Patty Hine: We’ve been distracted and complacent too long, but there’s still time to act if we act now. Communities across our country can and are resisting, and we can win, but we must show up in huge numbers.
Presenter: Protests erupted in Eugene and nationwide after an ICE agent shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis Jan. 7. Speaking at the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza Jan. 8 from Rapid Response Lane County, Latiffe:
Latiffe (Rapid Response Lane County): We stand here today because people are dying at the hands of ICE—in cages, in transit, and in the streets, and we refuse to let their deaths be renamed, minimized, or explained any other way.
Because that’s always the first move: Rename the violence so the public can swallow it. Call raids operations, call cages facilities, call deportation removal, call death an incident…