Families Belong Together - open thread

by JanieM
One of my favorite signs from the Augusta event:

Open thread, with an emphasis on reporting in from here there and everywhere.

The Augusta event was well attended, if on nowhere near the scale of the women's march. Of the people I might have gone with, several were away and one was in the hospital, but practically everyone in Maine knows everyone else, so I wasn't lonely. :-)

It was a hard location for taking crowd pics -- people were spread out, and "hidden" under trees, and stretched along the street. But I'd say there were several hundred people at the peak.

***If you have pictures you'd like to share, and you happen to have a Flickr account (the only venue I'm familiar with), you can upload a pic and then copy the link that's provided into the ObWi comment box. Click the "share" arrow at the lower right of the Flickr window, then select embed, and a size from the dropdown. The 375x500 size seems to work best. (Be frugal; I'm not sure Typepad can handle a big flood of pics.)

If you can't embed that way, maybe we can figure out some other way to do a picture thread. Doctor Science clearly knows how to put pics in a front page post, but I don't know if she does it via Typepad, or the way I did this one, via a link to some other repository.

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[wj]

At my local Keeping Families Together rally (Dublin, CA). Expected attendance: 200; rough headcount: 350.

Best sign: the one lady's back reading

YES, Melania, I REALLY DO CARE

[russell]

we were at the boston city hall plaza rally. i don't know how many folks were there - five thousand?

some counter protest, but overall no problems.

favorite sign was on a sandwich board worn by a small dog:

"vote (and pet barkley)"

pretty large latin presence, with flags from honduras and el salvador.

also a red flag with a white field in an upper corner, with a green pine tree in the white field, which was a revolutionary era new england battle flag. a marker of regional sensibility at odds with that of the nation as a whole.

there was also an action at the ICE detention center in south boston. don't know how that went.

there is another ICE facility down in Dartmouth, south of the city. don't know if anything was scheduled for there.

[russell]

some pictures of boston coutesy of local NPR affiliate WBUR.

[JanieM]

A few others from Augusta are here (click the pic):

[Nigel]

This is the reality of Trump ‘liberating’ towns from ‘MS13’...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/06/30/feature/are-you-alone-now-after-raid-immigrant-families-are-separated-in-the-american-heartland/

[Countme-a-Demon]

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/issue-cartoons/cartoons-from-the-june-18-2018-issue

Slide thru to #2

[JanieM]

Count -- #2 was good, if depressing. I laughed out loud at #4, the "All Things Considered" one. Thanks for the link.

[russell]

100 protestor at the south Boston ice detention facility, 20 arrests, which is reasonable since that was a civil disobedience action.

as always, the comments are charming.

[wj]

No surprises in the comments. Not even how much they parallel (except for being marginally more civil) the comments made about civil rights protesters. At least for those familiar with history or old enough to remember.

I wonder of it's a culture-of-bigotry thing. Or maybe failure of imagination -- although I suppose reactionaries aren't much on innovation.

[sapient]

Seems like the demonstrations yesterday were scattered, but well-attended in local forums. The demonstration in Farmville, Va., today had about a hundred people, I would guess.

A lot of people of good will out there.

[liberal japonicus]

Since this is the open thread for politics, I put this up

https://theintercept.com/2018/07/01/ocasio-cortez-data-suggests-that-gentrifying-neighborhoods-powered-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-victory-over-the-democratic-establishment/

[wj]

I had the impression that the biggest factor was neither ethnic nor ideological. It was simply that Crowley had allowed himself to get out of touch with the people in his district.

Maybe too long without a serious challenger. Maybe too caught up with being part of the Congressional leadership. But either way, not maintaining his connections.

[wj]

In case you missed this last week, or simply failed to pick up on the details.
https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-hsi-letter-kirstjen-nielsen-criminal-civil-deportation-zero-tolerance/

This is the folks at ICE who actually do things like go after MS-13, human trafficers and other criminals. Asking to be separated from ICE because Trump administration priorities regarding immigration are leaving them starved for funds to do their job. Think about that one the next time Trump accuses someone criticizing ICE of loving MS-13.