NO ICE EXPANSION! Demand Sabey Corp Cancel New Office Lease to ICE
Southend Indivisible
Join a broad coalition of freedom fighters for a protest outside Sabey Corporation's HQ, the secretive, privately-owned, Trump-supporting company newly leasing yet another large building to ICE/DHS - Riverfront Technical Park - to further empower its agenda of terror on our communities.
After multiple protests and countless calls, emails, and letters, Sabey Corporation ignored our demands and announced they are still moving forward with leasing Riverfront Technical Park in Tukwila to ICE, allowing hundreds of new ICE agents into our region to abduct and terrorize our neighbors. THIS WILL NOT STAND.
Join us to demand Sabey immediately terminate this lease!
If you wish to be a sponsoring organization (agreeing to promote and turn out your members) let us know and we'll list you on the flyer, here and on the Mobilize event listing - email [email protected].
WE WILL ROLL OUT OUR FIRST LIST OF SPONSORS ON THURSDAY, MARCH 26.
Dozens of organizations recently formed into the "Coalition to Block ICE Expansion." If your organization wishes to join the coalition on an ongoing basis, email [email protected]
PEACEFUL, NON-VIOLENT, LAWFUL CONDUCT - A core principle of Indivisible and our partner organizations is peaceful, lawful, non-violent resistance, and we will abide by this at all rallies and protests we host or co-host (peaceful does not mean quiet!). If you plan to be any other way, please DO NOT come.
WHAT WILL WE DO: We will gather, stand, wave signs, and make noise on the limited public sidewalk in front of Sabey HQ and, if that's full, along the much longer sidewalks on the streets just south of it. We will do so with many cars passing by during rush hour to demand Sabey immediately stop leasing buildings to those kidnapping our neighbors, separating families, and terrorizing our community. COME EARLY If you want to be standing directly in front of Sabey Corporation on the limited public sidewalk on that stretch.
WHAT TO BRING: Bring your voices, your feet, your bullhorns, your drums, and your eye-popping, powerful signs. Bring people to pack this and make a statement that can't be ignored - your family, friends, neighbors, and more. No worries if you don't have a sign - we'll have pre-made signs and materials for making new ones on the spot.
Please do not block entrances/exits or driveways with your body or car, and be considerate to people waiting at the bus stop.
PLEASE FOLLOW EVERYTHING THE BRIGHT-VESTED SAFETY TEAM INSTRUCTS. If you encounter a safety issue, immediately notify the Safety Team in the bright vests. They will decide how to handle the situation and whether to involve authorities. The Safety Team is trained and experienced in safety, risk mitigation and de-escalation.
If at any point something doesn't feel safe or you don't feel good, feel free to immediately and calmly leave.
Please note, firearms and weapons of any kind are strictly prohibited from this rally and all rallies we host or co-host.
Also, there are a series of well-known trolls that may show up to try to agitate us and record us for their small right-wing audience (they did not appear at our first two protests, but we're making sure we're ready). If so, do not engage, keep a distance, and ignore them. These creeps thrive off negative attention hoping it will increase their views, and will often just leave if they don't get any.
HOW TO GET THERE:
With limited free parking that involves a walk and a hill or stairs, it is highly encouraged to take public transportation, Uber/Lyft/taxi, or carpool.
BUS / TRAIN - Metro #124 is your bus as it runs all along Tukwila International Blvd. You may also take light rail to the Tukwila Light Rail Station, where you can catch a #124 heading north along Tukwila International Blvd.
Plug in your trip here: https://tripplanner.kingcounty.gov/#/app/tripplanning
PARKING:
Free Residential Street Parking - There is parking a 12-15 minute walk to Sabey that involves a flight of stairs on one side and going briefly up a hill on the other while Tukwila International Blvd itself is fairly flat.
On the west side of Tukwila International Blvd (same side as Sabey), the uphill side, go to the intersection of S 130th St & 33rd Pl S and park in the area around it. It's a little tricky and involves driving around to get up to it from other streets. You would then walk downhill from where you parked to Tukwila International Blvd and take a short flight of stairs which ends right where a 1-800-GOT JUNK business is located, and then walk northward along Tukwila International Blvd to Sabey.
On the east side of Tukwila International Blvd (same side as DHS), the downhill side, you will park on the blocks around the intersection of S 130th St & 35th Ave S, then walk uphill to Tukwila International Blvd, take a left, and walk northward.
Be warned however that there are no sidewalks in either of those residential areas, and while parking in much of the area is fine, look around you to make sure you aren't sticking too far out in the street, you aren't blocking a driveway, aren't parking where this is a "no parking" sign, and that parking in that spot isn't likely to piss off a neighbor.
Paid parking, including ADA parking, is available in the northern DHS lot. If you have a choice, for obvious reasons, try to avoid that if possible. We still wanted those with limited mobility to be aware of this option if public transportation, carpool, and Uber/Lyft/taxi is not.
Join us to demand these corporate billionaires immediately stop empowering ICE terror!
In the meantime, give the Sabey C-Suite a little heat at their publicly available phone numbers and emails:
Send a letter in 3 minutes: https://actionnetwork.org/.../sabey-corporation-stop...
Contact Sabey directly: 206-281-8700 https://sabey.com/contact-us
Ideas for text:
"Do Not Lease Riverfront to ICE"
"Stop Supporting ICE Terror"
"Shame On You For Harming Our Community"
Contact Executives:
Joe Sabey President, Chief Commercial Officer AND Mayor of Hunts Point, WA [email protected] [email protected]
Clete Casper 206-277-5229 [email protected]
See the executives on Sabey's public website here: https://sabey.com/about/our-team