Good timing for NACTO (an association of North American #cities and #transit agencies formed to exchange #transportation ideas, insights, and practices and cooperatively approach national transportation issues) to have its 2026 Designing Cities conference in #Minneapolis, May 12-15. https://events.bizzabo.com/designingcities2026?mc_cid=7556cbed44&mc_eid=9ab2822fa2

As Thomas L. Friedman suggested in March 15 column “Why Minnesota Matters More Than Iran for America’s Future”:
"For anyone outside of #Minnesota who wants to help, the best thing you can do is #vacation in the #TwinCities or hold your next #convention here.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/opinion/columnists/minneapolis-ice-trump-neighbor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TlA.MQ2h.tiZJNtoetgq3&smid=url-share

#LoveThyNeighbor #LoveYourNeighbor #neighboring #neighbors #community #PublicTransit #TransportationPlanning #CityPlanning #UrbanPlanning #NACTO

#ICE #Minneapolis #neighboring

"How Minnesota Beat Trump

(. . .)

It was one of the most courageous battles ever fought by American men and women not in uniform. It was led by moms ready to donate their breast milk to strangers and dads ready to drive someone else’s kids to school because the parents, terrified of ICE agents, were too afraid to go out outdoors. It was neighbors ready to hit A.T.M.s to help out neighborhood restaurants and businesses deciding not to open — thus forgoing their income — for fear that masked ICE agents might drag away their cooks or dishwashers or desk clerks.

And the best part was this: At a time when we have a president so shameless that he insists on putting his name on every public building he can, these good Samaritans of all colors and creeds acted without fanfare. 'There were hundreds of leaders of this movement,' Bill George, a longtime Twin Cities business executive, said to me, 'and I don’t know a single one of their names.'

Many surely got to know one another, though, because they were all propelled by a verb I’d never heard before: 'neighboring,' as in, Today I will be neighboring — going out to protect the good people next door or down the block. Not because I favor illegal immigration, but because I oppose the fundamental indecency of President Trump and Stephen Miller and the blessedly now departed Kristi Noem trying to fulfill their daily quota for evicting illegal immigrants by arresting my neighbors, most of whom work hard, pay taxes, go to church or mosque and help me dig out my car from the snow in winter.

(. . .)

The longer I stayed in Minneapolis, the more a phrase that Jews recite on Hanukkah to commemorate the victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks came to my mind: 'Nes gadol haya sham' — “A great miracle happened there.”

https://archive.ph/3vUhu#selection-667.0-671.381

Why #Minnesota matters: Sharing risk and leadership of the #resistance.

“…your private #ICE army — “governed by strength” and “force” — was sent packing by a bunch of moms and dads armed only with cellphone cameras and whistles, ready to walk out on a freezing morning in bathrobes and bunny slippers, to defend their neighbors, some of whom they barely knew.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/opinion/columnists/minneapolis-ice-trump-neighbor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TVA.SR5_.DMRuI_PDPHoS&smid=nytcore-ios-share

#Neighboring #GiftArticle #GiftLink

#AntiLGBTQ Hategroup #MomsforLiberty: A tale of two #counties

In #bookban #fight, #Maryland’s #progressive #HowardCounty is a stark #contrast to #neighboring #CarrollCounty.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Maryland #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/03/19/moms-for-liberty-a-tale-of-two-counties/

சென்னை மற்றும் அண்டை மாவட்டங்களில் அடுத்த 6 மணி நேரத்துக்கு மழை நீடிக்கும்!

https://www.patrikai.com/rain-will-continue-next-6-hours-in-chennai-and-neighboring-districts/ #RainFall #continue #6hours #chennai #neighboring #districts #6hours