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   Losses due to activism are not tax deductible.   
      
   Protests against the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement   
   operations have spread across the country in the wake of federal agents’   
   killings of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota last month.   
      
   The latest protests, billed as a nationwide shutdown, draw inspiration   
   from a one-day general strike held in Minneapolis last month, and   
   embrace economic disruption as a new strategy to resist the Department   
   of Homeland Security’s militarized occupation of Democratic-led cities.   
      
   The fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti drew bipartisan   
   outrage and sparked a new round of protests on Jan. 30, when people   
   across the United States missed work and school as part of an anti-ICE   
   shutdown.   
      
   In Los Angeles, dozens of businesses closed their doors and thousands of   
   demonstrators marched through Downtown to voice their opposition to   
   Trump’s crackdown on immigrant communities.   
      
   “We are marching against ICE, telling them that their terror will not be   
   accepted,” said Andreina Kniss, an organizer with KTownForAll who   
   attended the Downtown L.A. protest. “We don’t want them in our   
   communities, we don’t want them in our city.”   
      
   Jennifer Flack Okin, who attended the protest with her children, said   
   protesters’ “ultimate demand is to abolish ICE.”   
      
   Many protesters emphasized how important economic disruption could be in   
   resisting the Trump administration’s policies.   
      
   “Humanitarian interests and genuine empathy [are] not enough to convince   
   this administration to stop what they are doing with immigrants in this   
   country, so I believe an economic protest is more than necessary,” said   
   Naima, a political content creator who attended Friday’s protest.   
      
   Kniss echoed that sentiment, saying that “one of the most powerful tools   
   we have in our arsenal to fight back against a society that only cares   
   about money is interrupting that money, interrupting that time, making   
   sure deliveries don’t get to their locations, making sure that ICE   
   agents don’t have hotels to sleep in, that restaurants don’t serve   
   them.”   
      
   But even some workers who participated in the one-day shutdown said more   
   sustained action would be necessary to affect meaningful change.   
      
   “A lot of people are very open to this kind of economic disruption, at   
   the end of the day. It needs to be longer. One day is not enough,” said   
   Cole Cyccone, rental manager at the camera rental shop CSLA, which   
   limited its hours on Friday.   
      
   Bart Gold, a Writers Guild of America union member, said that Americans   
   should “take a lesson from France and how their national strike effected   
   change when their government wouldn’t listen to what the people wanted.”   
      
   Some local elected officials also attended the protest, including L.A.   
   City Councilmember Nithya Raman.   
      
   When asked whether she was in favor of a long-lasting general strike,   
   Raman told Capital & Main, “If that’s what it’s going to take to move   
   the needle, then I’m all for it, but it’s going to take incredible   
   organization, and I stand ready and willing to work with people, unions,   
   all of our organized institutions to help do that.”   
      
   After thousands of protesters marched from L.A. City Hall to Boyle   
   Heights, a few hundred demonstrators, including 87-year-old   
   Congresswoman Maxine Waters, gathered in front of the Metropolitan   
   Detention Center in downtown where the Department of Homeland Security   
   has held detainees. Protesters stood off against federal agents, who   
   swung batons, rammed riot shields and deployed tear gas, pepperballs and   
   irritant spray against the crowd, injuring protesters and journalists.   
      
   On Saturday, President Donald Trump said in a rambling, 450-word post on   
   his social media platform TruthSocial that “under no circumstances are   
   we going to participate in various poorly run Democrat Cities with   
   regard to their Protests and/or Riots unless, and until, they ask us for   
   help,” and that he had “instructed ICE and/or Border Patrol to be very   
   forceful in this protection of Federal Government Property.”   
      
   https://www.calonews.com/featured-topics/immigration/protesters-turn-to-e   
      
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