Category: Racism

U.S. Born Citizen Arrested By ICE

A 20 year old man who is a US citizen with a Hispanic sounding name has twice been arrested and ordered held by ICE.  The first time he was released as he sowed the judge his birth certificate and his social security card.  The second time he was ordered held for 48 hours for pickup by ICE for an immigration hearing even after the judge seen and vouched for his birth certificate.  The prosecutor claimed the court had no jurisdiction now that ICE had a detaining order on him.  I don’t think that is legally correct as blue states have said they won’t honor those orders.  But the point is it has happened twice now, and if the US doesn’t grant due process people like him could be detained and removed to El Salvador where the tRump people claim they can’t get people back from.  We can get our people from Russia, North Korea, and China but we can’t from tiny El Salvador.  Hugs

 

Peace & Justice History for 4/19

April 19, 1911
More than 6,000 Grand Rapids, Michigan, furniture workers—Germans, Dutch, Lithuanians, and Poles—put down their tools and struck 59 factories in what became known as the Great Furniture Strike.
For four months they campaigned and picketed for higher pay, shorter hours, and an end to the piecework pay system that was common in the plants of America’s “Furniture City.” Although the strike ended after four months without a resolution, Gordon Olson, Grand Rapids city historian emeritus, said once employees returned to work, most owners did increase pay and reduce hours.


The Spirit of Solidarity — a $1.3 million granite sculpture, plaza and fountain — sits on the land of the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum on the banks of the Grand River near the Indian mound.
The Strike’s history from the APWU 
On the 100th anniversary of the strike
April 19, 1943
On the eve of Passover, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began when Nazi forces attempted to clear out the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, to send them to concentration camps. The Germans were met by unexpected gunfire from Jewish resistance fighters. The destruction of the ghetto had been ordered in February by SS Chief Heinrich Himmler:
“An overall plan for the razing of the ghetto is to be submitted to me. In any case we must achieve the disappearance from sight of the living-space for 500,000 sub-humans (Untermenschen) that has existed up to now, but could never be suitable for Germans, and reduce the size of this city of millions—Warsaw—which has always been a center of corruption and revolt.”

 
These two women, soon to be executed, were members of the Jewish resistance.
” …Jews and Jewesses shot from two pistols at the same time…
The Jewesses carried loaded pistols in their clothing with the safety catches off…
At the last moment, they would pull hand grenades out…and throw them at the soldiers….”
 
Captured Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Learn more about The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (it’s the search page for the national Holocaust Museum.)
April 19, 1971

As a prelude to a massive anti-war protest, Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) began a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C. The generally peaceful protest was called Dewey Canyon III in honor of the operation of the same name conducted in Laos.
They lobbied their congressmen, laid wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery, and staged mock “search-and-destroy” missions.

Read more about this action 
April 19, 1997
Two Swedish Plowshares peace activists, Cecelia Redner, a priest in the Church of Sweden, and Marija Fischer, a student, entered the Bufors Arms factory in Karlskoga, Sweden, planted an apple tree and attempted to disarm a naval cannon being exported to Indonesia. Cecelia was charged with attempt to commit malicious damage and Marija with assisting in what was called the Choose Life Disarmament Action. Both were also charged with violating a law which protects facilities “important to society.”
Both women were convicted, arguing over repeated interruptions by the judge, that, in Redner’s words, “When my country is arming a dictator I am not allowed to be passive and obedient, since it would make me guilty to the crime of genocide in East Timor. I know what is going on and I cannot only blame the Indonesian dictatorship or my own government.” Fischer added, “We tried to prevent a crime, and that is an obligation according to our law.” Redner was sentenced to fines and three years of correctional education. Fischer was sentenced to fines and two years’ suspended sentence.
Both the prosecutor and defendants appealed the case.
No jail sentences were imposed.

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryapril.htm#april19

More ugliness from republicans

Trump Blames Zelensky And Biden For Ukraine War

Bukele Refuses To Return Wrongly Deported Man

 

Trump Admin Sued For Hiding Spending Database

Trump Defies Court Order On Associated Press Access

Plan Calls For Closing Dozens Of Embassies, Consulates

 

NIH Scientists Reduced To Bartering Critical Supplies

So what is the goal here, to save money, or ultimately to kill unhealthy Americans that Republicans think are a drag on their wallets? Inside U.S. health agencies, workers confront chaos and questions as operations come ungluedflip.it/3rz_Ee

— Deeds Not Words (@nodderuf.bsky.social) 2025-04-11T23:44:43.515Z

DHS Spox Ridicules Pleas To Free Wrongly Deported Man: “Osama Bin Laden Was Also A Father” [VIDEO]

REPORT: WH Told Warner CEO To Give Junior A Show

https://x.com/ReutersLegal/status/1912091067798659396

https://x.com/NewsHour/status/1901420214887096815

 

Jackie Robinson, and More, in Peace & Justice History for 4/15

April 15, 1947
Jackie Roosevelt Robinson became the first African American to play in a major league baseball game in the 20th century. His stepping onto Ebbets Field in a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform broke the “color line,” the segregation of professional teams.
The International League in 1887 began a wave of League-wide black exclusion, and it had been complete since 1899, when Bill Galloway became the last African-American player in white organized ball (Woodstock, Ontario).
Though hitless in three at-bats, Robinson started at first base, and the Dodgers beat the Boston Braves that day, 5-3.

“Jackie, we’ve got no army. There’s virtually nobody on our side. No owners, no umpires, very few newspapermen. And I’m afraid that many fans will be hostile. We’ll be in a tough position. We can win only if we can convince the world that I’m doing this because you’re a great ballplayer, a fine gentleman.”

“There was never a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than (Jackie) Robinson.” -Branch Rickey
Jackie Robinson and his work on civil rights from the National Archives
(with teaching activities and worksheets) (I was concerned this wouldn’t be there, but then recalled they said they put him back. It’s there. -A)
April 15, 1967

King and Dr. Benjamin Spock lead an anti-war march to the United Nations, 15 April 1967
Amidst growing opposition to the war in Vietnam, large-scale anti-war protests were held in New York, San Francisco and other cities. In New York, the protest began in Central Park, where over 150 draft cards were burned, and concluded at the United Nations with speeches by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others.
King’s opposition to the war, excerpts of his speeches and reaction throughout the country 

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryapril.htm#april15

A tear yet to be shed

In the time since the first European man stepped foot on the soil of these shores, we have done the cringeworthy all too often, but now and again we do that which allows us to still stand tall. My father’s Uncle Dutch went to fight in WW2 and brought back pictures of the horrors of the concentration camps. We stopped that! We stood against the Fascist Nazi. And we should be proud of that.

I am sure that there were people then who believed the Jews, Gypsy’s and Gays were criminals deserving of their internment in concentration camps. I’m sure there were some who believed that Jews had no right to live in Germany. I’m sure that there some who believed that Gypsy’s were inherently criminal, whether they had a criminal record or not. I’m sure that there were some who convinced themselves that anyone who was gay was deserving of all abuse. I’m sure there were some. And, unfortunately, too many others went along with it.

Just like these German men, we will one day be forced to come face to face with what we have done, what we have allowed, because some charismatic charlatan said we should.

It’s a sad day, America.

Hugs.

The destruction has begun

USDA To Spend $1B Cut From Schools On Bird Flu

 

FBI Suspends Analyst On Kash Patel’s Enemies List

 

New Trump Plan Eliminates NOAA Research Agency

FDA To Replace Fired Employees With Contractors

 

HHS Ends Tracking Rates Of Cancer, HIV, And STDs

FL Passes Bill Placing “Gulf Of America” In K-12 Lessons

Trump Places Statue Of Himself At Florida Golf Resort

 

Australian Man With Valid Visa Deported And Banned From Return After Verbal Abuse From Border Agents

Jonathan says that when he asked a border agent to repeat a question, the reply was, “Are you deaf or just retarded?” He adds that he was then told, “Trump is back in town, we’re doing things the way we should have always been doing them.” Hit the link for much more. No paywall.

Voldemort’s Goal: One Million Deportations This Year

 

COPS: Nazi Teen Killed Parents To Fund Murder Plot Against Trump And Foment War To “Save White Race”

Trump: Deportees Are In “Sole Custody Of El Salvador”

Welcome to the USA

Peace & Justice History for 4/12

April 12, 1935
60,000 students across the U.S. took part in the first nationwide student strike. The protest was against fascism and participation in any war.
 
Posters from the anti-war movement of the 1930’s
One of the events that day 
April 12, 1963
Martin Luther King, Jr. and his fellow ministers Fred Shuttlesworth and Ralph Abernathy, along with 60 others were arrested on Good Friday in Birmingham, Alabama, for marching downtown.
They had been denied a parade permit, and were violating a court order banning them from all protest activities. Public Safety Commissioner Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor had sought the injunction to put an end to a series of sit-ins, kneel-ins, boycotts and other nonviolent actions designed to challenge the local and state segregation laws.

Fred Lee Shuttlesworth (left), Ralph David Abernathy (center), and Martin Luther King Jr. (right) march on Good Friday on April 12, 1963, in Birmingham.
The Birmingham campaign of 1963 
Arrest in Birmingham 
April 12, 1971

Protest at Fessenheim
The first European demonstration against nuclear power brought together 1300 peacefully to oppose construction of a nuclear power plant at Fessenheim, on the Rhine in the Alsace region of France. The four 900 megawatt reactors have been in operation since 1977.

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryapril.htm#april12

Trump & Moms for Liberty open “snitch line” to report on pro-LGBTQ+ schools

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/02/trump-moms-for-liberty-open-snitch-line-to-report-on-pro-lgbtq-schools/

The quote below is only because they thought it would hand control over the schools to the republican religious haters like themselves.  They fought for and got the right of a small minority to force their opinion on the majority of parents.  They got the removal of books they hate and also forced in to the schools of their religion.   It did not matter if a majority of parents wanted their children to have access to these books it was only the haters parental rights that mattered, not other kids parents.  The progressive parents were not given the same authority that the republican religious haters were.  Hugs

Ironically, Moms for Liberty, a group that has advocated for local control over schools, is now complicit in handing that power to the federal government.

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“I believe Hitler had a program like this,” said one educator of the new Department of Education tip line.
By  
A group of Moms for Liberty members

A group of Moms for Liberty members

The Trump administration’s weaponization of the Education Department continued apace on Thursday with the debut of what some are calling a “snitch line” — a website inviting parents, students and school staff to report “illegal discriminatory practices at institutions of learning.”

“The Department of Education (DOE) will utilize community submissions to identify potential areas for investigation,” the department notes.

Related:

Republican punished after deadnaming & posting pics of trans student-athlete

The post went viral and fueled a confrontation with Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills.

The website was introduced in a press release by Moms for Liberty, the group behind efforts to purge LGBTQ+ content from school libraries and apparently a new partner in the DOE’s crackdown on school systems not falling in line with Trump’s DEI and “gender ideology” executive diktats.

“For years, parents have been begging schools to focus on teaching their kids practical skills like reading, writing, and math, instead of pushing critical theory, rogue sex education and divisive ideologies — but their concerns have been brushed off, mocked, or shut down entirely,” said Tiffany Justice, a co-founder of the group, which has been labelled an anti-LGBTQ+ extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“Parents, now is the time that you share the receipts of the betrayal that has happened in our public schools. This webpage demonstrates that President Trump’s Department of Education is putting power back in the hands of parents,” Justice added.

Ironically, Moms for Liberty, a group that has advocated for local control over schools, is now complicit in handing that power to the federal government.

Critics were aghast at the call for colleagues and kids to anonymously rat out anyone not falling in line with the rightwing ideology Trump is imposing from Washington.

“I believe Hitler had a program like this,” wrote Michael E. Mann, a scientist, author and director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media.

I believe Hitler had a program like thiswww.salon.com/2025/02/27/m…

— Michael E. Mann (@michaelemann.bsky.social) 2025-02-28T03:58:45.502Z

“Trump Education Department opens snitch line to rat out diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at local public schools,” wrote Gabe Ortíz, an editor at America’s Voice who focuses on immigration, LGBTQ+ and Latino issues.

“The fact that Trump’s — bigoted, extremist — effort to end diversity, inclusion, & equity in schools uses Moms for Liberty as its only validation tells you everything you need to know. The same Moms for Liberty that approvingly quoted Hitler & has deep ties to violent groups like the Proud Boys,” wrote Amy Spitalnick, CEO of Jewish Council for Public Affairs.

In 2023, Indiana Moms for Liberty chapter chair Paige Miller quoted Hitler on the cover of the group’s monthly newsletter, The Parent Brigade, in a chilling preview of Trump’s efforts at the Department of Education today.

“He alone, who OWNS the youth, GAINS the future,” the newsletter’s cover read, citing the Nazi leader.

Moms for Liberty’s Justice defended Miller, declaring, “I stand with that mom!”

The DOE website’s launch follows a growing number of investigations undertaken by multiple departments targeting DEI and noncompliance with Trump’s “gender ideology” order.

The DOE’s Office of Civil Rights is investigating California and Minnesota schools. Maine is also the subject of a probe by the same office and the Department of Agriculture, recieving a threatening letter from the Attorney General Pam Bondi at the Department of Justice.

Another DOE probe targets San Jose State University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) for separate incidents involving trans athletes competing on a women’s or girls’ sports team under Biden-era rules.

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