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  • My camera shoots fascistsMikal@sfba.social
    Oct 5, 2026, 10:46 PM

    Hey Fedi folks,
    I'm at the protest camp at Lochiel, Arizona. For 70 days, protesters have been occupying an ancient cottonwood tree as part of a blockade of border wall construction through this area.

    This morning, at dawn, while protesters were conducting a sunrise ceremony in the middle of the wall road, Border Patrol showed up with overwhelming force to evict the protesters and the tree sitter, destroy the tree and blade the entire area flat. 100 agents is a very safe estimate.

    These are a few of the photos I shot and edited. I'm going to post them with extremely brief captions and no alt text because I have very limited reception, I'm exhausted and I have a 4-hour drive home. I will try to come back and edit them with more data later.

    Approximately 20 people were arrested, 10 taken to jail and 10 received citations and were released on site.

    The protesters are even more determined now.

    #BorderWall #GrandmotherTree #Protest

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  • My camera shoots fascistsMikal@sfba.social
    Oct 5, 2026, 10:47 PM

    When Border Patrol arrived to evict protesters, this woman continued her sunrise ceremony, blocking Border Patrol in the process and eventually being arrested.

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  • My camera shoots fascistsMikal@sfba.social
    Oct 5, 2026, 10:49 PM

    Other protesters continued to block the road as a Border Patrol reinforcements arrived en mass from the east.

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  • My camera shoots fascistsMikal@sfba.social
    Oct 5, 2026, 10:53 PM

    Protesters quickly surrounded Grandmother Tree, the giant cottonwood with the tree sitter in it. Most were arrested.

    Moments later, a small army of Border Patrol agents pushed everyone off of the wall right-of-way and into the camp, which has been constructed on private land. Nevertheless, Border Patrol created a wide perimeter around the tree, cutting through the middle of camp and forcing protesters further back into the field.

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  • My camera shoots fascistsMikal@sfba.social
    Oct 5, 2026, 10:55 PM

    Border Patrol agents used an extendable construction crane to lift two agents in a steel basket up to the level of the tree sitter where the sitter was subsequently arrested and pulled into the basket.

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  • My camera shoots fascistsMikal@sfba.social
    Oct 5, 2026, 10:57 PM

    Border Patrol agents, having taken the tree sitter into custody with them in the basket, begin the process of being lowered down. Zoom in a bit and you can see the protester lying on the floor of the basket.

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  • My camera shoots fascistsMikal@sfba.social
    Oct 5, 2026, 11:00 PM

    Once the protester was removed from the tree, contractors used a massive excavator to undercut the roots and then quickly pushed the giant tree over. The excavator then smashed the branches off and dragged the massive stump to a debris dump up the wall road to the west. While this was happening, a line of protesters were standing behind the barbed wire fence heckling as the Border Patrol guarded the debris pile.

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  • My camera shoots fascistsMikal@sfba.social
    Oct 5, 2026, 11:01 PM

    Border Patrol agents push a protester back during one of the morning's frequent face-to-face confrontations.

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  • My camera shoots fascistsMikal@sfba.social
    Oct 5, 2026, 11:03 PM

    That is the last of the edited images I have available. I also shot tons of video. If I am not too exhausted, I will try to get a blog post up tonight or first thing in the morning with more videos and photos and more description of the mornings events.

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  • My camera shoots fascistsMikal@sfba.social
    Oct 7, 2026, 12:04 AM

    [not my photo]
    Early this morning, protesters went up in the last remaining tree blocking border wall construction, this one on the line on the Mexican side. It had been occupied previously, but the Mexican authorities pressured the landowner to not allow people access. I don't know the situation, but it looks like the protesters did it anyway. This tree will have to come out for the administration to continue building the double wall through this area, so it is a strategic location to occupy.

    I'm no longer on site and, for reasons of focusing my time and energy, I've left the various chats so I don't know what has happened during the course of the day.

    a massive spreading cottonwood tree against a blue sky. There is a platform high in the tree and an unreadable banner hanging from it. Another banner hanging closer to the ground says "from MN to MX resistance is fertile", referring to protests in Minnesota against ICE detentions and the fact that the tree is actually in Mexico. It's also a play on the saying "resistance is futile."
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