NYPD didn’t let today’s anti-ICE march take off. Within 5 minutes they started attacking protesters. Now there’s a standoff at Cortland and Greenwich.
Scanners reporting at least 15 arrests. Large corrections bus here. These folks were just marching down the street. But cops seemed angry that they couldn’t stop the anti-ICE protest yesterday.
More arrests happening.
Riot cops and arrests at Grenwich and Cortland. People were chanting and marching in the street when the NYPD attacked. Nothing like a riot took place.
These riot cops and other assorted cops are here for 100 peaceful marchers. The NYPD budget is bigger than most armies. Defund the police.
Large number of undercovers here with someone who appears to be an arrestee. Again the NYPD attacked a peaceful march for no reason, again.
Standoff continues at Greenwich and Liberty. One NYPD cop wearing a thin blue line mask. Most riot cops not wearing a mask at all.
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White supremacists are now marching in Charleston, West Virginia. With no police in sight.
I’m sure every politician in the country will release statements denouncing this.
As others have said, no cops in uniform in sight. Or no violent attacks on people by police here. That's reserved for students protesting genocide, apparently.
There's a ton of police brutality right now, but there's also more and more of this: students standing their ground and refusing to be forced into silence. Thread.
If this Labor Day feels a little different, that’s because it is.
Workers are fighting and winning in a way we haven't seen in decades.
And this could be just the beginning. Thread 🧵
1. There’s so much good news it’s hard to know where to start.
Maybe the biggest and clearest sign of real change is that more new workers joined unions in the first half of 2023 than we’ve seen in over 20 years. jphilll.com/p/this-labor-d…
2. There’s also a powerful energy in the air, which is changing the culture in this country and making people more and more excited about unions and labor.
That energy is translating into support for labor struggles:
It just isn't serious when people claim to be on the left then insist on assessing each billionaire by how nice and kind they are rather than understanding their position as shapers and upholders of policy and of this oppressive capitalist system more broadly.
We can work towards a world where we treat those who currently oppose us with kindness and where we build a world of abundance, while understanding that there are very powerful people actively working to maintain the current status quo and all the violence it requires.
These are people who not only create and maintain conditions of mass poverty and death, but work to eliminate regulations, work to keep housing precarious, work to keep people hungry. They are responsible for a number of deaths and an amount of misery that is hard to calculate.