"They are incredibly, incredibly brave, hardy people. But … it's taking its toll. And it's just the sheer amount of emotional breakdown that I have been seeing has been very hard for me to witness because there is so much that we can express with our empathy as we sit here and we watch it via a screen or through a TV. It is a totally different thing to be living in these communities."
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #resistance #solidarity #GeorgeFloyd #ReneeGood #AlexPretti
/9
"I’ve been pepper sprayed and tear-gassed three times now. I carry a gas mask around with me. I’ve been shoved, threatened, insulted by ICE while wearing my clergy collar, as a white woman. Our neighbors are in hiding -- plenty of whom have a legal right to be in the country, but that doesn’t matter to ICE. They are detaining those with legal status, even Native Americans."
~ Susie Hd, quoted by Holly Berkley Fletcher
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #resistance #solidarity
/2
https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/community-from-calamity
"This isn’t about immigration. As many have pointed out, Minnesota has far fewer undocumented folks than Florida or Texas. This is about subjugation of a free state. One that has a long history of organizing. Home to the American Indian Movement. Home to powerful labor organizing."
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #GregBovino #resistance #solidarity
/3
"Home to many immigrant/refugee communities who were welcomed here and supported through faith-based services, their cultures and foods and religions embraced and woven into the identity of what it means to be Minnesotan. Home to trans and queer folks who came here seeking safety and health care (like Renee Good did)."
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #GregBovino #resistance #solidarity
/4
"Home to a reckoning on racial justice in 2020, following the murder of George Floyd, that rocked the country & world and actually succeeded in achieving accountability. I don’t think the assault on us is just about vengeance for the Floyd uprising or Tim Walz, nor about hate of our progressive policies. I think there was a power calculation: if you can subjugate Minnesota with all of its organizing power, you can subjugate anywhere.
But they haven’t."
"Minnesotans are leading the way. Out of their searing discomfort and the loss of security, they are embracing one another on a deep level. They are sacrificing for one another. They are falling in love with each other. They are reimagining faith.
There is no true community without truth, of who each of us are, of what we are worth, of what we have been as a country, of what we face now."
~ Holly Berkley Fletcher
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #GregBovino #resistance #solidarity
/6
"There is no growth without pain.
A lot of us can’t face the truth and can’t stand the pain. But Minnesota is ready. And we should all join them, to make this world anew in the struggle to hold on to what means the most."
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #GregBovino #resistance #solidarity
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