We're all Minneapolis now

Four black journalists detained by ICE:

• Four journalists, including Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon and Minnesota journalist and NABJ vice president Georgia Fort were arrested by federal agents. Sahan Journal has further details. As with protestors, the goal isn’t to make charges stick, but intimidation and capitulation as well as creating a cooling effect on the free press is the goal.

Yesterday:

• Two more Minnesota children were abducted by ICE. This is from the same Colombia Heights school ICE abducted 5 year old Liam Conejo Ramos last week.

In and outside the TC:

• Twin Cities rapper Nur-D talks with Rolling Stone about their violent detainment by ICE
• Minnesota Reformer writes The Anti-ICE movement is also a caregiving social movement. While many are in the streets demonstrating and others are patrolling for federal agents, others are running their neighbor’s errands, feeding their community, and supporting each other in a myriad of ways.
• In These Times describes how rural Minnesotans are standing up for their immigrant neighbors. While ICE continues to operate in the Twin Cities, it has also shifted efforts to Greater Minnesota with reports from St. Cloud, Willmar, and more.
• Minnesota Reformer reports the DOJ has opened a civil rights case into the killing of Alex Pretti. Many on social media expressed skepticism given how the same DOJ opened a investigation into Renee Good to justify her death.

No one is coming to save us:

• Many Minnesota Republican politicians still continue to support ICE despite the slayings.
• Senate Dems reach a funding deal and continue to make demands to continue ICE funding. Many of those demands – body cameras, more training, stricter background checks – were the same Minnesota politicians offered after George Floyd’s brutal murder in 2020.

Dress for the occasion:

• An older post by CrimethInc. provides some solid demonstration safety advice. While yesterday’s Verge Article was useful, and a bit surprising given the source, this link provides more seasoned advice.

Feeling seen on faraway shores:

• Radical Graffiti has some nice French street art with a Minneapolis connection

A playlist for the fight:

• Minnpost lists 32 protest songs inspired by the Twin Cities