@mwyman
I do think it’s a wonder that the counter-ICE action has been so disciplined thus far.

@mwyman
The problem with that is that it would open the doors to martial law, which is what Trump’s desperately been trying to foment.

@PattyHanson @lor
They are.

@mwyman Plus, per the later follow-up post, people here are mostly not responding to ICE with rallies and protests (though there were MANY today). They’re responding with counter-action. Community- and neighborhood-based, as you say.

@gregatron5 @paul_ipv6
I only omit DC because I haven’t personally heard of people getting tips from organizers there. But I’m sure some here have! We love DC too!

So yeah, as @dalias is perhaps implying, part of the reason you don’t see it is that the mainstream press is under-covering everything that’s happening in Minneapolis.

BUT! There’s a second reason you might not know about this activity, equally important: the activity that followed the murder of George Floyd — rallies, protests, marches, police riots — was of a highly visible sort. What I see now is much more community infrastructure work: neighborhood organizing, watching for ICE, delivering food. That happened in 2020 too, but the scale of it now…!

https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/115857252713224712

@dalias AFAIK my Masto clients just don’t support this yet

@paul_ipv6

We got a lot of our notes from Chicago, and also Portland and LA. We’re al in it together!

I’ve seen a lot of posts from afar to the effect of “Why aren’t people in Minneapolis / the US doing anything?? When will they take action???”

…and, well, running with the metaphor from that thread, I guess maybe they’re looking at the top of the bread and wondering why it’s not golden brown already.

I want you to know, I want the world to know: never in my life, not even after the murder of George Floyd, have I seen the amount of sustained daily action I’ve seen here these last few weeks.

Re-upping this thread, because the stuff in post 4 is exactly, •exactly• what I have seen from my communities here in Minneapolis these last few weeks. https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115403766112156810

Just to be clear:

This is not just because somebody at Hilton Corporate has a stellar conscience. I mean, somebody there very well might — but that is not the reason for this. Corporations are by and large amoral actors even when the individuals within them are not.

This is surely because of activists banging pots and pans and drum kits outside the Hilton where ICE agents in MSP were staying, making the hotel a nightmare for everyone staying there and thus losing Hilton business.

Keep it up, activists!

More coverage via @servelan:

https://newsie.social/@servelan/115843895183202775

Let’s show Hilton a little love, shall we?

I don’t know how long this will last — I suspect it is a local thing, not from on high at Hilton Corporate — but we can help out by making standing up look profitable and compliance look costly.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAhahaha*gasp*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

A request from somebody in the USA: if you live in another country, please start pressuring your government to institute sanctions against the US.

Diplomatic sanctions, economic sanctions, whatever is possible.

I do not expect this to happen quickly. Start laying the political groundwork now so that it can happen at all, ever, while it still matters.