New website promotes local protests, including Amazon, Whole Foods boycott

Huckleberry: Amazon is a prime driver of ICE’s deportations, by providing ICE with data storage services. They’re helping expand the growth of their surveillance data accumulation, arrest, imprisonment, and deportation of immigrants.

Presenter: One of the groups helping to organize the nationwide No Kings rally Oct. 18 is named 50501: 50 protests, 50 states, one movement. Speaking for 50501 Eugene, here’s Huckleberry:

Huckleberry: I’m involved with 50501. It’s a decentralized organization that focuses primarily on protest and getting people out and getting people together, and we’re working with other local organizations to help make this happen and make it big and call people to action.

[00:00:41] Something that Eugene and Springfield benefit from that a lot of other places don’t is our activist community has become pretty well unified and we work together on these things…

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