DAVENPORT, IOWA (December 29, 2025) — In response to the decision by CBS to cancel the broadcast of a 60 Minutes report on the conditions endured by immigrants deported from the US and sent to CECOT, the infamous El Salvador prison, local social justice groups, including Indivisible QC, Liberty and Justice Movement, and One Human Family QCA (with support from others) are holding a demonstration in favor of free speech and in support of immigrants on Tuesday, December 30, 12PM, in front of the studio of WHBF-TV, a CBS affiliate station.
We view the censorship of this report as a direct attack on the constitutionally guaranteed rights of Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press. The CBS network’s decision followed requests from the Trump administration not to air the report.
The freedoms of speech and press are mainstays of our democracy. They, along with free and fair elections, are the tools that empower the public to hold those in power accountable for their actions. But free and fair elections are only possible when the public is well informed of the issues through open public discussions and responsible journalism. As the masthead of the Washington Post states, “Democracy dies in darkness.” That is why free speech and a free press are among the first targets of all aspiring totalitarian regimes.
The cancellation of the 60 Minutes report is not the first attack on these freedoms, but the most recent, preceded by several papers withholding their already prepared endorsements of Kamala Harris just prior to the election, the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and the failed attempt to fire Jimmy Kimmel, among others.
The action amounts to complicity with the Trump Administration in the cruel and inhumane round up of immigrants and their subsequent cruel and inhumane treatment in detention that echoes concentration camps.
This action will include a few brief speeches and community chants.
The mission of One Human Family is to welcome and protect the life, dignity, and human rights of all people in all places in our greater Quad Cities Area community.
