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How to Stay Safe #Protesting #ICE — and What to Expect From #Cops in Your City

Do police in your city use #TearGas or #RubberBullets? Repression tactics from Seattle to Chicago, plus how to prepare.

by Akela Lacy
June 14 2025, 7:00 a.m.

Excerpt: “The key really no matter where you are or what you’re doing is situational awareness,” said Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel to the National Press Photographers Association. “When you start to see officers on bikes encircling you, you need to have probably thought of this before, but certainly at that point, look for a place to exit.”

https://theintercept.com/2025/06/14/ice-police-brutality-protests-la-nyc/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/iidZ9#selection-555.9-587.38

#Resistance #Resist #NoKingsEvents #ResistFascism #ResistICE #AuthoritarianRule

How to Stay Safe #Protesting #ICE — and What to Expect From #Cops in Your City

Do police in your city use #TearGas or #RubberBullets? Repression tactics from Seattle to Chicago, plus how to prepare.

by Akela Lacy
June 14 2025, 7:00 a.m.

Excerpt: “The key really no matter where you are or what you’re doing is situational awareness,” said Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel to the National Press Photographers Association. “When you start to see officers on bikes encircling you, you need to have probably thought of this before, but certainly at that point, look for a place to exit.”

https://theintercept.com/2025/06/14/ice-police-brutality-protests-la-nyc/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/iidZ9#selection-555.9-587.38

#Resistance #Resist #NoKingsEvents #ResistFascism #ResistICE #AuthoritarianRule

How to Stay Safe #Protesting #ICE — and What to Expect From #Cops in Your City

Do police in your city use #TearGas or #RubberBullets? Repression tactics from Seattle to Chicago, plus how to prepare.

by Akela Lacy
June 14 2025, 7:00 a.m.

Excerpt: “The key really no matter where you are or what you’re doing is situational awareness,” said Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel to the National Press Photographers Association. “When you start to see officers on bikes encircling you, you need to have probably thought of this before, but certainly at that point, look for a place to exit.”

https://theintercept.com/2025/06/14/ice-police-brutality-protests-la-nyc/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/iidZ9#selection-555.9-587.38

#Resistance #Resist #NoKingsEvents #ResistFascism #ResistICE #AuthoritarianRule

How to Stay Safe #Protesting #ICE — and What to Expect From #Cops in Your City

Do police in your city use #TearGas or #RubberBullets? Repression tactics from Seattle to Chicago, plus how to prepare.

by Akela Lacy
June 14 2025, 7:00 a.m.

Excerpt: “The key really no matter where you are or what you’re doing is situational awareness,” said Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel to the National Press Photographers Association. “When you start to see officers on bikes encircling you, you need to have probably thought of this before, but certainly at that point, look for a place to exit.”

https://theintercept.com/2025/06/14/ice-police-brutality-protests-la-nyc/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/iidZ9#selection-555.9-587.38

#Resistance #Resist #NoKingsEvents #ResistFascism #ResistICE #AuthoritarianRule

How to Stay Safe #Protesting #ICE — and What to Expect From #Cops in Your City

Do police in your city use #TearGas or #RubberBullets? Repression tactics from Seattle to Chicago, plus how to prepare.

by Akela Lacy
June 14 2025, 7:00 a.m.

Excerpt: “The key really no matter where you are or what you’re doing is situational awareness,” said Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel to the National Press Photographers Association. “When you start to see officers on bikes encircling you, you need to have probably thought of this before, but certainly at that point, look for a place to exit.”

https://theintercept.com/2025/06/14/ice-police-brutality-protests-la-nyc/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/iidZ9#selection-555.9-587.38

#Resistance #Resist #NoKingsEvents #ResistFascism #ResistICE #AuthoritarianRule

#Florida considers easing #ChildLabor laws after pushing out #immigrants

A new law under consideration in the state Legislature would roll back child labor laws to make up for a dwindling labor pool.

By Ja'han Jones
March 27, 2025, 12:15 PM EDT

"As Florida officials enable Trump’s #MassDeportation policies, lawmakers in the state are looking to children to take on some of the jobs that have typically been done by immigrants.

"Making its way through the state Senate is a new law, Senate Bill 918, that aims to loosen child labor laws and allow teenagers to work overnight shifts.

"As CNN reported: 'The state’s legislature on Tuesday advanced a bill that would loosen child labor laws, allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts. If the new law is passed, teenagers would be able to work overnight jobs on school days. They are currently prevented from working earlier than 6:30 am or later than 11 pm per state law.'

"#SB918 also 'includes a number of changes including eliminating working time restrictions on teenagers aged 14 and 15 if they are home-schooled and ending guaranteed meal breaks for 16 and 17 year olds,' CNN reported.

"Florida Gov. #RonDeSantis backs the law and has defended the idea of teenagers and college students working these jobs. DeSantis also explicitly linked the effort to the loss of immigrant labor. Speaking about the consequences of state verification laws at an event with border czar #TomHoman, the governor said, 'Yes, we had people that left because of those rules, but you’ve also been able to hire other people. And what’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now?'

"In recent years, several states — many of them led by #Republican governors — have rolled back child labor laws. This map from the Economic Policy Institute illustrates the spike in states rolling back these laws from 2021 to 2024. Back in 2023, for example, #Arkansas Gov. #SarahHuckabeeSanders signed a bill that made it easier for companies to hire children without getting consent from their parents. One month earlier, The New York Times published a bombshell report about the exploitation of immigrant children in #factories operated by some of the most well-known companies in the U.S.

"That story should have spurred a nationwide push to strengthen child labor laws. Instead, states like Florida are going in the opposite direction, weakening such laws in part to deal with the fallout from the conservative movement’s demonization of immigrants. They’re essentially using child labor to paper over the gaps left by their draconian immigration policies.

"#Project2025, the far-right playbook for Trump’s second term, specifically calls for rolling back #HazardRegulations around child labor. The text claims, 'Some young adults show an interest in inherently dangerous jobs' and argues that 'with parental consent and proper training, certain young adults should be allowed to learn and work in more dangerous occupations.'

"Even as child labor laws are being rolled back, the Trump administration is working to gut social services, including funds that help provide school lunches to children and programs, like the supplemental nutrition assistance program, that help feed poor families. And if those cuts stay in place, they may leave American families with few alternatives to sending their children to work to keep food on the table."

Source:
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/florida-child-labor-law-sb-918-rcna198275

#DeSantis #DeSatan #SNAPCuts #ResistICE #Authoritarianism #USPol #MedicaidCuts #TrumpIsANazi #AuthoritarianRule
#ThisIsFascism #ImmigrantsFeedUs #ImmigrationCrackdown

It's baaaack...! #HR9495

via @fightforthefuture.org‬
WE NEED CALLS NOW! HR 9495, now known as #Section112209, if passed, would give the #Trump administration unprecedented power in suppressing nonprofits, by allowing the administration the power to strip organizations of their tax exempt status! Call 319-313-7674

'We Need Calls Now!' Republicans Slip #Nonprofit Killer Bill Into #TaxPackage

"If Democrats capitulate to the wanton destruction of crucial civil society institutions, they had better expect civil society to burn them to the ground for that betrayal."

Jake Johnson
May 13, 2025

Excerpt: "House Republicans on Monday quietly revived a proposal that would grant the Trump administration broad authority to crush nonprofits it views as part of the political opposition, from environmental justice organizations to news outlets.

"#FightForTheFuture and other advocacy groups called attention to the measure, which was buried in the final pages of the House Ways and Means Committee's draft reconciliation bill, starting on page 380.

"A markup hearing for the legislation is scheduled to take place on Tuesday [5/13] at 2:30 pm ET.

"The proposal would empower the U.S. #TreasuryDepartment to revoke the tax-exempt status of nonprofits deemed material supporters of #terrorism, with only a hollow simulacrum of due process for the accused organizations. It is already illegal for #nonprofits to provide material support for terrorism.

" 'The House is about to hand the Trump administration the ability to strip nonprofits of their 501(c)3 status without any reason or recourse. This is a five-alarm fire for nonprofits nationwide,' said Lia Holland, campaigns and communications director at Fight for the Future. 'If the text of last autumn's H.R. 9495 is passed in the budget, any organization with goals that do not line up with #MAGA can be destroyed with a wink from Trump to the Treasury.'

"The measure passed the Republican-controlled House late last year with the support of more than a dozen Democrats, but it never received a vote in the Senate.

" 'This terribly thought-out legislation means that under the current administration, every #environmental, racial justice, #LGBTQ+, #gender #justice, #immigration justice, and—particularly—any anti-#genocide organization throughout the country may be on the chopping block,' said Holland. 'If Democrats capitulate to the wanton destruction of crucial civil society institutions, they had better expect civil society to burn them to the ground for that betrayal.' "

https://www.commondreams.org/news/nonprofit-killer-bill

#StopHR9495 #HR9495 #SilencingDissent #fascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #AuthoritarianRule

Guess what #JoeBiden didn't do?!! Thanks, Joe! Would it have been a mute point? Perhaps! But it would have sent a message!

Democratic senators urge Biden to try to limit Trump's ability to use the U.S. military domestically

Trump could reverse a policy directive from Biden after he takes office but, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal are trying to highlight the issue.

Dec. 2, 2024, 7:00 AM EST
By Courtney Kube

"Two Democratic senators are urging the Biden administration to issue a policy directive that could temporarily limit President-elect Donald Trump's ability to deploy #USMilitary troops domestically after he takes office.

"Sens. #ElizabethWarren, D-Mass., and #RichardBlumenthal, D-Conn., both members of the Armed Services Committee, sent a letter dated Nov. 26 to President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that urged them to issue a policy directive that would ensure that U.S. troops can be used only when local or state authorities ask for federal help or are unable or unwilling to protect the public."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/democratic-senators-urge-biden-try-limit-trumps-ability-use-us-militar-rcna181980
#USPol #MartialLaw #Revolution #Resistance #CivilWar #SilencingDissent #NationalEmergency #PresidentialPowers #PowerCorruptionAndLies #Coup #Trump #Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #CorporateColonialism #VeryBad

Transcript from 13 minutes in...

"#InsurrectionAct sounds familiar because it is this is the same act that #Trump wanted to enact during the #GeorgeFloyd protests of 2020 this is a law that's almost as old as the United States and allows the United States president to deploy troops into the streets of America to maintain their idea of Law and Order and balance.

"Now the smarty pants Folks at NPR summarized the Insurrection act as granting the power to the president to suppress any Insurrection domestic violence unlawful combination or conspiracy which is direct language but it's still pretty broad. Okay it's Broad and Trump knows that it's broad which is why he openly said that he regretted not enforcing the Insurrection act back in 2020. Now David Gross also points out that whenever you hear discussions surrounding border use and the word Invasion it is likely so that the state can point to Article 1 Section 10 of the Constitution this section denies States the power to engage in war unless they are invaded which is why they use the word invading in the section before. Article 1 Section 9 protects habus Corpus unless in case of #rebellion or Invasion where the #PublicSafety may require it so you can see what they're starting to set up here. Okay they're setting up this idea of a border crisis they are projecting what's happening at our Southern border mostly as an invasion. I mean are you doing that to invoke the constitutional rights you have to start a war or like lock people up without trials like starting to look a little spooky here..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glhGgUZCLpw
#BorderCrisis #MartialLaw #InsurrectionAct #GeorgeFloydUprising #Resistance #Revolution #SilencingDissent #USPol #Revolution #Resistance #CivilWar #NationalEmergency #PresidentialPowers #PowerCorruptionAndLies #Coup #Trump #Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #CorporateColonialism #VeryBad

Transcript from 13 minutes in...

"#InsurrectionAct sounds familiar because it is this is the same act that #Trump wanted to enact during the #GeorgeFloyd protests of 2020 this is a law that's almost as old as the United States and allows the United States president to deploy troops into the streets of America to maintain their idea of Law and Order and balance.

"Now the smarty pants Folks at NPR summarized the Insurrection act as granting the power to the president to suppress any Insurrection domestic violence unlawful combination or conspiracy which is direct language but it's still pretty broad. Okay it's Broad and Trump knows that it's broad which is why he openly said that he regretted not enforcing the Insurrection act back in 2020. Now David Gross also points out that whenever you hear discussions surrounding border use and the word Invasion it is likely so that the state can point to Article 1 Section 10 of the Constitution this section denies States the power to engage in war unless they are invaded which is why they use the word invading in the section before. Article 1 Section 9 protects habus Corpus unless in case of #rebellion or Invasion where the #PublicSafety may require it so you can see what they're starting to set up here. Okay they're setting up this idea of a border crisis they are projecting what's happening at our Southern border mostly as an invasion. I mean are you doing that to invoke the constitutional rights you have to start a war or like lock people up without trials like starting to look a little spooky here..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glhGgUZCLpw
#BorderCrisis #MartialLaw #InsurrectionAct #GeorgeFloydUprising #Resistance #Revolution #SilencingDissent #USPol #Revolution #Resistance #CivilWar #NationalEmergency #PresidentialPowers #PowerCorruptionAndLies #Coup #Trump #Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #CorporateColonialism #VeryBad

Transcript from 13 minutes in...

"#InsurrectionAct sounds familiar because it is this is the same act that #Trump wanted to enact during the #GeorgeFloyd protests of 2020 this is a law that's almost as old as the United States and allows the United States president to deploy troops into the streets of America to maintain their idea of Law and Order and balance.

"Now the smarty pants Folks at NPR summarized the Insurrection act as granting the power to the president to suppress any Insurrection domestic violence unlawful combination or conspiracy which is direct language but it's still pretty broad. Okay it's Broad and Trump knows that it's broad which is why he openly said that he regretted not enforcing the Insurrection act back in 2020. Now David Gross also points out that whenever you hear discussions surrounding border use and the word Invasion it is likely so that the state can point to Article 1 Section 10 of the Constitution this section denies States the power to engage in war unless they are invaded which is why they use the word invading in the section before. Article 1 Section 9 protects habus Corpus unless in case of #rebellion or Invasion where the #PublicSafety may require it so you can see what they're starting to set up here. Okay they're setting up this idea of a border crisis they are projecting what's happening at our Southern border mostly as an invasion. I mean are you doing that to invoke the constitutional rights you have to start a war or like lock people up without trials like starting to look a little spooky here..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glhGgUZCLpw
#BorderCrisis #MartialLaw #InsurrectionAct #GeorgeFloydUprising #Resistance #Revolution #SilencingDissent #USPol #Revolution #Resistance #CivilWar #NationalEmergency #PresidentialPowers #PowerCorruptionAndLies #Coup #Trump #Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #CorporateColonialism #VeryBad

Transcript from 13 minutes in...

"#InsurrectionAct sounds familiar because it is this is the same act that #Trump wanted to enact during the #GeorgeFloyd protests of 2020 this is a law that's almost as old as the United States and allows the United States president to deploy troops into the streets of America to maintain their idea of Law and Order and balance.

"Now the smarty pants Folks at NPR summarized the Insurrection act as granting the power to the president to suppress any Insurrection domestic violence unlawful combination or conspiracy which is direct language but it's still pretty broad. Okay it's Broad and Trump knows that it's broad which is why he openly said that he regretted not enforcing the Insurrection act back in 2020. Now David Gross also points out that whenever you hear discussions surrounding border use and the word Invasion it is likely so that the state can point to Article 1 Section 10 of the Constitution this section denies States the power to engage in war unless they are invaded which is why they use the word invading in the section before. Article 1 Section 9 protects habus Corpus unless in case of #rebellion or Invasion where the #PublicSafety may require it so you can see what they're starting to set up here. Okay they're setting up this idea of a border crisis they are projecting what's happening at our Southern border mostly as an invasion. I mean are you doing that to invoke the constitutional rights you have to start a war or like lock people up without trials like starting to look a little spooky here..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glhGgUZCLpw
#BorderCrisis #MartialLaw #InsurrectionAct #GeorgeFloydUprising #Resistance #Revolution #SilencingDissent #USPol #Revolution #Resistance #CivilWar #NationalEmergency #PresidentialPowers #PowerCorruptionAndLies #Coup #Trump #Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #CorporateColonialism #VeryBad

Transcript from 13 minutes in...

"#InsurrectionAct sounds familiar because it is this is the same act that #Trump wanted to enact during the #GeorgeFloyd protests of 2020 this is a law that's almost as old as the United States and allows the United States president to deploy troops into the streets of America to maintain their idea of Law and Order and balance.

"Now the smarty pants Folks at NPR summarized the Insurrection act as granting the power to the president to suppress any Insurrection domestic violence unlawful combination or conspiracy which is direct language but it's still pretty broad. Okay it's Broad and Trump knows that it's broad which is why he openly said that he regretted not enforcing the Insurrection act back in 2020. Now David Gross also points out that whenever you hear discussions surrounding border use and the word Invasion it is likely so that the state can point to Article 1 Section 10 of the Constitution this section denies States the power to engage in war unless they are invaded which is why they use the word invading in the section before. Article 1 Section 9 protects habus Corpus unless in case of #rebellion or Invasion where the #PublicSafety may require it so you can see what they're starting to set up here. Okay they're setting up this idea of a border crisis they are projecting what's happening at our Southern border mostly as an invasion. I mean are you doing that to invoke the constitutional rights you have to start a war or like lock people up without trials like starting to look a little spooky here..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glhGgUZCLpw
#BorderCrisis #MartialLaw #InsurrectionAct #GeorgeFloydUprising #Resistance #Revolution #SilencingDissent #USPol #Revolution #Resistance #CivilWar #NationalEmergency #PresidentialPowers #PowerCorruptionAndLies #Coup #Trump #Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #CorporateColonialism #VeryBad

"V" uses humor and sarcasm to get their point across! A must watch!!!

Under The Desk News, Feb 7, 2025

"It’s Friday night, and you’re staring at the movies on your local streaming service. Up next in the queue is a little film called 'Martial Law,' which leads you into two questions. One, why wasn’t Cynthia Rothrock a bigger star? And two, what even IS #MartialLaw?

"Outside of the context of that film, martial law is a loosely defined concept that would enable the president to enact FULL power over the law and the troops in the event of an emergency. Think a state of emergency, like we saw in the recent Hurricanes, but to the max: martial law is a forced curfew, trial by MILITARY, and a complete dissolution of our civil rights like we’ve never seen before.

"But how likely is it to happen in America? Has it happened before? And will it happen again? The answer honestly shocked the hell out of me - it may shock you, too." [It shocked me!]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glhGgUZCLpw
#USPol #MartialLaw #Revolution #Resistance #CivilWar #SilencingDissent #NationalEmergency #PresidentialPowers #PowerCorruptionAndLies #Coup #Trump #Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #CorporateColonialism #VeryBad

The War on #Masks Has Taken on a New Meaning

This time, the masks have nothing to do with #COVID19.

By Henry Grabar
Feb 05, 20254:57 PM

"Last month, state legislators in New York introduced a bill that would create a new crime: 'masked harassment.'

"That, the law explains, is when you wear a mask 'for the primary purpose of menacing or threatening violence against another person' or 'placing another person or group of persons in reasonable fear for their physical safety.'

"If that seems like a bit of a niche offense—threatening violence is already a crime, after all—it’s because the language has been watered down to attract political support. It’s a sign of New York Democrats’ cautious new approach over masks in public life, and a retreat from last spring, when anti-Israel protests, on top of a widespread urban crime panic, pushed leaders from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to consider mask bans.

"In its original form, the New York bill would have banned masks at public assemblies entirely. But the outcry from #DisabilityRights advocates, #CriminalJustice reformers, #HealthCareWorkers, and #CivilLiberties groups was swift, and so New York wound up with this bill on 'masked harassment' instead.

"Elsewhere, the pandemic-era leniency on masking in public is over. #NorthCarolina Republicans overrode a gubernatorial veto last summer to once again #BanPublicFaceCoverings, except to stop the spread of contagious diseases. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost dusted off an old law to threaten #StudentProtesters with #felonies. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the state’s Senate to consider a bill to #unmask #protesters this year.

"For Republicans, it’s a chance to kill two birds with one stone. They can strike back against the perceived overreach of pandemic-era #HealthDirectives and make it easier to arrest #demonstrators at the same time.

"In #Ohio and North Carolina, the original statutes were written in the 1950s to stop demonstrations by the #KuKluxKlan, but had been ignored or suspended during the #pandemic and the #GeorgeFloydProtests. Many lawmakers have cited the recent demonstrations in defense of #Gaza as a reason to crack down again. Defending the proposed mask ban in New York, Anti-Defamation League [#ADL] president Jonathan Greenblatt said the demonstrators were using '#KKK tactics' to intimidate Jewish New Yorkers.

"That instinct was bolstered by the sense among many city residents and elected leaders that widespread masking was a factor behind the pandemic-era crime spike. That led to #Philadelphia banning #SkiMasks in parks, on trains, and in public buildings. A more recent, high-profile example came in December with the Midtown Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO #BrianThompson by a #MaskedAssassin, which prompted New York Mayor Eric Adams to call for cab drivers and business owners to ask customers to remove their masks. The new New York bill has won over the liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who endorsed the 'tailored' approach. As the police say: #NoFaceNoCase.

"For what it’s worth, there are too many confounding variables and too little data to be sure if mask-wearing is associated with crime, said Ernesto Lopez at the Council for Criminal Justice, which collects crime reporting statistics from various cities. 'From a theoretical statement it makes sense that could occur, but it has not been demonstrated that’s the case,' he told me.

"But if all that weighed in favor of more mask bans, there was also widespread resistance. Disability advocates mobilized to defend the right to mask; North Carolina had to write a medical exemption into their bill at the insistence of a GOP House member. #PoliceReformers observed that #MaskBans have often been used for pretextual #policing and racial profiling against #BlackAmericans. (#AtlantaGeorgia tabled a mask ban for that reason.)

"What looms largest, as the second Trump administration begins, is the role of protest. As Semafor’s Dave Weigel has noted, masks have become a badge of left-wing protest culture. That’s in part an extension of politicized COVID-era concerns about health and civility, but at this point it is mostly a tactic to preserve anonymity in an era of #FacialRecognition, streaming video, and #doxing. Last year, the anonymous #ProIsrael website the #CanaryMission posted photographs of hundreds of students and faculty at campus protests and posted their names and photos online, labeling some as supporters of terrorism.

"'The concern takes on new urgency as Donald Trump pledges to revoke the visas of pro-Palestine protesters, and the Trump-Musk GOP embraces the naming and shaming of otherwise private citizens. A conservative group called the American Accountability Foundation has begun circulating lists of federal workers, many of them Black, who should be
'targets' for their alleged involvement in #DEI initiatives at work.

"Clearly, the masked protest does not always sit well with an older generation, many of whom cut their teeth in the protests of the pre-internet age. As Georgetown professor Michael Kazin told the New York Times last year: 'I do think if you are going to demonstrate, and it’s something you feel deeply about, you should be willing to stand up and be counted.'"

Source:
https://slate.com/business/2025/02/mask-bans-new-york-los-angeles-crime-protests-criminalize-face-coverings.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #SurveillanceState #SilencingDissent