"The people of Minneapolis did not apply for a Ford Foundation grant or beseech Democratic leaders in Washington for guidance; they got together with their neighbors, mustered their courage, and built their own machine of resistance."
~ Paul Waldman
#Minnesota #ICE #immigrants #Trump #resistance #solidarity
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-rights-greatest-fear-is-an-organized
Even in a rather red area of Texas, my introverted self found a resistance group to join and start organizing with.
It's a good idea to make connections and start making plans before ICE/CBP shows up in your area. It's certainly helped me to feel less hopeless.
"Even when ICE leaves, the connections they wove will remain, ready to be reactivated for another battle. And progressives everywhere will look at Minneapolis and consider building something similar where they live. That’s what the right is really afraid of."
#Minnesota #ICE #immigrants #Trump #resistance #solidarity
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"At the very heart of the conflict raging in the United States is a conflict about human nature, a deep moral and philosophical conflict. I believe the isolationists will lose in the long run because they are not only out of step with the majority but they are out of step with reality and because theirs is an impoverished version of who we can be," (continued in /4)
~ Rebecca Solnit
#Minnesota #ICE #immigrants #Trump #resistance #solidarity
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https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/when-love-thy-neighbor-is-a-cry-of-resistance/
"walking away from the possibilities of love and joy and the sense of abundance and connection from which generosity springs.
In the opposite of the ideology of isolation, we recognize that everything is connected."
#Minnesota #ICE #immigrants #Trump #resistance #solidarity
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"For the survival of our democracy and our planet, understanding that interconnectedness, that capacity to relate and the abundance, joy, love that spring from it, are no longer abstract topics but an urgent political matter."
#Minnesota #ICE #immigrants #Trump #resistance #solidarity
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