Students From Wheeler, Moses Brown & Other Schools “Walking Out” - Protest at State House on Friday

Students From Wheeler, Moses Brown & Other Schools “Walking Out” - Protest at State House on Friday

A protest — ICE Out! National Day of Action — is scheduled for Friday at 2 PM at the Rhode Island State House.

 

According to the announcement, “Students across Rhode Island are organizing walkouts to join the protest at the State House, including high school students from across the Providence Public Schools as well as the Wheeler School, East Greenwich, Moses Brown, Barrington, and the Lincoln School. College students from Brown University to URI are also walking out. “

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“After hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans led the first general strike in the U.S. in 70 years this past Friday, federal agents murdered VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti in cold blood the very next day. In response to this escalating campaign of ICE terror, the Somali Student Association of the University of Minnesota has called for a nationwide shutdown on Friday, January 30th with the call: “No Business as Usual! – No School, No Work, and No Shopping,” said the organizers in a press advisory issued on Thursday morning.

 

Hundreds of organizations are preparing actions all across the country. The list of endorsers is available HERE.  

 

“Immigrant rights organizations in Rhode Island have taken up the call and endorsed the national day of action, including the Immigrant Coalition of Rhode Island, Refugee Dream Center, and the Rhode Island Deportation Defense Network. Faith leaders and congregations of local churches and mosques have also pledged their support for the day of action, and will be mobilizing together as participants. Local businesses in and around Providence are putting up signs promoting the national day of action, and have pledged to close outright and instead participate in the mobilization,” said the organizers.

 

Organizations involved in the protest in Providence include 100+ organizations, faith institutions, businesses, labor unions, and student groups. Some of these include: AMOR Network, AFT Local 6516, Alliance of Rhode Island Southeast Asians for Education, Direct Action for Rights and Equality, Refugee Dream Center, Immigrant Coalition of RI, Cranston Forward, Providence Student Union, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Reclaim RI, People’s Port Authority, Reentry Campus Program, DWRI Letterpress.