This reportback was originally posted anonymously to It’s Going Down, and gives an account and critique of the autonomous action that took place in Phoenix on the evening of June 14th, 2025.
Report back from Phoenix, AZ on recent autonomous demonstration against ICE.
There was a call for an autonomous action in downtown Phoenix this past Saturday. In contrast to the usual events sponsored by the PSL and other do nothing boring-ass orgs, this one appeared more promising. That evening, my friends and I headed to Roosevelt street to see what the night would be.
The following reportback was submitted to us anonymously for publication:
“On the evening of June 14th, 2025, a mostly-Anarchist “demonstration” was planned on Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row. While details of the events were left sparse, the location and a time of 8PM were disseminated widely on social media as well as at other local protests earlier that same day. This is a report-back of someone on the ground and in observance of this action.
Downtown Phoenix Roosevelt Row Demonstration Against Ice. Against the Border Regime.
Autonomous organization everywhere to break the repressive normality.This Saturday we show our strength with the simple demand, against all immigration enforcement, against ICE and against the southern borders. Assert that the land Arizona occupies has always been a place of migration. Where anyone can go back and forth freely. Our history is not a short one and we will defend and assert it.
The neighborhoods that rise consistently against these attacks should never be isolated.
So, we bring rebellion to economic centers that fuel state and capitals tenuous grip on normality. In solidarity with the neighborhoods that have rebelled for generations. In solidarity with fighters all over the country that show up daily against ICE, against the military and against the order that supports them.
We call on those who want to do the same, everywhere else. This weekend in the evening. Let’s make it happen.
Let’s head into the streets and build strength for the moments and years to come.
Saturday 6/14 8pm Downtown Phoenix Roosevelt Row 4th street and Roosevelt Against Ice. Against the Border Regime.
All are welcome. Feel free to write your own call for your group or crew.
Banners. Signs. Masks. Anything and everything is all good.
As we round the final stretch into June, we’re entering protest season and things are getting a whole other kind of hot out on the street (not just our temperatures reaching into the low triple digits). Mutual Aid, community building, and resistance against the growing fascist threat don’t take a pause for the weather, and on Saturday two groups did just those in spite of the sun.
