Saugus & Friends Resist

12/11/2025

Betty Amico submitted this report on her recent visit to the ICE facility in Burlington:

“Today I had the good fortune to have Mary Robblee and Rosemarie Brennan accompany me to the Bearing Witness Standout at the Burlington ICE detention center. The standout is held every Wednesday, starting at 11:00 with song and speeches about our constitution and the violations that ICE is committing.
They also tell the stories of the immigrants, who have been caught up in this travesty of justice, held in inhumane conditions, without due process and if released, leave without the papers and monies they had when detained.
To date they believe at least 4200 immigrants have been passed through this facility at 1000 District Ave. in Burlington.
Attendees have been asked to support a letter writing campaign aimed at Massport for allowing residents to be forcibly removed from their facilities without due process against the laws of our state constitution. To help in this campaign go to: lexingtonalarm.org/stop-massport-ice-flights-campaign.
I was pleased to see such a well organized effort and intend participate when possible to support our immigrant community.”

Massachusetts residents are being removed from our state through charter flights from Hanscom Field without access to counsel or family support, violating their due process rights under our State Constitution.

12/11/2025

Recently, one of our members Betty Amico joined the Burlington ICE detention center weekly Wednesday standouts and wrote up this report afterwards:

“Today I had the good fortune to have Mary Robblee and
Rosemarie accompany me to the Bearing
Witness Standout in Burlington, MA, which is held every
Wednesday, starting at 11 with song and speeches about
our constitution and the violations that ICE is committing.
They also tell the stories of the immigrants who have
been caught up in this travesty of justice, held in
inhumane conditions, without due process and if
released, leave without the papers and monies they had
when detained.
To date they believe at least 4200 immigrants have
passed through this facility at 1000 District Ave. in
Burlington.
Attendees have been asked to support a letter writing
campaign aimed at Massport for allowing residents to be
forcibly removed from their facilities without due process
against the laws of our state constitution. To help in this
campaign go to: lexingtonalarm.org/stop-massport-ice-
flights-campaign.
I was pleased to see such a well organized effort and
intend participate when possible to support our immigrant”

Massachusetts residents are being removed from our state through charter flights from Hanscom Field without access to counsel or family support, violating their due process rights under our State Constitution.

11/29/2025

If you are unhappy about the way the government in Washington is handling its responsibilities and want to meet other concerned citizens committed to resisting, join us at the Saugus Library in the community room:
December 4th at 2:30. We hope to see many of you there.

Questions or comments? Message us or contact us at: [email protected]

11/29/2025

Some photos from our Saturday standouts June-November 2025

10/18/2025

Special thanks to Sandy Ashewitz for stopping by and promoting us!

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10/17/2025

How very twisted they are.

10/16/2025

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The Pentagon’s new media policy blocks journalists from reporting out anything that isn’t approved by Pete Hegseth.

Pentagon reporters (including from Fox News) walked out of the building yesterday rather than sign on.

The freedom of the press has never been more crucial. Kudos to these journalists for protecting it.

10/16/2025

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10/16/2025

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It happened. The Pentagon press corps walked out. At 4 p.m. sharp on Wednesday, decades of history, and the people who wrote it left the world’s most powerful building.

Dozens of Pentagon reporters turned in their access badges and carried their boxes, chairs, and notebooks out of the building rather than sign away their right to report. Nearly every major outlet, The Atlantic, Reuters, The Washington Post, CNN, CBS, ABC, even Fox News, refused to accept Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new “media rules.”

The rules required journalists to promise not to seek or publish any information the Pentagon hadn’t pre-approved. Hegseth called it “common sense.” Trump called the press “disruptive to world peace.”

The journalists called it what it was: censorship.

“To agree to not solicit information is to agree to not be a journalist,” said The Atlantic’s Nancy Youssef, who’s covered the Pentagon since 2007. “Our whole goal is soliciting information.”

By 4 p.m., about 50 reporters walked out together, an image that will likely be remembered as one of the defining press freedom moments of the decade. They left behind their nameplates, maps, photos, and decades of institutional memory. all rather than sign a loyalty pledge to silence.

Some took to social media:

“Today I’ll hand in my badge,” wrote USNI News reporter Heather Mongilio. “The reporting will continue.”

The administration’s move has drawn comparisons to Nixon-era secrecy and McCarthy-style paranoia. Hegseth, a former Fox News host and Trump loyalist, has held just two press briefings in nearly a year, restricted access across the Pentagon, and opened investigations into leaks. Now he’s closed the door completely.

And yet, the journalists didn’t cave.
For once, the press stood as one.

This wasn’t a partisan story. It was about power, and those willing to question it.

In a time when truth itself feels under siege, the sight of reporters walking out of the Pentagon rather than bowing to censorship reminds us of something vital: maybe our institutions aren’t entirely gone.
Maybe, just maybe, we still have people inside them willing to stand up.

Democracy doesn’t die in darkness.
It walks out carrying boxes, and keeps reporting anyway.