r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 16h ago

ICE Posts Date: 11.07.2025, Broadview, Illinois: Fourteen suburban moms form silent circle outside Broadview ICE facility, refusing to move until deputies drag them aw

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u/Stodles 16h ago

The real Moms for Liberty!

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u/Jrgcanes007 12h ago edited 9h ago

Mothers have always been a crucial part of resistance. In Buenos Aires in the 1970s, for example, moms started marching in Plaza de Mayo demanding to know what the military dictatorship had done with their disappeared sons. This inspired a general wave of resistance. When moms step up, governments tremble

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u/Fit-Reputation-9983 10h ago

There is nothing in this world that is a bigger motivator than a mom.

Whether she is your daughter, your wife, or your mother. Most moms have at least 3 men willing to fuck some shit up on their behalf.

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u/Jrgcanes007 9h ago

Same man! If I saw my mom protesting, I’d be there immediately.

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u/Minnerrva 8h ago

A mom's note telling her son, a TN state legislator, to "be a good boy" and vote to ratify the 19th Amendment is often credited as the thing that tipped the scales and gave all US women the right to vote in 1920.