Shut Down Downtown TACOMA! Against I.C.E! Against Raids!
Tacoma, Washington

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"It started off small. The “green zone” had more mainstream media than anarchists for the first fifteen minutes. But then they came. A marching band. Dozens of blocked up human beings. A man with a megaphone. Some puppets. People with literature. Up above, the police had their helicopter and their plane circling. The masked anarchists continued to arrive. On the sidewalk, black shadows handed out literature to passersby, to people in cars and to people on city busses. Whole stacks were given to the busses and those who got them through the windows handed to them out to those inside who wanted them. Everyone in the busses wanted them. Everyone wanted to know what was going on. The pigs had been scaring everyone about these protests for the 9th and 10th. No one knew what to expect. But what they saw was friendly, informative and non-hostile. Suddenly, the anarchists took off, heading down the sidewalks. They stopped in front of the Wells Fargo tower and through the megaphone revealed how that bank financed the GO Group, the company that ran the Northwest Detention Center. All of the riot cops were out in Downtown Tacoma. Bike cops followed the march, as did vans carrying the riot squad. The protest had stated it would shut down Tacoma. The anarchists, extremely cleverly, had tricked the police into shutting down the city for them. By just staying on the sidewalk, they were able to not only accomplish their objective but to reveal just what the police force is used for in the US."

Canada No Border Camp - Montreal - November 10th and 11th

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"No Border Camps, autonomous zones meant to challenge border militarization and migration controls, were organized in Montreal and along the US/Mexico border this past week. In Montreal, migrants and their allies gathered at the Centre de prevention de l’immigration, the Laval immigration detention center, on November 10-11, to stand in solidarity with all those detained as part of the growing efforts to fortify borders and control the movement of people."

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"hey! it went well. it was actually very inspiring at the beginning. we
were about 100 when we arrived. we could see detainees waving to us from the inside. we were announcing a cell phone number over the loudspeakers, and had quite a few detainees call us."