Lesser A'Tuin

It’s day 84 of the ICE occupation of MN.

These 12 weeks have changed us forever. Minnesotans have found a new way to navigate the world- based deeply in our care for our neighbors.

Read Kelly Hayes interview with some of the dedicated organizers:

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing.

These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted.

Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Wow. They're *so* pissed that resistance is getting better press than them that they're willing to spare resources from ethnic cleansing to put on a spectacle designed to terrorize folks into throwing away their whistles. They are genuinely panicking.

We the people have so much power, and now that we are finding it in ourselves and in our communities, we can literally build the better world that we were promised, but never delivered. We just have to do the work.

This administration is stark raving mad, and it is controlled by men - Vance, Miller, Bovino - are all-but-publicly taking orders from neo-Nazis bent on violent removal of nonwhite Americans. The admin barely hides many of these links. And it is driving a campaign of ethnic violence in our country.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc

(GFM in next post)

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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

go to standwithminnesota.com and pick someone on there and give them $5.

tomorrow go back and give someone else $5.

do it every day for a week and you will have made life immediately & materially better for 7 different people, at the cost of $35, and you will feel so much better than you do now.

actions to take as ICE intensifies ways to support MN and your own community

As state terror amps up, here's a list of actions you can take now--

a lot of resources

and a list of upcoming virtual trainings on a number of topics:

Good summary of “don’t give him what he wants” from relatively comfortable white liberals.

Places to Donate to in Minnesota Buy/Donate Materials: Help buy dashcams for legal observers Bethel Church Food Pantry TC Food Justice: Donate food Mutual Aid Funds: Lyndale School Mutual Aid Fund Rent Relief Fund for Southside Fami...

I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota.

If you have places for me to add, please DM me.

These types of people cannot be reformed. They cannot be "better trained." And the institutions that deliberately empower them cannot be reformed, either. They must be abolished.

The Cost of Staying Human Remarks from a vigil for Renee Nicole Good

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

I had a guy tell me in early 2021, “I would gladly sacrifice your life to preserve my freedoms” — specifically, he meant the “freedom” to not care if he was spreading covid around or not.

And I think that about sums these jokers up.

We’re at the point where we have concentration camps and slave patrols and the people with the most safety think a mean joke is the pinnacle of resistance

Pandemic Programs Worked, So Business Elites Killed Them Off To prevent economic collapse amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the government unleashed the power it always had. New programs caused hunger, evictions, and child poverty to plummet. Why not just continue th...

I have been screaming this for fucking years.

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Death at a Funeral: a masterclass in how to produce a delightful madcap dark comedy with a dead body and starring Alan Tudyk.

The Trouble With Jessica: how not to produce a delightful madcap dark comedy with a dead body and starring Alan Tudyk.

ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.

The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.

“We won because we insisted that politics is no longer something that is done to us. Now it is something we do.”

Every single word of this Mamdani speech is fucking fire.

Mockup of a text message exchange between Iron Man and Captain America by Texts from Superheroes. Captain America: What happened while I was frozen? Iron Man: A lot. Be more specific. Captain America: At what point did people start thinking it's not okay to punch Nazis? Iron Man: Well, it's complex. What if the Nazi is just tweeting their free speech? What if it's a protest? What if it's a government employee? Captain America: Punch them. Punch every Nazi, hypothetical and literal, fiction and non fiction, every day of the week. Iron Man: That's not what heroes do. Captain America: WHAT WENT WRONG WITH SOCIETY WHILE I WAS FROZEN!? Was it Facebook?

I honestly miss posting about fun and ridiculous things, but with the news lately, I feel like Captain America from that one "Texts from Superheroes" comic. 😠

I've also been cutting back on bottomless brunch, which means no more dedicated 2-4 hours of inebriated weekend shit posting, sorry. 💖

We Have to Move "There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

what we’re losing faith in is the systems. in the rulers. in the structures. in the lies we’ve been told and fed and propagandized to believe.

what I am not losing faith in is you.

we can do this. we shall overcome.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Screenshot from linked article says “Yet no validated treatment for moral injury currently exists”

Like sometimes I can’t move or breathe from the weight of it.

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With regards to marriage equality, remember:

They have already overturned Roe.

They're coming for Obergefell.

They're coming for Lawrence v. TX.

They're coming for contraception.

They're coming for no-fault divorce.

The only thing that will stop them is if we come for them.