Saginaw, TX – En febrero 9, más de 200 estudiantes y miembros de la comunidad de la Escuela Secundaria Boswell en Saginaw, Tejas marcharon en protesta de la continua violencia que ICE ha usado contra su comunidad. Esta marcha viene después de una huelga que los estudiantes de Boswell organizaron en febrero 2, lo que trajo amenazas de suspensiones y expulsiones al cuerpo estudiantil por parte del Director Ryan Wilson.

Esta acción fue dirigida en conjunto por los organizadores estudiantiles y la Alianza Nacional Contra la Represión Racista y Política (NAARPR) Dallas.

Miembros del NAARPR-Dallas aportaron a la marcha proveyendo a los organizadores estudiantiles con gestores de seguridad, señales de protesta, cantores y una pancarta de “Legalización para todos”. La marcha y protesta fueron en conjunción con el Día Nacional de Acción de la Red Legalización Para Todos para exigir justicia por Renee Good, Alex Pretti, Keith Porter e inmigrantes asesinados por ICE.

Mientras los estudiantes marchaban por la acera, cantaban, “ICE fuera de DFW” y “No justicia, no paz – ICE fuera de nuestras calles” mientras conductores apoyando tocaban sus bocinas en respuesta. Los estudiantes exigían legalización para todos y se expresaron en contra de la represión de ICE.

Brody Jones, uno de los organizadores estudiantiles, dijo, “Estamos aquí por nuestras familias, por nuestros compañeros y por nuestros amigos, exigimos ICE fuera de todo lugar.”

La marcha pasó a través de calles principales, y algunos contramanifestantes amenazaron a uno de los estudiantes con un arma. Gestores de seguridad de NAARPR lidiaron con la situación mientras que observadores legales documentaron el incidente.

La marcha terminó a las afueras de la Escuela Secundaria Boswell. A pesar de todos los retos, los estudiantes se mantuvieron entusiasmados y querían continuar organizando protestas.

Glenn Reed, un miembro de la Organización Socialista Camino de la Libertad, dijo, “Es increíble ver a la siguiente generación de luchadores por la libertad tomarse la democracia en sus propias manos y protestar en contra de ICE y exigir el fin de la agenda Trump, además de legalización para todos.”

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The panel kicked off with Faye Damara, the barrio walk coordinator for NAARPR-Dallas who stated, “King recognized, like all of us here, that for a people to achieve individual moral freedom means to achieve collective political freedom; that to achieve political freedom means the endowment of the right to the pursuit of national self-determination for all; that this pursuit can only be achieved by a radical redistribution of both economic and state power in favor of the exploited and of the marginalized.”

Kya Gonzalez of JUPI stated, “Advocating for Puerto Rican sovereignty has been routinely disrupted and targeted by the U.S. government, something MLK himself experienced in his fight for civil rights.” Gonzalez also highlighted the oppression of Haitians by ICE.

Justin Mitchell, a member of FRSO and the media coordinator for DFW-Anti War Committee, reported on the recent solidarity delegation to Venezuela, “The same people that have been attacking them, sanctioning them, bombing their fishermen, and now of course kidnapped their president, are the same people exploiting our labor, killing our planet, putting us under the thumb of student and medical debt, and the same people attacking oppressed peoples here in the United States.”

Sumayyah Chennault of Palestinian Youth Movement connected the occupation of Palestine to ICE terror, saying, “This moment provides us with a critical opportunity to make the ties between imperial violence abroad and repression and violence domestically.”

Sabah Shaw of Shias for Justice – Dallas closed out the panel with her analysis of Iran’s connection to the Palestinian resistance and the role of sanctions in destabilizing and delegitimizing opponents of the United States.

“Any analysis that talks about hardships in Iran without centering sanctions, regime-change agendas, and Western violence, is analysis that is justifying intervention,” concluded Shah.

The panel was followed by a Q&A and calls to action to upcoming events, including a NAARPR rally at Dallas City Hall on January 29 at 7 p.m. to condemn the latest murder by ICE agents in Minneapolis.

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Dallas, TX – On January 19, National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression-Dallas honored the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the 97th anniversary of his birth, by participating in the MLK Day parade in Dallas. Marching through the streets with a banner reading “One day the South will recognize its real heroes” and “Freedom is a constant struggle,” NAARPR honored the radical legacy of MLK Jr.

In a time of ICE repression and the rolling back of the Civil Rights Act, NAARPR continues to remind the community of Dallas that there are still people who remember the dream of MLK and his movement.

Xavier Velasquez, the chair of NAARPR-Dallas, said, “We will live in a United States where ICE thugs kidnap innocent immigrants, tear families apart and murder people along the way. We also cannot ignore the warmongering against Venezuela and the illegal kidnapping of the president and first lady of that country. We have to remember that Martin Luther King Jr. said 'The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.’”

The contingent of members of NAARPR chanted while parade onlookers joined in: “Power to the people!” “Community control now” and “DPD, ICE, KKK they're all the same!”

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