NYC punked ICE
This is what happens when community unifies!
Hiiii, I’m telling the news live tomorrow, December 6th, at Friends and Lovers in Brooklyn. Come! The first show of my I HATE CAPITALISM tour is on December 10th also at Friends and Lovers. Come! Today I’m sharing some very good news about NYC blocking ICE from raiding Canal Street. I love this fucking CITY!! Onto the news…
News that made me take a break from getting ripped!
I was racking weights for Romanian deadlifts when I got notification from a friend telling me “NYC blocked ICE we can win!” with a link to the news. I’m trying to get jacked but my hamstrings could wait. I opened the link, got excited, then immediately searched for videos, I love seeing footage of resistance. Videos from New York Ice Watch showed protestors blocking a parking garage to prevent ICE agents from attacking the city, it was beautiful. I love ICE tasting their own medicine. Though being trapped somewhere for hours is not nearly as close as the amount of anguish they’ve brought to thousands of people.
Nonetheless, the New Yorkers trapped ICE in a garage forcing them to call their fellow gang members, the NYPD, to remove protestors. Technically NYPD doesn’t work with ICE and technically chocolate doesn’t have calories when I’m sad. NYPD arrived ready to start a riot as they usually do. They pepper sprayed protestors, pepper sprayed each other, again love when these villains harm each other. They arrested people.
However, that doesn’t change the fact that New Yorkers prevented ICE from raiding Canal Street, further traumatizing a group of people who are selling items to make a living. Make a living is such a dark dystopian phrase fitting for this dystopian hellscape that criminalizes the existence of humanity.
BUT we won!!! ICE was forced to retreat to New Jersey, which is where Eric Adams should be banished to. Sorry not sorry New Jersey. I wasn’t there but I say we won because this is an example of what happens when we the community unifies to do what needs to be done.
I think about that phrase a lot, what needs to be done. What needs to be done is destroying a white supremacist society built on human sacrifices. What needs to be done is returning the land to its rightful stewards. What needs to be done is for me to get absolutely shredded to the point my jeans cannot fit me anymore. Okay the last one doesn’t need to be done but I’ve been slowly lifting more and more and I’m looking forward to the days where my thighs are larger than a medium-sized tree trunk. I promise this isn’t turning into an annoying fitness blog but going to the gym and people fighting ICE agents are the only things that prompt feelings of joy currently.
There were no politicians at the scene because if they were they would have held a press conference right afterwards to hear the sound of their voices. In fact, the only agents of the state present were sent by the head autocrat of this fascist state and the NYPD police commissioner Jessica Tisch who will also be Zohran’s police commissioner. The NYPD, the same institution that Zohran apologized to for calling racist, held hands with fellow modern-day slave catchers to prevent concerned citizens from protecting each other. I haven’t looked at the definition of racism recently but I’m guessing assisting people who target people not perceived as white with state violence is the textbook definition.
The victory over ICE is proof that we don’t need leaders or politicians to do what needs to be done. What we need is the incontrovertible belief that everyone is deserving of freedom and it is our responsibility as the collective to deliver this human right. We must refuse to fall for false prophets, sorry if this triggers memories of horrible times at Sunday school. I use the p word because what needs to be done requires a spiritual awakening. A surge inside our spirits that makes the existence of autocracy intolerable. Intolerable to its existence that we are driven to fight it at all costs.
That’s it for the news but don’t go yet
Last week on TikTok I shared a quote that changed my life from Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.
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