100%. I just figure we can't control either of those things, any more than LA or Chicago or any other place could control them before it was us, or than those other places can while it's us. We can try to respond to them in a good way of course, but I don't think we can control them.

They certainly know this, and instead their leaders choose to focus on the most frivolous things possible. That should reinforce our knowledge of what they actually think about ICE's activities, and give us focus on what it means and what it takes to push them to defund these entities instead.

Ha well, apparently I posted the second image twice. Here is the one that was supposed to go first.

TLDR but joke’s on you I guess you better keep reading 😂

I think there can be a temptation to think, no they have to keep paying attention, so many very bad and very good things are happening, and it’s very true they are. But people’s attention, especially media or influencers or whatever, is one of the things we have the least control over, I imagine.

What the possibilities are, what materials and contexts and conditions are there that weren’t there before, is crucial, I think, when we don’t have as many cameras watching us, or people doing bullshit like staking out organizer houses to see what ICE might do.

When Aaron Henry & others from NAACP organized a Christmas shopping boycott in Clarksdale, Miss, because the white store owners refused to hire African Americans for anything but menial work, they were arrested & convicted for “Conspiring to withhold trade.”
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Yes, a must read on Dr. King with a lot also on Coretta Scott King.

King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South by Jeanne Theoharis.
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Might as well be a NYT Pitchbot post. Strike against Santa Claus. Whew.

(From her excellent book “King of the North,” in this chapter about King’s efforts for many years in NYC)