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The Golden Globe Awards flagged off the awards season in Tinseltown on Sunday (January 11). But what caught everyone’s attention more than the chic gowns and smart tuxedos were pins attached to these clothes. The starry night saw black and white pins with slogans like “Be Good” and “ICE Out”, in tribute to Renee Nicole Good and Keith Porter. While Good was shot dead in her car by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis on January 7, Porter was also killed by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles.
Actors like Mark Ruffalo, Jean Smart, Wanda Sykes, and Natasha Lyonne, among others, were seen sporting the badges. While some actors walked the red carpet donning the pins, others put them on once inside the ballroom, according to reports.
Stars don anti-ICE pins at Golden Globes
Celebrities, including Mark Ruffalo and Wanda Sykes, made a statement on the Golden Globes red carpet on January 11, sporting pins with messages like “Be Good” and “ICE Out”, as they entered the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles on Sunday night. The pins showed the solidarity of Hollywood stars with the people who have been targeted amid the immigration crackdown in recent months by the US agents.
Speaking to USA Today at the red carpet of the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, Ruffalo said, “This is for Renee Nicole Goode, who was murdered.” Proceeding to call out US President Donald Trump, he said, “We’re in the middle of a war with Venezuela that we illegally invaded. He’s telling the world that international law doesn’t matter to him. The only thing that matters to him is his own morality, but the guy is a convicted felon or convicted rapist.”
“He’s a paedophile. He’s the worst human being. If we’re relying on this guy’s morality for the most powerful country in the world, then we’re all in a lot of trouble,” Ruffalo further told USA Today.
“So this is for her [Good],” Ruffalo continued. “This is for the people in the United States who are terrorised and scared today. I know I’m one of them. I love this country. And what I’m seeing here happening is not America.”
“We need to raise our voices and shut this rogue government down,” comedian Wanda Sykes said in a pre-ceremony interview with Variety. “It’s horrific what they’re doing to people.”
How did the‘ICE Out’ pins idea come to be?
According to the Associated Press, the idea for the “ICE Out” pins grew out of a late-night text conversation between Nelini Stamp of Working Families Power and Jess Morales-Rocketto, the head of the Latino advocacy group Maremoto.
They knew that high-profile cultural moments could introduce millions of viewers to social issues. This is the third year of Golden Globes activism for Morales Rocketto, who has previously rallied Hollywood to protest the Trump administration’s family separation policies. Stamp said she always thinks of the 1973 Oscars, when Sacheen Littlefeather took Marlon Brando’s place and declined his award to protest American entertainment’s portrayal of Native Americans.
So, the two organisers began calling up the celebrities and influencers they knew, who in turn brought their campaign to the more prominent figures in their circles. That initial outreach included labour activist Ai-jen Poo, who walked the Golden Globes’ red carpet in 2018 with Meryl Streep to highlight the Time’s Up movement.
They released a press statement stating, “The #BeGood campaign aims to honour Renee Macklin Good and Keith Porter while also reminding us what it means to be good to one another in the face of such horror – to be a good citizen, neighbour, friend, ally and human. Every day, everywhere, regular people are being good: keeping kids safe when they walk to school, filming fathers who are being disappeared from their workplaces, donating to fundraisers to support organisations who are keeping us safe.”
“There is a longstanding tradition of people who create art taking a stand for justice in moments,” Stamp said. “We’re going to continue that tradition.”
The organisers pledged to continue the campaign throughout awards season to ensure the public knows the names of Good and others killed by ICE agents in shootings.
Nationwide protests against the killing of Renee Good
Thousands of people gathered in major cities across the United States to protest against the killing of Renee Nicole Good. Protesters demand the removal of federal immigration authorities from their communities and justice for the slain Renee Good.
In Minneapolis, crowds assembled in parks, residential areas, and outside federal buildings, calling out Good’s name. Similarly, large crowds of demonstrators were holding protests in major cities such as Philadelphia, New York, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, while smaller protests took place in Portland, Sacramento, Boston, Denver, Durham, North Carolina, and Tempe.
In Washington, DC, demonstrators marched in front of the White House despite steady rain, holding signs condemning federal immigration tactics and calling for state oversight of ICE on Sunday morning. Over 1,000 events were planned by the “ICE Out for Good” national coalition of advocacy groups across the country this weekend.
Renee Good and Keith Porter killed by ICE agents
Renee Nicole Good, 37, was killed by ICE officer Jonathan Ross on January 7 in Minneapolis. The mother of three, who had just moved to the city, was there as a legal observer of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities, according to city leaders.
Good had just dropped her son off at school when she encountered a group of immigration agents. They approached her car, and she began driving away when the officer fired three shots at the windscreen, which caught her directly in the face and killed her, according to a video circulated on social media.
Just a week before Good was killed, an off-duty ICE officer fatally shot 43-year-old Keith Porter in Los Angeles. His death sparked protests in the Los Angeles area, calling for the officer responsible to be arrested.
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