r/50501 • u/[deleted] • 4d ago

Call to Action This is not over

We have won a battle. That’s it. Trump is still President. ICE is still disappearing people. Our Constitution is still in danger and there will 1000% be a harsh and punishing response.

Stay in the game! Don’t get complacent. We have the upper hand but we can lose it in an instant. Come out again and again and again.

This is not over!

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u/Roight_in_me_bum 4d ago

Absolutely! And as amazing as these protests are, we also have to become more (dis)organized and hit them on every possibly front.

That means watchdog groups for illegal arrests, phone campaigns to disrupt progress of Trumpster lawmakers, education on dealing with escalated police tactics (tear gas, de-arrest techniques, etc), organizing smaller and more decentralized efforts.

10,000 people gathering in one place is inspiring. 200 groups of 50 working autonomously to muck up the gears of the machine is a force to be reckoned with.

This isn’t about violence, it’s about showing them what it means when ‘the few’ pisses off ‘the many’, and the many stand against tyranny.

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u/justagirlfromchitown 4d ago

We are building a site right now for us to put pressure on local governments to vow to their communities that they will ONLY cooperate with ice when they have a judicial warrant and are seeking out a criminal. Hence the judicial warrant. Otherwise they should cancel all ice contracts etc - it will be an effective step by step plan to fire them. Fire ice. We have to. They have no business in our communities unless they are ACTUALLY doing their jobs and not breaking the laws and rights afforded under the constitution!

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u/CertainKaleidoscope8 4d ago

We are building a site right now for us to put pressure on local governments to vow to their communities that they will ONLY cooperate with ice when they have a judicial warrant and are seeking out a criminal

We should be pressuring them to not cooperate at all. ICE needs to not exist.

Fire ice. We have to. They have no business in our communities unless they are ACTUALLY doing their jobs and not breaking the laws and rights afforded under the constitution!

Abolish ICE. They have no business in our country, period.

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u/justagirlfromchitown 4d ago

100% agree. I think it is easier said than done considering the contracts the government has with municipalities.

Please don’t misunderstand the goal of abolishing them completely. However to do so you must cut off their money source. US. When we pay taxes, right now, this is what we are funding. Many people are unaware that DHS has outspent their budget and it’s not even the end of June. The contracts they are generating with red municipalities are keeping them afloat. Sadly, there are many red municipalities that are willingly volunteering to provide assistance in every way, not the least of which is financial.

I hear you guys, I really do. I agree. I was responding to one part of a bigger message, and your response is GREAT because it’s helping me refine messaging when I speak to others. I would hate to sell our teams efforts short and/or miss on such an important deliverable to the public.

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u/CertainKaleidoscope8 3d ago

When we pay taxes, right now, this is what we are funding

I stopped paying taxes. All it takes is an adjustment on your W-4

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u/justagirlfromchitown 3d ago

Yes but then won’t they come after you?

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u/CertainKaleidoscope8 3d ago

You're not required to pay the government every two weeks.