For the last year, Portland protesters have consistently gathered outside the federal building and field office that ICE operates out of. In the past week, more have joined them. Federal agents attacked and tear-gassed two demonstrations against immigration enforcement in Portland, Oregon.
Our new reports from the frontlines share heartwarming and heartwrenching stories. A demonstration sticks together, embracing the philosophy “it’s safer in the front,” and returning a volley of tear gas canisters back to the feds. Days later, ICE agents repeat their assaults—this time, on a march full of children.
“What happened that night was not disorder. It was collective refusal. It was people deciding, in real time, that they would not quietly accept state terror in their city. It was grief turning into action. It was rage turning into protection. It was the understanding that when the government murders someone for defending others, the only moral response is to stand up. Together.”
