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After months of Postings by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement The National Guard crossed American cities, and federal agents were preparing to descend on them San Francisco.
Local resistance groups are coordinating with activists in other cities across the country that have been under siege by federal law enforcement. Thousands of volunteers, coordinated through signal group chats, Zoom in calls, and Social media Leaflets, planned protests, and spread the word that federal troops were on their way to San Francisco. Although they haven’t done that yet.
On Thursday morning, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie posted on… Instagram and X To announce that he spoke with the president Donald Trump He convinced him to call off the federal agents who planned to go to San Francisco on Saturday. Trump confirmed this the other day Social truth Shortly afterward, he wrote, “Great people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others have called saying the future of San Francisco is great. They want to give it a chance.” So, we won’t be going up to San Francisco on Saturday. Stay tuned!
Activists and San Francisco residents aren’t entirely convinced, and so the organizing continues.
Early this week, A contingent of about 100 federal law enforcement agents gathered at Coast Guard Island, a small base in Alameda, just across the bay from San Francisco, that federal officials say is being used as a staging area for upcoming immigration raids. Only one road led to and from the island, and once word got out about the spread, agents were quickly surrounded 200 demonstrators He appeared on Thursday morning to try to disrupt their movements, which led to… Clashes.
On Wednesday night, a group called Gulf resistance An educational webinar was held that was very popular; Due to limitations on the group’s Zoom subscription, it had to cap the call at 5,000 participants. Hundreds later watched the recording.
“The Bay will not sit quietly,” Emily Lee, an organizer of the Bay Resistance, said in the mobilization call. “We will certainly stand together against this administration.”
Throughout the call, organizers spoke in English with Spanish subtitles, and shared plans for upcoming actions across the Gulf. They spoke about the lessons learned from their direct contacts with organizers in Los Angeles who mobilized against ICE raids and the deployment of federal troops there, and the importance of taking the stand of protesters in Portland, who relied on Humor and inflatable animals To confront Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s actions and to protest Trump’s claims that the city is a “war-torn” hellhole.