Tacoma: Wells Fargo Attacked In Solidarity With Detainees

During the morning of October the Twenty Fifth, a group of people smashed out five of the six windows of a Wells Fargo Home Mortgage office in Tacoma, WA. The office was located in Old Town Tacoma, one of the cities wealthiest areas.

This was done in solidarity with the 13 people recently detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in Shelton, WA and the people recently detained in San Francisco, CA.

Wells Fargo is like every other bank. As we all can see from the collapsing economy, these bankers do not care how they make their money so long as they make it. They are blinded by their greed and will allow the most dreadful things to arise in their quest for profit.

Wells Fargo, in its own quest for profit, finances GEO Group, a company which runs prisons across the planet. One such prison is the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in the tideflats of Tacoma. While the bankers count their money, the jailers in the detention center treat the people inside like subhumans. These people in cages are only trying to work, to feed themselves and their families and to create a better life for themselves. For this they are jailed and portrayed as the enemy. Immigrants are not responsbile for the collapse of the economy. Bankers are.

It took years and years for the Nazis to create a fearful and hateful enough culture to allow things like the ghettos and the concentration camps to exist. We attack Wells Fargo because we see the same thing approaching. Everything in your head might be telling you the opposite, but if drive down to the detention center and stare at it, you will be looking at the blossoming seed of one thing:

FASCISM.

To those of you reading this, please do not overeact to the use of this word. We do not use it lightly. And when we say it, we mean it.

Get a group together and hold a theatre performance in a Wells Fargo. Stand in a line and block ICE busses from enterring the prisons. Spit on ICE agents. Hold a picket in front of a Wells Fargo. Break their windows. Destroy their ATMS. Hide people with no documents. Set up an alert system. Do whatever it takes to stop what is coming.

Our hearts are with every person locked up in every cage. This act was for them and their families. We all need to act right now. If it was your mother in a cage you would not be idly sitting by as the bars close around more and more people.

This text will be sent to the Tacoma News Tribune, the Weekly Volcano, Kiro 7 News, King 5 News, Fox 13 News, The Stranger, Seattle Weekly and each of the West Coast Indymedia sites.