01-24-2026 - Tacoma Washington - One year of Tacoma Resisting Trump

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01-24-2026 - Tacoma Washington - One year of Resisting Trump

If there's one thing we know about Tacoma, it's that Tacoma is one of the hardest working towns in the Pacific Northwest.

Several hundred people attended the One Year of Resisting Trump Rally & March on Saturday at Fireman's Park. The rally was well organized with tables from many groups, speakers, and the march down Pacific Ave was problem free.

If you're from Tacoma, Lakewood or any of the North/Sound surrounding areas now is a great time to support some of the strongest activism Tacoma has seen in years. We're proud of this working town, and you should be too!

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#Tacoma #TacomaWA #TacomaWashington #Washington

For awareness:

GEO Vans, or GEO Group vans.

- From Washington State

- As pictured from April 2025 at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) aka Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC) located in Tacoma Washington

Typically with "GEO Transport" on the side, US DOT # and standard (non-exempt/non-XMT) WA license plates.

#Portland #PortlandOR #PDX #Oregon #ICE #NWDC #Tacoma #TacomaWA #TacomaWashington #GEOGroup #ShutdownNWDC #NWIPC

> This is a preventable consequence of medical violence due to delayed treatment at the hands of the NWDC and GEO Group. The Tanggol Migrante Movement is also appalled by the blatant inaction of the Philippine Consulate.

Short link:
https://tinyurl.com/DefendKuyaGPetition

Long link:
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/justice-for-kuya-g/

#TanggolMigrante #NWDC #GEOGroup #ICE #Philippines #Filipino #Tacoma #TacomaWA #TacomaWashington

From 2019: On #WillemVanSpronsen’s Action against the #NorthwestDetentionCenter in #TacomaWashington

Including the Full Text of His Final Statement

2019-07-14

Excerpt: "On July 13, Willem Van Spronsen was killed by police while apparently taking action to disable the fleet of buses that serve the Northwest Detention Center, a private immigration detainment facility. His final statement, reproduced below, conveys that he was acting in response to the continuous raids and deportations carried out by Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE). His action occurred on the one-year anniversary of a hunger strike inside the Northwest Detention Center and an encampment outside. You can read a list of other acts of resistance that have occurred inside the Northwest Detention Center here.

"We understand why Willem Van Spronsen decided to give his life to interrupt the violence that is perpetrated against undocumented people in the United States every day.

"It is not hyperbole to say that the #ICERaids are targeting our friends and neighbors, people who have lived and worked alongside us for years or even decades. The vulnerability of long-term undocumented people as a hyper-exploitable class has helped billionaires like #DonaldTrump to profit even more than they could have by legal means. To put the icing on the cake, #capitalists then turn to the other workers they are exploiting and tell them that the poverty and misfortunes they experience are the fault of those who are poorer and more oppressed than them. It’s hard to imagine a more cynical strategy.

"The disparity in rights between the documented and undocumented is a construct—just as the disparity in value that the #Nazis constructed between Jewish people and gentiles was a construct. Both are mere inventions; they have no intrinsic existence except as a means for a powerful group to justify violence against a less powerful group. Those who justify obedience to the law as a good in itself stand alongside the Nazis whose laws condemned millions to the death camps, not to mention the racists who passed the #FugitiveSlaveAct and the #JimCrowLaws in the American South.

"Laws are just constructs. They have no value in and of themselves. They often serve to legitimize injustice that people would otherwise take action to oppose.

"The further that the proponents of racist violence are permitted to legitimize invented concepts like slavery and citizenship, the more violence they will perpetrate—up to and including roundups, concentration camps, and mass extermination. We have seen this before, in Nazi Germany and elsewhere, and we are seeing it again today in the United States. The thousands of deaths that take place in the borderlands and the thousands murdered by police are just a foretaste of what is possible."

Read more:
https://crimethinc.com/2019/07/14/on-willem-van-spronsens-action-against-the-northwest-detention-center-in-tacoma-including-the-full-text-of-his-final-statement

#ResistICE #ICEKidnappings #ICESucks #USPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #TrumpSucks

#Cider folks! The 2025 Northwest Cider Symposium returns to #TacomaWashington this March for two days of connections, networking, and education for professionals in the cider industry. The various sessions and workshops will cover a wide range of topics, along with a trade show and cider to be sampled, of course.

More: https://www.thebrewsite.com/the-northwest-cider-symposium-takes-place-march-17-18-2025/

#CraftCider #CiderEvents

At the beginning of September, we were in #TacomaWashington for a quick trip, and while there I managed to work in several quick visits to nearby breweries. These were ones that were within walking distance of the hotel we stayed at, and all new to me.

Here are my thoughts for (short) reviews of each, along with some photos.

https://www.thebrewsite.com/tacoma-washington-three-quick-brewery-visits/

#Beer #CraftBeer #Breweries #BreweryReviews

Hey! Anybody in the #seattle_tacoma area, especially in the south side ish, know of a good, chill place to have a quiet anniversary dinner next Saturday? Bonus points for quiet live music in the background. Thank you much in advance!

#tacomawa #tacomawashington #tacomawaterfront #tacoma

Thanks to everyone who came out, in-person and virtually, to our #tour of #Tacoma in #WashingtonState last weekend!


Special thanks to my (#Bihotz) co-host, IrishGinger (PNW RES)!


#tacomawa #WA #WAState #PNW #ladygress #ingresswa #tacomawashington

#IngressFS #ingressenlightened #ingressresistance #ingress
#Enlightened #Resistance #FirstSaturday

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