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Last year they stopped doing the reenactment of the Boston Tea Party on the harbor. This year people showed up anyway.

They weren't throwing tea into the water.

They were throwing ice.

"Progressive activists plan to dump ice into Boston Harbor later tonight [Tuesday, December 16, 2025,] in a symbolic protest against Trump administration immigration enforcement, reimagining the Boston Tea Party for a modern political audience.

Why it matters: The demonstration connects Boston's colonial resistance to the contemporary immigration debate and draws parallels between 1773's "taxation without representation" and what organizers call Trump's governmental overreach.

State of play: Around 1,000 protesters plan to rally at the Irish Famine Memorial Plaza (outside the Old South Meeting House where the OG Tea Party kicked off) before marching to the waterfront.

They'll hurl clean ice blocks into the harbor near the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum.

The event coincides with the 252nd anniversary of the original Boston Tea Party.

Mass 50501 and Boston Indivisible organized the nonviolent action.

State conservation guidelines mandated the use of only environmentally safe, clean ice. [Note: the protestors did indeed arrange for "clean ice" only and told people not to bring their own.]

The big picture: The protest targets Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations that have accelerated under the Trump administration.

The theatrical protest is a response to earlier threats from Trump's border czar Tom Homan, who said he'd be "bringing hell" to Boston.

Organizers positioned the demonstration as "modern-day civic action against political tyranny," protesting what they describe as "armed government intimidation" and advocating for Massachusetts' Safe Communities Act."