I can’t even provide aline yet; it’s a Breaking News banner on their main page.
ETA: It might be 630 people, mostly women. x.com
Maybe they should have read our “Permits for protesting ” thread beforehand
They are getting more attention for their cause by getting arrested. I admire their bravery.
The AP finally has a proper story up :
Capitol Police arrested nearly 600 people Thursday after hundreds of loudly chanting women demonstrated inside a Senate office building against President Donald Trump’s treatment of migrant families. Among them were a Washington state congresswoman, the lawmaker said on Twitter.
The protests came as demonstrations occurred around the country over the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant families. They offered a glimpse of what might happen on Saturday when rallies are planned coast to coast.
Hey! I’ll be at one of those right here in Las Vegas, on the Courthouse steps!
The sit-in came two days after another show of liberal political energy in which 28-year-old political neophyte Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ousted 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley in a Democratic primary for his House seat in New York.
Hundreds of people gathered at a rally outside a federal courthouse in Brownsville, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley.
Dozens of people shut down a government meeting in Michigan in protest of a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to house detainees at a local jail. And eight people were arrested outside an ICE building in Portland, Oregon, that has been closed because of a round-the-clock demonstration.
FWIW, At an overpass near the Microsoft campus this morning, two guys were holding a banner over the freeway that said something to the effect “Microsoft Employees want to abolish ICE”
Be sure and let us know immediately if you see them tomorrow morning with a sign that says “former Microsoft Employees want to abolish ICE”!
Seriously, I hope they did not and do not lose their jobs for that stunt and I commend them for taking the risk to express themselves.
Snowboarder_Bo:
Be sure and let us know immediately if you see them tomorrow morning with a sign that says “former Microsoft Employees want to abolish ICE”!
Seriously, I hope they did not and do not lose their jobs for that stunt and I commend them for taking the risk to express themselves.
It’s not like “two guys” is any significant percentage of Microsoft employees. They could have not risked their jobs (or forced Microsoft - which sells a good bit of software / services to ICE - into an awkward denial ) by just making their banner say “We want to abolish ICE”.
FWIW, I’m delighted to see my colleagues across the aisle joining Republicans in the “which part(s) of the fed .gov would you like to abolish?” game. It’s fun (even if it will never happen), isn’t it?
