Tag: Peaceful Civil Disobedience

‘Ghostbusters’-playing clarinetist detained at ICE facility protest

There is a brutal video at the link that shows her detainment / arrest.  She was peacefully protesting.  At one point ICE agents rushed out of the gates, jumped the woman who was just playing her clarinet.  She was not doing anything wrong.  She was in a public space exercising her 1st amendment rights.   Then ICE took her across state lines and put her in a jail with no charges and no bail.  She is being held incommunicado not allowed to talk to anyone which means no lawyer.  The video reporter says that the peaceful protestors were hit with pepper balls.  The US is being run by a mob boss wannabee racist white nationalist authoritarian who doesn’t want any rights for anyone not white and wealthy.  The people of this country have lost all civil rights.  One of the people arrested was white so it doesn’t matter race.   Please watch the video.   We are at a point where any protest against the government can get you disappeared Russia style.  Hugs

‘Ghostbusters’-playing clarinetist detained at ICE facility protest

https://thehill.com/video/clarinetist-playing-ghostbusters-arrested-at-ice-facility/11165553

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From Joe My God.

ICE Agents Slam Clarinetist Playing “Ghostbusters” Face Down Into Mud And Hold Her Without Bail Or Charges

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/ice-agents-slam-clarinetist-playing-ghostbusters-face-down-into-mud-hold-her-without-bail-or-charges/

October 14, 2025 Fascism, Trump Administration

Portland’s CBS affiliate reports:

A clarinet player is apparently being held without bail on no specific charges at the Clark County Jail in Vancouver after her husband said she was arrested Sunday during a protest across the street from the ICE facility in South Portland. The woman’s husband — who asked KOIN 6 News not to identify either of them for safety reasons — said his wife was tackled by federal agents while she was playing her clarinet around 5 p.m.

“It is a beautiful party atmosphere. Everybody’s really excited. Then the band hits into ‘Ghostbusters’, and then at ‘Ghostbusters’, that’s when ICE start storming in,” the husband said. “Why are they targeting a clarinet player? A clarinet player standing on the sidewalk far away from the street, following instructions.” Video of the arrest obtained by KOIN 6 News shows the woman face down in the mud with her clarinet on the ground next to her.

Read the full article.

Peace & Justice History for 2/1

February 1, 1960

Greensboro first day: Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (now Jibreel Khazan), Franklin E. McCain, Joseph A. McNeil, and David L. Richmond leave the Woolworth store after the first sit-in on February 1, 1960.

Four black college students sat down at the Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and were refused service because of their race. To protest the segregation of the eating facilities, they remained and sat-in at the lunch counter until the store closed.
Four students returned the next day, and the same thing happened. Similar protests subsequently took place all over the South and in some northern communities.
By September 1961, more than 70,000 students, both white and black, had participated, with many arrested, during sit-ins.

On the second day of the Greensboro sit-in, Joseph A. McNeil and Franklin E. McCain are joined by William Smith and Clarence Henderson at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.

“Segregation makes me feel that I’m unwanted,” Joseph McNeil, one of the four, said later in an interview, “I don’t want my children exposed to it.”

Listen to Franklin McCain’s account of what happened 
February 1, 1961
On the first anniversary of the Greensboro sit-in, there were demonstrations all across the south, including a Nashville movie theater desegregation campaign (which sparked similar tactics in 10 other cities). Nine students were arrested at a lunch counter in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and chose to take 30 days hard labor on a road gang. The next week, four other students repeated the sit-in, also chose jail.
February 1, 1968

General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes Nguyen Van Lem a NLF officer.

Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan summarily executed Nguyen Van Lem, suspected leader of a National Liberation Front (NLF aka Viet Cong) assassination platoon, with a pistol shot to the head on the street. AP photojournalist Eddie Adams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the incident became one of the most famous, ubiquitous and lasting images of the war in Vietnam, affecting international and American public opinion regarding the war.

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryfebruary.htm#february1