What to know about the third No Kings protests happening in March
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Demonstrations will be held across the US against ICE’s reign of terror with flagship event in Twin Cities

Demonstrations will be held across the US, with flagship event in Twin Cities, where ICE fatally shot two people

A third No Kings protest will be held on 28 March, organizers announced today. Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, one of the groups coordinating No Kings, said that he expects it to be “the biggest protest in American history”.

Protests will be held nationwide, with a flagship event in Minnesota’s Twin Cities – Minneapolis and St Paul – where this month federal immigration agents killed two residents, Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good, amid their escalated operations in the region.

Levin said No Kings 3 is a response to many Americans’ growing outrage over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) “reign of terror” in communities across the country. The coalition behind the No Kings protests also hosted a mass mobilization “weekend of action” immediately following Good’s death, which included more than 1,000 protests, vigils and other events. According to recent polling from YouGov, more Americans now support abolishing ICE than oppose it.

  • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    While I do recognize that by themselves these protests aren’t impacting a regime who already has made it clear they want people to be unhappy and marching in the street, I don’t think they’re useless. This is how we get the country’s primary form of political capital to get up and start working for us, the broad swath of liberal, middle-class America.

    It’s turning, just watch the evening news on network TV. The ICE stories have gone from sandwiched between stories about housewives who committed murder and girl scouts who sold the most cookies, to main headline stories. That’s a big deal.

    If you’ve been watching Liberal media, you will know how big of a deal this is. People are broadly fine out there, except in a few areas. The protests rarely get covered, the drama is always played-down, it’s always an “over there” issue to most comfortable people in America.

    But that tide is changing, and when the average, tuned-out American starts to feel uncomfortable with the situation, that’s when you know the pendulum is about to swing the other way.