In honor of the Boston Tea Party’s 252nd anniversary next week, local activist groups are calling for Bostonians to recreate the historic protest as an act of resistance against immigration arrests and what they describe as tyranny.

“The crisis we’re having has a lot of similarities to the crisis that was happening over 250 years ago,” Katy Dirks, a member of Boston Indivisible’s leadership council, said in an interview. “Families are afraid to go out of their homes. We’re outraged right now, and we’re standing up for our neighbors.”

On Dec. 16, Boston Indivisible and Mass 50501, another activist group, will join forces to host the “Boston ICE Tea Party,” where attendees plan to dump ice into the Boston Harbor and denounce the Trump administration’s “destruction of our democratic norms,”

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