We proceed right here our report from the bottom in Minneapolis that we started in yesterday’s DM. To me, it constitutes a 5-alarm hearth for all who consider in democracy. (Together with the man from Australia whose highly effective article I shared in Sunday’s video who spoke to the worldwide response to the invasion of Minnesota by the American authorities.)
Like each guardian right here, I fear for my daughter’s college as a result of they’re, sure, concentrating on faculties. Final week they attacked college students and employees at a Minneapolis highschool. Yesterday it was a center college and elementary college. At present it was circling almost all South Minneapolis elementary and center faculties. ICE is at day care facilities and preschools. Dad and mom are volunteering to observe college pickups and dropoffs, and yesterday there was police presence at my daughter’s college.
Many youngsters can’t even go to highschool now as a result of there’s a lot concern they or their dad and mom will probably be taken. Colleges are dashing to create on-line classes and hybrid setups to accommodate those that don’t really feel secure sufficient to return to highschool. Youngsters have actually been kidnapped on their method dwelling from college by ICE. I do know of at the very least one guardian who was kidnapped at a bus cease at the moment whereas she stood together with her elementary college baby. They illegally entered the school campus I labored at and kidnapped a pupil there. Once more, that is simply what I do know of by way of my very own private networks.
Oh, and ICE can also be blocking the meals distribution middle for the Minneapolis Public Colleges, so vans can’t get out to ship lunches. It’s been reported to the Minnesota Legal professional Common, however that doesn’t change the truth that college students will go hungry.
Hundreds upon hundreds of individuals are afraid to go away their houses to go grocery purchasing, go to meals cabinets, get medication, or go to work. Companies are empty or closed as a result of staff are terrified to journey to or be seen of their jobs. Ladies in our neighborhood are asking by way of again channels about at-home midwives as a result of they’re afraid to go to the hospital to have their infants. And their concern is warranted! ICE has been coming into hospitals with out warrants. They’ve attacked individuals outdoors hospitals, they usually’ve additionally been ready outdoors a number of hospitals, together with a youngsters’s hospital, to choose up individuals of coloration who come out the doorways.
Neighborhoods and church buildings, together with my very own, are scrambling to prepare mutual assist efforts to get groceries to individuals or assist pay payments whereas members of the family can’t go to work or drive those that are afraid to be seen behind the wheel or at a bus cease. We’re not simply speaking about undocumented individuals. We’re speaking about any particular person of coloration. These are our neighbors. Our kids’s classmates. Our family and friends members.
Our metropolis however more and more our total metro space is seeing and coping with these cosplay thugs each single day. And they’re transferring into rural areas as properly, selecting up individuals indiscriminately. Once more, this has NOTHING to do with felony backgrounds and EVERYTHING to do with race. Now on prime of all of it we have now a bunch of white supremacist goons coming right here in a number of days to “march” in essentially the most terrorized neighborhoods. My solely consolation is that it’s imagined to be single digits subsequent week. Welcome to Minnesota, losers. We saved our greatest climate only for you.
I’m past disgusted with these thugs and people who help this assault on our Constitutional rights, not to mention fundamental human decency. My group is exhausted and fried from stress, and I’m a white one who doesn’t even stay within the epicenter. I can’t think about what many are going by way of proper now who can’t work and haven’t any revenue, these whose family members have been taken or overwhelmed (or murdered), the kids who’re perpetually traumatized on the lack of their dad and mom.
However make no mistake–we aren’t backing down. I’ve lived quite a lot of locations in my life, and I’ve to say they selected the mistaken freaking state. Individuals are organizing past something I’ve ever seen in my life, and it makes me so damned proud to stay on this metropolis. I’ve by no means beloved it extra, and I’ll hold preventing for it.
So, please–share the tales, share the movies. Amplify every part you see popping out of this state. The mainstream media is all however useless. Observe Georgia Fort, Mercado Media, Sahan Journal, and impartial retailers like Meidas and Courier (simply to call a number of). Pay attention and know that it’s obtained to be all of us preventing this. Get up to what’s actually taking place…earlier than it comes for you and your communities.
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Banner picture: Old style ice at Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis. The one sort of ice, Minnesotans need to see. Picture by rod m on Unsplash
Queries for Contemplation
How does the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr,. whose feast day we celebrated yesterday, help you as you learn this report of truth-telling and non-violent resistance to MAGA’s violence and invasion of an American metropolis?
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul & Society.
Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election.
Creativity: The place the Divine and the Human Meet.
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth.
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice.
Unique Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Imaginative and prescient For a New Era, by Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox.
