On Saturday June 14 at 11 am, local activists are holding a “No Kings Rally” at Five Corners as part of a wider movement across the country.
The local event is co-organized by Indivisible Martha’s Vineyard, the Unitarian Universalist Society of MV, and Showing Up for Racial Justice on MV.
Demonstrations are planned across the nation concerning the Trump administration’s response to the anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demonstrations in Los Angeles.
Local organizer and Edgartown resident Carla Cooper said that the purpose of the demonstration is “to protest the authoritarian actions of the Trump regime.”
The rally comes after federal agents arrested roughly 40 people on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket on May 27 as part of a national immigration crackdown.
The protest, which Cooper emphasized will be nonviolent, will also feature a performance of “America the Beautiful” by local singers and an appearance by State Rep. Thomas Moakley.
Oh no! Send in the Marines!
Can they also protest drainage problems at that location asking the elected official why no federal funding has resolved this dilemma? Let’s pray for heavy rain. Surrounded by federally protected wetlands this should have been a no brainer for each of our lifetimes. God bless our president.
While they are there can they throw in a little protest of the Steamship Authority? I mean its right there!
Extra credit if you answer correctly:
Which 5 Corners protest doesn’t belong?
A. Anti ICE
B. Anti Trump
C. Anti Hamas
D. Anti Zionism
Jackie –all of the above belong there. No one is prohibited from protesting at 5 corners about anything they choose to protest. . And to Bill Simpson, I can assure you that if I know someone who is a known felon, avoiding arrest and is illegal or legal, I will let the appropriate authorities know about them. I am more than happy to have dangerous criminals removed from our society. But I am not in favor of masked criminals coming into our community, ignoring the legal standards and laws of search and seizure ,probable cause , habeas corpus, and disappearing people off the streets for the crime of going to work. I am all for arresting violent people who break the law… And I also disapprove of blanket pardons for hundreds of people convicted of assaulting police officers for political reasons.
I hope they have enough common sense to not show up and wave Mexican and Brazillian flags. Aligning myself with the violence that we are seeing everyday on TV coming out of Los Angeles is not what I would be doing, nor is it what I would like to see my civic minded neighbors doing.
If you want to take the heat off the law abiding illegal immigrants that the entire private sector on our island relies upon, maybe you should start working on turning in the illegals who are felons instead.
And for the love of god, please please please, don’t start any fires. Thank you
The violence you see on tv is isolated and only by a few crazy people.
How can you accept hard working people, who pay taxes, and in many instances, going through a legal process to be in the US, to be arrested?
Most have NO criminal record.
Last year, before the election, I warned people the republican administration would arrest people by the thousands. Other people answered back that only the really bad criminal immigrants would be deported, you know rapists. Like trump.
This rally is not aligning itself with violence; as clearly stated that in the article: “The protest, which Cooper emphasized will be nonviolent…”. If all of the violence you’ve seen is coming from protestors, I urge you to change the channel and watch a sitting US Senator dragged out of a public hearing in a federal building, brought to the ground, and handcuffed by FBI agents AFTER he identified himself as a Senator. He was there to do his job, and had a scheduled meeting with Secretary Noem later in the day – in the same building. Senator Padilla not only verbalized his identity when he started to speak, he showed an ID to enter the locked federal building, and was escorted by security who were aware of who he is to the room that the hearing was in.
If they will come for a sitting US Senator, chase farmworkers across fields, knock 9-month pregnant US citizens to the ground, and arrest 4 year old children, they will come for anyone.
WHAT A SHAME-protesting hours would be well served if protesters spent the time creating a new DNC- The President seems to be building a stronger party with the bricks thrown at him-LA got away with NO looting and a few car fires-guess why-HATS OFF to Bill Simpson
As the article states, this rally/demonstration is indeed aligning itself “as part of a wider movement across the nation”. Denying or minimizing the violence from these anti-ICE groups is not the reality. There are peaceful people who are sincerely compassionate toward those who have been deemed by Dems as compassion-worthy, in this case immigrants (and I agree for the most part) but the movement has been infiltrated by those with less admirable motives. And there are paid agitators. No doubt the island’s demonstration against Trump will be peaceful, but democrats are now fully engulfed with violence and hate and, yes, an antisemitism that is undeniable. Democrats are unrecognizable to this 76 year old. It’s simply not a club I’d want to be associated with anymore, no matter the hysteria, desperation, and exaggerations I see coming from otherwise nice people.
I agree with Trip. Democrats across the nation would do well to face reality and come up with leaders who honest liberals can get behind. Most of these comments are testament to how Trump got elected. Again!
Glad to see the No Kings protest on 5 Corners. I lived on the Vineyard many years. Bruce and I are protesting tomorrow in Carson City, Nevada near where we now live.
Bill telling us to “turn in the illegals that are felons” while giving up all his morality, good judgment, and wits to support a 34-time convicted felon, children’s cancer charity thief.
The disconnect is amazing. Try some self reflection, introspection, and reading comprehension.
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