Two dozen Nigerian girls who were kidnapped from their boarding school last week in the country’s northwest have been released. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/26/world/nigerian-girls-school-kidnapping/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #nigeria #kidnappings
Gunmen have kidnapped more than 300 students and teachers in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria, as security fears mounted in Africa's most populous nation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/23/world/nigeria-mass-school-kidnapping/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #nigeria #terrorism #kidnappings #africa
Their efforts—community patrols, rapid responders, school escorts, vendor buyouts, honking horns & blowing whistles—are a uniquely #Chicago response that other cities #Trump has targeted for federal intervention want to model.
“The strategy here is to make us afraid. The response from Chicago is a bunch of obscenities & ‘no,’” said Anna Zolkowski Sobor, whose North Side neighborhood saw agents throw tear gas & tackle an elderly man. “We are all Chicagoans who deserve to be here. Leave us alone.”
Perhaps the clearest indicator of #Chicago’s growing #resistance is the sound of #whistles.
The activist Baltazar Enriquez is credited with being among the first to introduce the concept. For months Little Village residents have used them to broadcast the persistent presence of #immigration agents.
Furious blasts both warn & attract observers who record video or criticize agents. Arrests, often referred to as #kidnappings because many agents cover their faces, draw increasingly agitated crowds.