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The weekend rally in Boston Common follows a nationwide boycott planned to draw the attention of federal officials.
Mass 50501 and other local groups are organizing demonstrations for this week to protest recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) action.
The grassroots political organization is leading a rally Saturday as part of a series of “ICE Out of Everywhere” protests happening across the country. The weekend demonstrations will take place the day after Friday’s “National Shutdown,” where participants will boycott work, school, and shopping. Mass 50501 and the Boston Party for Socialism and Liberation are hosting a protest in Copley Square at 3:30 p.m. Friday as part of the “national shutdown.”
“This Saturday, a broad coalition of Boston-area organizations is gathering on Boston Common to demand that Massachusetts end all cooperation with ICE,” Mass 50501 said on its website. “ICE terrorizes our communities.”
Saturday’s rally will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., according to the website. Organizers are demanding that Massachusetts officials, particularly Gov. Maura Healey, cut ties with ICE and protect their immigrant communities.
Other involved organizers include the PSL, Unitarian Universalist Mass Action, the Indivisible Massachusetts Coalition, and the Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance, according to Mass 50501.
At the national level, 50501 cited the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis as the catalysts for the protests. Following Good and Pretti’s deaths, a plethora of Massachusetts officials have spoken out to express their outrage.
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