This past Tuesday, January 20th, Worthington Kilbourne students participated in a peaceful walkout across four periods to protest the actions of ICE in our community and across our country.
Students made signs, chanted, and found community with one another as they spent their off periods and class time outside in the cold to stand up for their fellow students, their neighbors, their friends, and their fellow Americans who are being targeted and brutally mistreated by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Jessica Pugh, a Kilbourne senior, worked with the Party for Socialism and Liberation out of Columbus(PSLColumbus), and ICEoutCbus to organize and plan the walk out. Pugh’s job was to spread the word and to encourage others to do so as well.
We asked Pugh why she felt compelled to get involved, she told us, “I felt responsible to organize the walkout because we have so much privilege in Worthington and we need to use it correctly. It would be very easy for all of us to be ignorant to the news of ICE agents killing and violently detaining people daily because we are not among the targeted demographic.”…