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SUMMARY:Rapid Response Solidarity Standout and Vigil 
DESCRIPTION:This past Tuesday\, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by ICE agents in Houston\, Texas\, during a traffic stop in which they were looking for someone else\, who they say matched Lorenzo’s description. The ICE agents were not wearing body cams and the Federal Government is already spinning a narrative that we have heard before to justify past shootings. LULAC\, the oldest Hispanic civil rights organization in the US\, has launched a petition called for a fully transparent investigation and accountability for Lorenzo’s death. \n\n\n\nIt will take immense public pressure to force accountability\, but accountability is long overdue. Jonathan Ross\, who murdered Reneé Good\, is still walking free as are Alex Pretti’s killers. If we do not respond collectively\, the message we will send is clear: ICE can continue to kill people\, both on the streets and in detention facilities across the country\, with impunity. Americans will simply continue with our business\, and ICE (and our elected officials) will pay no price for their violence. Community members in Houston took the streets today\, and in consultation with organizers from Fuerza\, we decided today to organize a rapid response solidarity standout and vigil tomorrow\, Friday July 10\, from 7:30-8:30pm on Main and Moody Streets (see flyer for sharing at the end of this newsletter). \n\n\n\nWe want to make it clear that in Waltham\, we will not turn a blind eye to ICE shootings nor to ICE’s ongoing abuses in detention centers. In Waltham\, we will stand up publicly for our immigrant neighbors\, friends\, and family members; we will not be intimidated into silence\, we will continue to take up space and exercise our rights\, and we will demand justice and accountability\, as well as ICE OUT of our community. \n\n\n\nImmediately prior to this standout\, we have an existing postcard writing gathering at First Parish in Waltham\, from 5:30-7:30pm. We will have postcard packets to fill out and will also have sign making supplies in case you want to come make a sign prior the standout.
URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/rapid-response-solidarity-standout-and-vigil/
LOCATION:Main and Moody Sts\, Main and Moody Streets\, Waltham\, Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Protests
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SUMMARY:YAS Queens:  No Kings Standout
DESCRIPTION:Indivisible and the national No Kings coalition are calling for another day of nationwide resistance action on June 14\, the one-year anniversary of the first No Kings protest and the day Trump will stage a UFC fight at the White House to celebrate his 80th birthday. June 14 is also Waltham Pride– an event that is particularly meaningful in the context of an Administration and Republican Party that remain hell-bent on making life as hard as possible for our trans community members as part of a broader campaign of oppression towards queer people and people who identify as or are perceived as women. \n\n\n\nIndivisible Waltham will have a table at Pride from noon-4pm and we invite you to stop by our table to connect\, fill out some postcards (or pick up a postcard pack to fill out later and share with friends)\, get some of our newest “I will vote” stickers\, and learn about the plans we’ve been starting to cook up for how to support voter turnout efforts heading into the fall elections. \n\n\n\nNo Kings\, Yaas Queens dance-themed standout after Waltham Pride \n\n\n\nIn consultation with our friends on the Pride organizing team\, we’re organizing a standout immediately following Pride from 4:00-5:30pm on the sidewalks of Main and Moody Street\, adjacent to but not directly on the Common\, as Pride vendors will still be breaking down and cleaning up on the Common. This will be a Pride-themed celebration as protest\, a way to be visible together in community and remind those who count on our apathy that we are not going away and not going to cede our power or our ability to exercise our rights even in the face of intimidation tactics aimed at suppressing and discouraging protest locally and nationally (those Flock cameras are not going to keep us away!)We will take up space\, we will be visible\, we will be loud\, we will dance\, and we will continue to build community and people power. We hope you join us and invite your friends too! There is a digital poster at the end of this newsletter that you can feel free to share with your contacts. \n\n\n\nHow you can help: Bring some extra Prime-themed posters to share! \n\n\n\nWe will be promoting the standout at our Pride table\, and hope that folks who attend Pride who might not otherwise know about our work decide to stay for a bit and join us in the standout. Knowing people are unlikely to bring posters to Pride with them\, it would be very helpful if those of you who will be coming directly to the standout could bring extra posters\, so folks who join without prior planning have a sign they can use.  We’d like the theme to be celebratory\, de-centering or minimizing Trump (as he is a wannabe King with waning relevance and power) and lifting up diversity in all its beautiful forms\, particularly diversity of gender expression\, sexual orientation\, and freedom of expression.
URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/yas-queens-no-kings-standout/
LOCATION:Main and Moody Sts\, Main and Moody Streets\, Waltham\, Massachusetts
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