Minnesotans carrying the Stolen Neighbors Quilt in the MN State Capitol 💔 💛
each square represents a person ICE took
Stolen Neighbors Quilt honors Minnesotans detained by federal immigration enforcement
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@inquiline just FYI, this specific article did appear in my daily Google News alert tonight. None of the other articles/YouTubes you or others have shared did tho
the person who thought it was being suppressed was in Europe, i think? i didn’t look into it
@inquiline Thanks for posting this. I downloaded the video & added subtitles. Saint Paul, MN – Dozens gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol on Tuesday, September 22 to unveil the MN Stolen Neighbors Quilt. More than 150 people labored over six months to sew together 12,500 quilt squares – each square representing a Minnesota immigrant taken by ICE from the start of the second Trump term to the end of Operation Metro Surge. Since March, ICE has abducted more than 900 Minnesotans and counting.”
thank you for this!! wonderful!
@inquiline I wrote a thread about it because I was surprised how silent US media were about the event. Or silenced?
And Google is hiding even the links of WCCO Radio and MSN! https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC/117332603418945893
Again thanks for the link!
thank you for sharing this info--but how appalling that Google is suppressing where you are
@inquiline Google is not showing certain news for the whole globe! They make selections by algorithms and those are very Trump-friendly. We should #degoogle. With a comparison, you find those links with other searchmachines.
But the fact that the radio station blocks its own website for the EU is probably connected to our much stricter privacy and digital laws. There are US website owners who don't want to comply with stricter laws and choose a block.
@inquiline It is heartbreaking but #CraftivistSolidarity at its best!
@inquiline OMF this is huge! We in the EU read about this and feel for the American people, between those horrors and the tax inequality it is really time for a revolution.
@inquiline I sent myself the link to watch tomorrow when I can play the sound; hope I have the strength get through the video without crying
it hit me *really* hard too. i'm glad people have this medium or lexicon to communicate with--but it is devastating
@inquiline @blogdiva Shocking. And this is not even a year count!
Here's a hyperlocal writeup from one of the organizers of the MN Stolen Neighbors Quilt Project. The YouTube link I shared above was a clip posted by Minnesota Public Radio, btw. (I'm always mindful of provenance when I share *and* hearing that Google is suppressing links about this quilt project) (see recent boosts)
https://fightbacknews.org/articles/giant-community-made-mn-stolen-neighbors-quilt-unveiled-at-the-state-capitol
#MNastodon #uspol #ICEprotests #StolenNeighborsQuilt