New York City socialists are mustering an army of more than 4,000 anti-ICE activists to form “rapid response” battalions and obstruct the feds in an expected imminent crackdown on illegal migrants in the Big Apple.
Mayor Mamdani’s comrades with the DSA outlined the mission Thursday at a monthly meeting of their Immigrant Justice Working Group in the swanky Midtown digs of the Chinese Communist Party-linked People’s Forum, where photos of communist idols Fidel Castro and Che Guevara decorate the walls.
“As we’ve seen in other cities, we still do anticipate a big wave of federal immigration enforcement,” a DSA leader who only identified herself as Marina told the crowd of more than 100 members.
“It can be confusing, it can be scary, it can be kind of uncertain what’s happening in New York right now. . . . But we want to be on our front foot if and when it does.”
The NYC chapter is training 2,000 DSA members and another 2,000 non-members, along with activating 50 additional trainers.
It’s also beefing up staffing of its ICE hotline to operate it 24/7.
“If you speak Pular, if you speak Creole, if you speak Fulani – come find us,” urged a leader. “We really want you on the team.”
The group didn’t say what all of this will cost, but the member-funded organization repeatedly asked for money throughout the nearly two-hour long meeting – with one leader even going around the room with a red beanie soliciting cash donations in the socialist version of a collection plate.
The majority of the crowd of mostly white, Gen Z socialists said they were first timers galvanized by the death of Renee Good, the 37-year-old Minneapolis mom fatally shot by an ICE agent during a confrontation earlier this month.
The anti-ICE group Good was part of was trained to “resist” immigration crackdowns – and a model for the combative Minnesota tactics they hope to bring to Gotham.
“ICE is a violent organization and has been emboldened to respond to a lot of the work that many of you participated in,” lambasted a leader. --->READ MORE HERE
Pro-Nicolas Maduro protesters who turned up in Times Square and outside the Brooklyn federal lock-up where the former Venezuelan leader is being held were organized by hardcore left-wing group The People’s Forum, which has close ties to China.
The group — also behind anti-Israel demonstrations around the nation — called for “emergency protests nationwide” shortly after President Trump announced Saturday US forces had captured Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
“This war is not about drug trafficking, it is not about democracy — it is about stealing Venezuela’s oil and dominating Latin America,” said a People’s Forum press release, announcing protests at Times Square and the White House Saturday.
Maduro is widely accused of stealing the last presidential election in Venezuela in 2024 after its results showed him losing by a landslide.
Maduro and Flores were flown to New York City by US forces, where the indictments against them were issued, and arraigned Monday on drug trafficking and other charges in Manhattan federal court.
On Sunday, pro-Maduro protesters clashed with jubilant Venezuelans who demonstrated outside the detention center where Maduro and his wife are being held.
“This is an unprecedented crime against a sovereign nation and a warning of how far this administration is willing to go,” said the People’s Forum in a post on its X account announcing the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) protest.
One anti-Maduro protester, who left Venezuela during Maduro’s repressive regime, called the pro-Maduro protesters “fools.”
“They know nothing about Maduro,” Manuel, 38, who attended the protest outside the MDC.
“I don’t know why they are here. They are just strange and stupid.” --->READ MORE HERE
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