Of course resistance lives. The people do their thing.

The major media aren't headlining this, but people in the directly occupied areas of the our country where Trump has implanted our soldiers and his ICE goons are finding ways to oppose the regime. The story is still out there; you just have to look around.

Los Angeles saw the first of the Orange Pretender's martial assaults. It's good to know that people have figured out what to do. They are determined and creative:

How LA is uniting to provide mutual aid for those impacted by ICE raids 

... Through fundraisers, grocery deliveries, “adopt a corner” initiatives, rapid response ICE watch committees and more, the community in Los Angeles has been coming together with volunteers to support and uplift their neighbors.

“It’s really a beautiful city that comes together during hard times, and from the fires we’ve seen it, and now with the raids,” said Janet Martinez, co-founder and vice executive director of Comunidades Indigenas en Liderazgo, or CIELO, an Indigenous women-led organization that is bringing visibility and resources to the Indigenous migrant communities.

Martinez said that CIELO has worked with a network of about 30 volunteers to pack and deliver about 1,200 boxes of groceries to Indigenous immigrant families in Los Angeles that are afraid to leave their homes due to the ongoing raids. Her organization has always supported immigrant communities, but their work stepped up following the raids.

... the NDLON (National Day Labor Organizing Network) created an “adopt a day laborer corner” that trains and encourages non-vulnerable people to support their local day laborers who are at risk of being targeted and kidnapped by ICE. Their trainings have been attended by more than 800 volunteers across the country who would reach out to NDLON asking how they can help.

While NDLON has only worked with day laborers in the past, they are realizing that solidarity is needed, especially at a time when day laborers, including those at Home Depot corners and worker centers, are being kidnapped by ICE. She said they have more than 25 corners in the different Home Depots in Los Angeles where groups of people go almost every day to support their neighbors and create community by physically standing with them, alerting them of nearby ICE activity and bringing them food and coffee. 

... “We go by a saying ‘solo el pueblo salva al pueblo’ — ‘only the people save the people,’” Figueroa said. “We haven’t worked with non-vulnerable people before, but we are realizing that that is really needed. This attack is actually intense and unprecedented, so we are listening to people that want to step up and support, and then trying to work with them too.” ...

Do read all of this story of people taking their lives, families, and communities in their own hands. Even with 10000 more ICE thugs being hired, LA is too big and too united for the fascists to triumph over its people. By definition, these are survivors.

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Meanwhile in occupied Washington DC, the people aren't cowed. 

The Resistance is Active in DC—You’re Just Not Looking Closely Enough 

... While it’s accurate to say there hasn’t been anything close to a modern-day March on Washington since Trump brought in the National Guard to address DC’s purported crime problem, the DC locals who are wrestling with the increased presence of law enforcement say that’s for good reason. 

Megaphones and mass demonstrations are unlikely to mollify the hazards of a heightened police state—and these tactics may even exacerbate what Trump-opposing locals fear most: bigger dispatches of law enforcement, which could target more immigrants and other vulnerable populations.

“Being a middle-aged white man, I can be outside and keep an eye on what’s happening,” says Andrew Hall, a DC resident of 19 years who lingered around the corner of 14th and U St NW around 9:30 p.m., after a concert protesting the National Guard presence ended. “It’s not safe for others to be out in public, or even go to the grocery store right now.”

... an array of ordinary DC residents [are] documenting what’s happening in their neighborhoods and mobilizing pop-up actions based on the information being shared.

In the densely populated Northwest DC neighborhood of Columbia Heights on Tuesday, for example, locals noticed about a dozen Homeland Security personnel outside a metro station. “ICE go home!” some 150-plus people chanted at the agents, several of whom had their faces covered with masks. The growing crowd and their handheld cameras were apparently enough to deter the ICE agents from the area, which has a high population of Black and Hispanic residents. ...

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Local District television WUSA9 reports from street concerts under the occupation: 

... Go-Go music, a homegrown genre in D.C., served as both a cultural and emotional centerpiece of the rally. As TOB played live, residents chanted and held signs denouncing what they called an overreach of federal power.

“Every resistance step is a good step,” said Dean Hunter, a longtime resident. “There’s absolutely no circumstance that would justify this policing invasion of Washington, D.C.”

Ty Hobson-Powell, another speaker at the event, emphasized the importance of civic resistance. 

“It is the most American thing that we can do — to push back against the overreach of government,” he said. "Now is a moment for dc to come together. We are a resilient city, that we are a community oriented city. We are a city that has its problems, sure. But a city that can solve them all on its own."

... President Trump, in a recent statement, defended the federal presence in D.C., saying: “This place was emblematic of it... They had horrible crime. It was worse than ever. I think right now it’s better than it has been in years.”

D.C. leaders disagree.

“He’s not based in truth, and I don’t believe a word he says,” said D.C. Councilmember Robert White. ...

Once upon a time ('80s, '90s?) there was a little lefty group that styled itself "No Business as Usual." Though the group is long gone, perhaps we are coming into a time when our Orange Aspiring Despot needs to be met with a national movement adopting that slogan. Just saying ...