A memorial to those lost in ICE custody and deportation at a Seattle vigil earlier this month (Image: Alexis Mercedes Rinck)
- ‘Standing Up for Our Values’ Town Hall: A part of Mayor Katie Wilson’s transition team will hold a community meeting Monday night at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute in the Central District to help shape the new administration’s response to federal threats. Wilson’s “Standing Up for Our Values” policy group led by Roxana Norouzi of OneAmerica and Jaelynn Scott of the Lavender Rights Project will host the session Monday from 4:30 to 7 PM in the 17th Ave center. “Your input will inform Mayor Katie Wilson’s administration as they plan for our city’s future,” the event notice reads. The session is part of a pre-planned night of transition team meetings including one on arts and culture being held on First Hill at the same time but comes after a weekend of unrest after federal agents shot and killed observer Alex Pretti, the second civilian shot and killed during the ICE crackdown in Minneapolis in as many weeks.
- Cal Anderson nightly vigil: An effort in Cal Anderson Park to memorialize people killed by ICE will stretch into a weeklong vigil. Starting Monday, a Community Candle Lighting & Moment of Remembrance will be held in the park beginning at 5:30 PM nightly through next Saturday, according to @hannahkrieg.
- King County Council considers call for ‘guardrails’ on ICE funding: The King County Council will vote Tuesday afternoon on a motion calling on Congress to place “guardrails on funding for DHS” as a key vote in Washington D.C. approaches its Friday deadline. The motion sponsored by by Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda, and cosponsored by Councilmembers Rhonda Lewis and Jorge Barón would call for “a halt to U.S. Border Patrol deployments and unlawful surges of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection to cities across the U.S., along with several restrictions,” according to an announcement from Mosqueda’s office. The symbolic King County Council vote comes as a Senate battle over Department of Homeland Security funding could scuttle a proposed $1.3 trillion spending package and lead to a government shutdown.
- Solidarity strike: The board of the 43rd District Democrats is calling on area leaders “to support a solidarity strike with our Minnesota siblings”:
As we enter our 250th year as a country, many of us are reflecting on who we are as a country – the struggles we have overcome, the injustices we have contributed to, and the work yet to be done. History is watching and begs the question, “What did you do in the face of these injustices? What did you do with your power?”
“The 43rd LD will not go quietly into that dark night,” the open letter (PDF) concludes. “We call on our community to stand with us and with Minneapolis against the dying of the light. Will you be on the right side of history?”
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