Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

My partner‘s brother, in south Minneapolis, shared a picture. Their block is filled with people & candles—not because it‘s “the vigil,” but bc it’s one of the vigils all over the entire city, where the whole block just came out together and spread out to fill the space. All over Minneapolis, tonight

Wonderful examples in this thread.

Everyone is with us. *Actively* with us. So what do we do with it? That is the question.

(I saw a play tonight that my friend’s cousin is in, and Hamish Linklater did his curtain call in a FUCK ICE shirt, by the way)

Thank you.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Thank you for asking!

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

The amount of money that is currently going to fund immigration enforcement in the US is larger than the military budgets of every country in the world other than the US and China. We are witnessing a military assault on American cities by a wildly unpopular governing party.

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Fucking word. And they’re abducting people in hospitals. There does need to be an organized public health response. any ideas? I am so disoriented today but I want to help.

8 weeks under siege in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer Frank has a hard time explaining to his 8-year-old daughter why they rarely leave their home in the Twin Cities. Why she can’t go to school, and why he can’t work. “The only thing we tell her is that ...

"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."

Minneapolis and St Paul have both been doing this for weeks. There is a vast grassroots infrastructure of people bringing supplies to families hiding at home and paying their rent.

Just the fucking courage of everyone who is not willing to cower and hide from confronting ICE

The took the witnesses, though. Don’t expect they’ll be getting their phones back. I really hope they are all ok.

It is genuinely insane to watch capital decide that allowing this shit to go on is better for them than having to allow the FTC to do mild monopoly investigations and require cancellation buttons on websites.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Yeah. Our obligation is to resist as fully as we know how, not to traumatize ourselves.

The abject failures of institutions and the people who run them have me moving from “We need a third Reconstruction” to “We need a second Constitution.” One that accepts the United States as a pluralistic nation and makes it much harder for powerful thugs to act on their whims.

What can you even say. It’s so devastating

Life in occupied Minnesota

Target lets ICE stage raids in their parking lots, let ICE *enter a store & kidnap 2 workers on their shift*, & let Bovino stage an authoritarian photo shoot there (that’s the picture on our signs in the post above). They have said not a single word against ICE occupying the city where they’re HQ’d

Top two articles are about ICE abducting a 5 year old and a 2 year old.

Below that, news about a historically large protest and general strike.

Then articles detailing how ICE lies about their actions and how the White House makes/publishes fake images about the anti-ICE protests.

It is the word I’m using and i do worry that people I’m talking to (who are not in Minnesota) hear it as hyperbole. But it does seem just straightforwardly descriptive.

“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.

I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.

True but perhaps less meaningful!

(The sentences are very short because it was a mic check)

Not gonna lie, it’s part of why we chose that particular Target 😊

We went inside too :)

We are here because Target is collaborating with ICE. Target lets ICE set up raids in its parking lots. Target lets ICE raid its stores, no warrant needed. Target workers in Minneapolis have been kidnapped from work, Kidnapped inside the store, Target says nothing. Target lets Greg Bovino hold ICE photo shoots inside stores. Target supports ICE. Target is complicit. We say NO We say TARGET STOP COLLABORATING We say ABOLISH ICE In the last year, at least 41 people have died in ICE detention, or as they fled ICE, or because ICE shot them in the streets. Every one of them should be alive today, at home with their families, living their lives in freedom and peace. We are here to honor their lives. Genry Ruiz Guillen Serawit Gezahegn Dejene Maksym Chernyak Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez Brayan Rayo-Garzon Nhon Ngoc Nguyen Marie Ange Blaise Abelardo Avelleneda-Delgado Jesus Molina-Veya Johnny Noviello Isidro Perez Jaime Alanis Garcia Tien Xuan Phan Chaofeng Ge Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas Oscar Duarte Rascon Silverio Villegas González Santos Reyes-Banegas Ismael Ayala Uribe Norlan Guzman-Fuentes Huabing Xie Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez Leo Cruz-Silva

Hasan Ali Moh'D Saleh Gabriel Garcia-Aviles Jose Castro-Rivera Kai Yin Wong Francisco Gaspar-Andres Pete Sumalo Montejo Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani Jean Wilson Brutus Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir Delvin Francisco Rodriguez Nenko Stanev Gantchev [below this is 2026] Geraldo Lunas Campos Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres Luis Beltran Yanez–Cruz Renee Good Parady La Victor Manuel Diaz Heber Sanchaz Domínguez Today, in Minneapolis, there is a general strike against the occupation of Minnesota More than 500 businesses are shut down The temperature is negative 20 degrees and thousands of people are in the streets We will do our part. We will take a stand. We will stop ICE. Target, which side are you on? A racist, murderous regime? Or the people. We demand that Target: Publicly call for ICE to leave MN Stop collaborating with ICE! Restore your commitments to DEI and the Black community There is a national movement against ICE. Target is on the wrong side. But we will fight to abolish ICE AND WE ARE GOING TO WIN Say it once: Target’s complicit Say it twice: Abolish ICE! Abolish ICE! Don't make me say it thrice: FUCK ICE! FUCK ICE! FUCK ICE! OR Make these fascists pay a price Say it loud: Abolish ICE!

Here's our script for the program inside

...plus more chants, especially:

Hey Target, what do you say?
How many raids did you help today?

#IceOutofMN #IceOutForGood