Join the Coalition to Block ICE Expansion to protest Sabey Corporation, the local billionaire company planning to lease a new building to ICE to further empower its agenda of terror on our communities.
After multiple protests, calls, and emails Sabey Corporation has thus far ignored our demands to cancel this lease of Riverfront Technical Park in Tukwila, which will allow a huge influx of new ICE agents into our region to abduct our neighbors and terrorize families, communities, and schools.
Join us to demand Sabey immediately terminate this lease and stop enabling ICE expansion!
If your organization wishes to officially join the Coalition to Block ICE Expansion, please do one of these two actions:
1) Email blockiceexpansion@proton.me (most private way to let us know) 2) Fill out this Google form: forms.gle/KfhArN1u1ozuY3Bs8
PEACEFUL, NON-VIOLENT RESISTANCE – A core principle of our coalition is peaceful, non-violent resistance. If you plan to be any other way, please DO NOT come. (peaceful does not mean quiet!)
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 terrorizing our community.
WHAT TO BRING: Bring yourself and others, your drums, your bullhorns, and your eye-popping, powerful signs. Bring 2-3+ others to help pack this and make a statement that can’t be ignored. We’ll also have pre-made signs and FREE materials for making new ones on the spot, that you may take with you or leave with the pile we bring to the next protest.
PLEASE FOLLOW EVERYTHING THE BRIGHT-VESTED SAFETY TEAM INSTRUCTS. If you encounter a safety issue, immediately notify the Safety Team in the bright vests. 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.
GETTING THERE:
Tukwila International Blvd = TIB
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: #124 runs along TIB. You may also take light rail to the Tukwila Light Rail Station and catch a #124 heading north on TIB. Use this: tripplanner.kingcounty.gov/#/app/tripplanning
PARKING: There is free residential parking a 10-13 minute walk to Sabey that involves a flight of stairs on one side and going briefly up a hill on the other to TIB (which itself is fairly flat).
On the WEST SIDE of TIB (same side as Sabey), the uphill side, go to 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. Then walk downhill from where you parked to TIB and take a short flight of stairs which ends where a 1-800-GOT JUNK business is located, and then walk northward along TIB to Sabey.
On the EAST SIDE of TIB (same side as DHS), the downhill side, you’ll park on the blocks around the intersection of S 130th St & 35th Ave S, then walk uphill to TIB, 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 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.
ADA / PAID PARKING AT SITE – There is paid parking, including ADA parking, available in the northern DHS lot. If you have a choice, for obvious reasons, try to avoid that if possible (the funds go to DHS & Sabey). This is a good option for those with limited mobility if other options listed above don’t work.
Join us to demand these corporate billionaires immediately stop empowering ICE terror!
We look forward to seeing you in the streets!
In the meantime, feel free 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 – joes@sabey.com / mayor@huntspoint-wa.gov
Clete Casper – 206-277-5229 / cletec@sabey.com
See the executives on Sabey’s public website here: https://sabey.com/about/our-team