ORD2 Indivisible is planning a protest at Rogue County International Airport, Medford, to tell Avelo Airlines: “Stop helping ICE deport our neighbors.” There will be demonstrations at every airport Avelo serves to call for a passenger boycott until Avelo breaks with ICE.
Avelo, a budget carrier, recently announced a contract to begin operating deportation flights for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement starting May 12. Avelo flies between Medford and Burbank, Calif., every Monday and Friday.
The location will be Biddle Road near the entrance and exit to the airport. Participants in the demonstration can find free parking along O’Hare Boulevard, which tees into Biddle opposite the airport entrance, or pay a small amount for short-term parking at the airport.
ORD2’s Community Protection Team (CPT), which is organizing this action, will have a large banner to display, but participants are encouraged to make and bring signs communicating our solidarity with our undocumented sisters and brothers and our displeasure at Avelo’s complicity with the Trump roundups.
As an aid to sorting out the logistics, please let CPT co-leader Herb Rothschild know if you’re planning to come. And everyone can put pressure on Avelo by signing the national “We won’t fly” petition.
