"[A]mid the redoubts of normality, a wide network of organized resistance and mutual aid had sprung up. The #Minneapolis - St. Paul metro area has a population of about three million. Immigrants comprise a fraction of this figure—about 10 percent—but it’s as if the entire city had mobilized in their defense."
https://thebaffler.com/latest/minnesota-nice-young
#MinneapolisResists #ICE #resistingICE #ICEraids #ICEterror #ICEoutOfMN #USpol #USpolitics #stateRepression #activism
"For all the horror wrought by the regime, intended to stun its opponents like iguanas in the cold, this feels like a period of flux. Mass noncompliance has revived the promise of life amidst death. As it did during the pandemic after the murder of George Floyd, #Minnesota has altered the political temperature."
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/life-in-death
#USpol #USpolitics #ICE #resistingICE #ICEterror #ICEraids #MinneapolisResists #policeViolence #activism #ICEoutOfMN
"Organizers across #Minnesota have for years been building one of the most robust progressive political ecosystems in the country. #Minneapolis is the birthplace of the American Indian Movement and the city that sprung into action after the 2020 murder of George Floyd..."
A great ep of #TheDigRadio talking about how #MinneapolisResists
https://thedigradio.com/podcast/minneapolis-fight-back-w-emilia-gonzalez-avalos-greg-nammacher-janae-bates-imari/
#USpol #USpolitics #ICE #ICEraids #ICEterror #resistingICE #ICEoutOfMN #FuckICE #stateViolence #generalStrike #activism #mutualAid
Featuring Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, and JaNaé Bates Imari on how Minneapolis achieved its fight back against ICE/Border Patrol occupation. A decade building aligned mass movements has made Minneapolis among the best organized cities in the country. Those carefully-built structures, however, had to be nimble in confronting the federal onslaught.
"Neighbors juggling jobs, kids, and their own fears are up against three thousand federal agents. (For comparison, three hundred were deployed to Chicago.) The size of #OperationMetroSurge is delirious, outlandish. As state and local officials grandstand at press conferences and file lawsuits, people do what they can to protect each other and hang on."
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/01/30/fifteen-below-zero-resisting-the-minneapolis-surge/
https://archive.ph/7q7rZ
#USpol #ICE #ICEterror #ICEoutOfMN #FuckICE #MinneapolisResists #resistingICE #activism
"Among the most fascinating and most studied stories of the #Trump era will someday be how and why so many of these apparently titanic centers of power—from Congress to the Ivy League to Big Law to the Fourth Estate—crumpled so easily, though we already have a sense of the basic mechanics of cowardice, of anticipatory obedience, which is so often couched in the bloodless language of pragmatism."
https://thebaffler.com/latest/states-of-denial-de-la-hoz
#USpol #ICE #ICEterror #resistingICE #stateRepression #activism #ICEoutOfMN
“I think to myself, like, here’s a mother going to work, dropping off their child—who will see them being kidnapped? Who will see who will report them missing…. And so that moment, it was that calling, that this is why we do what we do"
The People vs. #ICE
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/communities-grassroots-resistance-ice/
#USpol #ICEraids #ICEterror #resistingICE #mutualAid #activism #solidarity #FuckICE
"Chicago and Los Angeles, where resistance to #ICE has been extraordinary and well-organized, have histories of #policeViolence that rivals anything ICE agents are doing. Indeed, it is precisely the long experience of organizing against this violence that prepared activists in these cities to resist ICE." - Robin D. G. Kelley
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/renee-goods-murder-and-other-acts-of-terror/
#USpol #USpolitics #ICEraids #ICEterror #policeTerror #stateRepression #stateViolence #resistingICE #activism
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