here's the transcribed zine of our interview with Donna Mae, a nurse in Minneapolis about the ICE / CBP murders and community #RapidResponse
The story of a Shoreline toddler being abandoned by ICE after snatching the kid's dad should galvanize more people towards joining or creating local rapid response groups.
Get those whistles, hop on signal and start a rapid response group today!
By the time anyone caught up to ICE on this dad's abduction ICE had already shipped him out to El Paso Texas!
快速反应网络不只是应急的“临时措施”，它本身就是一个重要的革命示范 - 只有冲破原子化隔离、构建互助自治的关系结构才能抵制高科技镇压的天罗地网。
目前明尼苏达州正在演示这一革命性基建的成功运作。非常建议有条件的在美人士加入这场行动亲身体验下这些重要的战术，亲历的经验胜过万套教程。
#快速反应网络 #互助 #战术 #防御 #RapidResponse #MutualAid #Tactics #Defence
For those who may still need this resource from Public Defenders
National listing of rapid response networks
5 page pdf of several states, immigrant group, and BIPOC support
#ICE #RapidResponse #Immigration
https://publicdefenders.us/app/uploads/2025/01/Hotlines-RRN.doc.pdf
From #RapidResponse to Revolutionary Social Change
The Potential of the Rapid Response Networks
2026-01-21 via #CrimethInc
"In this account, participants in the rapid response networks in the Twin Cities describe their experiences, explore the threat represented by the development of Immigration and Customs Enforcement into a political police, and propose a strategy for how the rapid response networks could rise to the challenge and contribute to revolutionary social change."
Ben and Sam's mother,
#Audrey #Luhmann isn’t new to advocacy.
For years, she has been a key leader in the “ACNAtoo” movement,
an effort to combat sex abuse in her small, theologically conservative denomination.
She insists the same faith that drove her to organize against sex abuse now compels her to aid immigrants.
“In this moment, we have the moral truth and the moral grounding that is needed,
and it totally equips Christians and people of other faiths to be able to stand up and call evil by its right name,” Audrey said.
Audrey has also joined several other Signal groups dedicated to helping immigrants,
including one called “6,000 moms.”
Her phone pings constantly.
Asked about the noise, she held up her phone to show the latest message:
-- A mom asking simply,
“How can I help?”
All told, she fields 1,200 to 1,300 messages a day,
she estimated.
Her sons, she said,
get far more.
“They’re getting over three thousand.”
When Audrey arrived at the medical center, Denisse was standing alone outside.
The two greeted each other warmly, embracing before Denisse climbed into the van.
The two chatted about the chemo treatments before quickly changing subjects to discuss child-rearing and favorite foods.
The vibe is cheery, although Denisse’s tone briefly dimmed when she was asked about her situation.
“I think we’re suffering too much,” she said, speaking in Spanish.
“I don’t know where I’m getting the strength to keep going.
But thank God, I’ve done it,
and I’ll keep doing it.”
She then added: “con el favor de Dios”
— or “God willing.”
⭐️‘Where were you in 2025?’
The volunteer work has weighed heavily on the Luhmann family, Audrey said.
She worries about the relationship between her teenage sons and law enforcement,
-- especially after repeatedly bearing witness to dramatic arrests of immigrants and protesters.
“There have been times where my sons have been in tears,” she said.
“I’m having to process in real time with my teenage kids the fact that they are watching absolute lawlessness and brutality and violence and
cruelty
and no one’s coming to stop it.”
It’s been hard on Audrey, too.
She recalled a moment when another one of her children,
a 13-year-old,
jumped in the car with Sam and Ben to investigate potential ICE activity
at a nearby apartment complex,
knowing that kids who live there also attend the 13-year-old’s school.
“This advocacy as a family has been intense,” Audrey said.
“But I also feel like, someday, my kids are going to grow up and they’re going to have children.
And at some point they’re going to say,
‘Grandma, where were you in 2025?
Where were my parents in 2025?’
I want to be able to tell them:
‘My family stood up.’”
For Audrey and most of the Luhmann family,
the Christian faith doesn’t give them any other choice.
“What would Jesus do if he were seeing and witnessing an arrest?” she said.
“What would he do if it were his neighbor taken?”
A coalition of activists, everyday citizens and people of faith — including theologically conservative Christians — who have pooled resources and learned new technologies to mount an effort they say is designed to protect immigrants in their neighborhoods and around Chicago.
Rapid Response Network to stop ICE.
Santa Clara County, California - many training dates coming up: https://linktr.ee/rrninscc?ltsid=0a8581bc-3061-470d-b830-861e94680e8b
Get more information about the Rapid Response Network in Santa Clara County: https://www.sacredheartcs.org/rapid-response-network
#stopICE #sanjose #santaClaraCounty #community #support #rapidResponse
“No Work. No Spending": Minnesota Workers Strike Today to Protest ICE - In These Times
"There’s something like 10K people in Minneapolis or more who have joined rapid response networks in their neighborhood to try and patrol dog ICE. It has had a good effect at stymying ICE and making it difficult for them to continue their operations."
https://inthesetimes.com/article/working-people-minnesota-general-strike-trump-ice
#GeneralStrike #minneapolis #AbolishICE #UnionStrong #RapidResponse #news #USnews
Americans disgusted by ICE and wondering if there's something you can do in your area: check out https://icerr.com/
This website aggregates Rapid Response efforts across the country. You can find hotline numbers as well as ways to get involved.
This is organized by this twitch community: https://www.twitch.tv/cinemarxism - if you know of more efforts that could be added reach out to them in chat or discord.
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