Students From Wheeler, Moses Brown & Other Schools “Walking Out” – Protest at State House on Friday

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A protest — ICE Out! National Day of Action — is scheduled for Friday at 2 PM at the Rhode Island State House.

According to the announcement, “Students across Rhode Island are organizing walkouts to join the protest at the State House, including high school students from across the Providence Public Schools as well as the Wheeler School, East Greenwich, Moses Brown, Barrington, and the Lincoln School. College students from Brown University to URI are also walking out. “

“After hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans led the first general strike in the U.S. in 70 years this past Friday, federal agents murdered VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti in cold blood the very next day. In response to this escalating campaign of ICE terror, the Somali Student Association of the University of Minnesota has called for a nationwide shutdown on Friday, January 30th with the call: “No Business as Usual! – No School, No Work, and No Shopping,” said the organizers in a press advisory issued on Thursday morning…

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