Today in labor history April 28, 1967: Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted to fight in Vietnam. Consequently, he was stripped of his boxing title and threatened with jail. The judge sentenced him, in part, for statements such as this one: “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?”

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/-muhammad-ali-convicted-refusing-vietnam-draft

#workingclass #LaborHistory #boxing #MuhammadAli #vietnam #antiwar #racism #BlackMastodon #civildisobedience

Strategies & Tactics for #SocialChange
Some Lessons from the Movement in the US Against the #Vietnam War
https://world-outlook.com/2026/04/27/strategies-tactics-for-social-change/

from #WorldOutlook
April 27, 2026

In the past year, millions in the US have protested Washington’s attacks on democratic rights, #ICE terror, and imperialist war. Among them are many young people, alongside others who have never before taken to the streets.

These activists are testing strategies and tactics and debating how to push back #Trump’s march toward one-man rule. Many of the questions they face have been posed before, perhaps most notably during the anti- #VietnamWar movement in the #US in the 1960s and early ’70s.

As the #war escalated and opposition broadened, discussion flourished over how to build the movement. Debates often centered on the effectiveness of “#DirectAction,” or #CivilDisobedience, vs. mass marches and rallies, and on the demands promoted in these actions.

#news #politics #USA #protest #USpol #MassMovement

Strategies & Tactics for Social Change

In the past year, millions in the United States have protested Washington’s attacks on democratic rights, ICE terror, and imperialist war. Among them are many young people, alongside others who have never before taken to the streets. These activists are testing strategies and tactics and debating how to push back Trump’s march toward one-man rule. Many of the questions they face have been posed before, perhaps most notably during the anti-Vietnam war movement in the United States in the 1960s and early ’70s. As a contribution to the discussion of strategy and tactics in today’s struggles, World-Outlook is publishing the 1971 column "Some Comments on the Mayday Actions" by Fred Halstead, a central leader of the anti-Vietnam war movement in the United States.

World-Outlook

Community Alert: ICE Operations Actively Surging on Illinois Streets

Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1swacu7

Added Context:
I've been hearing these comments about ICE ramping up. Here is an example:

[https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/22/midway-blitz-is-over-but-ice-is-still-quietly-targeting-chicago-immigrants-especially-at-court/](https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/22/midway-blitz-is-over-but-ice-is-still-quietly-targeting-chicago-immigrants-especially-at-court/)

For context, the US gov gave these goons the budget of the German military with nearly no supervision. And as of right now, the budget renewal bill passing around in Congress is trying to give them even more obscene money with no increase in regulation.

It would be unreasonable to expect that they are not going to use that money to increase their ranks and send goons back in. They are probably going to train them a bit better and scale back the naked maliciousness. When they murdered two Americans a few months back, they were under expressed orders from Miller to violently antagonize protestors because Miller believes that violence scares peaceful people.

After the public backlash, as of now, it seems that the Miller doctrine is off. But ICE still has absurd levels of money and a mandate to develop itself as Trump's personal imperial guard. They are going to go back to every major blue city and cause more havoc, even if their tactics improve to prevent being in the news as much.

They've been actively terrorizing non-white people in red states the entire time, and we don't hear much about it because red states are happy to support that. The Guardian says ICE and CBP have had about the same amount of arrests in Feb and March of this year as July and August of last year. So they have been active, just trying to keep out of the news by harassing people in communities that allow it.

[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/29/trump-immigration-ice-cbp-data](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/29/trump-immigration-ice-cbp-data)

#ice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #illinois #crimesofice_videos_citizens_defending_themselves

After the Supreme Court refused his challenge to ICE, Isaac Antonio Villegas Molina, a construction worker filing a lawsuit against ICE with the help of the ACLU, was detained once again during his ISAP check-in.

Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1strzjp

#ice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp
#crimesofice_videos_other #crimesofice_videos_abduction

Projected public service announcement: Hilton devours your tax dollars for fascism. • How does ICE sleep at night? They sleep at the Hilton. • Hilton takes blood money from ICE.

Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1st9lfm

#ice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp
#hilton #crimesofice_videos_protest

Today in Labor History April 22, 1996: Peace activists Tom & Donna Howard-Hastings celebrated Earth Day 1996 by cutting down three power poles in Clam Lake, Wisconsin, preventing the launch of the U.S. Navy's first-strike nuclear submarine. They stapled an indictment against nuclear war to one of the poles and signed it "with disarming love, Tom & Donna." The district attorney charged them with criminal damage to property and sabotage. However, a jury found them not guilty of sabotage. This was just the fourth time in 16 years that members of the Plowshares antinuclear movement were acquitted of such charges. From 1980-1995, there had been 57 trials of antinuclear activists on sabotage charges. In northern Wisconsin, these direct actions focused on Extremely Low-Frequency transmitters, known as ELF, used to communicate with submerged nuclear submarines.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #earthday #directaction #civildisobedience #sabotage #nuclear #antiwar #peace #ploughshares