{"id":44840,"date":"2020-03-19T23:59:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T03:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=44840"},"modified":"2020-03-21T16:01:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T20:01:01","slug":"throwback-thursday-arresting-bitch-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/throwback-thursday-arresting-bitch-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Arresting Bitch Face"},"content":{"rendered":"

After my February 5 arrest for civil disobedience in Washington, D.C.<\/a>, I teased photographer\/activist George De Castro Day<\/a> for not getting a photo of me actually being handcuffed in the Capitol rotunda. No one had gotten a photo of me being arrested a week earlier on the Capitol steps either<\/a>, and I was like, “Dang, how many times do I have to get arrested before someone takes a good picture of my big moment?” <\/p>\n

Well, the third time was the charm. While I was chatting with George a few days after D.C., I mentioned that I was going to a Close the Camps NYC<\/a> action on Sunday, February 16. I’ve gone to a number of protests with Close the Camps NYC and Never Again Action<\/a> that have targeted the businesses, including Amazon<\/a>, that make millions of dollars by providing people’s personal data to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE then uses that information to track down and deport people who came to the U.S. seeking a better life. (IBM sold its technology to the Nazis for concentration-camp organization during the Holocaust, so we’ve seen this shit before<\/a>.) <\/p>\n

George promised to come to the New York action, during which we participants briefly blocked traffic in Times Square to protest Thomson Reuter’s contract with ICE<\/a>. George was true to his word. Behold! My arresting bitch face!<\/p>\n

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I didn’t know ahead of time I’d be holding a banner across 42nd Street, while another part of our group held a banner across 7th Avenue. But the organizers asked for volunteers and after a lovely lady named Trudy offered to hold one end of this banner, I figured I’d help her out. <\/p>\n

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Here I am thinking that holding a banner isn\u2019t as easy as it looks. I\u2019ve got to work on my upper body strength. Thanks to @trudysilver for holding the other end. #riseandresist #abolishice #closethecamps #nobusinesswithice #nobusinessasusual #nokidsincages #thisiswhatdemocracylookslike … Photo by George De Castro Day.<\/a><\/p>\n

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