ICE OUT FOR GOOD
- Jan 13
- 5 min read
On Wednesday, we heard the news of the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis, a 37-year-old woman who was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer.
On Thursday, all across the country, folks gathered to plan how we were going to ACT to let this administration know - we want ICE out for GOOD!
Here, on the SouthCoast and in SouthEast MA and RI, organizers confidently created opportunities for our communities to come together......to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with neighbors in support of each other.
We organize because we know.....
We are all stronger together.
In an astounding 48-hour turnaround, there were at least 1,000 events across the U.S. planned over the weekend to allow people to coming together to "grieve, honor those we've lost, and demand accountability from a system that has operated with impunity for far too long." (Leah Greenberg, co-executive director, Indivisible)
Below are dates, locations, and crowd estimates from organizers of local Indivisible groups:
Friday, Jan. 9: Fairhaven candlelight vigil, 125 people
Saturday, Jan. 10: Tiverton street standout, 200+ people
Saturday, Jan. 10: New Bedford bridge overpass standout, 150 people
Saturday, Jan. 10: Mansfield street standout, 250+ people
Saturday, Jan. 10: Seekonk street standout, 160 people
Sunday, Jan. 11: Mattapoisett standout, 200 people
In total, that adds up to over 1,000 people in the streets across the region. In addition, another 325 people protested in Hyannis on Saturday. There were also Ice Out For Good events in Providence and Attleboro over the weekend.
Here are some quotes from local participants:
“It’s amazing that we were able to pull this off so fast. Clearly, people are feeling like they need to stand up and do something about this regime’s cruelty and injustice. It was a great, peaceful, joyful, energizing event."
- Barbara Gordon, co-leader, Indivisible Mansfield and Beyond
“The protest in Tiverton today wasn’t just about opposing Trump. It’s about a system of people deliberately ignoring the Constitution, dismantling our republic, and steering us toward fascism."
- V.A. Lopes, Tiverton resident and co-coordinator of Indivisible South Coast New England
"It was cold and overcast with the threat of rain , but it did not dampen the spirits of the almost two hundred protesters who assembled to express their outrage over Renée Good's murder by an ICE agent. They came to express their outrage over the administration's denial of reality and unwillingness to investigate her death fairly.
I met people from Jamestown , Newport , Portsmouth and Barrington , as well as neighboring towns. People brought banners and flags , and we had musicians!
This time there was deep sadness from those I spoke with and a resolve to stop the insanity and the lies."
Pat Schneider, Little Compton resident and co-coordinator, Indivisible SouthCoast New England
Here is a message from Ezra Levin, Co-Executive Director, IndivisibleThe strategic logic of protest. If you were out there this weekend, you might sense like I do that we’re at an inflection point with ICE. People who do not consider themselves political or activists or organizers see what this regime is doing, and they’re pissed.
The weekend's protests serve two purposes:
We're preventing the regime’s propaganda from becoming accepted reality. It’s harder for Trump and his goons to label Renee a terrorist when people in every community actively memorialize her for what she was. And there’s reason to believe her horrific murder is shifting public opinion against ICE in America, with most Americans now criticizing ICE for being too forceful, and a record number supporting doing away with ICE altogether. When we show our outrage, other community members understand they should be outraged too.
We send a message to the political class that they need to act. Republicans are fracturing over this. Meanwhile, we’re in active conversation with Democrats in Congress to escalate the fight against ICE using the January 30 funding deadline. The bill that funds Kristi Noem’s Homeland Security Department is being debated right now. While Schumer and Jeffries will not lead this, they can be pushed to follow our lead. Expressing outrage through our ICE Out for Good protests give our allies on Capitol Hill leverage. The same goes for state-level reforms in blue states, where lawmakers have myriad opportunities to limit harm from ICE.
If you need some fire in your belly, read Becca Good’s statement and watch this tribute. Organizing and expressing outrage is our job now -- it’s our electeds’ job to act.
But doing our job well requires more than one weekend of outrage. We have to organize the opposition.
And we do that best when we do it together
(see below for Ezra's latest list of To-Dos)*
HERE ARE YOUR NEXT TO-DO ITEMS FROM "DO SOMETHING" SOUTHCOAST
HERE ARE YOUR NEXT TO-DO ITEMS FROM EZRA AT INDIVISIBLE NATIONAL
Tell your Senators: Rein in ICE NOW. The coalition behind ICE Out For Good is following our historic weekend of action by flooding Congress with calls demanding that they use the upcoming Homeland Security funding bill to rein in ICE. After calling your senators, use this link to call your representative.
Send an email to your senators demanding they restore healthcare subsidies NOW. Last week, the House voted to restore the Affordable Care Act subsidies that Trump made lapse last year, leading to skyrocketing healthcare premiums for millions of Americans. Now the Senate must do the same.
Keep demanding your senators vote to stop Trump’s war on Venezuela. Last week, the Senate advanced a War Powers Resolution to pump the brakes on Trump’s war with Venezuela. Soon that resolution will come up for a final vote in the Senate. Let’s make sure it passes.
Next, send an email to all your Members of Congress demanding action to stop Trump’s war of aggression. We have to make sure our opposition to Trump's global gangsterism is loud, constant, and everywhere. After placing calls to your senators, please also use our tools to send emails to all of your Members of Congress, in the Senate and in the House (where they'll have another War Powers vote soon).
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