Last weekend, an estimated 200 people participated in the national ICE Out For Good protests in Woodstock Village, spurred by ongoing actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the recent killing of 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good.
Reached Monday afternoon by the Vermont Standard, Suzie Stulz, a lead coordinator of the Tribou Park Resistance Protesters — a group of area residents who have demonstrated at Tribou Park in Woodstock every day for nearly a year — said, “After Renee Nicole Good’s brutal murder, the national organizations Indivisible and 50501 called for two days of protest under the banner of ‘ICE Out For Good.’ Courtney [Hollingsworth] listed the Tribou Park Resistance’s participation in ICE Out For Good, and we had a substantial turnout.”
Stulz said, “We had about 100 to 150 people on Saturday and 80 to 100 on Sunday. Both days, we held a moment of silence for Renee, organized by Courtney.”
Al Alessi, described by Stulz as the “unofficial leader” of the Tribou Park protesters, commented to the Standard on the necessity of last weekend’s event, as well as the ongoing daily protests the group continues to host.
“We have been at Tribou Park for roughly 340 days and have watched the issues change almost daily — like invading Venezuela and possibly Greenland,” Alessi said. “However, the invasion of our own communities, such as Minnesota, California, Illinois and Oregon, by ill-trained and psychologically damaged armed agents carrying out brutal actions well outside our established laws and regulations, has moved us to an entirely different level. We protest unified with our fellow Americans under attack.”
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