#PineAndRoses #NewEngland #DSA protests #ICEDetentions

Posted by #MaineDSA and Wes Pelletier | Mar 27, 2025

"Last week, the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine organized a protest of ICE detention of #ColumbiaUniversity student leader #MahmoudKhalil. Since then, ICE has operated as the #Trump Administration’s #SecretPolice, abducting a growing number of immigrant organizers for exercising their right to #FreeSpeech and protesting the U.S.-sponsored #genocide in #Gaza. The list includes #RumeysaOzturk, #YunseoChung, #BadarKhunSuri, #MomodouTaal, #RanjaniSrinivasan, as well as #farmworker organizer #AlfredoJuarezZerefino. Maine DSA member and Portland District 2 City Councilmember #WesPelletier spoke at the Portland Mahmoud Khalil protest and DSA chapters around New England issued a joint declaration reprinted below against the ICE abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk.

New England DSA chapters demand freedom for Rumeysa Ozturk

"Yesterday, ICE agents abducted Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student and pro-Palestine activist at Tufts.

"The kidnapping comes after almost 400 #ICEArrests in Massachusetts, as well as the #doxxing of Ozturk by the pro-Isreal website #CanaryMission.

"ICE’s abductions—of Ozturk, Khalil, and many others—is an unprecedented attack on basic #CivilRights in the name of U.S. Empire, whether those detained are peaceful #PoliticalActivists or undocumented #migrants seeking safety, jobs, and a better life.

"We must stand up against this brazen attack on #Palestine, #FreeSpeech, and the #RightToProtest.

"We must stand in solidarity with our neighbors and communities under attack from Trump, ICE, and all agents of #imperialism.

"Governor Healey, the courts, and the Democratic Party establishment are not coming to save us—we must mobilize, agitate, and organize in our workplaces and campuses to defend working-class rights.

In Solidarity,

#BerkshiresDSA, #BostonDSA, #BostonUniversityYDSA, #CapeCodDSA, #ConnecticutDSA, #MaineDSA, #NortheasternYDSA, #RiverValleyDSA, #SimmonsYDSA, #SouthernNewHampshireDSA, #UpperValleyDSA, #WorcesterDSA"

Source:
https://pineandroses.org/news/new-england-dsa-protests-ice-detentions/
#ResistICE #ResistFascism #Resistance #District13 #District13Resists #Fascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #TurReich #CharacteristicsOfFascism

#RecommendedReading.

The People Make the Peace

Forty years after the Vietnam War ended, many in the United States still struggle to come to terms with this tumultuous period of U.S. history. The domestic antiwar movement, with cooperation from their Vietnamese counterparts, played a significant role in ending the War, but few have examined its impact until now. In The People Make the Peace, edited by Karín Aguilar-San Juan and Frank Joyce, nine U.S. activists discuss the parts they played in opposing the War at home and their risky travels to Vietnam in the midst of the conflict to engage in people-to-people diplomacy.

"The book shatters stereotypes of protesters and shows the activists as thoughtful, courageous and compassionate strategists whose dedication to peaceful diplomacy helped end the war earlier…" - Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK

https://jwb.bookstore.ipgbook.com/the-people-make-the-peace-products-9781935982593.php

(auto translated from Farsi): Iranian media reported the execution of a person named "#Mossad agent" without mentioning the details.

• The media close to the government in #Iran reported the execution of a person under the title of "Mossad agent", without mentioning the details or mentioning the name. These media wrote, "The person executed on February 8, 1401, under the guidance of the Mossad intelligence officer, planned to blow up the workshop complex of the Ministry of Defense in #Isfahan."

The execution of #political activists and opponents of the #Islamic Republic on the basis of false and baseless accusations, including "collaboration with hostile governments" and especially #Israel, by the Iranian government has a long history.

Among these cases, we can mention the recent execution of four Iranian Kurdish political prisoners named Pejman Fatehi, Mohammad Faramarzi, Wafa Azarbar and Mohsen Mazloum, who were executed despite widespread international protests.

#Israel #IRI #Terrorism #Sabotage #Politics #DeathPenalty
رسانه‌های ایران بدون اشاره به جزئیات، از اعدام یک نفر با عنوان «عامل #موساد» خبر دادند.

•رسانه‌های نزدیک به حکومت در ایران، بدون اشاره به جزییات و ذکر نام، از #اعدام یک نفر با عنوان «عامل موساد» خبر دادند. این رسانه‌ها نوشتند «فرد اعدام شده ۸ بهمن سال ۱۴۰۱، با هدایت افسر اطلاعاتی موساد، قصد داشت مجتمع کارگاهی #وزارت دفاع در اصفهان را منفجر کند.»

•اعدام #فعالانسیاسی و مخالفان #جمهوریاسلامی بنا به اتهام‌های جعلی و بی‌اساس از جمله «همکاری با دولت‌های متخاصم» و به‌ویژه #اسرائیل توسط حکومت ایران پر سابقه است.

•از جمله این موارد می‌توان به اعدام اخیر چهار زندانی سیاسی ایرانی کُرد به نام‌های پژمان فاتحی، محمد فرامرزی، وفا آذربار و محسن مظلوم اشاره کرد که با وجود اعتراض‌های گسترده بین‌المللی اعدام شدند.

It's time to admit this right-wing US #SupremeCourt is a corrupt, autocratic tribune
calling a small group of #partisan #lawyers a "supreme" court doesn't make it one. There's nothing supreme about the six-pack of #farright-wing #politicalactivists who are presently soiling our people's ideals of #justice by proclaiming their own #antidemocratic biases to be the #law of the land.
https://www.rawstory.com/2659100806/?fbclid=IwAR0ZbqdjnW-TNiJMoo4dIWu_l5PAFn2_5vCGPmgVAAI4mJMcOEOGKS7mKNo