By James Dugan
GREEN BAY WI- Trump’s latest victim, Alex Pretti, shot to death by federal agents, died defending a woman being assaulted by a federal agent. He was killed while intervening in the attack by helping her to her feet and using his body to block her from a circling pack of agents. Alex Pretti was a Registered Nurse at the Veteran’s Administration (VA) in Minneapolis, and a Green Bay Preble Highschool graduate.
Both communities gathered to mourn his death, still reeling from Renee Good’s murder less than three weeks ago. A column of 1,500 mourners gathered in downtown Green Bay to march in memoriam of Alex Pretti and in protest of the Trump regimes’ callous disregard of human rights. Both communities have been met with slanderous responses from the Trump regime, made public mere minutes after the murders, describing their victims as “domestic terrorists”. Only hours after the slayings, photographic evidence disproved the regime’s throw-away commentary as entirely false. Communities are left to grieve and consider how justice can be restored.
The Trump regime ignores the US Constitution when threatening to send the National Guard into besieged cities nationwide. Trump’s brownshirts patrol otherwise quietly lawful streets continuing to look for targets. In their wake, the gravely concerned working class continues efforts to unify local and national mass movements into a national front against the oligarchs and their private army.
Local activist and retired US Postal Worker “Al” stated that his efforts to contact US Representative Tony Weid are being answered by staff who provide unrelated responses to the questions Al’s posed. He noted that while unsatisfactory, WI senator Ron Johnson’s office has never answered in person. Al’s wife “Pam” shared that “It was good to see how many people showed up to march today, but the question of what good this is doing continues to be asked.”
Despite frigid temperatures an estimated 1500 people marched in a column nearly one mile long across both sides of Green Bay’s downtown. Another activist, “Matt M.”, commented on the broader systems’ impact of ICE’s involvement with Brown County’s government and budget. Matt explained that “Brown County is being paid for jail cells used there to hold ICE detainees”. This puts an increasingly heavy moral and legal burden on the people. This local collaboration with ICE should not be tolerated by workers nor invited by local politicians.
