As someone who has devoted a lot of my life to direct action, I feel qualified to make this distinction.

Attempts to thwart ICE are absolutely acts of protest—they are actions with a material objective that make a coherent political statement, which sets them apart from many protests, I know. But they are acts of protest, plain and simple.

Just responding to the fact that some good people continue to describe some interventions in Chicago as not being protests.

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