Fight Back! News

News and Views from the People's Struggle

staff

By staff

Northampton, Massachusetts protest demands ICE out, justice for Renee Good.

Northampton, MA – On Sunday, January 11, the River Valley chapter of FRSO co-sponsored a rally with local activist groups demanding an end to both ICE funding and presence in their communities.

Read more...

By staff

Protest in Santa Ana, California after the ICE murder of Renee Good.

Santa Ana, CA – On Friday, January 9, about 300 protesters chanted “Justice for Renee Good” and “ICE out of Santa Ana” at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office on Civic Center. They held a spray painted banner that read “Fuck ICE!” and signs reading “We demand justice!”

Read more...

By staff

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following January 12 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines.

Over the past week or two, the US-Marcos regime has mounted a frenzied media and social media campaign to intimidate and threaten the Filipino youth, who, more and more are growing disenchanted amid deep and widespread social ills, and are being drawn to question the rotten ruling system and seek radical and revolutionary ways to end corruption, injustice and abuses by those in power.

Read more...

By staff

Milwaukee  watch party for webinar on Venezuela.

Milwaukee, WI – On Sunday, January 11, an audience of around 20 people gathered at Zao MKE Church to watch a webinar featuring five anti-war activists who visited Venezuela in the last month, hosted by the Anti-War Action Network (AWAN). 

Read more...

By staff

Atlanta protest against U.S. attacks on Venezuela.

Atlanta, GA – Dozens of community members, activists, and trade unionists rallied January 11 outside the Georgia State Capitol to demand no U.S. war on Venezuela and that President Nicolás Maduro be freed immediately.

The rally was called by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Atlanta Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and Diaspora Pa’lante Collective.

Read more...

By staff

Protestors march down Martinique Avenue, a street targeted by Greg Bovino, to show support for immigrants and demand justice for Renee Good.

Kenner, LA – On Saturday, January 10, about 150 protesters gathered in North Kenner Recreational Park to oppose ICE’s presence in their communities and to demand the local police end their collaboration with ICE. This protest was also to demand justice for Renee Nicole Good who was killed by ICE justthree3 days before. The protest also demanded justice for Keith Porter and Silverio Gonzalez, who were murdered by ICE agents.

Read more...

By staff

Tallahassee, Florida march demands city preserve graves of enslaved people.

Tallahassee, FL – On January 10, the Tallahassee Community Action Committee marched and rallied with local residents to protest the sale of the city-owned golf course to the Capital City Country Club (CCCC). The land is known to include a historic cemetery containing the remains of at least 17 formerly enslaved people, with evidence of many more that have not been marked. 

Read more...

By staff

LA protest after the ICE murder of Renee Good.

Los Angeles, CA – Hundreds of organizers and community members gathered at Mariachi Plaza in historic Boyle Heights, January 8, for a vigil called by Centro CSO to honor Renee Nicole Good, a wife, mother and community defender murdered by ICE agents in Minneapolis.

Read more...

By staff

Salt Lake City activists demand "Free Maduro."

Salt Lake City, UT – On January 11, Utah community members and activists gathered to write letters of support and encouragement to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Kidnapped by U.S. forces on January 3, the Venezuelan leader and First Lady Cilia Flores are currently held in a New York federal jail as political prisoners. The event also served as a planning and educational meeting for future organizing in Salt Lake City against war and Trump’s agenda.

Read more...

By staff

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following January 12 statement from the Dallas-Fort Worth Anti-War Committee.

Pete Hegseth is not welcome in Dallas-Fort Worth!

Today, Pete Hegseth, the so-called Secretary of War, came to Fort Worth because DFW produces the weapons of war and genocide. From the Lockheed Martin F-35 factory in Fort Worth that Hegseth visited today to the Repkon bomb factory in Garland, our metroplex’s taxes, resources, and labor are being used for imperialist bloodshed.

Read more...

By staff

Dallas protest against U.S. attacks on Venezuela.

Dallas, TX – Dallas activists gathered on a chilly night in downtown Dallas, January 10, to demand freedom for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife and condemn the war launched by the U.S.

Groups set up tables to share literature, resources and to connect individuals with organizations. At the demonstration’s peak, around 200 people came out to make noise and demand no war on Venezuela.

Read more...

By staff

Protest in Tallahassee, Florida following the ICE murder of Renee Good.

Tallahassee, FL – On January 8, approximately 400 people attended a rally and vigil at the steps of the Florida Historic Capitol demanding justice for Renee Nicole Good. The protest was organized by the Tallahassee Immigrant Rights Alliance in response to the murder of Renee Good by ICE Agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis.

Read more...

By staff

Protest in Denver following the ICE killing of Renee Good.

Denver, CO – On January 7, 250 people gathered outside the GEO ICE detention facility in response to the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent. Good was observing an ICE raid in Minneapolis, one of Trump’s target cities in his campaign to escalate his deportation agenda.

Read more...

By staff

Austin, Texas protest against the ICE murder of Renee Good.

Austin, TX – On Friday, January 9, around 150 people rallied in front of the gates of the Texas Capitol building in protest of the killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis two days earlier.

The Austin Immigrant Rights Action Committee and Austin Students for a Democratic Society called the action. 

Jesse Valdelamar from the Austin Immigrant Rights Action Committee kicked off the action with a series of chants including, “No cages! No cages! No raids! No raids!”

Read more...

By staff

Protest in Tampa, Florida after ICE shooting in Portland.

Tampa, FL – On Friday afternoon, January 9, the Tampa Immigrants’ Rights Committee held a second emergency rally in front of Tampa City Hall in as many days to protest yet another ICE shooting, this time in Portland, Oregon. About 30 people attended the event.

Two Venezuelan immigrants, Luis David Nino-Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras, were shot and injured when a Customs and Border Patrol agent fired into the car during a traffic stop. The activists demanded justice for those murdered by ICE and federal agents, as well as getting ICE out of their community.

Read more...

By staff

 Tampa protest demands justice for Renee Good.

Tampa, FL – On Thursday, January 9, over 100 Tampa community members rallied in solidarity and protest against the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. The event was held at Tampa City Hall.

The event was organized by Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society and the Tampa Immigrants’ Rights Committee. The protest called for ICE out of everywhere, stop the deportations, justice for all murdered by ICE, and justice for Renee Good. The crowd chanted “ICE off our streets,” “Say her name! Renee Nicole Good!” and “No troops on the ground, no ICE in our streets, end 287(g)!” Several drivers passing by the event honked and cheered in support.

Read more...

By staff

Jacksonville SDS drops a banner demanding a sanctuary campus.

Jacksonville, FL – On Wednesday, January 7, students at the University of North Florida gathered for a banner-drop demanding the school be declared a sanctuary campus. The demonstration, organized by the Jacksonville chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), was the latest in a long line of protests against the university’s cooperation with ICE.

Read more...

By staff

Atlanta protest demand justice for Renee Good.

Atlanta, GA – On the afternoon of January 8, 70 protesters gathered at the ICE office in Atlanta to demand justice for Renee Nicole Good, who was killed by ICE goon Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis the day before.

Read more...

By staff

Jacksonville, Florida protest against U.S. attacks on Venezuela.

Jacksonville, FL – On Saturday, January 3 nearly 100 Jacksonville residents rallied to condemn U.S. military strikes on Venezuela, and demand the immediate release of the kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. Protesters rallied outside of .U.S Senator Rick Scott’s office, who in October of 2025, alluded to the illegal kidnapping of the President Maduro and his wife, stating, “something is going to happen.”

Read more...

By staff

Charleston protest demand justice for Renee Good.

Charleston, SC – Over 250 people gathered at Marion Square in Charleston, South Carolina, on January 8 for an emergency protest against the deadly shooting of Renee Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis the day before.

Read more...