Sanctuary Alliance will hold a solidarity demonstration Sunday in downtown Lawrence in the wake of an ICE officer’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minnesota Wednesday morning.
Sanctuary Alliance said in an email to supporters that the start of the new year “has been ripped away from us by the continued violence of federal forces.”
“We need to take our power back, in solidarity, in community,” organizers wrote.
Demonstrators will gather from noon to 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11 at Ninth and Massachusetts streets along with the regular Sunday protesters.
“While we fully acknowledge demonstrations are not the end of the work needed to change these violent systems, we know, by coming together in community we can show our collective demand for change,” they wrote. “We show up for our immigrant community. We show up for all those who have been harmed at the hands of ICE.”
Sanctuary Alliance is a collective of community organizers working to create sanctuary for Lawrence by creating policy that will hold city employees accountable for their interactions with federal enforcement and providing support and resources to the immigrant community. See their Facebook page for more information and updates.
Read more about the Minnesota shooting in this article from Kansas Reflector’s affiliate, Minnesota Reformer.
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