MESSAGE FROM INDIVISIBLE SANTA MARIA

S Broadway & W McCoy, OR, at

S Depot & Century in front of ICE.  Meet by Natural Café

This Pop-up Protest will be simple, and without safety monitors or tabling. Please bring your own water and lawn chairs if desired. Remember all Indivisible actions are committed to non-violence as a guiding principle in everything we do: our protests, our organizing, and our advocacy.

 Long version:

Immigrant rights organizations sent out urgent messages warning of “devastating escalation” in federal immigration enforcement in the days following Christmas ... Those two days were the busiest in recent memory with 33 individuals picked up in what was described as “indiscriminate arrests” at multiple locations in Santa Maria on December 27. On December 28, there were 23 more arrests, including more than a dozen in Lompoc, eight in Santa Maria, and two in Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara Independent. Read full article here: Immigration Sweeps Escalate

If you are not convinced to join us after reading that, read this account:

Report from Cesar V : First of all thank you all so so much for coming up or down to Santa Maria, thank you for helping me defend the community I have known my whole life. I carry so much love for all of you all - unfortunately, our confirmed number of kidnappings today in Santa Maria and SLO is 34. So as of today, there have been 1269 confirmed kidnappings across the three counties. We know that today's raids were a mixture of Ventura, LA, and SM agents. Here is a timeline of today. -------- At 5 am one man was taken on Russel Ave by two vehicles and two agents. From around 5:30-6am on W Boone St one man was taken, SMPD then contacted him. At 5:50am, on S Broadway, 2 men were taken in the Starbuck parking lot. At 6am at S Western Ave, one women was taken while waiting for her ride to get to work. From 6:15-6:30, 2 women taken on their way to work on S Broadway. At 6:30am, on Depot and Blosser one man was pulled over and taken, his wife was let go because she begged that she had children. At 7am on Western and Main, one man was searched then taken. At 7am, one man was taken from the SM jail. One man then taken at 8am on Agnes and N Broadway. Two men were then unloaded at HQ at 8:10. From 8:15-8:20, three men were taken at the Mikados Parking Lot. At 8:28 one man taken on Orcutt Rd in SLO, then another man on Lauren Ln, with a failed kidnapping attempt at the Chevron. At 9am one man taken on Western and Morrison, then two men on Western and Flores at 9:10. At 9:37, a father was taken on Cypress and Suey, his wife was left behind because she begged because her kids were in the car. At 10:26 on Western and Morrison one person was taken. At 11:07, a minimum of four men and women were taken while washing cars on Boone and Depot. By 11:40, a street vendor was taken on Morrison and Depot. At 12:50, a man was taken at the SM Jail. By 1:50 a man was unloaded at HQ. We are missing communication with around 17 families.

These are our neighbors, people we work with, the people we see in the grocery store, at the gas station, at church, and laboring in the fields.  Let’s protest for them.

Stand UP!! Speak OUT!  

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