"[Today] people across Minnesota will stay home from work, school, and shopping areas in an 'ICE Out Day' to protest the federal agents in the state.
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Ashley Miller features a photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii of the Star Tribune of an observer arrested in south Minneapolis and sprayed by federal agents in the face with chemicals on January 21 as they were held face down on the ground.
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation
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Angela Denker, a Lutheran pastor in Minnesota and author of Disciples of White Jesus, issues a strong rebuke to mainstream media for turning what's happening in Minnesota into a game with both sides offering competing and equally valid narratives:
"As a Minneapolis resident, mom, pastor, and long-time researcher on violent right-wing radicalization and Christian Nationalism -" (continued in /18)
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation #media #BothSides
/17https://angeladenker.substack.com/p/dear-media-whats-happening-in-minnesota
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Angela Denker, a Lutheran pastor in Minnesota and author of Disciples of White Jesus, issues a strong rebuke to mainstream media for turning what's happening in Minnesota into a game with both sides offering competing and equally valid narratives:
"As a Minneapolis resident, mom, pastor, and long-time researcher on violent right-wing radicalization and Christian Nationalism -" (continued in /18)
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation #media #BothSides
/17https://angeladenker.substack.com/p/dear-media-whats-happening-in-minnesota
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"I am utterly exhausted by national media coverage that frames what is happening in America as some kind of political horse race, with two equal and equivalent partisan teams. As a former sportswriter, I am begging my journalism colleagues to do better than framing these stories as though you’ve covering a football game. Talk to people on the ground. pen your heart to see what is right in front of you."
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation #media #BothSides
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"I am utterly exhausted by national media coverage that frames what is happening in America as some kind of political horse race, with two equal and equivalent partisan teams. As a former sportswriter, I am begging my journalism colleagues to do better than framing these stories as though you’ve covering a football game. Talk to people on the ground. pen your heart to see what is right in front of you."
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation #media #BothSides
/18"ICE agents threw tear gas at a van carrying six children, and three of them went to the hospital, including an infant who had stopped breathing. ICE agents are pulling over public school transport vehicles full of students. ICE agents are pushing minors and high school students into streets full of incoming traffic; they’re launching tear gas and rubber bullets at senior citizens. They are terrorizing our city."
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation #media #BothSides
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"ICE agents threw tear gas at a van carrying six children, and three of them went to the hospital, including an infant who had stopped breathing. ICE agents are pulling over public school transport vehicles full of students. ICE agents are pushing minors and high school students into streets full of incoming traffic; they’re launching tear gas and rubber bullets at senior citizens. They are terrorizing our city."
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation #media #BothSides
/19"This is no time for games, for toxic 'both-sides-ism,' for false equivalencies. This is a time to tell the truth. And stop amplifying narratives that perpetuate a dangerous distortion of what’s happening on the ground. Your city and state might be next."
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation #media #BothSides
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"This is no time for games, for toxic 'both-sides-ism,' for false equivalencies. This is a time to tell the truth. And stop amplifying narratives that perpetuate a dangerous distortion of what’s happening on the ground. Your city and state might be next."
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation #media #BothSides
/20"We all saw the video. ICE Agent Jonathan Ross shot at Renee Good from the left side of her vehicle, after Ross was no longer in any (alleged) danger of being run over. A private autopsy confirmed that Renee was shot in the left side of the head—a wound that confirms what we all saw on the video."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Minnesota #ICE #ReneeGood #JonathanRoss #murder #media #BothSides
/21https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/jack-smith-delivers-the-judgment
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"ICE agents threw tear gas at a van carrying six children, and three of them went to the hospital, including an infant who had stopped breathing. ICE agents are pulling over public school transport vehicles full of students. ICE agents are pushing minors and high school students into streets full of incoming traffic; they’re launching tear gas and rubber bullets at senior citizens. They are terrorizing our city."
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation #media #BothSides
/19@wdlindsy
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@wdlindsy it takes balls to do this.
The only general strike in the wake of Germany's Nazi regime happened 1933 in the small south-western town of #Mössingen with severe consequences for many of the participants:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6ssinger_Generalstreik (German)@eliasp Thank you for telling me about this. It's history I had not known. I've been to that part of Germany. My spouse has roots in Bubsheim, some 50km south of Mössingen, and we've been to Bubsheim so he could do family history research.
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"We all saw the video. ICE Agent Jonathan Ross shot at Renee Good from the left side of her vehicle, after Ross was no longer in any (alleged) danger of being run over. A private autopsy confirmed that Renee was shot in the left side of the head—a wound that confirms what we all saw on the video."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Minnesota #ICE #ReneeGood #JonathanRoss #murder #media #BothSides
/21https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/jack-smith-delivers-the-judgment
Robert Reich thinks that today's strike in Minnesota "could be a model for what the nation as a whole does in coming months, to repudiate the Trump dictatorship."
He quotes Ana Marie Cox who writes about how Minnesota is a natural leader in modeling solidarity:
“It is impossible to get through a Minnesota winter without help, and only sometimes does that assistance come from your neighbors."
#Minnesota #ICE #strike #solidarity #resistance
/22https://robertreich.substack.com/p/minnesotas-general-strike-and-americas
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Robert Reich thinks that today's strike in Minnesota "could be a model for what the nation as a whole does in coming months, to repudiate the Trump dictatorship."
He quotes Ana Marie Cox who writes about how Minnesota is a natural leader in modeling solidarity:
“It is impossible to get through a Minnesota winter without help, and only sometimes does that assistance come from your neighbors."
#Minnesota #ICE #strike #solidarity #resistance
/22https://robertreich.substack.com/p/minnesotas-general-strike-and-americas
Reich says,
"The decency of Minnesotans is mirrored in a dozen other Minnesota mutual-aid traditions: Lutheran churches seeded what has become the largest refugee population per capita in the United States. Minnesota has had a labor organizing movement since before it became a state. Minnesota created the first high-risk pool in the country to insure 'the uninsurable' in 1976."
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Reich says,
"The decency of Minnesotans is mirrored in a dozen other Minnesota mutual-aid traditions: Lutheran churches seeded what has become the largest refugee population per capita in the United States. Minnesota has had a labor organizing movement since before it became a state. Minnesota created the first high-risk pool in the country to insure 'the uninsurable' in 1976."
"I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life."
~ Margaret Killjoy
#Minnesota #ICE #strike #solidarity #resistance
/24https://bsky.app/profile/margaret.bsky.social/post/3mcyca2lep32j
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Reich says,
"The decency of Minnesotans is mirrored in a dozen other Minnesota mutual-aid traditions: Lutheran churches seeded what has become the largest refugee population per capita in the United States. Minnesota has had a labor organizing movement since before it became a state. Minnesota created the first high-risk pool in the country to insure 'the uninsurable' in 1976."
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Robert Reich thinks that today's strike in Minnesota "could be a model for what the nation as a whole does in coming months, to repudiate the Trump dictatorship."
He quotes Ana Marie Cox who writes about how Minnesota is a natural leader in modeling solidarity:
“It is impossible to get through a Minnesota winter without help, and only sometimes does that assistance come from your neighbors."
#Minnesota #ICE #strike #solidarity #resistance
/22https://robertreich.substack.com/p/minnesotas-general-strike-and-americas
I like the idea but. . .if this is happening towards fall, I'm concerned that DJT will say these are "war zones" or whatever term he uses, and he will shut down mid terms. Damned if we do, damned if we don't.
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The Guardian offers live updated feed reporting on the "ICE Out Statewide Shutdown" taking place in Minnesota today.
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R AodeRelay shared this topic
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"This is no time for games, for toxic 'both-sides-ism,' for false equivalencies. This is a time to tell the truth. And stop amplifying narratives that perpetuate a dangerous distortion of what’s happening on the ground. Your city and state might be next."
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation #media #BothSides
/20@wdlindsy I guess this is the "the Official People wouldn't do this to anyone who didn't deserve it, therefore the people being abused deserve it and also I'm completely safe because I haven't done anything wrong"* phenomenon again.
(*completely shortcircuiting the question of "why do we believe and trust the Official People to do the right thing?" and basically the whole concept of critical thinking.)
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"ICE agents threw tear gas at a van carrying six children, and three of them went to the hospital, including an infant who had stopped breathing. ICE agents are pulling over public school transport vehicles full of students. ICE agents are pushing minors and high school students into streets full of incoming traffic; they’re launching tear gas and rubber bullets at senior citizens. They are terrorizing our city."
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation #media #BothSides
/19@wdlindsy
Spell it dammit !F-A-S-C-I-S-M !
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"I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life."
~ Margaret Killjoy
#Minnesota #ICE #strike #solidarity #resistance
/24https://bsky.app/profile/margaret.bsky.social/post/3mcyca2lep32j
"A general strike that began in Minnesota is now spreading to other parts of the country, with workers, nurses, and pro-democracy activists coordinating actions that we have not seen at this scale in roughly seventy years. The goal, shared openly by organizers, is to make this the largest general strike in modern U.S. history."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Minnesota #ICE #strike #solidarity #resistance
/25https://www.meidasplus.com/p/friday-afternoon-news-updates-as-af7
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"A general strike that began in Minnesota is now spreading to other parts of the country, with workers, nurses, and pro-democracy activists coordinating actions that we have not seen at this scale in roughly seventy years. The goal, shared openly by organizers, is to make this the largest general strike in modern U.S. history."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Minnesota #ICE #strike #solidarity #resistance
/25https://www.meidasplus.com/p/friday-afternoon-news-updates-as-af7
"In Minnesota, the epicenter of the strike, people are taking extraordinary risks. In Minneapolis and Saint Paul, where temperatures have dropped to as low as minus sixteen degrees Fahrenheit, workers are calling in sick, walking off jobs, and gathering in the streets to protest the Trump regime’s ICE and Border Patrol operations."
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@ferricoxide It would be wonderful if the strike were universal, but people's circumstances and needs can vary, so I don't pass judgment on those who fail to participate. Important to show support for those who do.
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I like the idea but. . .if this is happening towards fall, I'm concerned that DJT will say these are "war zones" or whatever term he uses, and he will shut down mid terms. Damned if we do, damned if we don't.
@FallsMom I think the important thing is for us to keep trying in every way that opens for us — and trying to make more openings.
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"In Minnesota, the epicenter of the strike, people are taking extraordinary risks. In Minneapolis and Saint Paul, where temperatures have dropped to as low as minus sixteen degrees Fahrenheit, workers are calling in sick, walking off jobs, and gathering in the streets to protest the Trump regime’s ICE and Border Patrol operations."
