Is This What Solidarity Looks Like?: Report from AbolishICE Demo Dallas, TX - It's Going Down

7.7.18

Is This What Solidarity Looks Like?: Report from AbolishICE Demo Dallas, TX - It's Going Down: Occupied Indigenous Land, so-called “Dallas, Texas” – In solidarity with the growing wave of anti-ICE sentiment, a demonstration had been called for on June 30 at the local ICE field office by the local Democratic Socialists of America Chapter, DSA North Texas and The North Texas Dream Team. Framed as an event calling for the abolition of ICE, various crews decided to attend and meet new friends. The day was set to have multiple demos. The largest, happening at the same time in downtown, centered on reuniting families, was expected to draw thousands. While smaller, networking with other abolitionists seemed more attractive than large crowds. This report back will omit certain details due to pending legal cases.

The atmosphere was very positive as people mingled, chanted, danced and listened to speakers share their experiences. As the number of people started to grow, there was obvious communication between Department of Homeland Security Agents, Dallas Police Department and DSA NTX Leadership. As DSA leadership started to explain their political project, chalk was handed out, and people started writing on the concrete. Adults and children, documented and undocumented spread messages of love and rage in multi-color across the dark tarmac much to the annoyance of the Pigs and DSA politicians. After numerous visits from both DPD & DHS, and multiple attempts at silencing anyone who wasn’t in line with DSA Leadership, everyone was asked to sit on the ground and listen to the very serious speech:). Obviously peeps weren’t having that, they’d rather sing, dance and have fun.