PROTEST APPLE’S CENSORSHIP
DEFEND COMMUNITY SAFETY & DEMAND THE RETURN OF THE ICEBlock APP with a holiday themed, musical protest
When Trump’s cruel mass deportations ramped up, communities created tools to protect themselves — apps that shared real-time alerts of ICE operations. ICEBlock is an app that warns neighbors of ICE sightings in real-time. Apps like ICEBlock save lives and help keep families safe.
But Trump's personal Attorney General, Pam Bondi, demanded Apple remove ICEBlock, claiming it “put ICE agents at risk,” which is a lie.
Instead of defending community safety and free speech, Apple immediately complied — and took down other similar apps
This is corporate censorship in service of authoritarian power.
CEO Tim Cook has cozied up to Trump for years
donating $1 million to his inauguration
helping fund his White House ballroom and destroy the East Wing
turning his back on the communities Apple claims to support
✊ JOIN US PROTEST APPLE’S COMPLICITY — PROTECT OUR COMMUNITIES — DEMAND APPLE RESTORE ICEBlock with Santa costumes, reworked xmas songs, and candy canes.
Demonstrate that holidays are about keeping each other safe, not bowing to a wannabe-king. We are demanding that Apple reinstate the ICEBlock app — and we’re doing it with a joyful holiday twist!
Imagine: singing re-worked Christmas carols, handing out candy canes, and holding protest signs like “Tim Cook is on Santa’s Naughty List” and “This holiday, give oranges — not Apples.”
Bring your signs, friends, your holiday spirit and your voice. Let's show everyone that Santa and his friends fight fascism and don't support corporation who bow down to authoritarian regimes!
Printed lyrics will be sent to registrants and available at the event.
See videos of songs being rehearsed here.
Practical Information
The protest will be held on a wide sidewalk in front the store where we can stand and show our signs, sing our songs, show our holiday spirit while telling passersby to NOT support Apple and their corrupt agenda and collaboration with a fascist regime this holiday season.
Recommend coming by public transit, the protest is along the MAX lines
If driving, there is a paid parking lot across the street
Come in your holiday costumes, hats and ugly sweaters!
Santa costumes will be available
Dress warm and for the weather. It is December. It is Portland.
Reminder that this is a peaceful protest intending to point of the corruption and bootlicking at Apple while embracing the Portland energy we are known and loved for.
Indivisible Oregon is deeply committed to nonviolence as both a principle and a strategy. We strongly believe that peaceful, nonviolent activism offers social movements the most power to effect change. We will only protest on public property and will not enter any private property space