Halloween, every block in a Chicago neighborhood came together , cars blocking entrances to keep ICE out

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

https://www.reddit.com/r/illinois/comments/1olr6l9/yesterday_every_block_in_a_chicago_neighborhood/

r/illinois
3h ago
biswajit388
Human Detected


Yesterday, every block in a Chicago neighborhood came together - people keeping watch and cars blocking entrances to keep everyone safe from ICE raids while trick-or-treating.

[Jim__]

1. Great! We need more resistance to ICE.

[Lovie777]

2. K & R...........

WH/ICE is making the communities stronger across the country.

[PatSeg]

4. Wow, that's impressive!

[usonian]

5. Make your weakness a strength. Traffic Jams.

Loving it.

[Wounded Bear]

6. Repubs and trumpers hate those community organizers...

(especially when they help people stand up against them)

[cab67]

19. This is exactly why they decided to disrupt Halloween.

It was a deliberate attempt to stick it to blue districts in the Chicago area. Going to make us look like the cowards we are? We'll ruin your trick or treating. Because we can. Or we think we can, anyway. Unless you organize and continue making us look like the cowards we are, in which case the joke's on us, I guess.

[cab67]

7. can confirm.

There were almost as many adults out with the kids trick-or-treating in our neighborhood.

Parents volunteered to be at the schools when students were dismissed.

And a local school with a large number of Latinx students put out a call for candy. The kids in that area didn't go out last night, so donations are pouring in so the teachers can make goodie bags.

[wordstroken]

8. Impressive!! Uplifting and heartwarming. Thanks for posting, BlueWaveNeverEnd.

🦋 wordstroken

[bluestarone]

9. Maybe, just maybe we all need a rapid response team in every state possible?

They are training for rapid response, so0 why not where ever possible do the same? Lots of phones, cameras, vehicles. PROTECT our own. !!

[OldBaldy1701E]

17. Now, you are talking! (n/t)

[barbtries]

10. for some reason this made me cry.

i think it's hope or something.

[Martin Eden]

11. ICE is unintenionally strengthening community cohesion

The opposite of divide & conquer.

[peggysue2]

12. Though the actions of ICE are barbaric and deplorable, the fact that . . .

Communities and neighborhoods are joining together in protective groupings is a sign of real hope. Stronger together, as they say.

I also read today that several local restaurants will be offering discounts and free meals (particularly for kids) to SNAP recipients, that churches and food banks are working like crazy to keep shelves adequately stocked and even the large chain grocery stores are offering food discounts to those with SNAP IDs.

The lights haven't gone out yet despite the Administration's cruel, inhumane agenda.

[evolves]

13. This is what it's going to take:

People across the spectrum who oppose this misadministration’s policies of hate coming together to fight against the insanity.

[calimary]

14. Yep! And we all get smarter thanks to safe havens like DU.

This isn’t just any ol’ website. It’s a national treasure and a resource for the public good.

[evolves]

16. I agree 100%!

I’ve been here (as a lurker, initially 😂 since 2002 and cannot even begin to imagine the past 23 years without DU.

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. So devastating that we have to do that.

[Lonestarblue]

18. MAGA nuts armed themselves to oppose a tyrannical government, but now do nothing.when we actually have one.

I doubt they understand what tyranny is.