arrested during the ICE occupation in Philadelphia. Her words reveal and expound on the meaning of Galatians 6:17, “From now on, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.”

Officers kicked us as they stepped over to arrest us. I had a rosary in my hands. I was praying to Mary, the Mother of Liberation, as officers forced my hands behind my back. I heard them screaming, “She has a rosary! She has a rosary!” I felt them rip it from my hands. They broke it, threw it on the ground, and stomped on it in front of me. I continued to pray as they dragged me through the street, as they hit my head on the van again and again, as they drove the van with me hanging out, my legs still on the sidewalk. I thought of the thousands of immigrants whose rosaries were taken from them as they crossed the border. I thought of the children who cry every night begging for their parents. I thought of Christ being violently arrested and beaten. And I considered myself blessed to share in his wounds.

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Occupy ICE Detroit

OccupyICEPDX has already temporarily shut down an ICE office in Portland. Other events are launching in Tacoma, Chicago, NYC, LA, and Detroit. Detroit starts tonight (Saturday 23) at 7PM and will last until the march the following weekend.

If you need a ride to OccupyICEDetroit from SW Michigan I can’t stay myself but I’ll be taking people this week from as far north as GR and south to Three Rivers, out to Holland, too. I have limited gear to share if needed. DMs are open. Rides home, too, with some time limitations. Here’s a link to the event, run with Metro-Detroit Political Action Network.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1993683450650242/?ti=ia

Rts and signal boost are appreciated, bodies will be needed.

#OccupyICE #OccupyICEDetroit

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Occupy ICE shuts down ICE in Los Angeles

By Workers World Los Angeles bureau

John Parker said, in part, after his arrest: “Officials working at the Metropolitan Detention Center, the LAPD and whatever government entity was advising these forces, seemed unprepared for the level of militance by activists and their organizations on the day that facility was essentially shut down by midafternoon. … The participants of this demonstration were determined to block all three of the entrances into the Detention Center, in spite of the shoving, even if it meant arrests.

“We decided it was time to do something that would stop traffic permanently and force an arrest. So, we simply sat down in front of the driveway. They then amassed about 17 LAPD cops, cops with bean bag guns, then more cops on horseback to be used to surround and intimidate us — still we didn’t move!”

This action truly demonstrated the movement chant, “When we fight, we win.” Righteous people’s resistance shut down one of the state’s detention centers in Los Angeles for almost an entire day.

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Police clearing about 40 protesters blocking doors to Philly ICE; more than a dozen taken away

The protest comes amid a growing call from those on the left to eliminate ICE, the federal office charged with finding, arresting and deporting people who are in the country without permission. "Sometimes you have to use your bodies to stop injustice from happening," said one demonstrator.

After camping on the sidewalk all night and continuing Tuesday morning to block the door to the Center City office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, about 40 demonstrators are now being cleared away by police. The protesters demanded that the agency be abolished and promised to stay indefinitely.

Officers began clearing protesters away shortly after noon, and more than a dozen were taken away from the scene by officers.

“Sometimes you have to use your bodies to stop injustice from happening,” said Amy Gottsegen, 22, of Kennett Square.

The protest comes amid a growing national call from immigration advocates to eliminate ICE, the federal office charged with finding, arresting and deporting people who are in the country without permission.

Gottsegen and others had spent the night outside, sleeping on the sidewalk in an effort to disrupt ICE operations. On Tuesday, people took refuge under beach umbrellas as the sun grew brighter and the day hotter, with temperatures rising toward the 90s and the Philadelphia area under an excessive-heat warning.

Tents that had been initially set up outside had been removed at the request of Philadelphia police, demonstrators said, but in every other way the area looked like an encampment. People spread out on tarps or took seats in lawn chairs. Bottled water was everywhere, and pizza boxes were being carted away.

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Two dozen arrested at Philly Abolish ICE protest. 

More people needed now! Come down to 8th and Cherry. #FIREiceNoBorders

Via Joe Piette