"If Dr King were alive today, he'd be admonishing us across the nation to stand up and march for Renee Good. If we miss this moment, our children and our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren will be paying the price in a dying planet, in an authoritarian, tyrannical America where women don't have biological autonomy, and Black and Brown people are in chains, and white women are getting gunned down in the streets. That is not Dr. King's America."
"Let's lock arms in the name of Dr King and get through this. I want to do it for my children, but for my children's children. People who are not born are looking to us to make sure we bring them a country that is better than the direction we are going right now, and in the name of Dr. King, dammit, we have to bring it to them."
Hundreds of people marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on a frigid MLK Day morning to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and demand an end to ICE and its operations. Demonstrators gathered in Cadman Plaza and crossed to 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan. The march framed demands around ending ICE brutality, opposing rising authoritarianism, and combating racial profiling by immigration agents. The fatal shooting of Minnesota resident Renee Good by an ICE agent was invoked as a catalyst for action. Calls emphasized protecting future generations, preserving bodily autonomy, and preventing racialized oppression and state violence.
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