https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighbors-in-minneapolis
"Our Neighbors in Minneapolis
or: What I Saw While I Was There"
Apollo sent me a link to this. He said he'd met this person & so although she doesn't name him or quote him or anyone he knows, he is represented in this article.
Read it & weep. My siblings, our great hope is each other. We are stronger than we have any idea.
>There are two sides to this struggle: rapid response & mutual aid. Rapid response networks organize to identify and track ICE vehicles & agents and to disrupt abductions in process. Mutual aid networks organize to get affected people food, medical care, rides, vet visits, company, whatever they need. These are two separate webs of networks. The mutual aid side is more secretive in its organizing, because it is taking care of the people who cannot leave their homes without being kidnapped.
>It’s strange to realize that the work people can do aboveground is harass federal agents, but the work that people have to do in secret is… feed people.
>Partly because there’s no central organization, it’s hard to get a sense of the scale of these networks, especially the mutual aid networks. There are tens of thousands of people, at least, being cared for by these networks.
>From afar, I have to admit I was skeptical about the efficacy of whistles and car horns. After a few days on the ground, I have no more doubts. I asked person after person: “does this work?” and all of them got some look of sorrow on their faces as they thought about every time they failed to stop an abduction. But all of them had interrupted multiple abductions, successfully.
>It works because everyone knows what is happening is wrong, and everyone is willing to risk their lives to protect people.
>Time after time, ICE has tried to abduct someone, only to be scared off by Minnesotans in pajamas and crocs. ICE will throw some tear gas, spray some pepperspray—and occasionally murder someone—and then run.
