Thoughts & Observations About Successful 6/14 Protests Across Houston Region-We Are The Leaders

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​Some Houston Democracy Project thoughts/observations about today's protests across the Houston region.

* The crowd at the Houston No Kings 50501 rally was great. The organizers say 26,000. I’ll go with that. Thank you to the organizers. The picture above is just as the march began after the city hall rally. 

Here is a report on today's marches from NPR station KUHF. 

​The work to make today was successful was done by volunteers. The people who showed up were rank & file folks. We are doing the work. We are showing up. We are the leaders in the challenging days ahead.

The next protest is when you organize it. The First Amendment is your permit. Each of us are the leaders. People must see others like themselves willing to stand clearly for freedom no matter the aggression of the right.

* The youth and diversity people have correctly been looking for at these marches, was very much in evidence today.

​* There were strong crowds also in Cypress, Huntsville, Katy, Sugar Land, League City & Kingwood. The Katy organizer, Marsha Kamish, is a core member of the John Cornyn Houston Office Protest Team. They had almost 1,800 today in Katy. Great work by Marsha. Marsha is in the cape in the picture below.

I had a brief stuopid Twitter exchange recently with Nick Long who is the right-wing Mayor of League City in Galveston County. As he supports our felon President, he was going on about law and order. I saw on Tik Tok they had this morning 1,000 law-abiding people out in League City. Mayor Long should focus his concerns on League City residents who support far-right extremists.

We must make certain we see people all across the Houston-region who are showing up. There are friends of freedom everywhere. Don’t write anybody or anyplace off. We need everyone.

* Mayor Whitmire was at today’s Downtown march walking around with Police Chief Diaz. 

The city has had a light-enough hand with protest so far in the 2nd Trump term. That’s fine. Ongoing questions for HPD are:

With HPD cooperating with ICE, what process is in place to make certain Houstonians will receive due process & not be sent/disappeared to places like the El Salvador torture prison? Our city government can't be complicit with such actions.

If/When the Trump Administration moves forward with threats to civil liberties such as the suspension of habeas corpus, will HPD resources be used to assist Trump?

* Some of the elected official speakers criticized ICE. I did not hear any directly address the fact that the City of Houston is working with ICE.

* Today appears to have been successful across the country. (Of course there was the terrible violence against the Minnesota legislators.) My hope and belief is that today leads to more and bigger actions in the immediate days ahead. Today was a strong step forward in our long path ahead.

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